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The projected historic, spiritual venture, at once arduous, audacious, challenging, unprecedented in scope and character in the entire field of Baha'i history, soon to be set in motion, involves: (42:1) Adoption of preliminary measures to the construction of Baha'u'llah's Sepulcher in the Holy Land. (42:2) Doubling the number of countries within the pale of the Faith through planting its banner in the remaining Sovereign States of the planet as well as the remaining virgin Territories mentioned in `Abdu'l-Baha's Tablets of the Divine Plan, involving the opening of forty-one countries on the Asiatic, thirty-three on the African, thirty on the European, twenty-seven on the American continents. Over twofold increase in the number of languages into which Baha'i literature is translated, printed or in process of translation - forty in Asia, thirty-one in Africa, ten each in Europe and America, to be allocated to the American, British, Indian and Australian Baha'i communities, including for the most part those into which Gospels have been already translated. Doubling the number of Mashriqu'l-Adhkars, through the initiation of the construction of one on the Asiatic and the other on the European continent. The acquisition of the site of the future Mashriqu'l-Adhkar on Mount Carmel. The purchase of the land for eleven future Temples, three on the American, three on the African, two on the Asiatic, two on the European, one on the Australian continents. The erection of the first dependency of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar in Wilmette. The development of the functions of the institution of the Hands of the Cause. The establishment of a Baha'i Court in the Holy Land, preliminary to the emergence of the Universal House of Justice. Codification of the laws and ordinances of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, Mother Book of the Baha'i Revelation. Establishment of six national Baha'i Courts in the chief cities of the Islamic East - Tihran, Cairo, Baghdad, New Delhi, Karachi, Kabul. Extension of international Baha'i endowments in the Holy Land, on the plain of `Akka and the slopes of Mount Carmel. Construction of international Baha'i Archives in the neighborhood of the Bab's Sepulcher. Construction of a tomb for the wife of the Bab in Shiraz. Identification of the resting places of the father of Baha'u'llah and the mother and cousin of the Bab for reburial in the Baha'i cemetery in the vicinity of the Most Great House. Acquisition of the Garden of Ridvan in Baghdad, site of the Siyah-Chal in Tihran, site of the martyrdom of the Bab in Tabriz, and of His incarceration in Chihriq.
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