Who else can be the blissful if not the community of the
Most Great Name, whose world-embracing, continually consolidating activities
constitute the one integrating process in a world whose institutions, secular
as well as religious, are for the most part dissolving? They indeed are
"the people of the right," whose "noble habitation" is
fixed on the foundations of the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh – the Ark of
everlasting salvation in this most grievous Day. Of all the kindreds of the
earth they alone can recognise, amidst the welter of a tempestuous age, the
Hand of the Divine Redeemer that traces its course and controls its destinies.
They alone are aware of the silent growth of that orderly world polity whose
fabric they themselves are weaving.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated March
11, 1936, ‘The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh’; The Compilation of Compilations,
Vol.III, Social and Economic Development)
