The Cause of God has always appeared
from the East but it has been more effective in the West. Once Badrí Páshá
said in an address, `Gentlemen, Westerners have taken everything from us: the
sciences, the arts and the laws they took from the East. Now we fear that they
may wrest from us the Cause of Bahá'u'lláh, as well.' Those were his words. But
Bahá'u'lláh is neither of the East nor of the West, neither of the South nor of
the North. He is holy above all these directions. He is heavenly and godly.
(Words
of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 15 September 1912, Chicago, USA; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)
