Still today, can anyone claim to have glimpsed anything but
an intimation, distant and indistinct, of the future society to which the
Revelation of Baha'u'llah is destined to give rise? For let none suppose that
the civilization towards which the divine teachings impel humankind will follow
merely from adjustments to the present order. Far from it. In a talk delivered
some days after He laid the cornerstone of the Mother Temple of the West,
'Abdu'l-Baha stated that "among the results of the manifestation of
spiritual forces will be that the human world will adapt itself to a new social
form," that "the justice of God will become manifest throughout human
affairs". These, and countless other utterances of the Master to which the
Baha'i community is turning time and again in this centennial period, raise
awareness of the distance that separates society as it is now arranged from the
stupendous vision His Father gifted to the world. - The Universal House of
Justice (Ridvan 2012 message to the Baha’is of the world)
