Animalism
By devotion to the carnal, mortal world human susceptibilities sink to the level of animalism.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 184
It behooves him to be the cause of human welfare, but inasmuch as he glories in the savagery of animalism, it is an evidence that divine civilization has not been established in human society.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 103
Just as man has been physically born into this world, he may be reborn from the realm and matrix of nature, for the realm of nature is a condition of animalism, darkness and defect.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 332
There is no lower degree nor greater debasement for man than this natural condition of animalism.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 353
Quote of the Day
Jalal 5 Izzat 183 B.E.
No member may be required to leave the meeting, even though personally involved inthe matter to be discussed, although any member may ask permission to be absent from such discussion, and the decision whether or not to grant such permission rests with the Assembly itself.
Universal House of Justice – 18 Nov. 1973, cited in Hawaiian Bahá’í News, #82