For 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 centre 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 (‘Messages to America:
Selected Letters and Cablegrams Addressed to the Bahá’ís of North America,
1932–1946’; compilation: The People of
Bahá Mentioned in the Book of Names - Selected Extracts”, prepared by the
Research department of the Universal House of Justice)
