the selection of a
portion of the school property situated in the precincts of the Shrine of
the Bab as a permanent resting-place for the Greatest Holy Leaf, the
"well-beloved" sister of 'Abdu'l-Baha, the "Leaf that hath sprung" from
the "Pre-existent Root," the "fragrance" of Baha'u'llah's "shining robe,"
elevated by Him to a "station such as none other woman hath surpassed,"
and comparable in rank to those immortal heroines such as Sarah, Asiyih,
the Virgin Mary, Fatimih and Tahirih, each of whom has outshone every
member of her sex in previous Dispensations. And lastly, there should be
mentioned, as a further evidence of the blessings flowing from the Divine
Plan, the transfer, a few years later, to that same hallowed spot, after a
separation in death of above half a century, and notwithstanding the
protests voiced by the brother and lieutenant of the arch-breaker of
Baha'u'llah's Covenant, of the remains of the Purest Branch, the martyred
son of Baha'u'llah, "created of the light of Baha," the "Trust of God" and
His "Treasure" in the Holy Land, and offered up by his Father as a
"ransom" for the regeneration of the world and the unification of its
peoples. To this same burial-ground, and on the same day the remains of
the Purest Branch were interred, was transferred the body of his mother,
the saintly Navvab, she to whose dire afflictions, as attested by
'Abdu'l-Baha in a Tablet, the 54th chapter of the Book of Isaiah has, in
its entirety, borne witness, whose "Husband," in the words of that
Prophet, is "the Lord of Hosts," whose "seed shall inherit the Gentiles,"
and whom Baha'u'llah in His Tablet, has destined to be "His consort in
every one of His worlds."

The conjunction of these three resting-places, under the shadow of the
Bab's own Tomb, embosomed in the heart of Carmel, facing the snow-white
city across the bay of Akka, the Qiblih of the Baha'i world, set in a
garden of exquisite beauty, reinforces, if we would correctly estimate its
significance, the spiritual potencies of a spot, designated by Baha'u'llah
Himself the seat of God's throne. It marks, too, a further milestone in
the road leading eventually to the establishment of that permanent world
Administrative Center of the future Baha'i Commonwealth, destined never to
be separated from, and to function in the proximity of, the Spiritual
Center of that Faith, in a land already revered and held sacred alike by
the adherents of three of the world's outstan