Introduction
Every morning the world looks more confused and in disarray than the one we left the evening before. Nothing seems to go in the right direction. The dynamics of life are represented by continuous repair jobs which each of us are constantly trying to somehow patch up. Everybody, without exception, complains. When we think we have taken the right steps to overcome a crisis, we realize the crisis remains and the measures we adopted have generated new problems: greater than those initially faced. (6:1)

Governments of various tendencies and colors are always in crisis and just like a sleeping body; sometimes they wake up, but without obtaining any results. In fact inflation grows, productivity and employment decrease, and the danger of a nuclear war is becoming greater. In the end, we feel the impulse to barricade the windows and give in to despair. (6:2)

As nothing is done to find a remedy, we get upset at economists, intellectuals, politicians and at anybody else whom we can make the object of our attacks by holding them responsible for all evils. Yet things are getting worse and worse. If we look around we see the accumulation of waste and pollution fouling the rivers, the lakes, the seas, the air and man. Eyes burn, skin becomes diseased, lungs are poisoned, illnesses and conflicts increase and the only solution we can come up with is just to lock ourselves inside our houses and close the windows and doors. Whoever we turn to for help finds us stuck on a waiting list, neglected. Everything around us gains speed and it's difficult to say where we are going to end up. Every once in a while , we suddenly stop and feel the need to trample down whatever we find in our way, leaving disorder behind. If we look at other industrial societies some of them seem to do worse, others a little better, but all of them, be they a popular, socialist, capitalist or a democratic political structure seem to be afflicted by a common disease: the same relentless process of degradation. It seems fruitless to hold responsible the ideologies, which have inspired and continue to inspire the actions of the ruling class. Of course there are individuals that have better ideologies than others. Yet all of them are involved in a restricted and unhealthy vision of the world and are incapable of proposing and carrying out solutions on a global level for solving the serious crisis in progress. It is necessary to draw up an analysis of the evolution of past ages to understand the essential aspects that , reproposed in a new line of action and in harmony with the times, can offer a new solution for the lives of individuals and nations. The aim of this book is to undertake this analysis drawing inspiration from Baha'u'llah's writings. Baha'u'llah is the founder of the widespread world international community based on religious principles and which today is known as the Baha'i community. It is a source of life for a new way to understand the world in its various social, economical, political and religious contents. The goal pursued by this doctrine is to make humanity understand that this is the time for world unity: "One God, one religion, one earth, one humankind." "The Great Peace towards which people of good will throughout the centuries have inclined their hearts, of which seers and poets for countless generations have expressed their vision, and for which from age to age the sacred scriptures of mankind have constantly held the promise, is now at long last within the reach of the nations. For the first time in history it is possible for everyone to view the entire planet, with all its myriad diversified peoples, in one perspective. World peace is not only possible but inevitable. It is the next stage in the evolution of this planet--in the words of one great thinker, "the planetization of mankind." [1] (6:3)

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