The northern regions of the world were alluded to by
Bahá'u'lláh in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Mother Book of this Revelation. Their
names were recorded in the Tablets of the Divine Plan by the pen of
'Abdu'l-Bahá, Who, in one of His other Tablets, supplicated God to "raise
up sanctified, pure and spiritual souls in the countries of the West and the
territories of the North, and make them signs of His guidance, ensigns of the
Concourse on High and angels of the Abha Kingdom." These lands received
the constant attention of Shoghi Effendi, who repeatedly urged the friends to
carry the Faith to their uttermost inhabited areas, and who joyfully announced
every advance of the Bahá'ís that established a centre closer to the North
Pole.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated July 1976 addressed
to the followers of Bahá'u'lláh gathered at the International Teaching
Conference in Helsinki; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice
1963-1986’)
