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I decided to share a paragraph from a book written by a German Baha’i entitled “the light shineth in darkness”. The paragraph is located in a section of his book entitled “Belief and Unbelief Today”, after which I made some comments.
The reference to the report of the “Club of Rome” is dated in 1972. The question is has the crisis lessened or has it even deepened? As a Baha’i I have faith that God has provided for a peaceful way to disarm the “destructive forces” of mankind. Nevertheless, I expect even greater destruction to ensue before that occurs as a result of what is being reported in the mainstream news of the world. I believe an Old World Order is dying and a New World Order is struggling to be born. In general, on a lesser scale, I think many transitions from old to new have occurred in the world. However, I think if safe to say that today the scale of destruction versus the potential for peace and prosperity is unprecedented.
Lastly, there is a great deal in the aforementioned book I did not comment on. One lingering principle I seem to recall is the fact that it will take more than intellectual endeavors for humankind to work his way out of darkness and into the light! Also, that Baha’u’llah stated that if His Revelation from God was withdrawn humankind would perish.
“Baha’u’llah’s call to the leaders of his time remained unheeded. None of the rulers addressed by Baha’u’llah was mindful of his warning and counsels. Today we are experiencing the significance of those monitory words. It becomes more and more obvious that we are living in a period of crisis, the most critical phase in the history of mankind and that the future of mankind is threatened as never before by its own destructive forces, that man is on the way to a catastrophe, to self-annihilation. Since the report of the Club of Rome about the situation of mankind has been published and become a bestseller, wider circles of the population are now aware of what eminent scientists and philosophers have been observing for a long time: mankind is on the way to destruction, if it does not come to a fundamental change in consciousness.” (Udo Schaefer, the light shineth in darkness, pp. 12-13)
The reference to the report of the “Club of Rome” is dated in 1972. The question is has the crisis lessened or has it even deepened? As a Baha’i I have faith that God has provided for a peaceful way to disarm the “destructive forces” of mankind. Nevertheless, I expect even greater destruction to ensue before that occurs as a result of what is being reported in the mainstream news of the world. I believe an Old World Order is dying and a New World Order is struggling to be born. In general, on a lesser scale, I think many transitions from old to new have occurred in the world. However, I think if safe to say that today the scale of destruction versus the potential for peace and prosperity is unprecedented.
Lastly, there is a great deal in the aforementioned book I did not comment on. One lingering principle I seem to recall is the fact that it will take more than intellectual endeavors for humankind to work his way out of darkness and into the light! Also, that Baha’u’llah stated that if His Revelation from God was withdrawn humankind would perish.