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Bahíyyih Khánum, the Greatest Holy Leaf: A Compilation from Bahá’í Sacred Texts and Writings of the Guardian of the Faith and Bahíyyih Khánum’s Own Letters

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  • World Centre

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í World Centre, 1982 edition
  • Pages:
  • 231
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Pages 63-65

33: The raising of this Edifice will in turn …
1 The raising of this Edifice 2 will in turn herald the construction, in the course of successive epochs of the Formative Age of the Faith, of several other structures…
These Edifices will, in the shape of a far-flung arc, and following a harmonizing style of architecture, surround the resting-places of the Greatest Holy Leaf, ranking as foremost among the members of her sex in the Bahá’í Dispensation, of her Brother, offered up as a ransom by Bahá’u’lláh for the quickening of the world and its unification, and of their Mother, proclaimed by Him to be His chosen ‘consort in all the worlds of God’. 64 65
1. 27 November 1954, to the Bahá’ís of the World. (See Messages to the Bahá’í World, p. 74)   [ Back To Reference]
2. The International Archives Building.   [ Back To Reference]