| The first deals
with the establishment of a universal auxiliary language. Bahá'u'lláh refers to this
matter in the Book of Aqdas and in many of His Tablets. Thus in the Tablet of Ishráqát
He says: The Sixth Ishráq
(Effulgence) is Concord and Union amongst men. Through the radiance of Union have the
regions of the world at all times been illumined, and the greatest of all means thereunto
is the understanding of one another's writing and speech. Ere this, in Our Epistles, have
We commanded the Trustees of the House of Justice, either to choose one of the existing
tongues, or to originate a new one, and in like manner to adopt a common script, teaching
these to the children in all the schools of the world, that the world may become even as
one land and one home. |