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- Paris Talks
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Part One
- The Duty of Kindness and Sympathy towards Strangers and Foreigners
- The Power and Value of True Thought Depend upon Its Manifestation in Action
- God Is the Great Compassionate Physician Who Alone Gives True Healing
- The Need for Union between the Peoples of the East and West
- God Comprehends All; He Cannot Be Comprehended
- The Pitiful Causes of War, and the Duty of Everyone to Strive for Peace
- The Sun of Truth
- The Light of Truth Is Now Shining upon the East and the West
- The Universal Love
- The Imprisonment of ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá
- God’s Greatest Gift to Man
- The Clouds That Obscure the Sun of Truth
- Religious Prejudices
- The Benefits of God to Man
- Beauty and Harmony in Diversity
- The True Meaning of the Prophecies Concerning the Coming of Christ
- The Holy Spirit, the Intermediary Power between God and Man
- The Two Natures in Man
- Material and Spiritual Progress
- The Evolution of Matter and Development of the Soul
- The Spiritual Meetings in Paris
- The Two Kinds of Light
- Spiritual Aspiration in the West
- Lecture Given at a Studio in Paris
- Bahá’u’lláh
- Good Ideas Must Be Carried into Action
- The True Meaning of Baptism by Water and Fire
- Discourse at “l’Alliance Spiritualiste”
- The Evolution of the Spirit
- The Desires and Prayers of ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá
- Concerning Body, Soul and Spirit
- The Bahá’ís Must Work with Heart and Soul to Bring About a Better Condition in the World
- On Calumny
- There Can Be No True Happiness and Progress without Spirituality
- Pain and Sorrow
- The Perfect Human Sentiments and Virtues
- The Cruel Indifference of People towards the Suffering of Foreign Races
- We Must Not Be Discouraged by the Smallness of Our Numbers
- Words Spoken by ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá in Pastor Wagner’s Church (Foyer de l’Ame) in Paris
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Part Two
- Eleven Principles
- Theosophical Society, Paris
- The First Principle—Search after Truth
- The Second Principle—The Unity of Mankind
- The Third Principle—Love and Affection
- The Fourth Principle—The Acceptance of the Relation between Religion and Science
- The Fifth Principle—The Abolition of Prejudices
- The Sixth Principle—Means of Existence
- The Seventh Principle—Equality of Men
- The Eighth Principle—Universal Peace
- The Ninth Principle—The Noninterference of Religion with Politics
- The Tenth Principle—Equality of Sex
- The Eleventh Principle—The Power of the Holy Spirit
- This Great and Glorious Cause
- The Last Meeting
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Part Three