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The All-Knowing Physician hath His finger on the pulse of mankind. He perceiveth the disease, and prescribeth, in His unerring wisdom, the remedy. Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements. Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 213 (126:4) The unity of the Baha'i community has been preserved throughout its century and a half history primarily by two things: a Center of authority to which the believers have turned for guidance, and the adherence to a set of principles which have removed those things which tend to divide people, while at the same time establishing bonds of affection and mutual cooperation between them. Both the Center of authority and the unifying principles have been ordained by Baha'u'llah Himself
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