Baha'u'llah & the New Era
by
J. Esslemont
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..we often see a.. transformation, when a man is "born again" and his whole being becomes radically changed in its aims, its character and activities. Such critical stages often affect a whole species or multitude of species simultaneously, as when vegetation of all kinds suddenly bursts into new life in springtime. (118:2)

Baha'u'llah declares that just as lesser living things have times of sudden emergence into new and fuller life, so for mankind also a "critical stage," a time of "rebirth," is at hand. The modes of life which have persisted from the dawn of history up till now will be quickly, irrevocably, altered, and humanity enter a new phase of life as different from the old as the butterfly is different from the caterpillar.. "the world will become indeed as a rose garden and a paradise." (119:1)

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