Tag: "Plan of God, Major"

tag name	Plan of God, Major	type:	Plans
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/-_Plan_of_God,__Major
variations or mis-spellings	Greater Plan; great Plan of God
related tags	God, Plan of; Lesser Peace
referring tags	– Plan of God, Minor
notes	"... Such simultaneous processes of rise and of fall, of integration and of disintegration, of order and chaos, with their continuous and reciprocal reactions on each other, are but aspects of a greater Plan, one and indivisible, whose Source is God, whose author is Bahá’u’lláh, the theater of whose operations is the entire planet, and whose ultimate objectives are the unity of the human race and the peace of all mankind..." – Shogh Effendi, Advent of Divine Justice, 1938, pp. 72-73. "We are told by Shoghi Effendi that two great processes are at work in the world: the great Plan of God, tumultuous in its progress, working through mankind as a whole, tearing down barriers to world unity and forging humankind into a unified body in the fires of suffering and experience. This process will produce, in God’s due time, the Lesser Peace, the political unification of the world. Mankind at that time can be likened to a body that is unified but without life. The second process, the task of breathing life into this unified body—of creating true unity and spirituality culminating in the Most Great Peace—is that of the Bahá’ís, who are labouring consciously, with detailed instructions and continuing Divine guidance, to erect the fabric of the Kingdom of God on earth, into which they call their fellow men, thus conferring upon them eternal life. The working out of God’s Major Plan proceeds mysteriously in ways directed by Him alone, but the Minor Plan that He has given us to execute, as our part in His grand design for the redemption of mankind, is clearly delineated. It is to this work that we must devote all our energies, for there is no one else to do it. ..." – Universal House of Justice, Letter to an individual, 8 December 1967 "... Our fellow human beings everywhere are insensibly subjected at one and the same time to the conflicting emotions incited by the continuous operation of simultaneous processes of “rise and of fall, of integration and of disintegration, of order and chaos.” These Shoghi Effendi identified as aspects of the Major Plan and Minor Plan of God, the two known ways in which His purpose for humankind is going forward. The Major Plan is associated with turbulence and calamity and proceeds with an apparent, random disorderliness, but is, in fact, inexorably driving humanity towards unity and maturity. Its agency for the most part is the people who are ignorant of its course and even antagonistic towards its aim..." – Universal House of Justice, Ridván message 155 B.E. (1998 C.E.). See also Short Glossary of Bahá'í Terms.
references	bahaiquotes.com/subject/major-plan; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q="Major Plan"; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q="Greater Plan"

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