CHAPTER XXIV
Emancipation and Recognition of the Faith and Its Institutions
While the initial steps aiming at the erection of the framework of the Administrative Order of the Faith of Baha'u'llah were being simultaneously undertaken by His followers in the East and in the West, a fierce attack was launched in an obscure village in Egypt on a handful of believers, who were trying to establish there one of the primary institutions of that Order-- an attack which, viewed in the perspective of history, will be acclaimed by future generations as a landmark not only in the Formative Period of the Faith but in the history of the first Baha'i century. Indeed, the sequel to this assault may be said to have opened a new chapter in the evolution of the Faith itself, an evolution which, carrying it through the successive stages of repression, of emancipation, of recognition as an independent Revelation, and as a state religion, must lead to the establishment of the Baha'i state and culminate in the emergence of the Baha'i World Commonwealth. (364:1)

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