“The World’s equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this Most Great Order. ” To this same Order Bahá’u’lláh Who, in a later period, revealed the laws and principles that must govern the operation of that Order, had thus referred in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Mother Book of His Dispensation: “Well is it with Him.”is His remarkable statement in the sixteenth chapter of the third Váhid, “Who fixeth his gaze upon the Order of Bahá’u’lláh, and rendereth thanks unto His Lord! For He will assuredly be made manifest. To this World Order the Báb Himself had, whilst a prisoner in the mountain fastnesses of A dhirbáyján, explicitly referred in His Persian Bayán, the Mother Book of the Bábí Dispensation, had announced its advent, and associated it with the name of Bahá’u’lláh, Whose Mission He Himself had heralded. The Formative Period, the Iron Age, of that Dispensation was now beginning, the Age in which the institutions, local, national and international, of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh were to take shape, develop and become fully consolidated, in anticipation of the third, the last, the Golden Age destined to witness the emergence of a world-embracing Order enshrining the ultimate fruit of God’s latest Revelation to mankind. (Bold type and capital letters have been used selectively throughout for emphasis) EXTRACTS FROM THE WRITINGS OF SHOGHI EFFENDI CONCERNING THE WORLD ORDER OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH
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