Fwd: Putting past practices behind us

I think that we should
endeavor never to look upon others as "diseased."

Dear Brendan,

Well, if you aren't a Baha'i you are free to think that. But if you
still claim allegiance to the Baha'i Faith, then you need to find some
way to deal with passages like this:

"`Abdu'l-Bahá is extremely kind, but when the disease is leprosy, what
am I to do? Just as in bodily diseases we must prevent intermingling
and infection and put into effect sanitary laws, because the
infectious physical diseases uproot the foundation of humanity;
likewise one must protect and safeguard the blessed souls from the
breaths and fatal spiritual diseases, otherwise violation, like the
plague, will become a contagion and all will perish. In the early
days, after the ascension of the Blessed Beauty, the center of
violation was alone; little by little the infection spread, and this
was due to companionship and association. "

warmest, Susan

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