The darkness of error that has enveloped the East and the
West is, in this most great cycle, battling with the light of Divine Guidance.
Its swords and its spears are very sharp and pointed; its army keenly bloodthirsty.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a letter dated December 25, 1938; ‘The
Advent of Divine Justice’)
