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languages; the construction of two Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kars; the acquisition
of sites for the future construction of eleven Temples; the formation of
forty-eight national spiritual assemblies; the founding of forty-seven
national Haziratu'l-Quds; the incorporation of fifty national spiritual
assemblies; the framing of Baha'i national constitutions and the
establishment of Baha'i national endowments by each of these national
assemblies; the adoption of preliminary measures for the construction of
Baha'u'llah's Sepulcher; the erection of the first dependency of the first
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar of the western world; the development of the
institution of the Hands of the Cause; the transformation of the
International Baha'i Council into an international Baha'i court; the
codification of the laws and ordinances of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; the
establishment of six national Baha'i Courts in the chief cities of the
Islamic East; the extension of international Baha'i endowments in the
Plain of Akka and on the slopes of Mt. Carmel; the construction of the
International Baha'i Archives in the neighborhood of the Bab's Sepulcher;
the construction of the tomb of the Bab's wife in _Sh_iraz; the
identification of the resting-places of Baha'u'llah's father, of the Bab's
mother and of His cousin and their reburial in the neighborhood of the
Most Great House; the acquisition of the Garden of Ridvan in Ba_gh_dad,
and of the sites of the Siyah-_Ch_al in Tihran, of the Bab's martyrdom in
Tabriz and of His incarceration in _Ch_ihriq; the establishment of six
Baha'i national publishing trusts; the formation of seven Israel branches
of Baha'i national spiritual assemblies; the participation of women in the
membership of Baha'i local and national spiritual assemblies in Persia;
the establishment of a Baha'i national printing-press in Tihran; the
reinforcement of the ties binding the Baha'i World Community with the
United Nations; the opening to the Faith, circumstances permitting, of
eleven republics comprised in the Soviet Union, as well as two
Soviet-controlled European states--all, please God, culminating in the
convocation of a World Baha'i Congress, in the vicinity of the Garden of
Ridvan, in the third holiest city of the Baha'i world, on the occasion of
the world-wide celebrations commemorating the centenary of the formal
assumption by Baha'u'llah of His prophetic office.

A PLANETARY SPIRITUAL CRUSADE

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