| Sometimes called ‘the calamity' although not necessarily one single event. World-shaking catastrophic events and upheaval destined to afflict mankind before the establishment of world peace as part of the simultaneous two-fold processes of the collapse and disintegration of the old world order and the rise and development of the New World Order. Shoghi Effendi explained that ‘Adversity, prolonged, world-wide, afflictive, allied to chaos and universal destruction, must needs convulse the nations, stir the conscience of the world, disillusion the masses, precipitate a radical change in the very conception of society" before world unity can be achieved. |
