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Citadel of Faith
by Shoghi Effendi
Edition 1, (September 2006)
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Contents
- Baha'i Terms of Use
- Believers’ Generous Response to Temple Fund
- Call to Fuller Participation
- Consolidation in Europe
- Participation in Second Seven Year Plan[MESSAGE TO 1947 CONVENTION]
- NSA Must Control Credentials of Foreigners
- The Challenging Requirements of the Present Hour
- CROWNING FEATURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER: THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE
- FOURFOLD OBJECTIVE TO PRESENT REQUIREMENTS
- GOALS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALASKA
- CANADA TO FORM SEPARATE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
- TASKS IN LATIN AMERICA
- TWO REGIONAL NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES A VITAL OBJECTIVE
- IMPORTANCE OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS
- BAHÁ’U’LLÁH’S SUMMONS TO THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
- SPIRITUAL CRUSADE TO BE LAUNCHED IN EUROPE
- EVOLVING STRONGHOLDS IN TEN INITIAL COUNTRIES
- INITIATING NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS AND ADAPTING TEACHING METHODS
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@19254@[email protected]#toc38" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">EUROPE FEELS STIRRINGS OF SPIRITUAL REVOLUTIONDIVINE PLAN CHALLENGES NORTH AMERICAN BELIEVERS DETACHMENT FROM THE PHYSICAL WORLD CONTRIBUTION OF THE WEST TO WORLD ORDER THE WORKINGS OF TWO SIMULTANEOUS PROCESSES A PARALLEL BETWEEN THE AMERICAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY AND THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC THE UNITED STATES IS SIGNALLY BLEST TRIBULATIONS ARE INEVITABLE AMERICA TO EVOLVE UNTIL LAST TASK IS DISCHARGED European Pioneers and Temple Contract Evidences of Notable Expansion Effective Prosecution of Sacred Tasks HEART-WARMING PROGRESS IN EUROPEAN ENTERPRISE TRIPLE CAMPAIGN OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE Recognition of Preeminent Services Critical Stage of Task on Home Front No Sacrifice Too Great Prevailing Crisis Emergency Teaching Campaign Marvelous Acceleration[FIRST MESSAGE TO 1948 CONVENTION] Brilliant Achievements[SECOND MESSAGE TO 1948 CONVENTION]
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@19254@[email protected]#toc80" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Support the National FundTemple Interior Ornamentation and Arcade of the Báb’s Sepulcher My Appeal to This God-Chosen Community Urge Special Attention to Goals Praying for Added Fervor Completed Tasks Release Outpouring of Grace Appeal to Entire Community to Persevere Scale Nobler Heights of Heroism The Citadel of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh STAUNCHNESS OF AMERICAN BELIEVERS PRESS FORWARD ON TEMPLE CONTRACTS CEASELESS EFFORT ESSENTIAL Budget Approved for 1949–1950 Preliminary Temple Contracts Arcade for the Shrine of the Báb Drastic Budget Reduction Further Budget Reduction Curtailment of Some Activities Divert Contributions to Temple Fund Suspend World Order Magazine A Testing Period Recalling Ordeals of the Dawn-Breakers
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Arcade of the Báb’s Shrine BegunOne Remaining Objective Hangs in the Balance Process of Expansion Accelerates[MESSAGE TO 1949 CONVENTION] Welcome Initial Victory Supplicating Blessing for American Activities Corners of Shrine Arcade Under Construction This Hour, Crowded With Destiny Praying For Increasing Success Majesty of the Báb’s Shrine Unfolding Faithless Brother Hussein Maintain Momentum in Triple Field Shrine Parapet Completed Sacred Task of Present Hour Shrine Arcade Nearing Completion Centenary of the Martyrdom of the Báb A Worthy, Five-Fold Offering AN HOUR LADEN WITH FATE Ruhi and Family Show Open Defiance Non-Bahá’í Gifts Teaching in Africa Comforted by Messages of Devotion Relieved by Intensified Activity Badí’u’lláh
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Has Miserably PerishedRequirements for Temple Completion Summer Schools to Reopen Assistance to Epoch-Making Enterprise in Africa Status of Bahá’ís Regarding Military Duty Spiritual Conquest of the Planet NO SACRIFICE TOO GREAT THE CENTER OF NINE CONCENTRIC CIRCLES THE CHOSEN TRUSTEES OF A DIVINE PLAN First American Pioneer to Africa Message to 1951 State Conventions The Last and Irretrievable Chance A PERIOD OF HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE OBJECTIVES OF SECOND SEVEN YEAR PLAN LARGELY ATTAINED SCOPE OF THIRD SEVEN YEAR PLAN WIDENED Funds for International Center Forty-Fifth Annual Convention: U.S. Tasks in World Crusade Intending Pioneers Urged to Scatter A Turning Point in American Bahá’í History RECENT SERVICES DESERVING MENTION ADDED RESPONSIBILITIES IN PROPAGATING THE DIVINE PLAN A LASTING INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND NATION
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@19254@[email protected]#toc210" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">MOST VITAL OBJECTIVE IN THE CRUSADE’S OPENING YEARAN APPEAL TO ALL ENGAGED IN THE CRUSADE Safeguarding American Primacy Temple Site Purchased in Panama Assemblies Must Be Maintained American Bahá’ís in the Time of World Peril CHIEF EXECUTOR OF DIVINE PLAN AMERICA PASSING THROUGH CRISIS AMERICAN BAHÁ’ÍS STAND AT CROSSROADS WORLD CRUSADE TASKS CHALLENGE TO EACH INDIVIDUAL BAHÁ’Í APPEAL FOR DEDICATION Nine-Pointed Star for Headstone Send Appeals to President Eisenhower A Mysterious Dispensation of Providence PERSECUTION OF THE BAHÁ’ÍS OF ÍRÁN A PREMEDITATED CAMPAIGN OF PERSECUTION APPEALS TO THE AUTHORITIES OF ÍRÁN AND TO THE UNITED NATIONS A WHOLLY DEDICATED, INFLEXIBLE RESOLVE “SAVE THE PERSECUTED FUND” THE FIRST HOUSE OF WORSHIP IN AFRICA
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2em">A BLESSING IN DISGUISEUNPRECEDENTED PUBLICITY WORLD RECOGNITION OF THE FAITH Revitalize Entire Community Greater Consecration to Pressing Tasks Praying for Great Victories on Home Front Inestimable Prizes Within Our Reach AID ACCORDED TO THEIR OPPRESSED BRETHREN IN PERSIA A NOBLE RECORD OF SERVICE FRUITFUL EFFORTS OF HANDS OF THE CAUSE STUPENDOUS WORK ACHIEVED BY MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BAHÁ’Í COUNCIL REVITALIZATION OF THE HOME FRONT THE INDIVIDUAL BAHÁ’Í MUST ARISE “A PRAYER WHICH I NEVER CEASE TO UTTER” Intensification of Efforts Dual, Inescapable, Paramount Responsibilities Heights Never Before Attained ENDURING ACHIEVEMENTS THE HOME FRONT—BASE FOR EXPANSION OF FUTURE OPERATIONS MIGHTY AND HISTORIC ENTERPRISES A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY, A GLORIOUS CHALLENGE
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">HIS WATCHFUL POWER AND UNFAILING GRACEIN MEMORIAM Frank Ashton Ella Bailey Dorothy Baker Mary Barton Victoria Bedikian Ella Cooper Julia Culver Dagmar Dole Homer Dyer L. W. Eggleston Harry Ford Nellie French Louis C. Gregory Louise M. Gregory Bertha Herklotz Marie Hopper Maria Ioas Beatrice Irwin Marion Jack Florence Breed Khan
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@19254@[email protected]#toc338" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Edward B. KinneyFanny Knobloch George Latimer Ruhaniyyih Latimer Fanny Lesch Edwin W. Mattoon William Sutherland Maxwell Florence Morton Ella Robarts Annie Romer Fred Schopflocher Anthony Y. Seto Philip G. Sprague Gertrude Struven Juliet Thompson George Townshend Roy C. Wilhelm Albert Windust