er of both the
Islamic and Arab worlds, officially empowered to apply, in matters of
personal status, the laws and ordinances revealed in the Kitab-i-Aqdas,
the Mother-Book of the Baha'i Revelation.

Seventh, the incorporation of the three above-mentioned regional national
spiritual assemblies.

Eighth, the establishment by those same national spiritual assemblies of
national Baha'i endowments.

Ninth, the establishment of a national Haziratu'l-Quds in Johannesburg and
one in Tunis and the conversion into a similar institution of the local
Haziratu'l-Quds of Kampala.

Tenth, the formation of a national Baha'i Publishing Trust in Cairo.

Eleventh, the formation of an Israel branch of the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Baha'is of Egypt and Sudan, authorized to hold, on behalf
of its parent institution, property dedicated to the holy shrines at the
World Center of the Faith in the state of Israel.

Twelfth, the appointment, during Ridvan 1954, by the Hand of the Cause in
Africa, of an Auxiliary Board of nine members who will, in conjunction
with the six national spiritual assemblies participating in the African
campaign, assist, through periodic and systematic visits to Baha'i
centers, in the efficient and prompt execution of the plans formulated for
the prosecution of the teaching campaign in the African continent.

A SPIRITUALLY WELDED UNIT

May the six aforementioned national spiritual assemblies, aided by the
Hand of the Cause appointed in that continent, and the Auxiliary Board to
be chosen by him, and supported by the national committees and
subcommittees to be formed in due course, and reinforced by the constant
and energetic efforts of an ever-swelling number of pioneers, whether
settlers or itinerant teachers, and assisted by the wholehearted
collaboration of the indigenous believers in all localities, be
spiritually welded into a unit at once dynamic and coherent, and be
suffused with the creative, the directing and propelling forces proceeding
from the Source of the Revelation Himself, and be made, as the projected
campaign unfolds, the vehicle of His grace from on high, and prove
themselves worthy and effective instruments for the execution and ultimate
consummation of one of the most thrilling and far-reaching enterprises
undertaken in the Formative Age of the Faith and constituting one of the
noblest phases of the most glorious Crusade ever launched in the course of
Baha'i history for the s