But this will only occur when everyone will have understood the true meaning of individual ethics and collective ethics passing through the search for truth, described at the beginning of this article, and through the vision of the collective process that in the words of Baha'u'llah expresses itself with these words written more than a century ago:
The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established (Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings 286). (66:1)

Signs of this kind of renewal appear almost everywhere, even if it is still in a speculative sense. (66:2)

The speculative movement goes hand in hand with the transformation of the international and national economic world which is turning more and more to complex organic forms where the individual tends to disappear. In this system the organism replaces the individual and therefore collaboration must be replaced by anarchy and the violent struggle of unscrupulous competition. (66:3)

This doesn't mean competition should be eliminated from this new life and from the new economic science. On the contrary, its fundamental importance has never been felt as it has today, but we begin to understand that even competition is only a tool on the way to reaching a common goal and it should be used within the limits imposed by the discipline of quality control. (66:4)

But above and beyond such economic unity, the demand for another unity, deeper and historically unmistakable from others asserts itself: The state, within which individual life resumes, no longer conceived according to the creed of Enlightenment. (66:5)

The nation that in its evolution has gone from simple to more and more complex forms in order to achieve its more important form: the World State. (66:6)

In an effort to better explain with a few examples, we should say that the dramatization of the energetic problems is often attributed to the interests of these trusts that monopolize the sources of raw materials. (66:7)

Among the several problems governments are incapable of solving overwhelmed by the influence of the multinationals, there is, for example, that of nuclear energy. Given that the issue is not solvable within independent and separate national politics (but involves choices burdening the entire world population), we should remember that on Earth there are sources of energy that are not yet fully utilized. (66:8)

For example there are some rivers that have unlimited storage of clean hydroelectric power, but the nations that have those resources lack international agreements, and it is difficult for them to get the necessary finances to invest in the full exploitation of the latent resources they possess. (66:9)

It is natural that when the sources of energy currently in use are on the way to being exhausted and it will be necessary to turn to new sources, such as nuclear power, only a no one excluded, can guarantee the establishment of reliable and safe installations. Furthermore, thanks to this same cooperation those choices can be made which are capable of solving the problem without neglecting psychological and physical impact. The discovery and employment of not completely controllable forms of energy and the use of unreliable installations (from processes conflicting with nature that are also at high risk for irremediable environmental pollution) make us rethink about an extract from Baha'u'llah ‘s writings in which He stated in the last century: "Strange and astonishing things exist in the earth but they are hidden from the minds and the understanding of men. These things are capable of changing the whole atmosphere of the earth and their contamination would prove lethal" [62]. (66:10)

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