Now the new age is here and creation is reborn. Humanity
hath taken on new life. The autumn hath gone by, and the reviving spring is
here. All things are now made new. Arts and industries have been reborn, there
are new discoveries in science, and there are new inventions; even the details
of human affairs, such as dress and personal effects—even weapons—all these
have likewise been renewed. The laws and procedures of every government have
been revised. Renewal is the order of the day.
And all this newness hath its source in the fresh
outpourings of wondrous grace and favour from the Lord of the Kingdom, which
have renewed the world. The people, therefore, must be set completely free from
their old patterns of thought, that all their attention may be focused upon
these new principles, for these are the light of this time and the very spirit
of this age.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
