Shoghi Effendi: Dark Forces Which A Godless Civilization Has Unloosed Over the Face of the Planet

 "The internecine struggle, now engulfing the generality of mankind, is increasingly assuming, in its range and ferocity, the proportions of the titanic upheaval foreshadowed as far back as seventy years ago by Bahá'u'lláh.  It can be viewed in no other light except as a direct interposition by Him Who is the Ordainer of the universe, the judge of all men and the Deliverer of the nations.  It is the rod of both the anger of God and of His correction.  The fierceness of its devastating power chastens the children of men for their refusal to acclaim the century-old Message of the promised, their Heaven-sent Redeemer.  The fury of its flames, on the other hand, purges away the dross, and welds the limbs of humanity into one single organism, indivisible, purified God-conscious and divinely directed.  Its immediate cause can be traced to the forces engendered by the last war of which it may be truly regarded as the direct continuation...The most powerful nations of the European continent  – the chief protagonists of that highly vaunted yet lamentably defective civilization...On the high seas, in the air, on land, in the forefront of battle, in the palaces of kings and the cottages of peasants in the most hallowed. sanctuaries, whether secular or religious, the evidences of God's retributive act and mysterious disciplined are manifest.  Its heavy toll is steadily mounting – a holocaust sparing neither prince nor peasant, neither man nor woman, neither young nor old.

    "The Faith of Bahá'u'lláh – that priceless gem of Divine Revelation enshrining the Spirit of God and incarnating His Purpose for mankind in this age – can neither aspire nor expect to escape unhurt amid the hurricane of human disasters that blows around it.  By most men unnoticed, scorned and ridiculed by some, feared and challenged by others, this world redemptive Faith, for whose precious sake the world is undergoing such agonies, finds its virgin strength assailed, and its infant institutions hemmed in, by the dark forces which a godless civilization has unloosed over the face of the planet....through the instrumentality of the administrative agencies erected after 'Abdu'l-Bahá's passing...the Seven Year Plan...propelled by the agencies released by those immortal Tablets which constitute its charter...Its consummation, coinciding with the termination of the first century of the Bahá'í Era, will mark the opening of yet another phase in a series of crusades which must carry, in the course of the succeeding century...lay an unassailable basis for the administrative structure of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh.

    "...The immensity of the task still to be performed staggers our fancy and inflames our imagination.  The potentialities with which these tasks are endowed our shrewdest calculations.  The promise they enshrine is too dazzling to contemplate.  What else can we do but bow our heads in thanksgiving and reverence, steel our hearts in preparation for strenuous days ahead, and intensify a hundredfold our resolution to carry on the task to which our hands are set at present."  Shoghi Effendi, May 25, 1941.  Messages to America 1932-1946, pp. 45-48.

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