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In Diversity, |
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Not Adversity! |
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The ages of its [human] infancy and childhood are past, never again to return, while the Great Age, the consummation of all ages, which must signalize the coming of age of the entire human race, is yet to come. The convulsions of this transitional and most turbulent period in the annals of humanity are the essential prerequisites, and herald the inevitable approach, of that Age of Ages, "the time of the end," in which the folly and tumult of strife that has, since the dawn of history, blackened the annals of mankind, will have been finally transmuted into the wisdom and the tranquility of an undisturbed, a universal, and lasting peace, in which the discord and separation of the children of men will have given way to the worldwide reconciliation, and the complete unification of the divers elements that constitute human society. -Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, p. 117- |
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As is shown here below and in the following pages, there is so much rich wonderful diversity in our world; not only in humanity but expressing itself in other forms of life as well. |
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What you see above and below represents snapshots of the diverse bounty of life which is even now evolving on this speck of dust we call planet Earth. |
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The metamorphosis of a monarch butterfly is a natural metaphor for the transformation of the human spirit. As the larvae is instinctively led to stop eating and find a suitable place in which to pupate and thus be transformed from a being of the ground to a being of the air; so must we, as a collective humanity, follow the the God-given guidance within our true selves and be transformed. Our being longs to be a "butterfly" of the air, to take in the diverse beauty of the flowergarden, to drink deeply from the necter of the bread of life. Our destiny is to be the butterfly. Life is but a crucible or "chrysalis" of change. Let us explore the metamorphosis waiting to happen within our in-most being and become filled with the radiance of joy, love and fellowship for all creation. Indeed it is time for a new way of thinking. To see a complete photo journal of a monarch butterfly life cycle click here!> Scroll below to see a butterfly collage. |
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Butterfly species (left to right) tortoise shell monarch tiger, black, and pipevine. swallowtails. |
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