Did not Christ Himself, addressing His disciples, utter
these words: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them
now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all
truth”?
From the text of this recognized tradition, as well as from
the words of Christ, as attested by the Gospel, every unprejudiced observer
will readily apprehend the magnitude of the Faith which Bahá’u’lláh has
revealed, and recognize the staggering weight of the claim He has advanced. No
wonder if ‘Abdu’l-Bahá has portrayed in such lurid colors the fierceness of the
agitation that shall center in the days to come round the nascent institutions
of the Faith. We can now but faintly discern the beginnings of that turmoil
which the rise and ascendancy of the Cause of God is destined to cast in the
world.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated March 21, 1930; ‘The World Order of
Baha’u’llah’)
