eplaced by peace, truth and concord; among the nations, peoples, races
and countries, love and amity will appear. Cooperation and union will be
established, and finally war will be entirely suppressed. When the laws of
the Most Holy Book are enforced, contentions and disputes will find a
final sentence of absolute justice before a general tribunal of the
nations and kingdoms, and the difficulties that appear will be solved. The
five continents of the world will form but one, the numerous nations will
become one, the surface of the earth will become one land, and mankind
will be a single community. The relations between the countries--the
mingling, union and friendship of the peoples and communities--will reach
to such a degree that the human race will be like one family and kindred.
The light of heavenly love will shine, and the darkness of enmity and
hatred will be dispelled from the world. Universal peace will raise its
tent in the center of the earth, and the blessed Tree of Life will grow
and spread to such an extent that it will overshadow the East and the
West. Strong and weak, rich and poor, antagonistic sects and hostile
nations--which are like the wolf and the lamb, the leopard and kid, the
lion and the calf--will act toward each other with the most complete love,
friendship, justice and equity. The world will be filled with science,
with the knowledge of the reality of the mysteries of beings, and with the
knowledge of God.

Now consider, in this great century which is the cycle of Baha'u'llah,
what progress science and knowledge have made, how many secrets of
existence have been discovered, how many great inventions have been
brought to light and are day by day multiplying in number. Before long,
material science and learning, as well as the knowledge of God, will make
such progress and will show forth such wonders that the beholders will be
amazed. Then the mystery of this verse in Isaiah, "For the earth shall be
full of the knowledge of the Lord," will be completely evident.

Reflect also that in the short time since Baha'u'llah has appeared, people
from all countries, nations and races have entered under the shadow of
this Cause. Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Hindus and Persians
all associate together with the greatest friendship and love, as if indeed
these people had been related and connected together, they and theirs, for
a thousand years; for they are like father and child, mother and daug