Baha'i World
Commonwealth will signalize at once the proclamation of the sovereignty of
the Founder of our Faith and the advent of the Kingdom of the Father
repeatedly lauded and promised by Jesus Christ.

This World Order will, in turn, in the course of successive Dispensations
of the Baha'i Cycle, yield its fairest fruit through the birth and
flowering of a civilization, divinely inspired, unique in its features,
world-embracing in its scope, and fundamentally spiritual in its
character--a civilization destined as it unfolds to derive its initial
impulse from the spirit animating the very institutions which, in their
embryonic state, are now stirring in the womb of the present Formative Age
of the Faith.

(27 November 1954 to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States,
published in "Messages to the Baha'i World, 1950-1957" (Wilmette: Baha'i
Publishing Trust, 1971), pp. 74-75) [53]

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS WRITTEN ON BEHALF OF SHOGHI EFFENDI

54: The world is in great turmoil, and what is most pathetic is that it
has learned...

The world is in great turmoil, and what is most pathetic is that it has
learned to keep away from God, Who alone can save it and alleviate its
sufferings. It is our duty, we who have been trusted with the task of
applying the divine remedy given by Baha'u'llah, to concentrate our
attention upon the consummation of this task, and not rest until the peace
foretold by the Prophets of God is permanently established....

(9 December 1931 to the Baha'is of Tokyo) [54]

55: Shoghi Effendi wrote his last general letter to the western friends...

Shoghi Effendi wrote his last general letter to the western friends
because he felt that the public should be made to understand the attitude
the Baha'i Faith maintains towards the prevailing economic and political
problems. We should let the world know what the real aim of Baha'u'llah
was. Up to the present Unity of Mankind was only of an academic
importance. Now it is becoming more and more a subject for international
statesmen to think of. It is coming to the field of practical politics. It
is therefore a wonderful chance for us to come to the front and expound
the teaching which is the goal and aim of the social precepts of
Baha'u'llah. Shoghi Effendi hopes that the friends will re-echo this call
to an organic unity of mankind until it forms part of the conscious faith
of every living man in the world. Great judgement