…it must be
clearly understood, nor can it be sufficiently emphasized, that the conjunction
of the resting-place of the Greatest Holy Leaf with those of her brother and
mother incalculably reinforces the spiritual potencies of that consecrated Spot
which, under the wings of the Báb’s overshadowing Sepulchre, and in the
vicinity of the future Mashriqu’l-Adhkár, which will be reared on
its flank, is destined to evolve into the focal center of those world-shaking,
world-embracing, world-directing administrative institutions, ordained by
Bahá’u’lláh and anticipated by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, and which are to function in
consonance with the principles that govern the twin institutions of the
Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice. Then, and then only, will this
momentous prophecy which illuminates the concluding
passages of the Tablet of Carmel be fulfilled: “Ere long will God sail His Ark
upon thee (Carmel), and will manifest the people of Bahá who have been
mentioned in the Book of Names.”
(Shoghi Effendi, from a letter dated December
21, 1939; ‘Messages to America’)
