Dear Bahá'í friends,
As the Five Year Plan gathers momentum in all parts of the
world, with the followers of the Blessed Perfection firmly embarked on the
course that will lead to victory, the time has come for us to contemplate, in
preparation for its imminent initiation, the project which will rank as the
greatest single undertaking of that Plan, the construction of a befitting Seat
for the Universal House of Justice in the heart of God's Holy Mountain.
Nearly thirty-six years ago, after overcoming a multitude of
difficulties, the beloved Guardian succeeded in transferring to Mount Carmel
the sacred remains of the Purest Branch and Navvab, interring them in the
immediate neighbourhood of the resting-place of the Greatest Holy Leaf, and
alluded, in these words, to the "capital institutional significance"
that these events constituted in the unfoldment of the World Centre of the
Faith:
“For it must be clearly understood, nor can it be sufficiently
emphasized, that the conjunction of the resting-place of the Greatest Holy Leaf
with those of her brother and mother incalculably reinforces the spiritual
potencies of that consecrated Spot which, under the wings of the Báb's
overshadowing Sepulchre, and in the vicinity of the future Mashriqu'l-Adhkar which
will be reared on its flank, is destined to evolve into the focal centre of
those world-shaking, world-embracing, world-directing administrative
institutions, ordained by Bahá'u'lláh and anticipated by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, and
which are to function in consonance with the principles that govern the twin
institutions of the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice. Then, and
then only, will this momentous prophecy which illuminates the concluding
passages of the Tablet of Carmel be fulfilled: ‘Erelong will God sail His Ark
upon thee (Carmel), and will manifest the people of Baha who have been mentioned
in the Book of Names.’”
