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To the bold onslaught made by the breakers of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah in their concerted efforts to secure the custodianship of His holy Tomb, to the arbitrary seizure of His holy House in Baghdad by the Shi'ah community of Iraq, was to be added, a few years later, yet another grievous assault launched by a still more powerful adversary, directed against the very fabric of the Administrative Order as established by two long- flourishing Baha'i communities of the East, culminating in the virtual disruption of these communities and the seizure of the first Mashriqu'l- Adhkar of the Baha'i world and of the few accessory institutions already reared about it.
(360:3)
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