The creative energies released by the Law of Baha'u'llah,
permeating and evolving within the mind of 'Abdu'l-Baha 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-Baha
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
message dated 8 February 1934, printed as ‘The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah’ in
‘The World Order of Baha'u'llah’)
