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What a purposeful and confident community it was that
celebrated its accomplishments at the midway point of the current Plan in
forty-one regional conferences across the globe! What an extraordinary contrast
did its coherence and energy provide to the bewilderment and confusion of a
world caught in a spiral of crisis! This, indeed, was the community of the
blissful to which the Guardian had referred. This was a community aware of the
vast potentialities with which it has been endowed and conscious of the role it
is destined to play in rebuilding a broken world. This was a community in the
ascendant, subject to severe repression in one part of the globe, yet rising up
undeterred and undismayed as a united whole and strengthening its capacity to
achieve Bahá’u’lláh’s purpose to liberate humankind from the yoke of the most
grievous oppression. And in the nearly eighty-thousand participants who
attended the conferences we saw the emergence on the historical scene of an
individual believer supremely confident in the efficacy of the Plan’s methods
and instruments and remarkably deft at wielding them. Each and every soul of
this mighty sea stood as testimony to the transforming potency of the Faith.
Each and every one was evidence of Bahá’u’lláh’s promise to assist all those
who arise with detachment and sincerity to serve Him. Each and every one
offered a glimpse of that race of beings, consecrated and courageous, pure and
sanctified, destined to evolve over generations under the direct influence of
Bahá’u’lláh’s Revelation. In them we saw the first signs of the fulfilment of
our hope expressed at the outset of the Plan that the edifying influence of the
Faith would be extended to hundreds of thousands through the institute process. - The Universal House of Justice (Ridván 2009 message to the Bahá’ís of the
World; Online Baha’i Reference Library of the Baha’i World Center)
