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Letter of 9 May 1945 |
9 May 1945
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FOLLOWERS BAHÁ’U’LLÁH THROUGHOUT FIVE CONTINENTS UNANIMOUSLY
REJOICE PARTIAL EMERGENCE WAR TORN HUMANITY FROM
TITANIC UPHEAVAL UNERRINGLY PREDICTED SEVENTY YEARS AGO
BY PEN AUTHOR THEIR FAITH. CESSATION HOSTILITIES EUROPEAN
CONTINENT SIGNALISES CLOSING YET ANOTHER CHAPTER TRAGIC
TALE FIERY TRIALS PROVIDENTIALLY DECREED BY INSCRUTABLE
WISDOM DESIGNED ULTIMATELY WELD MUTUALLY ANTAGONISTIC
ELEMENTS HUMAN SOCIETY INTO SINGLE ORGANICALLY UNITED
UNSHATTERABLE WORLD COMMONWEALTH. GRATEFULLY ACCLAIM
SIGNAL EVIDENCE INTERPOSITION DIVINE PROVIDENCE WHICH
DURING SUCH PERILOUS YEARS ENABLED WORLD CENTRE FAITH
ESCAPE WHAT POSTERITY WILL RECOGNISE AS ONE OF GRAVEST
DANGERS EVER CONFRONTED NERVE CENTRE ITS INSTITUTIONS.
PROFOUNDLY AWARE BOUNTIFUL GRACE VOUCHSAFED BY SAME
PROVIDENCE ENSURING UNLIKE PREVIOUS WORLD CONFLICT
UNINTERRUPTED INTERCOURSE BETWEEN SPIRITUAL CENTRE AND
VAST MAJORITY COMMUNITIES FUNCTIONING WITHIN ORBIT FAR
FLUNG FAITH. IMMEASURABLY THANKFUL MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION
INDIAN PERSIAN EGYPTIAN BRITISH IRÁQÍ COMMUNITIES
LONG THREATENED DIRE PERILS OWING PROXIMITY THEATRE
MILITARY OPERATIONS. DEEPLY CONSCIOUS PROGRESS ACHIEVED
DESPITE SIX TEMPESTUOUS YEARS IN BOTH EASTERN WESTERN
HEMISPHERES THROUGH COLLECTIVE ENTERPRISES LAUNCHED BY
THESE COMMUNITIES OUTSHINES SUM TOTAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
SINCE INCEPTION FORMATIVE AGE FAITH. SEVEN YEAR PLAN
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INAUGURATED BY AMERICAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY UNDER LOWERING
CLOUDS APPROACHING CONFLICT VICTORIOUSLY COMPLETED
EXTERIOR ORNAMENTATION MOTHER TEMPLE WEST ESTABLISHED
STRUCTURAL BASIS FAITH EVERY STATE PROVINCE NORTH AMERICAN
CONTINENT AND HOISTED ITS BANNER EVERY REPUBLIC LATIN
AMERICA. INDIAN BELIEVERS SIX YEAR PLAN LAUNCHED EVE
HOSTILITIES MORE THAN QUADRUPLED CENTRES FUNCTIONING
WITHIN PALE ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER. EDIFICES CONSECRATED
ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS EVER ADVANCING CAUSE INVOLVING
EXPENDITURE OVER HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ERECTED
PURCHASED OR COMPLETED CAPITAL CITIES INDIA ‘IRÁQ EGYPT AS
WELL AS SYDNEY AUSTRALIA. ACQUISITION NUMEROUS PROPERTIES
BAHÁ’U’LLÁH’S NATIVE LAND MT. CARMEL AND JORDAN VALLEY
AS WELL AS PURCHASE SEVERAL IMPORTANT HISTORIC SITES ASSOCIATED
LIVES BOTH HERALD AUTHOR FAITH SWELLED UNPRECEDENTED
DEGREE BAHÁ’Í ENDOWMENTS. PRELIMINARY STEPS
COMPLETION BÁB’S SEPULCHRE AND ESTABLISHMENT WORLD
ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE THROUGH REMOVAL REMAINS BROTHER
MOTHER ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ UNDERTAKEN. TERMINATION FIRST CENTURY
BAHÁ’Í ERA SYNCHRONISING CLIMAX RAGING STORM PUBLICLY
BEFITTINGLY CELEBRATED DESPITE MULTIPLICATION RESTRICTIONS.
ABOVE ALL UNITY INTEGRITY INCORRUPTIBLE WORLD COMMUNITY
CONSISTENTLY SAFEGUARDED IN FACE INSIDIOUS OPPOSITION
AVOWED ENEMIES WITHOUT AND COVENANT BREAKERS WITHIN.
SUCH SPLENDID VICTORIES OVER SO VAST FIELD AMIDST SUCH
TRIBULATIONS DURING SO PROLONGED ORDEAL AUGUR WELL
COLOSSAL TASK DESTINED BE ACCOMPLISHED COURSE PEACEFUL
YEARS AHEAD BY BUILDERS EMBRYONIC WORLD ORDER
BAHÁ’U’LLÁH AMIDST WRECKAGE DISTRACTED DISRUPTED DISILLUSIONED
SOCIETY.
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1. | Printed also in “Messages to America (1932–1946)”. [ Back To Reference] |