The Great Peace towards which people of goodwill throughout
the centuries have inclined their hearts, of which seers and poets for
countless generations have expressed their vision, and for which from age to
age the sacred scriptures of mankind have constantly held the promise, is now
at long last within the reach of the nations. For the first time in history it
is possible for everyone to view the entire planet, with all its myriad
diversified peoples, in one perspective. World peace is not only possible but
inevitable. It is the next stage in the evolution of this planet—in the words
of one great thinker, “the planetization of mankind.”
- The Universal House of
Justice (‘The Promise of World Peace, October 1985)
