ns receive the light of God and find their way towards eternal
salvation....

[From the Guardian:]

May the Beloved guide your steps, cheer your hearts, enable you to promote
far and wide the interests of our beloved Faith and aid you to consolidate
its rising institutions,

Your true and affectionate brother,
Shoghi

LETTER OF 16 MAY 1933

16 May 1933

Dear Dr. Muehlschlegel:

The Guardian ... does sincerely hope that the reports we receive here
about the sentiments rampant in Germany are untrue to fact, that it is a
regeneration of the people rather than a retrogression towards a dead
past. Because whatever we say of Germany, we have to admit that its people
are endowed with a spiritual vitality quite superior to many other races.
Being in the heart of that populated continent and being inspired by such
a strong religious spirit, Germany can easily achieve a wonderful task in
regenerating the world. The eyes of the world are surely centered around
it expecting to see what it will do.

Yet we Baha'is should remember that we stand above politics. That that
field does not interest us; that we attribute importance to things of the
spirit, that we await salvation to come from the Faith that burns in our
hearts.

In his moments of prayer and meditation at the Blessed Shrines, the
Guardian will think of you and the other friends in Germany and ask God to
guide you and assist you in playing your important role of spiritualizing
the whole world--so immersed at present in material pursuits and
interests....

[From the Guardian:]

Dear and precious co-worker:

I was so pleased to receive your letter. I long to hear more fully and
more frequently from you. You are a tower of ... and a pillar of His Faith
in that land. Germany has a glorious future under the banner of the Faith
of Baha'u'llah. Its mission is to champion the cause of God in Europe and
establish it firmly in the heart of that continent. The tests and trials
which have beset the Faith in that land were necessary and providential.
It is for the German believers, who have weathered the storm, to arise and
promote the Cause, to proclaim the non-political character of their Faith,
to establish its nascent institutions and prove by their words and acts
their freedom from every taint of particularism and prejudice. May the
Almighty guide their steps, sustain them in their efforts and bless their
activities.

Shoghi

LETTER OF 14 JUNE