A Far-Flung Arc
Shoghi Effendi, Bahíyyih Khánum, (1982), p. Part III, no. 33 · Read original
When in Bahá'í history
The raising of this Edifice will in turn herald the construction, in the course of successive epochs of the Formative Age of the Faith, of several other structures...
These Edifices will, in the shape of a far-flung arc, and following a harmonizing style of architecture, surround the resting-places of the Greatest Holy Leaf, ranking as foremost among the members of her sex in the Bahá’í Dispensation, of her Brother, offered up as a ransom by Bahá’u’lláh for the quickening of the world and its unification, and of their Mother, proclaimed by Him to be His chosen ‘consort in all the worlds of God’.
Source: Shoghi Effendi, in Bahíyyih Khánum (Bahá'í World Centre, 1982), part III, no. 33. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #19242.
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