rs. Should you
compare the beginning of the Cause with its position today, you
would see what a quick influence the Word of God has, and now the
Cause of God has encompassed the world.... Unquestionably, all
will come under the shadow of the Cause of God.

He declared that the establishment of world unity will come about during
the present century. In one of His Tablets He wrote:--

... All the members of the human family, whether peoples or
governments, cities or villages, have become increasingly
interdependent. For none is self-sufficiency any longer possible,
inasmuch as political ties unite all peoples and nations, and the
bonds of trade and industry, of agriculture and education, are
being strengthened every day. Hence the unity of all mankind can
in this day be achieved. Verily this is none other but one of the
wonders of this wondrous age, this glorious century--the century of
light--has been endowed with the unique and unprecedented glory,
power and illumination. Hence the miraculous unfolding of a fresh
marvel every day. Eventually it will be seen how bright its
candles will burn in the assemblage of man.

In the last two verses of the Book of Daniel occur the cryptic
words:--"Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three
hundred and five and thirty days. But go thy way till the end be: for thou
shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days."

Many have been the attempts of learned students to solve the problem of
the significance of these words. In a tabletalk at which the writer was
present, 'Abdu'l-Baha reckoned the fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy from
the date of the beginning of the Muhammadan era.

'Abdu'l-Baha's Tablets make it clear that this prophecy refers to the one
hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Baha'u'llah in Ba_gh_dad, or
the year 1963:--

Now concerning the verse in Daniel, the interpretation whereof
thou didst ask, namely, "Blessed is he who cometh unto the
thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days." These days must be
reckoned as solar and not lunar years. For according to this
calculation a century will have elapsed from the dawn of the Sun
of Truth, then will the teachings of God be firmly established
upon the earth, and the Divine Light shall flood the world from
the East even unto the West. Then, on this day, will the faithful
rejoice!