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tag name Maturity of humanity type: Philosophy; Principles, teachings; Science: natural, social, and applied

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mis-spellings Age of maturity
related tags - Concepts; Future; Unity
referring tags Age of maturity (children); Age of transition; Confidence in the future; 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
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See also:
– Bahai org: The Coming of Age of Humanity
– Signs for the Coming of Age of the Human Race (Kitáb-i-Aqdas, ¶189)

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(authoritative sources)
These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts:

"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, p. 119 (also appears in The Promulgation of Universal Peace, talk 130, with slightly different wording)

"... The long ages of infancy and childhood, through which the human race had to pass, have receded into the background. Humanity is now experiencing the commotions invariably associated with the most turbulent stage of its evolution, the stage of adolescence, when the impetuosity of youth and its vehemence reach their climax, and must gradually be superseded by the calmness, the wisdom, and the maturity that characterize the stage of manhood. Then will the human race reach that stature of ripeness which will enable it to acquire all the powers and capacities upon which its ultimate development must depend..."

– Shoghi Effendi, from a letter dated 11 March 1936, in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 202

... The Bahá’í Faith regards the current world confusion and calamitous condition in human affairs as a natural phase in an organic process leading ultimately and irresistibly to the unification of the human race in a single social order whose boundaries are those of the planet. The human race, as a distinct, organic unit, has passed through evolutionary stages analogous to the stages of infancy and childhood in the lives of its individual members, and is now in the culminating period of its turbulent adolescence approaching its long-awaited coming of age..."

– Universal House of Justice, The Promise of World Peace, 1985

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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... Writings.
2025-04-21. Evolving Administrative Order, An. Bahá'í World. — The Baha’i administrative order, evolving globally, fosters unity, decentralization, and social tr... Articles.
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 ... Articles.
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, ... UHJ-letters.
2023-2026. BWNS Podcasts: Conversations and Insights from the Field. Bahá'í World News Service. — Links to 46 interviews highlighting how Baha’i individuals and communities worldwide apply spiritu... Audio.
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... UHJ-letters.
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... Articles.
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... Articles.
2021-04-20. Ridván 2021: Bahá'í Era 178. Universal House of Justice. — Annual message to the Baha'is of the world. UHJ-documents.
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... BIC.
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... Talks.
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... Articles.
2018/2025. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks. Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'í World Centre, trans. . — 216 selections, last updated 2025. Writings.
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... Articles.
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... Audio.
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... Theses.
2013. Materials Studied at the 114 Global Youth Conferences in 2013. Bahá'í World Centre. — Compilation presenting materials studied during the global Baha’i youth conferences in 2013, organ... Study.
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... Articles-unpublished.
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... Audio.
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... Articles.
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... Audio.
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... Audio.
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... Articles.
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... Articles.
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... Articles-unpublished.
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. Excerpts.
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. . Compilations.
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... Articles.
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... Articles.
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... UHJ-letters.
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 ... Introductory.
1996. Three Ages of Man, The: Are They Integrated?. Viva Rodwell. — Childhood, adulthood, old age, and family integration in contemporary culture. Essays.
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... Articles.
1994. Arc of Ascent: The Purpose of Physical Reality II, by John S. Hatcher: Review. Ross Woodman. Reviews.
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... Articles.
1993. Kitab-i-Aqdas: Its Place in Bahá'í literature. Bahá'í World Centre Office of Public Information. — Offers a broad introduction to the Aqdas and its themes. Essays.
1992. Forging More Perfect Unions. William Barnes. — Social advances toward inclusive political structures must be accompanied by a moral advance toward ... Articles.
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... Articles.
1985-10. Promise of World Peace, The. Universal House of Justice. — Call to global unity, affirming peace as humanity’s next evolutionary stage and urging moral, spir... UHJ-documents.
1976-2026. Proceedings and Recordings. Various. — Links to archived audio and video talks and lectures given at meetings of the Association for Baha'i... Audio.
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. Biographies.
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... Books.

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

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tag name	Maturity of humanity	type:	Philosophy; Principles, teachings; Science: natural, social, and applied
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Maturity_of_humanity
variations or mis-spellings	Age of maturity
related tags	- Concepts; Future; Unity
referring tags	Age of maturity (children); Age of transition; Confidence in the future; 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	See also: – Bahai org: The Coming of Age of Humanity – Signs for the Coming of Age of the Human Race (Kitáb-i-Aqdas, ¶189)
selected quotations (authoritative sources)	These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts: "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, p. 119 (also appears in The Promulgation of Universal Peace, talk 130, with slightly different wording) "... The long ages of infancy and childhood, through which the human race had to pass, have receded into the background. Humanity is now experiencing the commotions invariably associated with the most turbulent stage of its evolution, the stage of adolescence, when the impetuosity of youth and its vehemence reach their climax, and must gradually be superseded by the calmness, the wisdom, and the maturity that characterize the stage of manhood. Then will the human race reach that stature of ripeness which will enable it to acquire all the powers and capacities upon which its ultimate development must depend..." – Shoghi Effendi, from a letter dated 11 March 1936, in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 202 ... The Bahá’í Faith regards the current world confusion and calamitous condition in human affairs as a natural phase in an organic process leading ultimately and irresistibly to the unification of the human race in a single social order whose boundaries are those of the planet. The human race, as a distinct, organic unit, has passed through evolutionary stages analogous to the stages of infancy and childhood in the lives of its individual members, and is now in the culminating period of its turbulent adolescence approaching its long-awaited coming of age..." – Universal House of Justice, The Promise of World Peace, 1985
references	www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Maturity