32: ...as a further testimony to the majestic ...

[70] ...as a further testimony to the majestic unfoldment and progressive consolidation of the stupendous undertaking launched by Bahá’u’lláh on that holy mountain, may be mentioned the selection of a portion of the school property situated in the precincts of the Shrine of the Báb as a permanent resting-place for the Greatest Holy Leaf, the ‘well-beloved’ sister of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the ‘Leaf that hath sprung’ from the ‘Pre-existent Root’, the ‘fragrance’ of Bahá’u’lláh’s ‘shining robe’, elevated by Him to a ‘station such as none other woman hath surpassed’, and comparable in rank to those immortal heroines such as Sarah, Ásíyih, the Virgin Mary, Fátimih and Táhirih, each of whom has outshone every member of her sex in previous Dispensations.


33: The raising of this Edifice will in turn ...

[71] The raising of this Edifice[72] will in turn herald the construction, in the course of successive epochs of the Formative Age of the Faith, of several other structures...

These Edifices will, in the shape of a far-flung arc, and following a harmonizing style of architecture, surround the resting-places of the Greatest Holy Leaf, ranking as foremost among the members of her sex in the Bahá’í Dispensation, of her Brother, offered up as a ransom by Bahá’u’lláh for the quickening of the world and its unification, and of their Mother, proclaimed by Him to be His chosen ‘consort in all the worlds of God’.


IV: Passages from letters written on behalf of SHOGHI EFFENDI