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Messages to the Bahá'í World: 1950-1957
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Pages 170-171
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A TRIPLE RESPONSIBILITY
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This triple bounty vouchsafed the Community of the Most Great
Name, scattered over the face of the planet, calls for tremendous,
immediate, concerted exertion by the assembled believers in order
adequately to discharge this triple responsibility. First, redoubled
consecration to the pioneering task, particularly in the Pacific area
emphasized in the Tablets of the Divine Plan, raising thereby, ere
adjournment of the Conference, the number of territories opened
to the Faith or assigned pioneers for immediate settlement to above
two hundred. Second, the demonstration of increasing self-sacrifice
through the inauguration of Funds for the purchase of land
for future Temples on the Asiatic continent and in the Antipodes,
in Baghdád, New Delhi and Sydney. I am contributing three thousand
pounds for the furtherance of these meritorious enterprises.
Third, earnest consultation by representatives of the Persian and
Iráqí National Assemblies, directly concerned with the holy task,
with the assembled Hands of the Cause on ways and means to conduct
a thorough investigation to ensure purchase of the holy places,
particularly the site of the Síyáh-Chál, the cradle of the Revelation
to the Author of the Faith, as well as the identification and transfer
to Bahá'í cemeteries of the bodies of the relatives of the Báb and
Bahá'u'lláh, constituting vital objectives of the Ten-Year Plan.
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I am ardently hoping, fervently supplicating that this epochal
Conference, setting the seal on the celebration of the second Bahá'í
Jubilee, may contribute in an unprecedented degree through the
character of its deliberations, the solidity of its achievements, the
scope of its accomplishments, to the ultimate attainment of the shining
goals of the World Crusade, destined to culminate in the not far
distant Most Great Jubilee associated with the hundredth anniversary
of the assumption by Bahá'u'lláh of His prophetic office.
[7 October 1953]
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