The Universal House of Justice, the last refuge for mankind as predicted by all the Prophets

Thanks to Baha’u’llah, the beloved Shoghi Effendi, through his self-sacrifice and his untiring 36 years of work, day and night of work with no rest, brought that body, The Universal House of Justice, “the source of all good and freed from all errors’’, into its embryonic form as he promised in his first message to the Baha'is of the East. He did not leave us before he completed his ministry.

Again thanks to the Blessed Beauty that the Supreme Body, The Universal House of Justice, the last refuge for mankind as predicted by all the Prophets, is now formed. The eyes of creation are illumined, the Ark of God is sailing, and His Laws are flowing from Mount Carmel.

The beloved Guardian said the Shrine of the Bab, in spite of all its beauty and marvelous attraction, is under the shadow of the Shrine of Baha'u'llah, even as the number eight, symbolic of the octagon and columns in the arcade, is under the shadow of nine (numerical value of Baha). The beloved Guardian had named the Shrines of Baha’u’llah and the Bab Daryay-i-Nur (the Ocean of Light) and Kuh-i-Nur (the Mountain of Light) (also the titles of the two biggest diamonds in the world), the second one being under the shadow of the first.

Thanks, a thousand thanks that now, as a result of the abundant bounties of Baha’u’llah and the Bab, the miracles of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, and the untiring, strenuous efforts of the beloved Shoghi Effendi, we can go to the Mountain of the Lord, to the House of the God of Jacob, and say, “Come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. ’’

(Baha'i News, August 1975, Page 11)

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