The light which the Manifestations of God in every age shed
upon the material and spiritual life of humanity discloses truths, whose very
conception is impossible before the appearance of those Manifestations. Those
Teachers illumine the essential relationships on which the progress of the
world and its inhabitants depends and create the instruments for the attainment
of that progress. Their appearance makes manifest the treasures hidden in the
world of being, and Their teachings bring with them the precious gift of a new
stage of unity. They encourage humankind once again to acquire spiritual
qualities and to attain human perfections, so that through the confirmations of
God and its own endeavours, it can lay the foundations of its own felicity. - The Universal House of Justice (From a message to the Baha’is in Iran dated 24
October 2019, authorized translation)
