To assist the National Spiritual Assemblies and all the
friends to understand, welcome, initiate and sustain this process, we are
enclosing a compilation entitled "Promoting Entry by Troops" and a
covering statement prepared by the Research Department. Whoever studies these
illuminating passages will perceive that entry by troops is not merely a stage
of the progress of the Cause destined to occur in its own good time, dependent
on the receptivity of the population as a whole -- it is a phenomenon which the
Baha'i communities, by their own activities, can prepare for and help to bring
about. It is also a process which, once started, can be sustained. By a wise
allocation of resources and the energetic pursuit of simultaneous plans of
expansion, deepening and consolidation, the process of entry by troops should
bring about a rapidly increasing supply of active believers, soundly based
local communities, and steadily evolving local and national Baha'i
institutions. (The Universal House of Justice, from a letter addressed to all
National Spiritual Assemblies dated 9, November 1993)
