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On one point Baha'is are in complete agreement.. the human race will never be able to bring about this highest good of our temporal existence, world peace. All human efforts, all the good will, all the appeals and resolutions, all the exertions of the politicians, will ultimately come to nothing. The total transformation of the world will finally come not from man but from God. Theologians have not recognized that the Lord of history has manifested Himself in Baha'u'llah and has spoken again to mankind, to bring about man's perfection; they cannot bring themselves to believe that behind the phenomenon they criticize so harshly, the transforming and re-creating power of the Word of God is at work, which can succeed where man relying only on himself and presuming his own independence, is bound to fail: this is why they find the Baha'i hope of peace a Utopian illusion, a millennialist dream. But the Baha'is do confidently believe that through Baha'u'llah the Lord has spoken and that He will redeem His promise of the "Most Great Peace," (much as He did in gathering the Jews -ed) that their religion is more than a sum of teachings, counsels and admonitions, that it is a living force, the same force which already in history has transformed men, established new orders and founded brotherly communities. Their expectations of the future are based on this confident belief.
(64:2)
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