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Collateral with these first stirrings of the Baha'i Administrative Order, and synchronizing with the emergence of National Baha'i communities and with the institution of their administrative, educational, and teaching agencies, the mighty process set in motion in the Holy Land, the heart and nerve- center of that Administrative Order, on the memorable occasions when Baha'u'llah revealed the Tablet of Carmel and visited the future site of the Bab's sepulcher, was irresistibly unfolding. That process had received a tremendous impetus through the purchase of that site, shortly after Baha'u'llah's ascension, through the subsequent transfer of the Bab's remains from Tihran to Akka, through the construction of that sepulcher during the most distressful years of Abdu'l- Baha's incarceration, and lastly through the permanent interment of those remains in the heart of Mt. Carmel, through the establishment of a pilgrim house in the immediate vicinity of that sepulcher, and the selection of the future site of the first Baha'i educational institution on that mountain.
(345:1)
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