The northern regions
of the world were alluded to by Bahá'u'lláh in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Mother
Book of this Revelation. Their names were recorded in the Tablets of the Divine
Plan by the pen of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Who, in one of His other Tablets, supplicated
God to "raise up sanctified, pure and spiritual souls in the countries of
the West and the territories of the North, and make them signs of His guidance,
ensigns of the Concourse on High and angels of the Abha Kingdom." These
lands received the constant attention of Shoghi Effendi, who repeatedly urged
the friends to carry the Faith to their uttermost inhabited areas, and who
joyfully announced every advance of the Bahá'ís that established a centre
closer to the North Pole.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated
July 1976 addressed to the followers of Bahá'u'lláh gathered at the
International Teaching Conference in Helsinki; ‘Messages from the Universal
House of Justice 1963-1986’)
