Who Is Writing The Future ? – Part Two

Part One of this series talked about two governments and their differing responses to the Prophet-Founder of the Bahá’í Faith, Bahá’u’lláh.

The Chamber of Deputies of the Brazilian government held a special session honoring Him and His Writings. The Iranian government has been trying to eliminate every trace of His existence…

I’m being guided in my writing of this series of posts by a document from the Bahá’í International Community: Who Is Writing the Future?.

If you’d like to have the document available while reading these posts, here are a Word .doc and Adobe .pdf file for download.

This post will focus on the ideas of part one of the document where the main thrust of Bahá’u’lláh’s Message is introduced. One of His principles, honored or despised depending on your world-view, is that humans and humanity are primarily spiritual in nature and the evolution of civilization is predominantly a spiritual, not  material, process.

So, what about the common view that we evolved from apes who, somehow, became smart enough to start using tools and ended up building malls and spaceships?

Even for someone like me, drawn to study the sciences deeply, the idea of a blind progression from apes to spaceships doesn’t cut it—can’t even begin to account for things like the sacrifice a mother will make for her child or the otherworldly strength of religious martyrs.

There is a Pattern and Progression in an individual life and the life of our human family that can evoke a search for Meaning that transcends what the materialists and skeptics would have you believe.

In fact, Bahá’u’lláh claims that the progressive pattern of infancy, youth, adolescence, and maturity that individuals live through is meaningfully similar to what our human family has been experiencing. He claims that the stages up to maturity have already been experienced by humanity and we are embarking on our long-envisioned maturity—the merging of humanity into a truly global and adult entity—a state of earthly being prophesied by all the major world religions.

Sure doesn’t seem like humanity is growing into adulthood, eh? What about all the wars, greed, and other nastiness? Well, in this view of humanity’s growth, we’re in the last stages of adolescence, facing our traumatic entrance into the realm of adult responsibilities. Remember when all you wanted to do was break the rules, set your own agenda, get what You  wanted and to hell with all those other people who didn’t really understand you? I know some of you may not have faced adulthood with urgent rebelliousness but many can identify with such a phase…

How much pain and suffering does it take for an adolescent to submit to the Truth and moderate their behavior—begin to see other people as more like oneself than different, reach a consciousness of unity with others? How long will it take humanity to learn these lessons and stride into its inevitable adulthood…?

Spiritual Quote :

“A new chapter in the life of the planet has been opened. Humanity has attained its maturity, and the race consciousness has awakened to the fact that it must put away the childish things which seemed necessary in the day of the ‘survival of the fittest’. This day ‘wherein the feet of the people deviate’ is to be followed by a glorious to-morrow; for—’This is a new cycle of human power’. All the horizons of the world are luminous and the world will become indeed as a garden and a paradise. It is the hour of unity of the sons of men and of the drawing together of all races and all classes.

“The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and the fundamental oneness of religion. War shall cease between the nations and by the will of God the most great peace shall come; the world will be seen as a new world and all men will live as brothers.”
‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Divine Philosophy, p. 12

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