The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh

To this truth the utterances of Baha'u'llah abundantly testify. A mere reference to the claims which, in vehement language and with compelling power, He Himself has repeatedly a...

Wishing to stress the sublimity of the Bab's exalted station as compared with that of the Prophets of the past, Baha'u'llah in that same epistle asserts: "No understanding can g...

Dearly-beloved friends! Enough has been said, and the quoted excerpts from the writings of the Bab, of Baha'u'llah and of 'Abdu'l-Baha are sufficiently numerous and varied, to c...

To the Conqueror of Napoleon III, the Author of our Faith had, on the morrow of the King's victory, addressed, in His Most Holy Book, this clear and ominous warning: "O King of...

No machinery falling short of the standard inculcated by the Baha'i Revelation, and at variance with the sublime pattern ordained in His teachings, which the collective efforts...

Does not Baha'u'llah Himself allude to the progressiveness of Divine Revelation and to the limitations which an inscrutable Wisdom has chosen to impose upon Him? What else can t...

Internally the community had embarked in a number of enterprises that were to enable it on the one hand to extend still further the scope of its spiritual jurisdiction and on th...

How pathetic indeed are the efforts of those leaders of human institutions who, in utter disregard of the spirit of the age, are striving to adjust national processes, suited to...

Is it to be wondered at, that in the course of a recent statement made by one of the outstanding Ministers in Europe this warning should have been deliberately uttered: "If war...

I have insisted that the provisions of their constitution should, in all its details, conform to the text of the Declaration of Trust and By-laws which you have established, end...

Upon the consummation of this colossal, this unspeakably glorious enterprise--an enterprise that baffled the resources of Roman statesmanship and which Napoleon's desperate effo...

I feel it necessary, therefore, to state without any equivocation or hesitation that neither in the Kitab-i-Aqdas nor in the Book of Baha'u'llah's Covenant, nor even in the Tabl...

And yet how grave the crises which this infant, this blessed, community has weathered in the course of its checkered history! How slow and painful the process that gradually bro...

Not only does 'Abdu'l-Baha confirm in His Will Baha'u'llah's above-quoted statement, but invests this body with the additional right and power to abrogate, according to the exig...

Leaders of religion, exponents of political theories, governors of human institutions, who at present are witnessing with perplexity and dismay the bankruptcy of their ideas, an...

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It was through these pilgrimages, as they succeeded one another in the years immediately following the ascension of Baha'u'llah, that the splendor of the Covenant, beclouded for...

That the forces of irreligion, of a purely materialistic philosophy, of unconcealed paganism have been unloosed, are now spreading, and, by consolidating themselves, are beginni...

Small wonder if by the Pen of Baha'u'llah these pregnant words, written in anticipation of the present state of mankind, should have been revealed: "It is not for him to pride h...