To the
Bahá'ís of the world
Dearly
loved friends,
In our
message to you of April, 1964, announcing the Nine Year Plan, we called
attention to two major themes of that Plan, namely "a huge expansion of
the Cause of God and universal participation by all believers in the life of
that Cause."
The
enthusiastic vigour with which the believers throughout the world, under the
devoted guidance of their National Spiritual Assemblies, have, arisen to meet
the challenge of the Plan, augurs well for the huge expansion called for. We
now ask you to bend your efforts and thoughts, with equal enthusiasm, to the
requirements of universal participation.
In that
same message we indicated the meaning of universal participation: "the
dedicated effort of every believer in teaching, in living the Bahá'í life, in
contributing to the Fund, and particularly in the persistent effort to
understand more and more the significance of Bahá'u'lláh's Revelation. In the
words of our beloved Guardian, 'One thing and only one thing will unfailingly
and alone secure the undoubted triumph of this sacred Cause, namely the extent
to which our own inner life and private character mirror forth in their manifold
aspects the splendour of those eternal principles proclaimed by
Bahá'u'lláh.'"
