Dawn Breaker's Reflections

Today was Earth Day in the US (Although International Earth Day actually took place on March 20, the day of the Equinox in both Hemispheres); historical events have been taking place around the world throughout this season marking this special "springtime" for our planet. The earth today is experiencing events the like of which have never been seen; this season, this year and this decade in the earth's history have witnessed events that have marked the inevitable advancement of the earth's fledgling global society towards World Peace, Order and Justice, as chaotic and bound for failure in its present state as it may seem.

Some Noteworthy World News this Week:

Peace Hopes in Burundi after Rebel Cease-Fire

Sudan Atrocity Report on Darfur Conflict

World Bank 60th Birthday

Cyprus Unification Process

Haiti Multinational Security Force News

China prevents SARS spread

Globalization Trends

Iran Nuclear Situation

Iraqi Coalition News

While the confusing world events taking place today, like the pangs of childbirth, have been mostly painful and seemingly unrewarding in the short term, they are necessary steps toward the birth of a future global society where the environmental, social, economic and spiritual woes of this planet and its inhabitants will have vanished, and the standard of the oneness of humanity will have been raised, marking the beginning of a new stage in the advancement of the earth's global civilization.

Utopian and Naive as this vision may seem to some, it is founded upon a Revelation which, upon close and sincere examination by anyone from the most learned of scholars to the humblest of humans, has been found to be a source of hope, inspiration and upliftment for them and over six million of the earth's inhabitants like them who share this same vision. Such a vision allows these millions of earth's citizens to discern through and within the dark clouds of the world's current chaos, confusion and disillusion the scintillations of a just, peaceful golden universal civilization as this planet has never witnessed.


"The unity of the human race, as envisaged by Bahá'u'lláh, 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 personal freedom and initiative of the individuals that    compose them are definitely and completely safeguarded. This commonwealth must, as far as we can visualize it, consist of a world legislature, whose members will, as the trustees of the whole of mankind, ultimately control the entire resources of all the component nations, and will enact such laws as shall be required to regulate the life, satisfy the needs and adjust the relationships of all races and peoples. A world executive, backed by an international Force, will carry out the decisions arrived at, and apply the laws enacted by, this world legislature, and will safeguard the organic unity of the whole commonwealth. A world tribunal will adjudicate and deliver its compulsory and final verdict in all and any disputes that may arise between the various elements constituting this universal system. A mechanism of world inter-communication will be devised, embracing the whole planet, freed from national hinderances and restrictions, and functioning with marvellous swiftness and perfect regularity. A world metropolis will act as the nerve centre of a world civilization, the focus towards which the unifying forces of life will converge and from which its energizing influences will radiate. A world language will either be invented or chosen from among the existing languages and will be taught in the schools of all the federated nations as an auxiliary to their mother tongue. A world script, a world literature, a uniform and universal system of currency, of  weights and measures, will simplify and facilitate intercourse and understanding among the nations and races of mankind. In such a world society, science and religion, the two most potent forces in human life, will be reconciled, will co-operate, and will harmoniously develop. The press will, under such a system, while giving full scope to the expression of the diversified views and convictions of mankind, cease to be mischievously manipulated by vested interests, whether private or public, and will be liberated from the influence of contending governments and peoples. The economic resources of the world will be organized, its sources of raw materials will be tapped and fully utilized, its markets will be co-ordinated and developed, and the distribution of its products will be equitably regulated.

"National rivalries, hatreds and intrigues will cease, and racial animosity and prejudice will be replaced by racial amity, understanding and co-operation. The causes of religious strife will be permanently removed, economic barriers and restrictions will be completely abolished, and the inordinate distinction between classes will be obliterated. Destitution on the one hand, and gross accumulation of ownership on the other, will disappear. The enormous energy dissipated and wasted on war, whether economic or political, will be consecrated to such ends as will extend the range of human inventions and technical development, to the increase of the productivity of mankind, to the extermination of disease, to the extension of scientific research, to the raising of the standard of physical health, to the sharpening and refinement of the human brain, to the exploitation of the unused and unsuspected resources of the planet, to the prolongation of human life, and to the furtherance of any other agency that can stimulate the intellectual, the moral, and spiritual life of the entire human race.

A world federal system, ruling the whole earth and exercising unchallengeable authority over its unimaginably vast resources, blending and embodying the ideals of both the East and the West, liberated from the curse of war and its miseries, and bent on the exploitation of all the available sources of energy on the surface of the planet, a system in which Force is made the servant of Justice, whose life is sustained by its universal recognition of one God and by its allegiance to one common Revelation -- such is the goal towards which humanity, impelled by the unifying forces of life, is moving."

(Introduction, The Proclamation of Baha'u'llah)