Above:The Baha'i House of Worship of Asia. Below:Life and times of your fellow World Citizen, Kolya

Today, my meditation is from 'Abdu'l-Baha (son of Baha'u'llah)'s words from the early 20th century (note: the reason it has been translated into old English is because in it's original form it was spoken/written in a very formal form of Persian and/or Arabic whose relation to the modern language is similar to that between Shakespearean English and modern English):

"...In this, the Baha'i dispensation, God's Cause is spirit unalloyed.  His Cause belongeth not to the material world.  It cometh neither for strife nor war, nor for acts of mischief or of shame; it is neither for quarreling with other Faiths, nor for conflicts with the nations.  Its only army is the love of God, its only joy the clear wine of His knowledge, its only battle the expounding of the Truth; it's one crusade is against the insistent self, the evil promptings of the human heart.  Its victory is to submit and yield, and to be selfless is its everlasting glory.  In brief, it is spirit upon spirit. ..."  --'Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha. p. 256

(I came upon the passage today at the end of Creating A New Mind by Paul Lample).