The creative energies released by the Law of
Bahá'u'lláh, permeating and evolving within the mind of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, have, by
their very impact and close interaction, given birth to an Instrument which may
be viewed as the Charter of the New World Order which is at once the glory and
the promise of this most great Dispensation. The Will may thus be acclaimed as
the inevitable offspring resulting from that mystic intercourse between Him Who
communicated the generating influence of His divine Purpose and the One Who was
its vehicle and chosen recipient. Being the Child of the Covenant -- the Heir of
both the Originator and the Interpreter of the Law of God -- the Will and
Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá can no more be divorced from Him Who supplied the
original and motivating impulse than from the One Who ultimately conceived it.
Bahá'u'lláh's inscrutable purpose, we must ever bear in mind, has been so
thoroughly infused into the conduct of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, and their motives have been
so closely wedded together, that the mere attempt to dissociate the teachings of
the former from any system which the ideal Exemplar of those same teachings has
established would amount to a repudiation of one of the most sacred and basic
truths of the Faith.
Shoghi Effendi,
Shoghi Effendi,
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