ries still more pillars to share in sustaining the weight and
in broadening the foundation of the Universal House of Justice.

BEGIN NINTH PART OF MAJESTIC PROCESS

Then, and only then, will the vast, the majestic process, set in motion at
the dawn of the Adamic cycle, attain its consummation--a process which
commenced six thousand years ago, with the planting, in the soil of the
divine will, of the tree of divine revelation, and which has already
passed through certain stages and must needs pass through still others ere
it attains its final consummation. The first part of this process was the
slow and steady growth of this tree of divine revelation, successively
putting forth its branches, shoots and offshoots, and revealing its
leaves, buds and blossoms, as a direct consequence of the light and warmth
imparted to it by a series of progressive dispensations associated with
Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad and other Prophets, and of the
vernal showers of blood shed by countless martyrs in their path. The
second part of this process was the fruition of this tree, "that belongeth
neither to the East nor to the West," when the Bab appeared as the perfect
fruit and declared His mission in the Year Sixty in the city of _Sh_iraz.
The third part was the grinding of this sacred seed, of infinite
preciousness and potency, in the mill of adversity, causing it to yield
its oil, six years later, in the city of Tabriz. The fourth part was the
ignition of this oil by the hand of Providence in the depths and amidst
the darkness of the Siyah-_Ch_al of Tihran a hundred years ago. The fifth,
was the clothing of that flickering light, which had scarcely penetrated
the adjoining territory of 'Iraq, in the lamp of revelation, after an
eclipse lasting no less than ten years, in the city of Ba_gh_dad. The
sixth, was the spread of the radiance of that light, shining with added
brilliancy in its crystal globe in Adrianople, and later on in the
fortress town of Akka, to thirteen countries in the Asiatic and African
continents. The seventh was its projection, from the Most Great Prison, in
the course of the ministry of the Center of the Covenant, across the seas
and the shedding of its illumination upon twenty sovereign states and
dependencies in the American, the European, and Australian continents. The
eighth part of that process was the diffusion of that same light in the
course of the first, and the opening years of the second,