Entry By Masses
Entry by troops is referred to as a period of time, or a process, and does not represent an event in any place or time. It is seen as the beginning of an expected large-scale entry into the Faith, when a majority of the world will recognize and accept it. One example that defines the attitude towards entry by troops comes from Shoghi Effendi:
- "This flow, moreover, will presage and hasten the advent of the day which, as prophesied by `Abdu'l-Bahá, will witness the entry by troops of peoples of divers nations and races into the Bahá’í world—a day which, viewed in its proper perspective, will be the prelude to that long-awaited hour when a mass conversion on the part of these same nations and races, and as a direct result of a chain of events, momentous and possibly catastrophic in nature and which cannot as yet be even dimly visualized, will suddenly revolutionize the fortunes of the Faith, derange the equilibrium of the world, and reinforce a thousandfold the numerical strength as well as the material power and the spiritual authority of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh."
- (1953, Shoghi Effendi, “Citadel of Faith: Messages to America 1947-1957”, p. 117)
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