Our Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, stated that the United States was chosen as the Cradle of the New World Order, not because of its spiritual qualities, but because of its corruption, the same as Persia was chosen for the Revelation of Baha'u'llah because the Persians were worse than the African savages and far more barbaric.
After the coming calamity the United States will fulfill the prophecy that the United States will suffer, then it will lead all the nations spiritually. He said that he has given up warning the friends, as they paid no heed to either the warnings of Abdu'l-Baha nor to Shoghi Effendi. They must suffer to awaken.
It is too late to save the world. The Message of Baha'u'llah has been in the world over one hundred years to save mankind, but it has been rejected all over the world. The calamity will be sudden. He spoke of the American statesman from the President down, all are helpless and impotent. The United States is not now an altruistic nation. You help others to help yourselves.
The Russian submarines will paralyze Great Britain, the United States, Europe, the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean seaboards. The Baha'is have failed with the Negros in the United States. Intermarriage is good, between races. It brings out the best in both races. Americans love money, wives, family, friends, possessions. There is a sad decline in home life, morals, art, music, money, everything.
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Analysis of this "pilgrim note" by komorikomori
I find it really hard to believe that all of these pilgrim's notes about the calamity are fabricated. We have Ruth Moffett attributing such statements to Shoghi Effendi in May-June of 1954, and on a separate pilgrimage, Ramona Brown also recorded them on her pilgrimage in the same year, and Isobel Sabri recorded the same kind of statements in April 1957; all of these people died as pious Baha'is. The reason the statements differ so much is because they are records of different conversations, but Shoghi Effendi conveys the same message. We have three independent, corroborating sources with only one person in between us and Shoghi Effendi, and for Sabri's pilgrim's notes, she was not the only one who witnessed this conversation. She says that Ruhiyyah Khanum and the Hands of the Cause, including Mason Remey, were there. In fact, Mason Remey corroborates this in an article entitled, "The Great Global Catastrophe" (see p. 38) where he explicitly says that he has heard Shoghi Effendi speak of a great calamity, and he also attributes similar statements to Abdu'l-Baha. So, the more I look into this, the more it seems like this is not just a matter of a questionable report here and there, but it's a thread that runs all throughout Baha'ism.
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