From: Messages to the Baha'i World Community - by the Universal House of Justice
April 1964
To the Bahá'ís of the world
Dearly loved friends,
The divinely propelled process, described in such
awe-inspiring words by our beloved Guardian, which began six thousand years ago
at the dawn of the Adamic cycle and which is destined to culminate in "the
stage at which the light of God's triumphant Faith shining in all its power and
glory will have suffused and enveloped the entire planet," is now entering
its tenth and last part.
The Ten Year Crusade, so recently consummated in a blaze of
victory and rejoicing, constituted the entire ninth part of this process. It
saw the Cause of God leap forward in one mighty decade-long effort to the point
at which the foundations of its Administrative Order were laid throughout the
world, thus preparing the way for that awakening of the masses which must
characterize the future progress of the Faith.
From the beginning of this Dispensation the most urgent
summons of the Word of God, voiced successively by the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, has
been to teach the Cause. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, in His own words, "spent His days
and nights in promoting the Cause and urging the peoples to service."
Shoghi Effendi, discharging the sacred mission laid upon him, raised the
Administrative Order of the Faith, already enshrined within the Sacred
Writings, and forged it into a teaching instrument to accomplish through a
succession of plans, national, international, and global, the entire Divine
Plan of 'Abdu'l-Baha, and he clearly foresaw in the "tremendously
long" tenth part of the process already referred to, a series of plans to
be launched by the Universal House of Justice, extending over 'successive
epochs of both the Formative and Golden Ages of the Faith."
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