World Order of Baháʼu'lláh


The World Order of Baháʼu'lláh is a collection of letters and messages from Shoghi Effendi, head of the Baháʼí Faith during the period, first published in 1938.
While the letters to the American Baháʼí community from Shoghi Effendi between 1922 and 1929, published under the title of Baháʼí Administration, explained and encouraged the development of the administrative institutions created by Baháʼu'lláh and further elaborated by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, the letters published in The World Order of Baháʼu'lláh have a different aim and a far larger scope. These later communications unfold a clear vision of the relation between the Baháʼí community and the entire process of social evolution under the dispensation of Baháʼu'lláh. The distinction between the Baháʼí community and the sects and congregations of former religions had been made apparent, but the present volume establishes the Baha'i Administrative Order as the nucleus and pattern of the world civilization emerging.
In the introduction, Horace Holley, a notable Hand of the Cause wrote:
In the section entitled "Unity in Diversity", Shoghi Effendi described underlying principles of the Baha'i Faith,

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