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Baha’u’llah and the New Era

CHAPTER 10: THE WAY TO PEACE
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All the forces of humanity must be mobilized to ensure the stability and permanence of this Most Great Covenant.

In this all-embracing Pact the limits and frontiers of each and every nation should be clearly fixed, the principles underlying the relations of governments towards one another definitely laid down, and all international agreements and obligations ascertained.

In like manner, the size of the armaments of every government should be strictly limited, for if the preparations for war and the military forces of any nation should be allowed to increase, they will arouse the suspicion of others.
The fundamental principle underlying this solemn Pact should be so fixed that if any government later violate any one of its provisions, all the governments on earth should arise to reduce it to utter submission, nay the human race as a whole should resolve, with every power at its disposal, to destroy that government.
Should this greatest of all remedies be applied to the sick body of the world, it will assuredly recover from its ills and will remain eternally safe and secure .-- The Secret of Divine Civilization, pp.

64-65.
Baha'is see grave deficiencies in the structure of the League of Nations( 31) which falls short of the type of institution which Baha'u'llah described as essential to the establishment of world peace.

On December 17, 1919, 'Abdu'l-Baha declared:-- At present Universal Peace is a matter of great importance, but unity of conscience is essential, so that the foundation of this matter may become secure, its establishment firm and its edifice strong....


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