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This World Order will, in turn, in the course of successive Dispensations of the Baha'i Cycle, yield its fairest fruit through the birth and flowering of a civilization, divinely inspired, unique in its features, world- embracing in its scope, and fundamentally spiritual in its character-- a civilization destined as it unfolds to derive its initial impulse from the spirit animating the very institutions which, in their embryonic state, are now stirring in the womb of the present Formative Age of the Faith. (27 November 1954 to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, published in "Messages to the Baha'i World, 1950- 1957" (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1971), pp. 74- 75) [53]
(31:3)
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