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14 BahÃ¡âuâllÃ¡h and the New Erasuch a century.... For there was need once more of a DivineRevelation to the torpid, frivolous children of men, if theywere not to sink altogether into the ape condition.—Frederickthe Great, Book I, Chap. I.Compared with the eighteenth century the present time is asthe dawn after darkness, or as the spring after winter. The worldis stirring with new life, thrilling with new ideals and hopes.Things that but a few years ago seemed impossible dreams arenow accomplished facts. Others that seemed centuries ahead ofus have already become matters of “practical politics.” We flyin the air and make voyages under the sea. We send messagesaround the world with the speed of lightning. Within a fewdecades we have seen miracles too numerous to mention.
The Sun of RighteousnessWhat is the cause of this sudden awakening throughout theworld? Bahá’ís believe that it is due to a great outpouring of theHoly Spirit through the Prophet Bahá’u’lláh, Who was born inPersia in 1817 and passed away in the Holy Land in 1892.Bahá’u’lláh taught that the Prophet, or “Manifestation ofGod,” is the Light-bringer of the spiritual world, as the sun isthe light-bringer of the natural world. Just as the material sunshines over the earth and causes the growth and development ofmaterial organisms, so also, through the Divine Manifestation,the Sun of Truth shines upon the world of heart and soul, andeducates the thoughts, morals and characters of men. And justas the rays of the natural sun have an influence which penetratesinto the darkest and shadiest corners of the world, giving warmthand life even to creatures that have never seen the sun itself, soalso, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit through the Manifestationof God influences the lives of all, and inspires receptive mindseven in places and among peoples where the name of the Prophetis quite unknown. The advent of the Manifestation is like thecoming of the Spring. It is a day of Resurrection in which thespiritually dead are raised to new life, in which the Reality of theDivine Religions is renewed and reestablished, in which appear“new heavens and a new earth.”But, in the world of nature, the Spring brings about not onlythe growth and awakening of new life but also the destruction andremoval of the old and effete; for the same sun, that makes theflowers to spring and the trees to bud, causes also the decay anddisintegration of what is dead and useless; it loosens the ice andmelts the snow of winter, and sets free the flood and the storm thatcleanse and purify the earth. So is it also in the spiritual world.The spiritual sunshine causes similar commotion and change.Thus the Day of Resurrection is also the Day of Judgment, inwhich corruptions and imitations of the truth and outworn ideas
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