n all-unifying love, I swear by Him Who causeth the seed to split
and the breeze to waft, so great a light will shine forth from your faces
as to reach the highest heavens, the fame of your glory will be noised
abroad, the evidences of your preeminence will spread throughout all
regions, your power will penetrate the realities of all things, your aims
and purposes will exert their influence upon the great and mighty nations,
your spirits will encompass the whole world of being, and ye will discover
yourselves to be kings in the dominions of the Kingdom, and attired with
the glorious crowns of the invisible Realm, and become the marshals of the
army of peace, and princes of the forces of light, and stars shining from
the horizon of perfection, and brilliant lamps shedding their radiance
upon men."

CONTRIBUTION OF THE WEST TO WORLD ORDER

In the light of these glowing tributes, these ardent hopes, these
soul-stirring promises, recorded by the pen of the Center of the Covenant,
is it surprising to find that the Author of the Covenant Himself has,
anticipating the great contribution which the West is destined to make to
the establishment of His World Order, made such a momentous statement in
His writings: "In the East the light of His Revelation hath broken; in the
West have appeared the signs of His dominion. Ponder this in your hearts,
O people, and be not of those who have turned a deaf ear to the
admonitions of Him Who is the Almighty, the All-Praised."

'Abdu'l-Baha Himself, confirming this statement, has written: "From the
beginning of time until the present day the light of Divine Revelation
hath risen in the East and shed its radiance upon the West. The
illumination thus shed hath, however, acquired in the West an
extraordinary brilliancy. Consider the Faith proclaimed by Jesus. Though
it first appeared in the East, yet not until its light had been shed upon
the West did the full measure of its potentialities become manifest." "The
day is approaching when ye shall witness how, through the splendor of the
Faith of Baha'u'llah the West will have replaced the East, radiating the
light of divine guidance." "The West hath acquired illumination from the
East, but, in some respects the reflection of the light hath been greater
in the Occident." "The East hath, verily, been illumined with the light of
the Kingdom. Erelong will this same light shed a still greater
illumination through the potency of the teachings