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    The Promise of World Peace
    The Promise of World Peace
    The Promise of World Peace
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    The Promise of World Peace

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    Release dateJan 1, 1993
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      Author: Universal House of Justice

      Release Date: September 2006 [Ebook #19286]

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      The Promise of World Peace

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      The Promise of World Peace

      October 1985

      To the Peoples of the World:

      The Great Peace towards which people of good will throughout the centuries have inclined their hearts, of which seers and poets for countless generations have expressed their vision, and for which from age to age the sacred scriptures of mankind have constantly held the promise, is now at long last within the reach of the nations. For the first time in history it is possible for everyone to view the entire planet, with all its myriad diversified peoples, in one perspective. World peace is not only possible but inevitable. It is the next stage in the evolution of this planet—in the words of one great thinker, the planetization of mankind.

      Whether peace is to be reached only after unimaginable horrors precipitated by humanity’s stubborn clinging to old patterns of behaviour, or is to be embraced now by an act of consultative will, is the choice before all who inhabit the earth. At this critical juncture when the intractable problems confronting nations have been fused into one common concern for the whole world, failure to stem the tide of conflict and disorder would be unconscionably irresponsible.

      Among the favourable signs are the steadily growing strength of the steps towards world order taken initially near the beginning of this century in the

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