to exert a strong influence on
other women's minds in regard to this essential matter.

(24 March 1945 to two believers) [66]

67: The Seven Lights of Unity will not necessarily appear in the order
given....

The Seven Lights of Unity will not necessarily appear in the order given.
A product of the second may well be universal culture.

(19 November 1945 to an individual believer) [67]

68: The teachings of Baha'u'llah will establish a new way of life for...

The teachings of Baha'u'llah will establish a new way of life for
humanity. Those who are Baha'is must endeavour to establish this way of
life just as rapidly as possible. Now that the hour has arrived when the
Baha'i Faith is gaining prominence, and is being reviewed by so many
peoples, it is necessary that the adherents of the Faith should live up to
the high ideals of the Faith in every way. In this way they can
demonstrate that the Baha'i Faith does create a new way of life, which
brings to the individual a complete association with the Will of God, and
thus the establishment of a peaceful and universal society. Divisional
attachments are of men, while universal service is of God.

The Guardian is now anxious that all the friends achieve a universal
consciousness and universal way of life.

(20 November 1955 to an individual believer) [68]

69: World government will come, but we do not know the date....

World government will come, but we do not know the date.

(15 August 1957 to an individual believer) [69]

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE

70: When Baha'u'llah proclaimed His Message to the world in the
nineteenth...

When Baha'u'llah proclaimed His Message to the world in the nineteenth
century He made it abundantly clear that the first step essential for the
peace and progress of mankind was its unification. As He says, "The
well-being of mankind, its peace and security are unattainable unless and
until its unity is firmly established." ("The World Order of Baha'u'llah",
p. 203) To this day, however, you will find most people take the opposite
point of view: they look upon unity as an ultimate, almost unattainable
goal and concentrate first on remedying all the other ills of mankind. If
they did but know it, these other ills are but various symptoms and side
effects of the basic disease--disunity. Baha'u'llah has, furthermore,
stated that the revivification of mankind and the cur