Why?
To Start the Golden Age
As explained in God Passes By, The Bahá’í Dispensation is divided into three main ages: the Heroic Age, the Formative Age, and the Golden Age. Many of us are familiar with living in the Formative Age which includes the development of the Bahá’í Institutions. The purpose of this website is to begin the Golden Age of the Bahá'í Faith.
Shoghi Effendi described the Golden Age as follows:
…the Golden Age destined to witness the emergence of a world-embracing Order enshrining the ultimate fruit of God’s latest Revelation to mankind, a fruit whose maturity must signalize the establishment of a world civilization and the formal inauguration of the Kingdom of the Father upon earth as promised by Jesus Christ Himself.[1]
Christ indeed referred to this time in the famous line from the Lord’s Prayer:
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.[2]
The book Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era quotes 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the subject of the Golden Age:
When the material world and the divine world are well correlated, when the hearts become heavenly and the aspirations pure, perfect connection shall take place. Then shall this power produce a perfect manifestation. Physical and spiritual diseases will then receive absolute healing.[3]
Another goal of this website is to correlate the material world and the divine world. This also involves unifying science and religion, as explained below. One reason why physical and spiritual diseases will receive absolute healing is that medical science and religion will become unified, and so both of them can learn from each other. The study of physical diseases will be illuminated by spirituality and the study of spiritual diseases will be illuminated by both science and religion.
To Unify Science and Religion
The third principle or teaching of Bahá’u’lláh is the oneness of religion and science.[4]
Science is mostly about the material world, and religion mostly concerns the spiritual worlds. This website's purpose is to discover and explain how the material and spiritual worlds are connected, and therefore how science and religion are connected.
To Make Learning Spiritual
If children learn about the world with a unified understanding of science and religion, then the two will complement each other a lot. If they for example learn about a tree in a strictly material sense, it is boring. But if they know that trees teach us many things about our spiritual life, suddenly the study of trees is enormously interesting and useful.
- ↑ Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By
- ↑ Jesus Christ, quoted in Matthew 6:10
- ↑ John Esslemont, Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era
- ↑ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Promulgation of Universal Peace