cting the National Administrative Headquarters of the
Faith in the city of Frankfurt, in establishing Spiritual Assemblies in
the capital cities of no less than ten sovereign states in Europe, in
reinforcing the administrative foundations of that Faith in those
territories, in providing the means for the convocation of four European,
and a series of regional, Teaching Conferences, and above all, in the
convocation of the historic Convention in Florence, culminating in the
emergence of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Italy and
Switzerland, the third in a series of institutions destined to play their
part in the eventual establishment of the Supreme Legislative Body of the
Administrative Order of the Faith of Baha'u'llah.

The hour is now ripe for these communities, whether new or old, local or
national, already functioning on the northern, the western and the
southern fringes of that continent, as well as those situated in its very
heart, to initiate befittingly and prosecute energetically the European
Campaign of a global Crusade which will not only contribute, to an
unprecedented degree, to the broadening and the consolidation of the
foundations of the Faith of Baha'u'llah on the continent of Europe, but
will also diffuse its light over the neighbouring islands, and will, God
willing, carry its radiance to the eastern territories of that continent,
and beyond them as far as the heart of Asia.

The privileged prosecutors of so revolutionising, so gigantic, so sacred
and beneficent a campaign are, on the morrow of its launching, and at such
a crucial hour in the destinies of the European continent, summoned to
undertake: First, the formation, under the aegis of the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States, of one National Spiritual
Assembly in each of the Scandinavian and Benelux countries, and those of
the Iberian Peninsula, and one in Finland, as well as the establishment,
in collaboration with the Paris Spiritual Assembly, of the National
Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of France, the establishment under the
aegis of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Germany and
Austria, of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Austria, and
the establishment, under the aegis of the National Spiritual Assembly of
the Baha'is of the United States, and in association with the National
Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Italy and Switzerland, of independent
National