United Nations General Assembly, Fifty-Fourth Session, Agenda Item 61 (b) The Millennium Assembly of the United Nations, 8 September 2000, (Document no. A/55/L.2), section 32.
The respective purposes of the three Millennium gatherings, as well as the involvement of the Bahá’í community in these meetings, were summarized in a letter from the Universal House of Justice to all National Spiritual Assemblies dated 24 September 2000.
Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, op. cit., p. 42.
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, op. cit., p. 297, (section CXXXVI).
Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán, op. cit., p. 34.
Bahá’u’lláh, Prayers and Meditations (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1998), p. 295, (section CLXXVIII).
Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, op. cit., p. 193.
ibid., p. 196.
Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, op. cit., paragraph 186.
ibid., paragraph 54.