The onrushing forces so miraculously released through the
agency of two independent and swiftly successive Manifestations are now under
our very eyes and through the care of the chosen stewards of a far-flung Faith
being gradually mustered and disciplined. They are slowly crystallizing into
institutions that will come to be regarded as the hallmark and glory of the age
we are called upon to establish and by our deeds immortalize. For upon our
present-day efforts, and above all upon the extent to which we strive to
remodel our lives after the pattern of sublime heroism associated with those
gone before us, must depend the efficacy of the instruments we now fashion --
instruments that must erect the structure of that blissful Commonwealth which
must signalize the Golden Age of our Faith.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter
dated 8 February 1934, printed as ‘The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh’ in ‘The World
Order of Bahá'u'lláh’)
