The book reflects on the significance of the Tablets of the Divine Plan, and examines them in relation to other influential documents that have impacted the modern world, such as the Magna Carta, the Constitution of the United States, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

It also compares the early diffusion of the Bahá’í Faith to that of Christianity, and explores in detail ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s call on the members of the early Bahá’í community to rise to the station of apostleship—a call that applies to all those laboring for the spiritual transformation of the world today.