The Guardian ... has stated that God's plan for mankind is
going forward in two ways, that He has, as it were, two plans. One, the Major
Plan, is inexorably driving mankind towards the unity and maturity that God
intends for it. This plan operates in ways that are mysterious to us and as it
pursues its tumultuous course, may even seem at times to interfere with our
work, but we can be confident in the beneficence of its goals. The second plan
is the one that has been given to the Bahá'ís and it is to the achievement of
this that we must devote our attention and energies. It is the part that God
Himself has chosen for us in the working out of His grand design.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a
letter dated 24 January 1979, written on behalf of the Universal House of
Justice to an individual believer; compilation: ’Holocaust, the Greater Plan of
God, and the Destiny of the Jewish People’, prepared by the Research Department
of the Universal House of Justice)
