Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgement

I - Through the Pages of History

Eighteen Letters

Mysterious Power

The Seat of True Sovereignty

The First to Suffer

A Mighty Day—A Mystery

Majdhúb

Separation without Reunion

In the Midst of the Wilderness

A Glorious Wedding

The Best-beloved

Secret of His Future Sufferings

“Is Not the Morning Near?”

In the Mountains of Ádhirbáyján

The Mu’Tamid

Seven Times Attaining His Presence

Máh-Kú

Greater Tragedy

O Zephyr — Youth of Sugar-Tongue

God’s Hidden Treasure

Ere Nine Days

The Tree of Sovereignty Uprooted

The Way Leading to Our Karbilá

Baqíyyatu’lláh

Disgraced Minister

Íldirím Mírzá

The Family of the Báb

He Prophesied His Own Death

The Báb’s Prophecy about Bahá’u’Iláh

The Nightingale and the Light

Dayyán

In Four Years’ Time

A Message to Aminu’s-Sultan

Bayán and the Kitáb-i-Íqán

II - Tablet of the Holy Mariner

III - Calamities

Unforseen Calamity

A Fixed Time

Wrathful Anger

The World in Travail

They will Perceive Consequences

Hardship and Privation, Frustration and Despair

The Process of Disintegration

Clamour of the Multitude

Universal Convulsion

Signs of Retributive Calamity

IV - The Vengeance of God

Kings and Ecclesiastics

Sultán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz

Násiri’d-Din Sháh

Napoleon III

William I

Francis Joseph

Nicolaevitch Alexander II

Queen Victoria

Pope Pius IX

Religious Hierarchies

Majdu’d-Dín

Breaths of Chastisement

V - World Order of Bahá’u’lláh

Universal Peace

“Yet So Shall It Be”

An All Embracing Assemblage of Men

The Supreme Instrument

The Banner of Love and Peace

The Kingdom of Peace

The Twentieth Century

The Miracle of Centuries

A Supreme Tribunal

To Prevent the War

Disarmament

The Most Great Covenant

The Promise of World Peace

The Lesser Peace

The Sixth Glad-Tiding

Hold Ye Fast Unto This

Through Political Efforts

World Unity

Will Inevitably Come to Pass

Not in the Order Given

The Unification of Mankind

Universal Auxiliary Language

Likewise the Scripts

These Things are Obligatory

Hoisting of the Standard of God

As Envisaged by Bahá’u’lláh

World Order

All the Governments on Earth will Change

Order of Bahá’u’lláh

In the Fullness of Time

VI - The Future Victory of the Faith

The Power of the Kingdom

What a Glorious Sovereignty!

Future Ages and Generations

The Age has Dawned

This Most Powerful of Dispensations

The Need of the Time

Magnetic Power

The Whole of Mankind will Recognize Him

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas

Illumination

The Hearts of All That Dwell on Earth

The Whole of Mankind Beneath Its Shelter

His Sovereignty Encompassing All Creation

VII - Future Dispensations

A FuIl Thousand Years

God’s Method

Till the End That Hath No End

Messengers to Succeed Moses and Jesus

Him Who will be Sent Down after Me

He Who will Come after Me

Object of All Preceding Dispensation

Not a Universal Manifestation

In the Shadows of the Clouds

Five Thousand Centuries

Reject Him

Channels of God’s Grace

VIll - Sacred Spots

Bahjí - Manifold Wonders and Marvels

Carmel—the Tablet of Carmel

The Ark—Ere Long will God Sail His Ark upon Thee

‘Akká—Two Cities Joining Hands

Soon will All That Dwell on Earth

Mount Carmel—Kings and Queens with Bowed Heads

Baghdád—the Standard of His Kingdom

Land of Tá—the Source of the Joy of All Mankind

A Blessed King

Most Holy Prison

The Gates Open

Mashriqu’l-Adhkár

Other Spots

Khurásán

Kirmán

IX - Promises

By Bahá’u’lláh

We Shall Strengthen You

With the Hosts of the Concourse on High

Whoso Ariseth

Whoso Openeth His Lips

Chosen Angels

Everyone That Aideth Him

A New Creation

Put on the Armor of His Love

Spirit of Power

Dissipation of Intervening Clouds

Defend the Cause in Your Writings

With Absolute Sincerity

By ‘Abdu’I-Bahá

In Unmistakable Language

Be Sure of This

With Absolute Purity and Sanctity

The Breathings of the Holy Spirit

The Lord of Hosts will Assist Him

How Long will They Delay their Corning?

Assailing the Forces of the Ignorant

He will Come to Your Aid

If He be a Feeble Moth

Battalions of the Concourse on High

Should the Work of Teaching Lapse

Minds will be Astonished
Your Lord Hath Assuredly Promised
The Power of the Realm of Might Shall Prevail
The Army of the Kingdom of Abhá

A Tiny Ant

A Tremendous Tumult

You Shall Scatter the Dark Clouds

The Darkness will Pass Away

Tenfold Reward

By Shoghi Effendi

In Martial Array

Ready to Rush

The Hosts of Heaven are Poised

As the Movement Grows

Unprecedented Affliction

Prophecies of the Center of the Covenant

X - Other Prophecies

If Carried to Excess

Nuclear Energy

Atomic Energy

The Future of America

Copper can be Transmuted into Gold

Europe

World War I

Creatures are to be Found on Every Planet

Divine Mysteries Laid Bare

XI - Fulfilments in Progress

Title Abbreviations

Bibliography