Messages to America

1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi

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Title: Messages to America

Author: Shoghi Effendi

Release Date: September 2006 [Ebook 19277]

Language: English

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Messages to America

by Shoghi Effendi

Edition 1, (September 2006)

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Contents

Baha'i Terms of Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v [Frontispiece] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 NABÍL’S NARRATIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 IMMORTAL SPIRIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 UNITED WILL, CONCERTED ACTION . . . . . . . . . 7 NON-PARTICIPATION IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS . . . 9 PERSONALITIES SUBORDINATED . . . . . . . . . . . 11 MOMENTOUS CONVENTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 AN EMINENT RANK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 POTENTIALITIES OF MAJESTIC EDIFICE . . . . . . . 17 THE VOTING RIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 UNPRECEDENTED IMPETUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 SEPARATION FROM OUTWORN CREEDS . . . . . . 23 THE NATIONAL FUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 THE NEW HOUR HAS STRUCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 THIS IS TRULY PROVIDENTIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ’S HISTORIC APPEAL . . . . . . . . . 31 FRESH CONQUESTS AND UNPRECEDENTED TRI- UMPHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 INTENSIFY TEACHING WORK A THOUSANDFOLD . 35 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UNDERTAKING . . . . 37 A COMPLETE REDEDICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 INSTITUTION OF GUARDIANSHIP NOW FURTHER REINFORCED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 DUAL GIFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 THE CALL HAS GONE FORTH ... THE PATH IS CLEAR 45 CONVENTION DELEGATES INCREASED . . . . . . . 47 ALL SHOULD ARISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 ARCHBREAKER OF COVENANT . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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CERTAIN VITAL REQUIREMENTS OF SEVEN YEAR PLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 A YEAR HAS ALMOST ELAPSED . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 DRAW NIGH UNTO BAHÁ’U’LLÁH . . . . . . . . . . 57 MARCHING TOWARD THEIR GOAL . . . . . . . . . . 59 UNBROKEN SOLIDARITY, UNQUENCHABLE EN- THUSIASM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 LOYALTY TO WORLD ORDER OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH . 63 NINE HOLY SOULS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 THE RAREST PRIVILEGE EVER CONFERRED BY PROVIDENCE UPON THE AMERICAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 GOD’S CREATIVE PLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 APPROACH OF FINAL ERUPTION . . . . . . . . . . . 73 GRATITUDE TO PIONEERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 MY PLEA, MY SUPREME ENTREATY . . . . . . . . . 77 PENETRATION OF LATIN AMERICA . . . . . . . . . 79 PROVE THEMSELVES ... WORTHY OF THAT PRICE- LESS HERITAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 OFFICIAL INAUGURATION OF WORLD MISSION . . 85 FULFIL THE REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 THE MOST FATEFUL HOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 IMPERILLED HUMANITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 IN GALAXY OF BAHÁ’Í IMMORTALS . . . . . . . . . 99 MANDATE CONFERRED BY ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ . . . . 101 THE SPIRITUAL POTENCIES OF THAT CONSE- CRATED SPOT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 THE SEAL OF COMPLETE TRIUMPH . . . . . . . . . 111 DUAL, VITALLY URGENT OBLIGATION . . . . . . . 115 BELOVED HANDMAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 THEIR GOD-GIVEN TASK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 BAHÁ’U’LLÁH’S SPIRITUAL SOVEREIGNTY . . . . 123 SECTION OF ORNAMENTATION . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 CONTINUOUS CONSECRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

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EMERGENCE OF SPIRITUAL WORLD ORDER . . . . 129 SUPREMELY CHALLENGING HOUR . . . . . . . . . . 131 CHAOS AND REDEMPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 TORCHBEARER OF WORLD CIVILIZATION . . . . . 135 THIS VETERAN WARRIOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 THE ANGER OF GOD AND HIS CORRECTION . . . . 139 FATE-LADEN WORLD ORDEAL . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 ELIZABETH GREENLEAF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 UNCONQUERABLE POWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 THE PROCESS OF INTEGRATION AND DISINTE- GRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 THE CRUCIBLE OF WORLD CONFLAGRATION . . . 155 A TRULY WORLD-EMBRACING CRISIS . . . . . . . . 157 IMPELLED TO DEPUTIZE FIVE MEMBERS . . . . . . 159 THE SEVEN YEAR PLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 CONSECRATED TO TEACHING TASKS . . . . . . . . 163 A BEFITTING CLIMAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 ACCLAIM WITH GRATEFUL HEART . . . . . . . . . 167 THE IMMORTAL LUA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 THE UNFINISHED TASKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 COMPLETION OF TEMPLE EXTERIOR . . . . . . . . 173 HIS SERVICES UNFORGETTABLE . . . . . . . . . . . 175 ALL-AMERICA CENTENNIAL CONVENTION . . . . 177 FOUNDATION STONE LAID BY THE CENTER OF THE COVENANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITIES OF EAST AND WEST . . . . 183 THE CROWNING CRUSADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 PREPARATIONS FOR THE CENTENARY . . . . . . . 187 THE BELOVED FAITH IS SURGING FORWARD . . . 189 A STILL MORE COMPELLING DISPLAY . . . . . . . . 191 THE AUSPICIOUS YEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 ADDITION TO ENDOWMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 PARTICIPATION OF LATIN AMERICAN BELIEVERS 197 BEFITTINGLY CONSUMMATE THE ENTERPRISES . 199

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TURNING POINT IN BAHÁ’Í HISTORY . . . . . . . . 201 INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . 205 MESSAGE TO CENTENARY CONVENTION . . . . . . 207 CONSOLIDATION OF NOBLY-WON VICTORIES . . . 211 A SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY IN EVERY REMAINING REPUBLIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 THE SEAL OF SPIRITUAL TRIUMPH . . . . . . . . . . 215 FAITHFUL PIONEER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 PASSAGES IN “GOD PASSES BY” . . . . . . . . . . . 219 THE SUCCEEDING STAGE IN THE EVOLUTION OF THEIR WORLD MISSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 THE ADMISSION OF PERSIANS . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 STAUNCH PIONEER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 THE ONE MESSAGE THAT CAN EXTRICATE HU- MANITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 MY HEAVY-LADENED HEART . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 NATIONWIDE, INTERCONTINENTAL PLANS . . . . 235 A SINGLE, ORGANICALLY-UNITED WORLD COM- MONWEALTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 A NEW PHASE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION . . . . . . . 241 HEARTS UPLIFTED IN THANKSGIVING . . . . . . . 245 THE WORK OF REHABILITATION . . . . . . . . . . . 247 THE GERMAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY . . . . . . . . . 249 EXEMPLARY PIONEER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 LYDIA ZAMENHOF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 HISTORIC DECISIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 MOMENTOUS RESPONSIBILITIES . . . . . . . . . . . 257 INAUGURATION OF SECOND SEVEN YEAR PLAN . 259 SPIRITUAL CONQUEST OF THE OLD WORLD . . . . 263 THIRTY NEW ASSEMBLIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 A GOD-GIVEN MANDATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 THE UTMOST VIGOR, VIGILANCE AND CONSE- CRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 DISTINGUISHED SERVANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

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THIS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CRUSADE 295 THE FORCES MYSTERIOUSLY RELEASED . . . . . . 299 THE PIVOT ON WHICH HINGES SUCCESS . . . . . . 301 FIFTH YEAR OF PLAN MESSAGE TO 1941 CONVEN- TION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303