The “far-flung arc” on mount Carmel that
accommodates the buildings of the Universal House of Justice, the International
Teaching Center, the Center for the Study of the Text, and the International
Archives, “surround(s) the resting-places of the Greatest Holy Leaf, ranking as
foremost among the members of her sex in the Bahá'í Dispensation, of her
Brother, offered up as a ransom by Bahá'u'lláh for the quickening of the world
and its unification, and of their Mother, proclaimed by Him to be His chosen "consort
in all the worlds of God". This really highlights the incredible spiritual
stations of these “three incomparably precious souls who, next to the three
Central Figures of our Faith, tower in rank above the vast multitude of the
heroes, Letters, martyrs, Hands, teachers and administrators of the Cause of
Bahá'u'lláh …” (Adapted from Shoghi Effendi, Messages to the Baha’i World
1950—57; Shoghi Effendi, ‘Messages to America’; and the Compilation of
Compilations, vol. I)
