The clarion-call addressed to the “concourse of kings and of
the sons of kings,” marking the inception of a process which, accelerated by
Bahá’u’lláh’s subsequent warnings to the entire company of the monarchs of East
and West, was to produce so widespread a revolution in the fortunes of royalty,
had been raised in the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá. The “Order,” whose foundation the
Promised One was to establish in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, and the features of which
the Center of the Covenant was to delineate in His Testament, and whose administrative
framework the entire body of His followers are now erecting, had been
categorically announced in the Persian Bayán.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
