Now in the world of being, the Hand of Divine Power hath
firmly laid the foundations of the all-highest bounty and this wondrous gift.
Whatsoever is latent in the innermost of this Holy Cycle shall gradually appear
and be made manifest, for now is but the beginning of its growth and the
day-spring of the revelation of its signs. Ere the close of this century and of
this age it shall be made clear and evident how wondrous was that springtide
and how heavenly was that gift!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a
letter dated 8 January 1923; Star of the West, vol. 14, no. 2, May 1923; Baha’i
News, no. 72, April 1933)
