Humanity’s Coming of Age
The Revelation of the Ancient of Days, whose supreme mission is none other but the achievement of the organic and spiritual unity of the whole body of nations, should, if we be faithful to its implications, be regarded as signalizing, through its advent, the coming of age of the entire human race. This stage of our spiritual unfolding should be viewed not merely as yet another spiritual revival in the ever-changing fortunes of humankind, not only as a further stage in a chain of progressive Revelations, nor even as the culmination of one of a series of recurrent prophetic cycles, but rather as marking the last and highest stage in the stupendous evolution of the Human Family’s collective life on this planet. The emergence of a world community, the consciousness of world citizenship, the founding of a world civilization and culture—should, by their very nature, be regarded, as far as this planetary life is concerned, as the furthermost limits in theorganization of human society, though human beings, as an individuals, must indeed, as a result of such a consummation, continue indefinitely to progress and develop.