Referring to the development of the global Bahá’í community,
how often did the beloved Guardian encourage the friends to remain resolute in
their purpose and persevere in their endeavours. “Conscious of their high
calling, confident in the society-building power which their Faith possesses,”
he noted with satisfaction, “they press forward, undeterred and undismayed, in
their efforts to fashion and perfect the necessary instruments wherein the embryonic
World Order of Bahá’u’lláh can mature and develop.” “It is this building
process, slow and unobtrusive,” he reminded them, that “constitutes the one
hope” of a disillusioned humanity. That this process will continue to gain in
scope and influence and the Administrative Order demonstrate in time “its
capacity to be regarded not only as the nucleus but the very pattern of the New
World Order” is clear from his writings. “In a world the structure of whose political
and social institutions is impaired, whose vision is befogged, whose conscience
is bewildered, whose religious systems have become anaemic and lost their
virtue,” he asserted so emphatically, “this healing Agency, this leavening
Power, this cementing Force, intensely alive and all-pervasive,” is “taking
shape,” is “crystallizing into institutions,” and is “mobilizing its forces”.
- The
Universal House of Justice (From a message dated 28 December 2010 addressed to
the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors)
