Ninth, the establishment of a national Hazíratu’l-Quds in Johannesburg and
one in Tunis and the conversion into a similar institution of the local
Hazíratu’l-Quds of Kampala.
Tenth, the formation of a national Bahá’í Publishing Trust in Cairo.
Eleventh, the formation of an Israel branch of the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Egypt and Súdán, authorized to hold, on behalf
of its parent institution, property dedicated to the holy shrines at the
World Center of the Faith in the state of Israel.
Twelfth, the appointment, during Ridván 1954, by the Hand of the Cause in
Africa, of an Auxiliary Board of nine members who will, in conjunction
with the six national spiritual assemblies participating in the African
campaign, assist, through periodic and systematic visits to Bahá’í
centers, in the efficient and prompt execution of the plans formulated for
the prosecution of the teaching campaign in the African continent.
A SPIRITUALLY WELDED UNIT
May the six aforementioned national spiritual assemblies, aided by the
Hand of the Cause appointed in that continent, and the Auxiliary Board to
be chosen by him, and supported by the national committees and
subcommittees to be formed in due course, and reinforced by the constant
and energetic efforts of an ever-swelling number of pioneers, whether
settlers or itinerant teachers, and assisted by the wholehearted
collaboration of the indigenous believers in all localities, be
spiritually welded into a unit at once dynamic and coherent, and be
suffused with the creative, the directing and propelling forces proceeding
from the Source of the Revelation Himself, and be made, as the projected
campaign unfolds, the vehicle of His grace from on high, and prove
themselves worthy and effective instruments for the execution and ultimate
consummation of one of the most thrilling and far-reaching enterprises
undertaken in the Formative Age of the Faith and constituting one of the
noblest phases of the most glorious Crusade ever launched in the course of
Bahá’í history for the systematic propagation of the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh
over the surface of the entire planet.
[February 1953]
Fivefold Historic Celebration in America
On the occasion of the fivefold historic celebration—the dedication for
public worship of the holiest Ma_sh_riqu’l-A_dh_kár of the Bahá’í world;
the convocation of the Second Intercontinental Teaching Conference of the
Holy Year; the anniversary of the Declaration of Bahá’u’lláh in the Garden
of Ridván; the holding of the Forty-Fifth American Bahá’í Convention, and
the launching of the epochal, global, spiritual Crusade, marking the
climax of the festivities associated with the Centenary of the birth of
Bahá’u’lláh’s Mission—announce to His followers of East and West that the
final phase of the construction of the Báb’s Sepulcher has been ushered in
through the erection of scaffolding for the completion of the shuttering
of the dome.
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