Bahai Faith -- North America; Shoghi, Effendi, 1897-1957 -- Correspondence
The Ten Year Plan, constituting the third and final stage of the initial
epoch in the evolution of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Master Plan, which, God willing,
will raise to greater heights the fame of the stalwart American Bahá’í
Community, and seat it upon “the throne of an everlasting dominion,”
envisaged by the Author of the Tablets of this same Plan, involves:
First, the opening of the following virgin territories, eleven in Africa:
Cape Verde Islands, Canary Islands, French Somaliland, French Togoland,
Mauritius, Northern Territories Protectorate, Portuguese Guinea, Reunion
Island, Spanish Guinea, St. Helena and St. Thomas Island; eight in Asia:
Caroline Islands, Dutch New Guinea, Hainan Island, Kazakhstan, Macao
Island, Sakhalin Island, Tibet and Tonga Islands; six in Europe: Andorra,
Azores, Balearic Islands, Lofoten Islands, Spitzbergen and Ukraine; and
four in America: Aleutian Islands, Falkland Islands, Key West and Kodiak
Island.
Second, the consolidation of the Faith in the following territories, six
in Asia: China, Formosa, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Philippine Islands; two
in Africa: Liberia and South Africa; twelve in Europe: the ten goal
countries, Finland and France; three in America: the Hawaiian Islands,
Alaska and Puerto Rico.
Third, the extension of assistance to the National Spiritual Assemblies of
the Bahá’ís of Central and South America, as well as to the National
Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Italy and Switzerland in forming
twenty national spiritual assemblies in the republics of Latin America and
two in Europe, namely in Italy and Switzerland; the extension of
assistance for the establishment of a national Hazíratu’l-Quds in the
capital of each of the aforementioned countries as well as of national
Bahá’í endowments in these same countries.
Fourth, the establishment of ten national spiritual assemblies in the
following European countries: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland,
Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, France and Finland.
Fifth, the establishment of a national spiritual assembly in Japan and one
in the South Pacific Islands.
Sixth, the establishment of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís
of Alaska.
Seventh, the establishment of the National Spiritual Assembly of the
Bahá’ís of South and West Africa.
Eighth, the incorporation of each of the fourteen above-mentioned national
spiritual assemblies.
Ninth, the establishment of national Bahá’í endowments by these same
national spiritual assemblies.
Tenth, the establishment of a national Hazíratu’l-Quds in the capital city
of each of the eleven of the aforementioned countries, as well as one in
Anchorage, one in Suva, and one in Johannesburg.
Eleventh, the erection of the first dependency of the first
Ma_sh_riqu’l-A_dh_kár of the western world.
Twelfth, the extension of assistance for the purchase of land for four
future Temples, two in Europe: in Stockholm and Rome; one in Central
America, in Panama City; and one in Africa, in Johannesburg.
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