To what else can the observant eye or the unprejudiced mind,
acquainted with the signs and portents heralding the birth, and accompanying
the rise, of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh ascribe this dire, this planetary
upheaval, with its attendant destruction, misery and fear, if not to the
emergence of His embryonic World Order, which, as He Himself has unequivocally
proclaimed, has “deranged the equilibrium of the world and revolutionized
mankind’s ordered life”?
- Shoghi Effendi (Preface to ‘God Passes By’)