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Tag "Maturity of humanity"

tag name: Maturity of humanity type: General; Principles, teachings
web link: Maturity_of_humanity
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Age of maturity
related tags: - Concepts; Future; Unity
referring tags: Age of maturity (children); Age of transition; Disintegration and integration; Infancy, childhood and adolescence of humanity; Signs of the coming of age of humanity; Unity of humanity
Inventory subject: Coming-of-age; maturity of mankind
notes: "All created things have their degree or stage of maturity. The period of maturity in the life of a tree is the time of its fruit-bearing.… The animal attains a stage of full growth and completeness, and in the human kingdom man reaches his maturity when the light of his intelligence attains its greatest power and development. …Similarly there are periods and stages in the collective life of humanity. At one time it was passing through its stage of childhood, at another its period of youth, but now it has entered its long-predicted phase of maturity, the evidences of which are everywhere apparent.… That which was applicable to human needs during the early history of the race can neither meet nor satisfy the demands of this day, this period of newness and consummation. Humanity has emerged from its former state of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moral standards, new capacities. New bounties, perfect bestowals, are awaiting and already descending upon him. The gifts and blessings of the period of youth, although timely and sufficient during the adolescence of mankind, are now incapable of meeting the requirements of its maturity. – ‘Abdu’l Bahá, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come (also appears in The Promulgation of Universal Peace, talk 130, with slightly different wording)

See also Signs for the Coming of Age of the Human Race (Kitáb-i-Aqdas, ¶189)

references: www.bahai.org/beliefs/god-his-creation/revelation/coming-age-humanity; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Maturity

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  1. 2025-07. Bahá'í Sacred Writings. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'í World Centre, comp. . — A comprehensive collection of selections from the Writings of Baha’u’llah and the Writings and u...
  2. 2025-04-21. Evolving Administrative Order, An. Bahá'í World. — The Baha’i administrative order, evolving globally, fosters unity, decentralization, and social tr...
  3. 2025-04-21. New Institution of Learning, A: The Training Institute. Bahá'í World. — The Baha’i training institute builds capacity for individual and community transformation through ...
  4. 2025-03-19. Regarding Family Life and Marriage. Universal House of Justice. — Letter emphasizing the Baha’i family’s role in fostering unity, equality, and spiritual growth, ...
  5. 2023-2025. BWNS Podcasts: Conversations and Insights from the Field. Bahá'í World News Service. — Links to 39 interviews and narratives highlighting how Baha’i individuals and communities worldwid...
  6. 2023-11-28. Reflections on the First Century of the Formative Age. Universal House of Justice. — Overview of the Faith's developments and activities during the previous century, including the Guard...
  7. 2023-01-16. Modernity as an Age of Transition. Benjamin Schewel. — Modernity reconceptualized as a period of humanity’s collective adolescence; origins of the modern...
  8. 2023-01. Discerning a Framework for the Treatment of Animals in the Bahá'í Writings: Ethics, Ontology, and Discourse. Michael Sabet. — Baha'i exegesis can discern a framework governing the treatment of animals and our relationship to t...
  9. 2021-04-20. Ridván 2021: Bahá'í Era 178. Universal House of Justice. — Annual message to the Baha'is of the world.
  10. 2021-02. Reflections of Our Values: Digital Technologies and a Just Transition. Bahá'í International Community. — A statement to the 59th session of the Commission for Social Development on technological innovation...
  11. 2020-04-10. Writings of the Báb, The: Notes from Talks given by Dr. Nader Saiedi. Nader Saiedi, Anonymous, comp. . — Structured summarized notes from Dr. Saiedi’s 2019 talks on the Bab’s Writings, delivered at the...
  12. 2020. Crisis and the Power of an Inclusive Historical Consciousness: Progressing from Delusional Habits to Dynamic Freedom. Todd Smith. — On delusional ways of thinking: the habits of totalizing reality vs. fragmenting reality. These lead...
  13. 2018/2025. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks. Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'í World Centre, trans. . — 216 selections, last updated 2025.
  14. 2018. Power and the Bahá'í community. Moojan Momen. — While Baha'i social teachings may have sounded new and exciting a century ago, that is no longer the...
  15. 2014. Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age. Nader Saiedi. — A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Baha'i history, key writings, and the need for schola...
  16. 2013-10. Coming Age of Humanity and its Implications for Psychotherapy, The. Diane Robinson Kerr. — Humanity is undergoing inevitable and revolutionary change. The transition from turbulent adolescenc...
  17. 2013. Bahá'í Approaches to World Problems. Iscander Micael Tinto. — Historical, religious, scientific, and economical analysis of the state of the world and how the var...
  18. 2012-01-20. Coming of Age. Hooper Dunbar. — Overview of the Faith and discussion of "coming of age" which, both at an individual level and as pa...
  19. 2011. Birth of the Human Being, The: Beyond Religious Traditionalism and Materialist Modernity. Nader Saiedi. — We have arrived at a turning point in human evolution: the moment of the birth of the human being. T...
  20. 2010. Historical Consciousness and the Divine Plan. Douglas Martin. — A series of eight short talks (total around two hours), in both audio and video formats, on the evol...
  21. 2009-08-14. Collective Consciousness, Human Maturity, and the Challenge of Sustainability: Response. Arthur Lyon Dahl. — Response to presentations "The Essential Role of Religion in Fostering a Sustainable World" by Peter...
  22. 2007. Emergence of World Civilization, The: An Exposition on Excerpts from the Writings of Shoghi Effendi. James B. Thomas. — A study of the Guardian's "The Unfoldment of World Civilization" (1936); humanity's coming of age; t...
  23. 2006. "Newly born babe of that Day", The: Mysticism in the Age of the Maturity of Humankind. Julio Savi. — The dynamic historical processes impacting mysticism. As the Baha'i Revelation is the revelation o...
  24. 2002/2012. Reflection on the Theory of Alchemy as Explained in the Bahá'í Writings, A. Keven Brown. — Baha'u'llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha referred to the 'hidden craft' of alchemy as part of divine philoso...
  25. 2000. Spiritual Nature of Reality, The: Has the Future Already Been Written?. John S. Hatcher. — Meditations on "Who is Writing the Future": why is spiritual development a social as well as persona...
  26. 2000. Cultural Diversity in the Age of Maturity. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice, Universal House of Justice, Research Department, comp. .
  27. 2000. Resurgence of Apocalyptic in Modern Islam. Abbas Amanat. — Shi'i Mahdism, beliefs on the end of time, and overview of the rise of the Babi Faith.
  28. 1999. Maturation and Learning in the Bahá'í Community. David Levick. — The paradigm for Baha'i decision-making and consultation; relativist vs. subjectivist ontology; herm...
  29. 1996-05-13. Disintegration of Society and the Development of a New Order. Universal House of Justice. — On the disintegration of society and the development of a new order, and how the advancement of civi...
  30. 1996. Bahá'u'lláh's Teachings on Spiritual Reality. Paul Lample, comp. — The quest for spirituality, the spiritual life, material and spiritual reality, the progress of the ...
  31. 1996. Three Ages of Man, The: Are They Integrated?. Viva Rodwell. — Childhood, adulthood, old age, and family integration in contemporary culture.
  32. 1996. Universality of the Laws of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, The. Bijan Samali. — The laws of the Aqdas focus on the individual; are applicable to everyone; facilitate the realisatio...
  33. 1994. Arc of Ascent: The Purpose of Physical Reality II, by John S. Hatcher: Review. Ross Woodman.
  34. 1993. "In the Beginning Was the Word": Apocalypse and the Education of the Soul. Ross Woodman. — Hidden meanings in scripture and the soul are metaphorically identified with the huris, or brides. T...
  35. 1992. Forging More Perfect Unions. William Barnes. — Social advances toward inclusive political structures must be accompanied by a moral advance toward ...
  36. 1989. Good of the World and the Happiness of the Nations, The: A Study of Modern Utopian and Dystopian Literature. Elham Afnan. — The Baha'i Writings, with their new understanding of human destiny, can bridge the gap between utopi...
  37. 1945. Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl in America. Ali Kuli Khan, Marzieh Gail. — Khan's personal recollections of Gulpaygani, with mentions of other early American Baha'is.
  38. 1939. Heart of the Gospel: The Bible and the Bahá'í Faith. George Townshend. — Using only the text of the Bible, Townshend provides a new reading of Scripture as a guidebook for t...

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  1. 1997-04-21 — The Universal House of Justice restricted the formation of Local Spiritual Assemblies to the first d...
 
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