Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.
Shoghi EffendiBahรก'u'llรกh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahรก'u'llรกh is the greatest Manifestation to yet appear, the One Who consummates the Revelation of Moses; He was the One Moses conversed with in the Burning Bush. In other words Bahรก'u'llรกh identifies the glory of the Godhead on that occasion with Himself. No distinction can be made amongst the Prophets in the sense that They all proceed from One Source, and are of One Essence. But Their stations and functions in this world are different.
Shoghi EffendiWe cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions.
Shoghi EffendiThe unity of the human race, as envisaged by Bahรก'u'llรกh, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all nations, races, creeds and classes are closely and permanently united, and in which the autonomy of its state members and the personal freedom and initiative of the individuals that compose them are definitely and completely safeguarded.
Shoghi Effendi