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I earnestly appeal to all Baha'i communities, and in particular to their national elected representatives in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Australia to brace themselves and vie with one another in emulating the example of their African sister communities ranking among the youngest in the Baha'i world. I entreat them, through a greater dispersal and an intensification of teaching activity, to lend an unprecedented impetus to the multiplication of local spiritual assemblies in their respective areas, accelerating thereby the dynamic process of the formation of National Spiritual Assemblies--a process destined to usher in the third and most brilliant phase, and constituting unquestionably the noblest objective, of the most stupendous crusade ever launched in the course of eleven decades of Baha'i history. (73:1) Share this message with the Hands of the Cause and the National Spiritual Assemblies throughout the Baha'i World. (73:2) Administrative Seats of Divinely-Appointed Institutions- I hail, with feelings of thankfulness and relief, the signature, on the eve of `Abdu'l-Baha's ascension, of a contract for the immediate expropriation, by the Israeli Finance Minister, on the recommendation of the Mayor of the City of Haifa, of a thirteen- hundred meter plot, owned by the sister of Fareed, notorious enemy of the Center of Baha'u'llah's Covenant. This historic act paves the way for the early transfer of the title deed of this plot by the State of Israel to the Baha'i Community, now engaged in establishing and consolidating its World Administrative Center in the Holy Land. (73:3) The truculence, greed and obstinacy, of this breaker of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah demonstrated by her persistent refusal to sell and by the exorbitant price subsequently demanded, raised, during more than thirty years, an almost insurmountable obstacle to the acquisition of an area which, however circumscribed, occupies a central position amidst the extensive Baha'i domains in the heart of God's Holy Mountain, is situated in the vicinity of the Bab's Sepulcher, overlooks the Tomb of the Greatest Holy Leaf, and adjoins the resting-places of the Brother and the Mother of `Abdu'l-Baha , and which, through deliberate neglect, has been allowed to become an eyesore to all those who throng the embellished precincts of a Mausoleum rightly regarded as the second holiest Shrine in the Baha'i world.
(73:4)
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