I
desire for you all that you will have this great assistance and partake of this
great bounty, and that in spirit and heart you will strive and endeavor until
the world of war become the world of peace; the world of darkness the world of
light; satanic conduct be turned into heavenly behavior; the ruined places become
built up; the sword be turn into the olive branch; the flash of hatred become
the flame of the love of God and the noise of the gun the voice of the Kingdom;
the soldiers of death the soldiers of life; all the nations of the world one
nation; all races as one race; and all national anthems harmonized into one
melody.
Then
this material realm will be Paradise, the earth Heaven, and the world of Satan
becomes the world of Angels. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’, vol. 1)
