l over the world.
To the degree to which the friends consecrate themselves to the teaching
work will directly depend the results they achieve during this year and
coming years.

The beloved Guardian assures you all of his loving and continued prayers
for the success of your work, for your strength, guidance and protection.

(signed by R. Rabbani)

(in the Guardian's handwriting)

Dear and valued co-workers:

The formation of the Regional Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of North
East Asia is to be acclaimed as an event of far-reaching historic
significance, whose repercussions cannot be confined to the Pacific area,
but are bound to affect the immediate fortunes of the entire Baha'i world.
The emergence of this epochal institution, however transitional its
character, represents the culmination of a fifty-year old process that has
had its inception in the days of the Centre of the Covenant, during the
last decades of the Heroic Age of the Baha'i Dispensation. The rise and
expansion of the Administrative Order of the Faith in the northern regions
of the vast Pacific Ocean fills a great gap, and constitutes a notable
parallel to the rise of similar institutions in the Antipodes,
establishing thereby a spiritual equilibrium destined to affect, to a
marked degree, the destinies of the Faith throughout the islands of the
Pacific Ocean, in the years immediately ahead. It should be hailed,
moreover, as a momentous development paving the way for the eventual
introduction of the Faith into the far-flung Chinese mainland and, beyond
it, to the extensive territories of Soviet Russia.

A milestone of such tremendous significance in the progress of the Faith
of Baha'u'llah, in so strategic and important an area of the globe, should
be acclaimed by the members of your assembly, as well as by the rank and
file of the believers throughout that area, as a demonstration of the
creative energies released by its Author and the Centre of His Covenant,
in territories and amidst peoples and races destined to play a role of
immense significance in the future development of the human race.

This God-given opportunity, now presenting itself to the prosecutors of
the Baha'i world Spiritual Crusade, at so critical a stage in the history
of the peoples and nations established in those far-off islands and
territories, should be seized with eagerness and enthusiasm, and exploited
to the full in the years lying immediately ahead.

The Six-Yea