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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
By Shoghi Effendi · 1941 · Bahá'í Publishing Trust
Formative Age (1921–1957) · in copyright
Shoghi Effendi's letter on the rise and fall of nations during the early 20th century.
About Shoghi Effendi
Eldest grandson of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and, by His Will and Testament, the appointed Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith. Translated foundational Bahá'í texts into English; supervised the construction of the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel; directed the global expansion of the Faith.
1897–1957 · Guardian
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“A tempest, unprecedented in its violence, unpredictable in its”
From A Tempest Sweeping the Earth: Shoghi Effendi on the Modern Crisis
“course, catastrophic in its immediate effects, unimaginably”
From A Tempest Sweeping the Earth: Shoghi Effendi on the Modern Crisis
“glorious in its ultimate consequences, is at present sweeping”
From A Tempest Sweeping the Earth: Shoghi Effendi on the Modern Crisis
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In *The Promised Day Is Come*, Shoghi Effendi surveys the fall of the great monarchies of Europe and the Middle East during the cataclysm of the First World War — reading the collapses as the historical fulfilment of the warnings Bahá'u'lláh had sent to those same monarchs in the Adrianople period.
In *The Promised Day Is Come* (1941), with Europe in flames and the world at war for the second time in a generation, Shoghi Effendi diagnosed the upheavals of the twentieth century as a single judgment-and-redemption: a tempest unprecedented in its violence, unimaginably glorious in its ultimate consequence.
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