During this Formative Age of the Faith, and in the course of present and
succeeding epochs, the last and crowning stage in the erection of the
framework of the Administrative Order of the Faith of Baha'u'llah--the
election of the Universal House of Justice--will have been completed, the
Kitab-i-Aqdas, the Mother-Book of His Revelation, will have been codified
and its laws promulgated, the Lesser Peace will have been established, the
unity of mankind will have been achieved and its maturity attained, the
Plan conceived by 'Abdu'l-Baha will have been executed, the emancipation
of the Faith from the fetters of religious orthodoxy will have been
effected, and its independent religious status will have been universally
recognized, whilst in the course of the Golden Age, destined to consummate
the Dispensation itself, the banner of the Most Great Peace, promised by
its Author, will have been unfurled, the World Baha'i Commonwealth will
have emerged in the plenitude of its power and splendor, and the birth and
efflorescence of a world civilization, the child of that Peace, will have
conferred its inestimable blessings upon all mankind.