This World Order will, in turn, in the course of successive Dispensations of the Bahá’í Cycle, yield its fairest fruit through the birth and flowering of a civilization, divinely inspired, unique in its features, world-embracing in its scope, and fundamentally spiritual in its character—a civilization destined as it unfolds to derive its initial impulse from the spirit animating the very institutions which, in their embryonic state, are now stirring in the womb of the present Formative Age of the Faith. (27 November 1954 to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, published in “Messages to the Bahá’í World, 1950–1957” (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1971), pp. 74–75) [53] EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS WRITTEN ON BEHALF OF SHOGHI EFFENDI 54: The world is in great turmoil, and what is most pathetic is that it has learned... The world is in great turmoil, and what is most pathetic is that it has learned to keep away from God, Who alone can save it and alleviate its sufferings. It is our duty, we who have been trusted with the task of applying the divine remedy given by Bahá’u’lláh, to concentrate our attention upon the consummation of this task, and not rest until the peace foretold by the Prophets of God is permanently established.... (9 December 1931 to the Bahá’ís of Tokyo) [54] 55: Shoghi Effendi wrote his last general letter to the western friends... Shoghi Effendi wrote his last general letter to the western friends because he felt that the public should be made to understand the attitude the Bahá’í Faith maintains towards the prevailing economic and political problems. We should let the world know what the real aim of Bahá’u’lláh was. Up to the present Unity of Mankind was only of an academic importance. Now it is becoming more and more a subject for international statesmen to think of. It is coming to the field of practical politics. It is therefore a wonderful chance for us to come to the front and expound the teaching which is the goal and aim of the social precepts of Bahá’u’lláh. Shoghi Effendi hopes that the friends will re-echo this call to an organic unity of mankind until it forms part of the conscious faith of every living man in the world. Great judgement should be however practised lest we be misunderstood and our Faith be classed among radical movements. (28 January 1932 to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada) [55] 56: Shoghi Effendi wishes me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated...