stimulate the intellectual, the moral, and spiritual life of the
entire human race.

A world federal system, ruling the whole earth and exercising
unchallengeable authority over its unimaginably vast resources,
blending and embodying the ideals of both the East and the West,
liberated from the curse of war and its miseries, and bent on the
exploitation of all the available sources of energy on the surface
of the planet, a system in which Force is made the servant of
Justice, whose life is sustained by its universal recognition of
one God and by its allegiance to one common Revelation—such is the
goal towards which humanity, impelled by the unifying forces of
life, is moving.


Bahá’u’lláh’s message is one of hope, of love, of practical
reconstruction. Today we reap the appalling results of our forebears’
rejection of His divine call; but today there are new rulers, new people,
who perchance may hear and avoid or mitigate the severity of impending
catastrophe. It is with this hope and believing it to be its sacred duty,
that the Universal House of Justice, the international governing body of
the Bahá’í Faith, proclaims again, through publication of these selected
passages, the essence of that mighty call of a century ago. In the same
hope and belief the Bahá’ís throughout the world will do their utmost
during this centenary period to bring to the attention of their fellow-men
the redeeming fact of this new outpouring of divine guidance and love. We
believe they will not labour in vain.

Haifa, 1967