kind....

Alone of all the Revelations gone before it this Faith has ...
succeeded in raising a structure which the bewildered followers of
bankrupt and broken creeds might well approach and critically
examine, and seek, ere it is too late, the invulnerable security
of its world-embracing shelter....

To what else if not the power and majesty which this
Administrative Order--the rudiments of the future all-enfolding
Baha'i Commonwealth--is destined to manifest, can these utterances
of Baha'u'llah allude: "The world's equilibrium hath been upset
through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World
Order. Mankind's ordered life hath been revolutionized through the
agency of this unique, this wondrous System--the like of which
mortal eyes have never witnessed." ...

The Baha'i Commonwealth of the future of which this vast
Administrative Order is the sole framework, is, both in theory and
practice, not only unique in the entire history of political
institutions, but can find no parallel in the annals of any of the
world's recognized religious systems. No form of democratic
government; no system of autocracy or of dictatorship, whether
monarchical or republican; no intermediary scheme of a purely
aristocratic order; nor even any of the recognized types of
theocracy, whether it be the Hebrew Commonwealth, or the various
Christian ecclesiastical organizations, or the Imamate or the
Caliphate in Islam--none of these can be identified or be said to
conform with the Administrative Order which the master-hand of its
perfect Architect has fashioned....

Let no one, while this System is still in its infancy, misconceive
its character, belittle its significance or misrepresent its
purpose. The bedrock on which this Administrative Order is founded
is God's immutable Purpose for mankind in this day. The Source
from which it derives its inspiration is no one less than
Baha'u'llah Himself.... The central, the underlying aim which
animates it is the establishment of the New World Order as
adumbrated by Baha'u'llah. The methods it employs, the standard it
inculcates, incline it to neither East nor West, neither Jew nor
Gentile, neither rich nor poor, neither white nor colored. Its
watchword is the unification of the human race; its standard the
"Most Great Peace."