What are the characteristics of spiritual civilization?
One characteristic is transcendence. The goals of the three participants in the civilization building process--the individual, the community and the institutions--need to be based on and emerge from an unshakeable belief in the transcendent--the spiritual--nature of human reality.
The House of Justice writes:
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One characteristic is transcendence. The goals of the three participants in the civilization building process--the individual, the community and the institutions--need to be based on and emerge from an unshakeable belief in the transcendent--the spiritual--nature of human reality.
The House of Justice writes:
Loss of faith in the certainties of materialism and the progressive globalizing of human experience reinforce one another in the longing they inspire for understanding about the purpose of existence. Basic values are challenged; parochial attachments are surrendered; once unthinkable demands are accepted.... Beneath all of the dislocation and suffering, the process is essentially a spiritual one: "The breeze of the All-Merciful hath wafted, and the souls have been quickened in the tombs of their bodies." 3
- One Common Faith, p. 13, Note 3. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, s. 133
- One Common Faith, p. 13, Note 3. Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, s. 133
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