The first sign of the coming of age of humanity referred to
in the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh is the emergence of a science which is described
as that “divine philosophy” which will include the discovery of a radical
approach to the transmutation of elements. This is an indication of the
splendours of the future stupendous expansion of knowledge.
Concerning the “second” sign which Bahá’u’lláh indicates to
have been revealed in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Shoghi Effendi states that Bahá’u’lláh,
“...in His Most Holy Book, has enjoined the selection of a single language and
the adoption of a common script for all on earth to use, an injunction which,
when carried out, would, as He Himself affirms in that Book, be one of the
signs of the ‘coming of age of the human race’”.
Further insight into this process of mankind’s coming of age
and proceeding to maturity is provided by the following statement of
Bahá’u’lláh:
"One of the signs of the maturity of the world is that no one
will accept to bear the weight of kingship. Kingship will remain with none
willing to bear alone its weight. That day will be the day whereon wisdom will
be manifested among mankind."
The coming of age of the human race has been associated by
Shoghi Effendi with the unification of the whole of mankind, the establishment
of a world commonwealth, and an unprecedented stimulus to “the intellectual,
the moral and spiritual life of the entire human race”.
- The Universal House of
Justice (The “Notes” section of the ‘Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
