…now is the beginning of a cycle of
Reality, a New Cycle, a New Age, a New Century, a New Time… Therefore, it is
very blessed.
I wish this blessing to appear and
become manifest in the faces and characteristics of the believers, so that
they, too, may become a new people, and having found new life and been baptized
with fire and spirit, may make the world a new world, to the end that the old
earth may disappear and the new earth appear; old ideas depart and new thoughts
come; old garments be cast aside and new garments put on; ancient politics
whose foundation is war be discarded and modern politics founded on peace raise
the standard of victory; the new star shine and gleam and the new sun illumine
and radiate; new flowers bloom; the new spring become known; the new breeze
blow; the new bounty descend; the new tree give forth new fruit; the new voice
become raised and this new sound reach the ears, that the new will follow the
new, and all the old furnishings and adornments be cast aside and new
decorations put in their places.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet, Star of the
West, vol. 2, no. 1, March 21, 1911)
