Present world chaos, exhibiting the impetuosity, follies, rebelliousness
characteristic of humanity's adolescent stage of development, and harbinger
of the long-promised Golden Age of the maturity of the human race, is
relentlessly spreading and distressingly intensified. The alternating
victories and reverses, heralding parallel transition of proscribed Cause of
Bahá'u'lláh struggling towards emancipation, world recognition and spiritual
universal dominion, are simultaneously multiplying. The recrudescence of the
chronic persecution afflicting the cradle of the Faith, the grave danger
threatening the appropriated Temple and disbanded centers in Turkistan
and Caucasus, the repressive measures successively choking the life and
paralyzing the action of both the long-standing and the newly-fledged
communities of Central, Western and South-Eastern Europe, the intermittent
outbursts of religious fanaticism directed against the North African
Assemblies, and the aggravation of the situation at the world Spiritual and
Administrative Center, contrast with, and are outweighed by, the surging
spirit, the startling expansion, the sweeping conquests, the superb
consolidation of the swiftly-accumulating resources of the one remaining
community singled out for the proclamation of the Administrative Order
throughout the length and breadth of the Western Hemisphere. I appeal to the
New World champions of the New World Order of Bahá'u'lláh to stand fast at
this tragic hour in the fortunes of mankind and the challenging state of the
evolution of the Faith. I beg them to close their ranks jointly, severally and
vow
themselves to incomparably sublime task whose operation must hasten the
ascendancy of the beloved Cause and the spiritual redemption of a reconstructed
mankind.
Cablegram October 29, 1940