The Lesser Peace itself will pass through stages; at the initial stage the governments will act entirely on their own without the conscious involvement of the Faith; later on, in God’s good time, the Faith will have a direct influence on it in ways indicated by Shoghi Effendi in his “The Goal of a New World Order”. In connection with the steps that will lead to this latter stage, the Universal House of Justice will certainly determine what has to be done, in accordance with the guidance in the Writings, such as the passage you quoted from “Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh”, page 89. In the meantime, the Bahá’ís will undoubtedly continue to do all in their power to promote the establishment of peace. (31 January 1985 to an individual believer) [76] Revised September 1990 FOOTNOTES 1 The translation of this sentence has been revised since the publication of “Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá”.