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Has not 'Abdu'l-Baha Himself asserted in unequivocal language that "another war, fiercer than the last, will assuredly break out"? (46:4) Upon the consummation of this colossal, this unspeakably glorious enterprise - an enterprise that baffled the resources of Roman statesmanship and which Napoleon's desperate efforts failed to achieve - will depend the ultimate realization of that millennium of which poets of all ages have sung and seers have long dreamed. Upon it will depend the fulfillment of the prophecies uttered by the Prophets of old when swords shall be beaten into ploughshares and the lion and the lamb lie down together. It alone can usher in the Kingdom of the Heavenly Father as anticipated by the Faith of Jesus Christ. It alone can lay the foundation for the New World Order visualized by Baha'u'llah - a World Order that shall reflect, however dimly, upon this earthly plane, the ineffable splendors of the 'Abha Kingdom.
(46:5)
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