Robin Castle

Enriched my understanding of our nation’s potential as an instrument to bring about inner peace, peace in the family, and world peace. On his journey across North America in 1912, Abdu’l Bahá said “Compare the nations of the world to the members of a family. A family is a nation in miniature. Simply enlarge the circle of the household, and you have the nation. Enlarge the circle of nations, and you have all humanity. The conditions surrounding the family surround the nation. The happenings in the family are the happenings in the life of the nation. Would it add to the progress and advancement of a family if dissensions should arise among its members, all fighting, pillaging each other, jealous and revengeful of injury, seeking selfish advantage? Nay, this would be the cause of the effacement of progress and advancement. So it is in the great family of nations, for nations are but an aggregate of families. Therefore, as strife and dissension destroy a family and prevent its progress, so nations are destroyed and advancement hindered.”

Fictionalized, this book is so well written as to create the urge to research the facts. Mesmerizing. All 937 pages.