If they were to do nothing else, the effects which
Bahá’u’lláh’s life and writings have already had should command the earnest
attention of anyone who believes that human nature is fundamentally spiritual
and that the coming organization of our planet must be informed by this aspect
of reality. The documentation lies open to general scrutiny. For the first time
in history humanity has available a detailed and verifiable record of the birth
of an independent religious system and of the life of its Founder. Equally
accessible is the record of the response that the new faith has evoked, through
the emergence of a global community which can already justly claim to represent
a microcosm of the human race.
(From a document entitled “Baha’u’llah”, commissioned
by and prepared under the supervision of the Universal House of Justice)
