objectives of the forthcoming Crusade, marking the third and
last phase of the initial epoch of the evolution of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Divine
Plan are destined to culminate in the world-wide festivities commemorating
the fast-approaching Most Great Jubilee. First, development of the
institutions at the World Center of the Faith in the Holy Land. Second,
consolidation, through carefully devised measures on the home front of the
twelve territories destined to serve as administrative bases for the
operations of the twelve National Plans. Third, consolidation of all
territories already opened to the Faith. Fourth, the opening of the
remaining chief virgin territories on the planet through specific
allotments to each National Assembly functioning in the Baha'i world.

The projected historic, spiritual venture, at once arduous, audacious,
challenging, unprecedented in scope and character in the entire field of
Baha'i history, soon to be set in motion, involves:

Adoption of preliminary measures to the construction of Baha'u'llah's
Sepulcher in the Holy Land.

Doubling the number of countries within the pale of the Faith through
planting its banner in the remaining Sovereign States of the planet as
well as the remaining virgin Territories mentioned in 'Abdu'l-Baha's
Tablets of the Divine Plan, involving the opening of forty-one countries
on the Asiatic, thirty-three on the African, thirty on the European,
twenty-seven on the American continents. Over twofold increase in the
number of languages into which Baha'i literature is translated, printed or
in process of translation--forty in Asia, thirty-one in Africa, ten each in
Europe and America, to be allocated to the American, British, Indian and
Australian Baha'i communities, including for the most part those into
which Gospels have been already translated. Doubling the number of
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kars, through the initiation of the construction of one
on the Asiatic and the other on the European continent. The acquisition of
the site of the future Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar on Mount Carmel. The purchase
of the land for eleven future Temples, three on the American, three on the
African, two on the Asiatic, two on the European, one on the Australian
continents. The erection of the first dependency of the
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar in Wilmette. The development of the functions of the
institution of the Hands of the Cause. The establishment of a Baha'i Court
in the Holy Land, preliminary to the em