The creative energies released at the hour of the birth of
His [the Báb’s] Revelation, endowing mankind with the potentialities of the
attainment of maturity are deranging, during the present transitional age, the
equilibrium of the entire planet as the inevitable prelude to the consummation
in world unity of the coming of age of the human race. The portentous but
unheeded warnings addressed to kings, princes, ecclesiastics are responsible for
the successive overthrow of fourteen monarchies of East and West, the collapse
of the institution of the Caliphate, the virtual extinction of the Pope’s
temporal sovereignty, the progressive decline in the fortunes of the
ecclesiastical hierarchies of the Islámic, Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, and
Hindu Faiths.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 4 July 1950; ‘Citadel of
Faith’)
