The divinely propelled process, described in such awe-inspiring words by our beloved Guardian, which began six thousand years ago at the dawn of the Adamic cycle and which is destined to culminate in "the stage at which the light of God's triumphant Faith shining in all its power and glory will have suffused and enveloped the entire planet," is now entering its tenth and last part. [1]
The Ten Year Crusade, so recently consummated in a blaze of
victory and rejoicing, constituted the entire ninth part of this process. It saw the Cause of God leap forward in one
mighty decade-long effort to the point at which the foundations of its
Administrative Order were laid throughout the world, thus preparing the way for
that awakening of the masses which must characterize the future progress of the
Faith.
- The Universal House of Justice (Message to the Baha'is of the world, April 1964; 'Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986')
[1] See the ten-part process