Though the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh has been delivered, the
World Order which such a Revelation must needs beget is as yet unborn. Though
the Heroic Age of His Faith is passed, the creative energies which that Age has
released have not as yet crystallized into that world society which, in the
fullness of time, is to mirror forth the brightness of His glory. Though the
framework of His Administrative Order has been erected, and the Formative
Period of the Baha'i Era has begun, yet the promised Kingdom into which the seed
of His institutions must ripen remains as yet uninaugurated. ...
- Shoghi
Effendi (From a message dated 8 February 1934, printed as ‘The Dispensation of
Baha'u'llah’ in ‘The World Order of Baha'u'llah’)
