The House of Justice sympathizes with your urgent desire to
see the application of the Bahá'í idea of a spiritual solution to economic
problems.... The solution to these problems lies not so much in the formulation
of workable theories; it is related to the overall spiritual transformation
which is to take place through the gradual influence of the Bahá'í teachings on
the lives of people throughout the world -- a transformation which will itself
be the matrix for the solution so anxiously sought. In the meantime,
governments, through hard experience, will, no doubt, take steps which are in
harmony with the progressive spirit of the times.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 6 July
1989 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual
believer; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. III, Economics, Agriculture,
and Related Subjects)
