Also known as the Major Plan of God. God's purpose for mankind in this age, which is ‘one and indivisible, whose Source is God, whose author is Bahá'u'lláh, the theatre of whose operations is the entire planet, and whose ultimate objectives are the unity of the human race and the peace of all mankind.'11 '. . . two great processes are at work in the world: [the first is] the great Plan of God, tumultuous in its progress, working through mankind as a whole, tearing down barriers to world unity and forging humankind into a unified body in the fires of suffering and experience. This process will produce, in God's due time, the Lesser Peace . . .‘12 The various teaching plans of Shoghi Effendi and the Universal House of Justice are parts of the Greater Plan and may be called the Minor or Lesser Plan. |