In sheer dramatic power, in the rapidity with which events
of momentous importance succeeded each other, in the holocaust which baptized
its birth, in the miraculous circumstances attending the martyrdom of the One
Who had ushered it in, in the potentialities with which it had been from the
outset so thoroughly impregnated, in the forces to which it eventually gave
birth, this nine-year period may well rank as unique in the whole range of
man’s religious experience.
- Shoghi Effendi (Chapter 1 of ‘God Passes By’)