- A sea change in consciousness is under way, creating new receptivity to Bahá'u'lláh's message.
- Early in the twentieth century a materialistic vision of reality had become the dominant world faith.
- History arrived at its supposed destination: a universal civilization based on secular reality.
- Beyond the West, announcements that "God is Dead" went largely unnoticed. Yet the people in these lands were marginalized and alienated.
- At century’s end: the sudden resurgence of religion as an all-consuming global phenomena.
- The intensification of humanity’s spiritual search continues, unabated, entering all spheres of human activity.