Call to the Nations

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S hoghi Effendi, Guardian function of the Baha'i Faith, in exercising his of interpreting the Baha'f Revelation, dwelt at great length and with considerable emphasis on the world order enshrined within that Revelation. Early in his ministry, which initiated the Formative Age of the Faith, he alluded to "those priceless elements of that Divine Civilization, the establishment of which is the primary mission of the Baha'i Faith", and over the years he indited a series of letters, generally referred to as his World Order letters, unfolding this theme.

The vital necessity of world order is largely acknowledged today but the means to achieve it baffle even its most passionate advocates. Meanwhile the process of disintegration continues unchecked and mankind's condition approaches the stage of despair. At this critical juncture the Universal House of Justice, the international governing body of the Baha'i Faith, feels moved to proclaim again the meaning and purpose of the Baha' i message and its pertinence to our very existence on earth. It has therefore selected the following passages from Shoghi Effendi's World Order letters, and offers them as a light and a guidance to all mankind in this dark period of our history, a period, nevertheless, whose distant horizon is brilliant with the promise of that most glorious day of all, foretold and sung throughout the ages by prophets, seers and poets and now actually dawning upon the harassed and desperate children of men.

The fundamental principle enunciated by Baha'u'llah, the T followers of His Faith firmly believe, is that religious truth is not absolute but relative, that Divine Revelation is a continuous and progressive process, that all the great religions of the world are divine in origin, that their basic principles are in complete harmony, that their aims and purposes are one and the same, that their teachings are but facets of one truth, that their functions are complementary, that they differ only in the non-essential aspects of their doctrines, and that their missions represent successive stages in the spiritual evolution of human society.

The aim of Baha'u'llah, the Prophet of this new and great age which humanity has entered...is not to destroy but to fulfil the Revelations of the past, to reconcile rather than accentuate the divergencies of the conflicting creeds which disrupt present-day society.