Bahai Faith -- North America; Shoghi, Effendi, 1897-1957 -- Correspondence
While this goal is being vigorously pursued, close attention must be
directed to the preliminary measures for the establishment of the first
dependency of the Mother Temple of the West, as well as to the completion
of the landscaping of its grounds, a double task that will, on the one
hand, mark the termination of the fifty-year-old process of the
construction of the central Bahá’í House of Worship, and proclaim, on the
other, the commencement of another designed to culminate in the
establishment in its plenitude of the institution of the
Ma_sh_riqu’l-A_dh_kár as conceived by Bahá’u’lláh and envisaged by
‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Moreover, immediate consideration should be given to two
other issues of prime importance, namely the purchase of land, which need
not exceed for the present one acre, in anticipation of the construction
of the first Ma_sh_riqu’l-A_dh_kár of South Africa, and the prompt
translation of a suitable Bahá’í pamphlet into the American and European
languages allocated to your assembly, and its publication and wide
dissemination among the peoples and tribes for whom it has been primarily
designed.
The followers of the Most Great Name, citizens of the great republic of
the West; constituting the majority and the oldest followers of His Faith
in a continent wherein, in the words of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, “the splendors of
His (Bahá’u’lláh’s) Light shall be revealed” and “the mysteries of His
Faith shall be unveiled,” addressed by Him in His Tablets of the Divine
Plan as the “Apostles” of His Father; the recipients of the overwhelming
majority of these same Tablets constituting the Charter of that Plan;
conquerors of most of the territories, whether sovereign states or
dependencies, already included within the pale of the Faith; the
champion-builders of a world administrative system which posterity will
regard as the harbinger of the World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, must, if they
wish to retain their primacy and enrich their heritage, insure that, ere
the opening of the second phase of this World Crusade, the names of the
first American Bahá’í conquerors to settle in virgin territories and
islands will, as befits their primacy, be inscribed on the Scroll of
Honor, now in process of preparation, and designed to be permanently
deposited at the entrance door of the Inner Sanctuary of Bahá’u’lláh’s
Most Holy Tomb, that the limited area of land required for the erection of
four future Bahá’í Temples, in Rome, Stockholm, Panama City and
Johannesburg, will be bought, that the landscaping of the grounds of the
Temple in Wilmette will be completed, and that the translation and the
publication of the aforementioned pamphlet in the specified languages will
be accomplished.
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