- Shoghi Effendi, Messages to America, p. 81
“...
a stage which, in the fullness of time, will culminate in the
establishment of the World Baha’i Commonwealth, functioning in the
plenitude of its powers”
- Shoghi Effendi, Baha’i World. Vol. XIII, p. 138
"...
the precautionary and defensive measures to be devised, coordinated,
and carried out to counteract the full force of the inescapable attacks
which the organized efforts of ecclesiastical organizations of various
denominations will progressively launch and relentlessly pursue; and,
last but not least, the multitudinous issues that must be faced, the
obstacles that must be overcome, and the responsibilities that must be
assumed, to enable a sore-tried Faith to pass through the successive
stages of unmitigated obscurity, of active repression, and of complete
emancipation, leading in turn to its being acknowledged as an
independent Faith, enjoying the status of full equality with its sister
religions, to be followed by its establishment and recognition as a
State religion, which in turn must give way to its assumption of the
rights and prerogatives associated with the Baha'i state, functioning in
the plenitude of its powers, a stage which must ultimately culminate in
the emergence of the world-wide Baha'i' Commonwealth, animated wholly
by the spirit, and operating solely in direct conformity with the laws
and principles of Baha’u’llah."
- Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 12
"It
is the structure of His New World Order, now stirring in the womb of
the administrative institutions He Himself has created, that will serve
both as a pattern and a nucleus of the World Commonwealth which is the
sure, the inevitable destiny of the peoples and nations of the earth."
- Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, p. 122
"It
is the superstructure of that self-same order, attaining its full
stature through the emergence of the Baha'i World Commonwealth — the
Kingdom of God on earth —which the Golden Age of the (Baha'i)
Dispensation must, in the fullness of time, ultimately witness."
- Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 26
"As
the authority with which Baha’u’llah has invested the future Baha'i
Commonwealth becomes more and more apparent, the fiercer shall be the
challenge which from every quarter will be thrown at the verities it
enshrines."
- Shoghi Effendi, World Order of Bahaullah, p. 18
"And
as the Baha'i Faith permeates the masses of the peoples of East and
West, and its truth is embraced by the majority of the peoples of a
number of the Sovereign States of the world, will the Universal House of
Justice attain the plenitude of its power, and exercise, as the supreme
organ of the Baha'i Commonwealth, all the rights, the duties, and
responsibilities incumbent upon the worlds future super state."
- Shoghi Effendi, World Order of Baha'u'llah, p. 7
"Haifa,
Israel - 'permanent world Administrative Centre of the future Baha'i
Commonwealth, destined never to be separated from, and to function in
proximity of the Spiritual Centre of (the) Faith'... "
- Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 348
"...
To us, the 'generation of the half-light', living at a time which maybe
designated as the period of the incubation of the World Commonwealth
envisaged by Baha’u’llah, has been assigned a task whose high privilege
we can never sufficiently appreciate, and the arduousness of which we
can as yet but dimly recognize."
- Shoghi Effendi, World Order of Baha’u’llah, p 168
"... the Faith of Baha’u’llah is now visibly succeeding in demonstrating its claim and title to be regarded as a World Religion destined to attain, in the fullness of time, the status of a world-embracing Commonwealth, which would be at once the instrument and the guardian of the Most Great Peace, announced by its Author."
- Shoghi Effendi, World Order of Bahaullah, p. 196
"The Declaration of Trust and By-Laws of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, stands in its final form as a worthy and faithful exposition of the constitutional basis of the Baha’i communities in every land, foreshadowing the final emergence of the World Baha’i Commonwealth of the future."
- Shoghi Effendi, Bahai Administration, p. 135
"This
final and crowning stage (Commonwealth) in the evolution of the Plan
wrought by God Himself for humanity will, in turn, prove to be the
signal for the birth of a world civilization, incomparable in its range,
its character and potency, in the history of mankind ... "
- Shoghi Effendi, Baha’i World, Vol. XI, p. 138
0 comentários:
Post a Comment