wishes you to
particularly emphasize in all your talks is the supreme necessity for all
individuals and nations in this day to adopt in its entirety the social
programme given by Baha'u'llah for the reconstruction of the religious,
economic and political life of mankind. He wishes you to explain and
analyze the elements that help in raising this Divine World Order in the
light of the present-day events and conditions in the world. Special
stress, he feels, should be laid on the impending necessity of
establishing a supranational and sovereign world state, as the one
described by Baha'u'llah. With the world becoming increasingly subject to
tumults and convulsions never experienced before, the realization of such
a necessity is entering into the consciousness of not only the wise and
learned, but of the common people as well. The believers should,
therefore, seize this opportunity and make a supreme effort to present, in
a convincing and eloquent language, those social and humanitarian
teachings of the Faith which we believe to constitute the sole panacea for
the innumerable ills afflicting our present-day world.

(15 November 1935 to two believers) [61]

62: With reference to your question concerning 'Abdu'l-Baha's reference
to...

With reference to your question concerning 'Abdu'l-Baha's reference to
"unity in the political realm": this unity should be clearly distinguished
from the "unity of nations". The first is a unity which politically
independent and sovereign states achieve among themselves; while the
second is one which is brought about between nations, the difference
between a state and a nation being that the former, as you know, is a
political entity without necessarily being homogeneous in race, whereas
the second implies national as well as political homogeneity.

(26 July 1936 to an individual believer) [62]

63: As regards your teaching work: the Guardian has already advised you
to...

As regards your teaching work: the Guardian has already advised you to
stress in your talks the idea of a world superstate, and the concept of
the Oneness of Mankind underlying it. In addition, he wishes you also to
emphasize the fact that humanity, taken as a whole, has entered the most
critical and momentous stage of its evolution, the stage of maturity. This
idea of the coming of age of mankind constitutes the central core of the
Baha'i Teachings, and is the most distinguishing feature of the Revel