John Cotter: A study in syncretism, the background and apparatus of the emerging One World Church, Flesher-ton, Canadian Intelligence Publications, 1989[25f] Swami Vivekananda, most famous disciple of Indian syncretist Ramakrishna who died in 1886. He foundedthe world-wide Ramakrishna Mission and introduced the Vedanta Movement into the USA. Another Indiansyncretic movement operating in the West is Brahmo Somaj, founded in 1830 by Ram Roy. Keshub Chandra Senbecame its leader in 1866. He died in 1884.[33] Abdu'l-Baha, son of Baha' U'llah and next Guardian of the Baha'i Faith, was released from imprisonment as aresult of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908. He then went on a world tour carrying the message of his father.Mr. Douglas Martin, General Secretary of the National Assembly of the Baha'is in Canada, speech at the 40thanniversary of the founding of the WCF, Canterbury, England, 1976;Despite the widespread attention and respect which Abdu'l-Baha received on both sides of the Atlantic, his appealcannot be said to have elicited significantly more response from the leaders of thought and the public at large thanhad that of Baha'U'lIah himself. Before his return to his home in Palestine in 1912, he predicted quite explicitlyand repeatedly, on public platforms and in newspaper interviews, the world war which followed...[footnote:] See for example the Montreal Gazette. September 11th, 1912. On a number of occasions Abdu'l-Bahastated that "the time is less than two years hence" when "a tiny spark will set ablaze the world."This suggests that the Baha'is were privy to the plans of the Black Hand or other secret societies to cause wordwar 12 years before it actually happened! What might be the objectives of that war for them? 1° they got theLeague of Nations, a world state in embryo. 2° they got Communism in Russia and several other countries. 3°they got the beginnings of the Zionist state of Israel in which they were to build their world centre. 4° the multi-tudes of casu...