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ACTIVITIES AT THE WORLD CENTER- In the Holy Land, the Center and Pivot around which the institutions of a world-encompassing Administrative Order revolve, steps have been taken for the preparation of a Synopsis, and for the Codification of the Laws, of the Most Holy Book, the Kitab-i-Aqdas, the Mother-Book of the Baha'i Revelation, as an essential prelude to the eventual translation and publication of its entire text. (78:3) A Fund has been inaugurated in anticipation of the adoption of preliminary measures for the ultimate construction of Baha'u'llah's Sepulcher in the heart of the Haram-i-Aqdas recently established in the plain of `Akka. (78:4) The international Baha'i endowments on Mt. Carmel have been greatly enhanced by the signature of a contract with the Israeli Authorities for the acquisition of an area of thirty-six thousand square meters, situated on the promontory of Mt. Carmel, overlooking the Cave of Elijah, as well as the spot sanctified by the footsteps of Baha'u'llah and associated with the revelation of the Tablet of Carmel, for the price of one hundred and eight thousand dollars, to serve as the site for the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkar of the Holy Land, the entire sum having been donated by Amelia Collins, Hand of the Cause and outstanding benefactress of the Faith.
(78:5)
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