The Bahá'í Faith: The Emerging Global ReligionExplore the history, teachings, structure and community life of the world-wide Baha'i community-what may well be the most diverse organized body of people on earth-through this revised and updated comprehensive introduction (2002). Named by the Encyclopedia Britannica as a book that has made "significant contributions to the knowledge and understanding" of religious thought, The Baha'i Faith covers the most recent developments in a faith that, in just over 150 years, has grown to become the second most wide-spread of the independent world religions. |
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Much as a single organism attains maturity in successive stages of development ,
so humankind has gradually evolved ... The next stage in this collective growth
process , representing the culmination of human evolution , is world unity : the ...
Much as a single organism attains maturity in successive stages of development ,
so humankind has gradually evolved ... The next stage in this collective growth
process , representing the culmination of human evolution , is world unity : the ...
Page 80
highest stage in the stupendous evolution of man's collective life on this planet .
... indefinitely to progress and develop.10 The different stages in humankind's
development are regarded as quite similar to the stages in the life of an individual
.
highest stage in the stupendous evolution of man's collective life on this planet .
... indefinitely to progress and develop.10 The different stages in humankind's
development are regarded as quite similar to the stages in the life of an individual
.
Page 141
16 Bahá'u'lláh envisioned the establishment of a World Order as occurring in
three successive stages . The first stage is a period of social breakdown and
widespread suffering , suffering greater in scope and intensity than any ...
16 Bahá'u'lláh envisioned the establishment of a World Order as occurring in
three successive stages . The first stage is a period of social breakdown and
widespread suffering , suffering greater in scope and intensity than any ...
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