The creative energies released by the Law of Bahá'u'lláh,
permeating and evolving within the mind of 'Abdu'l-Bahá have, by their very
impact and close interaction, given birth to an Instrument which may be viewed
as the Charter of the New World Order which is at once the glory and the
promise of this most great Dispensation. The Will may thus be acclaimed as the
inevitable offspring resulting from that mystic intercourse between Him Who
communicated the generating influence of His divine Purpose and the One Who was
its vehicle and chosen recipient. Being the Child of the Covenant -- the Heir
of both the Originator and the Interpreter of the Law of God -- the Will and
Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá can no more be divorced from Him Who supplied the
original and motivating impulse than from the One Who ultimately conceived it.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 8 February 1934, printed as ‘The
Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh’ in ‘The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh’)
