… a steady flow of reinforcements … will presage and hasten
the advent of the day which, as prophesied by `Abdu'l-Bahá, will witness the
entry by troops of peoples of divers nations and races into the Bahá'í world --
a day which, viewed in its proper perspective, will be the prelude to that long
awaited hour when a mass conversion on the part of these same nations and
races, and as a direct result of a chain of events, momentous and possibly
catastrophic in nature ..., will suddenly revolutionize the fortunes of the
Faith, derange the equilibrium of the world, and reinforce a thousandfold the
numerical strength as well as the material power and the spiritual authority of
the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh.
- Shoghi Effendi
(Excerpt from a letter dated July 18, 1953, to the American Baha’is,
‘Citadel of Faith’, pp. 110-122; The Compilation of Compilations, Vol. III,
Promoting Entry by Troops)
