The triumphant hosts of the Celestial Concourse, arrayed and marshalled in the Realms above, stand ready and expectant to assist and assure victory to that valiant horseman who with confidence spurs on his charger into the arena of service. Well is it with that fearless warrior, who armed with the power of true knowledge hastens unto the field, disperses the armies of ignorance, and scatters the hosts of error, who holds aloft the Standard of Divine Guidance, and sounds the Clarion of Victory...
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a letter dated 27 November 1924 to the Baha’is in Germany; ‘The Light of Divine Guidance, vol. 1)