It [the principle of the Oneness of Mankind] implies an
organic change in the structure of present-day society, a change such as the
world has not yet experienced. It constitutes a challenge, at once bold and
universal, to outworn shibboleths of national creeds -- creeds that have had
their day and which must, in the ordinary course of events as shaped and
controlled by Providence, give way to a new gospel, fundamentally different
from, and infinitely superior to, what the world has already conceived. It
calls for no less that the reconstruction and the demilitarization of the whole
civilized world -- a world organically unified in all the essential aspects of
its life, its political machinery, its spiritual aspiration, its trade and
finance, its script and language, and yet infinite in the diversity of the
national characteristics of its federated units. .
(Shoghi Effendi, from a
message dated November 28, 1931; ‘The World Order of Baha’u’llah’; The
Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Peace)
