The future is hardly ever what we expect it to be. It almost always surprises us. This is proof enough that in any point of time, although we often write history as if it was inevitable, many possible futures stretch out before us. Sometimes there are pivot points in history when things change profoundly from what came before — or from what they might have been. When Baha’u’llah sent his message to the kings – the Suriy-i-Muluk  — he warned them that their actions had the power to change the future. If ye pay no heed unto the counsels which, in peerless and unequivocal language, We have revealed in this…