More extraordinary still that he [1] who had been
instrumental in carrying the Tablets of the Divine Plan from the One Who had
revealed them to those into whose care they were to be committed, who had
enjoyed, for so long and so intimately, near access to his Master as
amanuensis, companion and interpreter, should have been blinded by his
inordinate ambition, and should have arisen, with all the resources at his
disposal, to attack and undermine the institutions of an Order which, springing
from the authentic Will of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, had been designed
by Him to be the chief instrument for the vigorous prosecution of that Plan and
the fulfillment of its ultimate purpose.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated
June 15, 1946; ‘Messages to America’)
[1] Mirza Ahmad Sohrab
