…the
association of these three incomparably precious souls [1] who, next to the three
Central Figures of our Faith, tower in rank above the vast multitude of the
heroes, Letters, martyrs, hands, teachers and administrators of the Cause of
Bahá’u’lláh, in such a potentially powerful spiritual and administrative
Center, is in itself an event which will release forces that are bound to
hasten the emergence in a land which, geographically, spiritually and
administratively, constitutes the heart of the entire planet, of some of the
brightest gems of that World Order now shaping in the womb of this travailing
age.
(Shoghi Effendi, from a letter dated December 21, 1939; ‘Messages to
America’)
[1] “…the
Greatest Holy Leaf… [and] her brother and mother”
