‘Abdu’l-Bahá Himself in a talk given in Maiden,
Massachusetts, confirms that "The East has ever been the dawning point of
the Sun of Reality. All the Prophets of God have appeared there. The religions
of God have been promulgated, the teachings of God have been spread, and the
law of God founded in the East. The Orient has always been the center of
lights." (The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 289) Indeed, one can see
that the Prophets of God named in the Scriptures have appeared, not just in the
East, but in a very limited area of the East, stretching from the Levant and
Egypt across Iran as far as India. We have no authenticated records of Chinese
or Japanese Prophets.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 27
October 1986, written on behalf of the Universal House of justice to an
individual believer; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1986-2001’)
