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Achievement Calls for Understanding (44:0) The achievement calls out for understanding. Conventional explanations - access to wealth, the patronage of powerful political interests, invocations of the occult or aggressive programmes of proselytism that instil fear of Divine wrath - none have played any role in the events involved. Adherents of the Faith have achieved a sense of identity as members of a single human race, an identity that shapes the purpose of their lives and that, clearly, is not the expression of any intrinsic moral superiority on their own part: "O people of Baha! That there is none to rival you is a sign of mercy." A fair-minded observer is compelled to entertain at least the possibility that the phenomenon may represent the operation of influences entirely different in nature from the familiar ones - influences that can properly be described only as spiritual - capable of eliciting extraordinary feats of sacrifice and understanding from ordinary people of every background.
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