…the promulgation of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. Alluded to in the
Kitáb-i-Íqán; the principal repository of that Law which the Prophet Isaiah had
anticipated, and which the writer of the Apocalypse had described as the 'new
heaven' and the 'new earth,' as 'the Tabernacle of God,' as the 'Holy City,' as
the 'Bride,' the 'New Jerusalem coming down from God,' this 'Most Holy Book,'
whose provisions must remain inviolate for no less than a thousand years, and
whose system will embrace the entire planet, may well be regarded as the
brightest emanation of the mind of Bahá'u'lláh, as the Mother Book of His
Dispensation, and the Charter of His New World Order.
- The Universal House of
Justice (From Introduction to 'Synopsis and Codification of the Kitab-i-Aqdas')
