His meteoric ministry.

The creative energies released at the hour of the birth of His Revelation,
endowing mankind with the potentialities of the attainment of maturity are
deranging, during the present transitional age, the equilibrium of the
entire planet as the inevitable prelude to the consummation in world unity
of the coming of age of the human race. The portentous but unheeded
warnings addressed to kings, princes, ecclesiastics are responsible for
the successive overthrow of fourteen monarchies of East and West, the
collapse of the institution of the Caliphate, the virtual extinction of
the Pope's temporal sovereignty, the progressive decline in the fortunes
of the ecclesiastical hierarchies of the Islamic, Christian, Jewish,
Zoroastrian, and Hindu Faiths.

The Order eulogized and announced in His writings, whose laws Baha'u'llah
subsequently revealed in the Most Holy Book, whose features 'Abdu'l-Baha
delineated in His Testament, is now passing through its embryonic stage
through the emergence of the initial institutions of the world
Administrative Order in the five continents of the globe. The clarion call
sounded in the Qayyumu'l-Asma, summoning the peoples of the West to
forsake their homes and proclaim His message, was nobly answered by the
communities of the Western Hemisphere headed by the valorous, stalwart
American believers, the chosen vanguard of the all-conquering,
irresistibly marching army of the Faith in the western world.

The embryonic Faith, maturing three years after His martyrdom, traversing
the period of infancy in the course of the Heroic Age of the Faith is now
steadily progressing towards maturity in the present Formative Age,
destined to attain full stature in the Golden Age of the Baha'i
Dispensation.

Lastly the Holy Seed of infinite preciousness, holding within itself
incalculable potentialities representing the culmination of the
centuries-old process of the evolution of humanity through the energies
released by the series of progressive Revelations starting with Adam and
concluded by the Revelation of the Seal of the Prophets, marked by the
successive appearance of the branches, leaves, buds, blossoms and plucked,
after six brief years by the hand of destiny, ground in the mill of
martyrdom and oppression but yielding the oil whose first flickering light
cast upon the somber, subterranean walls of the Siyah-_Ch_al of Tihran,
whose fire gathered brilliance in Ba_gh_dad and shone i