The Great Teachers of the past revealed their teachings for past ages and prescribed no teachings at all for world peace or this age when the religions, nations and races are interconnected and intermingling
This is a big claim with little basis. The ethical structure of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism talk about all people and the entire world. So does Stoic and Nichomachean ethics of Aristotle. The world ideologies are world ideologies precisely because they are scale invariant and provide principles to govern and structure everything from human inner space to intergalactic civilizations. The samsara consists of all the worlds everywhere and Dharma, Dharma, etc. apply everywhere.
So we have a new age dawned upon humanity with no guidance given in the Holy Scriptures of all the major Faiths. Man made attempts have been unable to transform the world and so we remain visionless and without direction with peace being elusive.
Again this is completely false. Even a relatively simple world religion like Islam or Christianity has a full scale vision for the entire world and all its people in the NT and Quran. Buddhism and Hinduism has visions that extend to every world, anywhere and at all times. A multiverse with no vestiges of a beginning or end completely interconnected by karma and transmigration and sustained either through dependent origination or Brahman can tolerate nothing else.
We have also had the great wars and many other terrible wars and violence, drugs, immorality and disunity between the nations, races and religions persist with no end in sight.
Not because of absence of guidance but because of their active rejection. Unclear how yet another guidebook will help.
Although the Teachers such as Buddha, Christ and Moses died, the influence of their teachings lived on and was able to transform civilizations and individuals for centuries to come, even to this day.
But as They had left no guidance for our age as to how to deal with the conflicting creeds, races and nationalities we are divided on how to bring about unity and harmony.
No they (basically the Abrahamic prophets) left an unambiguous message. Follow them and there will be unity and harmony. It's unclear what is new here.
However, They did not leave us empty handed. In all their Holy Books they speak of the last days or the end of the age and of another Great One to come at that time to deliver humanity from the abyss so to speak.
Firstly we are nowhere near any abyss. Quite the contrary. Secondly hundreds of such second coming claims are made every century. Hinduism is clear on this. The second coming will occur at the end of days (Mahabharata) before the earth gets destroyed by a fire storm caused by a ferocious sun. That looks a billion years from now. Buddhists simply have another Buddha coming when through the immense stretches of time, current Buddha's teaching are all lost. It's now where near this case. I have read both Isiah and Revelations and what they describe messiah will do has nothing in common with what Bahaiullah does.
Christians await the Second Coming which is to usher in the Kingdom of God, a spiritual civilisation, Muslims await the Mahdi, the Jews, the Lord of Hosts, the Vaishnavite Hindus - Kalki, the tenth Avatar and the Buddhists Maitreya Amitabha Buddha.
Baha'is believe this is all referrring to the same Great Teacher
Would not another Moses, Buddha, Christ or Krishna have the spiritual influence to transform the world? Just as in the past their influence was so powerful it can even be felt today thousands of years later.
So is it not possible that another of these Great Teachers could revive and regenerate humanity spiritually? If Christ today still holds influenced over billions of Christians 2,000 yrs after His passing then if another Teacher with the same power were to appear today couldn't His Teachings also change the world?
Baha'is believe this Great Teacher has appeared and the Promised One foretold by all the major religions has come to bring peace and harmony to this divided world.
Please see above. From outside your faith, your claim do not appear convincing.
Baha'is also believe that the mystical power of These Beings is as such 'Be, and it is'. Whatever they proclaim and decree musters invisible spiritual forces to bring about the execution of Their Words.
Sorry but this also looks incredible. Maybe Jules Verne who talked about world civilizations, submarines, global communications etc. many years before they happened also have such mystical powers. Maybe Isaac Asimov also has such powers and we will truly have an intergalactic civilization one day. This looks like nothing more than an idle dreamer arrogating the credit of actual work of others through unverifiable claims of invisible powers.
For example. When Baha'u'llah uttered this word...
"The world is but one country and mankind its citizens" it was a 'mother verse' which brought forth the sciences, technologies and world communications to shrink the world into a global village.
Evidence that this verse brought forth all of these things? Maybe this verse did:-
This world is the honey of all beings and all beings are the honey of this world. The great Spirit that animates this world is the same Self that animates the bodies of all these beings. The world and all beings are this one Whole, Brahman. (upanisad 1000 BCE)
Now, with the internet, the world truly is as one country and we as its citizens. We can communicate over voice and video all over the world with each other as if being in one another's home.
This, we believe is as a result of just one 'Mother Word'. To some this may seem unrealistic but if one will carefully examine Baha'u'llah's Words and compare them with movements born since and the direction of humanity since He revealed them they might find that humanity is moving towards His teachings unknowingly.
Maybe it's Dante who words are producing this effect. Here is what he said in 14th century
The Italian poet, philosopher, and statesperson, Dante (1265–1321), perhaps best articulated the Christian ideal of human unity and its expression through a world governed by a universal monarch. In
The Banquet [
Convivio], Dante argued that wars and all their causes would be eliminated if “the whole earth and all that humans can possess be a monarchy, that is, one government under one ruler. Because he possesses everything, the ruler would not desire to possess anything further, and thus, he would hold kings contentedly within the borders of their kingdoms, and keep peace among them” (
Convivio, 169). In
Monarchia [1309–13] (1995, 13), a full political treatise affirming universal monarchy, Dante draws on Aristotle to argue that human unity stems from a shared end, purpose or function, to develop and realize fully and constantly humanity's distinct intellectual potential. In Book I, Dante argues that peace is a vital condition for realizing this end, and peace cannot be maintained if humanity is divided. Just as “[e]very kingdom divided against itself shall be laid waste” (15), since humankind shares one goal, “there must therefore be one person who directs and rules mankind, and he is properly called ‘Monarch’ or ‘Emperor’. And thus it is apparent that the well-being of the world requires that there be a monarchy or empire” (15). Most importantly, when conflicts inevitably arise between two rulers who are equals, “there must be a third party of wider jurisdiction who rules over both of them by right”; a universal monarch is necessary as “a first and supreme judge, whose judgment resolves all disputes either directly or indirectly” (21–2). In the absence of a universal monarch, humanity is “transformed into a many-headed beast,” striving after “conflicting things” (43–4); humankind ordered under a universal monarch, however, “will most closely resemble God, by mirroring the principle of oneness or unity of which he is the supreme example” (xvii and 19). Dante completes his treatise by extolling the Roman Empire as “a part of God's providential plan for humanity” (xxxiii). And while Dante argued for a universal emperor whose temporal power was distinct from the pope's religious power, and not derivative from the latter, he envisioned that God's will must require pope and emperor to forge a cooperative and conciliatory, rather than competitive and antagonistic, relationship.
Replace an Athenian council of elders in place of a monarch and you have the current idea of world government. Perhaps it was Dante's mystical power all along that propelled Europe to global colonization as a means to hasten this end? Consider how one can prove or disprove this?
Great thinkers such as Vivekanada spent almost two months at the Green Acre Bahá'í School
Green Acre Bahá'í School - Wikipedia
Decades before it became a Bahai center. Read the link.
Gandhi has numerous contacts with Baha'is and consulted them on occasion.
Mahatma Gandhi and the Bahá'ís
It is clear, I believe, that some of our greatest spiritual leaders have been influenced by Baha'u'llah's teachings.
Gandhi had contact with everyone. Does his writings acknowledge that Bahaiullah teachings were one of his seminal influences? No. So once again you are positing mysterious invisible influences that have no way to be verified.
Perhaps that is faith. But I hope you see how it looks implausible to others?
