A Bahá'í Glossary - World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, The

World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, The

A volume of general letters written by Shoghi Effendi to the Bahá'ís of the West between 1929 and 1938. In it he describes the character and structure of the divine civilization designed by Bahá'u'lláh and known as the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, its sources and authority in Bahá'í Scripture and its institutions. He recounts the disintegrating forces at work in civilization during the 1930s and describes the guiding principle of the unity of mankind and the future world commonwealth; affirms the non-involvement of Bahá'ís in partisan politics; reviews the history of the Faith in America and its spiritual destiny; elucidates the nature of the Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh, the revelations of the past and the stations of the Báb and 'Abdu'l-Bahá; cites the scriptural authority of the Administrative Order; outlines the relationship of the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice; and describes the process of the unfoldment of world civilization and the decline of the old world order.

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