Forces of Our Time

<p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(64 59 55 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>An examination of the processes that are creating a new divine civilization and the negative forces that have risen to resist the divine purpose.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(64 59 55 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Anyone looking at the condition of the world today will be struck by the dramatic changes taking place. On the one hand is the visible deterioration in so many fundamental processes and institutions from the financial world politics and the fabric of society to climate change and energy. On the other is an enlivening upsurge in knowledge in concern for human rights and in technologies that bring people together.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(64 59 55 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>These energies are spiritual in nature and result from the coming of God's most recent representative to humankind Bahá'u'lláh. He has set in motion processes that are creating a new divine civilization. In response to this negative forces have risen to resist the divine purpose.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(64 59 55 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The nature of these spiritual forces is a prominent theme in the Bahá'í writings particularly in those of Shoghi Effendi. They convey vital principles and laws systematic processes and insights into the workings of the world. They explain the changes that are taking place and give us a glimpse into our own nature and reality.</span></p>