en Year
Plan, whose inauguration synchronizes with the opening years of the second
Baha'i century, and which will be chiefly associated with the first phase
of the second epoch of that Age. The emergence of these two national
assemblies, precursors of the institutions which must participate in the
election, and contribute to the support, of the Universal House of
Justice--the last crowning unit in the erection of the fabric of the
Administrative Order of the Faith of Baha'u'llah--must lead gradually and
uninterruptedly, and in the course of successive epochs of the Formative
Age, to the constitution in each of the republics of Central and South
America, of a properly elected, fully representative national assembly,
constituting thereby the last stage in the administrative evolution of
that Faith throughout Latin America.

In order that these future tasks may be carried out with dispatch,
efficiency, harmony and in strict accordance with the administrative and
spiritual principles of our Faith, the Latin American promoters of the
present Seven Year Plan must focus their attention on the requirements of
the present hour, close their ranks, reinforce the bonds of unity, of
solidarity and of cooperation which unite them, rededicate themselves
individually to the sacred, all-important and vital task of teaching,
exert strenuous endeavors to deepen their knowledge of the history and
fundamentals of their Faith, steep themselves in the spirit and the love
of its teachings and acquire special training for future pioneer activity
throughout the length and breadth of the vast stretches of territory which
extend from the confines of the great republic in the north to the Straits
of Magellan in the south.

The process of the steady multiplication of spiritual assemblies, already
numbering thirty-seven, of groups whose number equals that of the
assemblies, and of the forty localities where isolated believers reside,
must vigorously and uninterruptedly continue. The incorporation of
well-grounded spiritual assemblies, following the example set by the
spiritual assemblies of San Jose, Costa Rica, of Bogota, Colombia, and of
Asuncion, Paraguay, as a preliminary to the incorporation of the future
national assemblies to be established in Latin America, must be
strenuously and efficiently carried out. A beginning, however modest,
should be made in the direction of establishing local Funds, supported by
native believers and designed to su