pioneeringoverfourepochs
WAFTING, AT LAST, OVER ALL CREATED THINGS
The transition from a loosely connected movement to a fully organized one can be said to have ended in 1925....But by 1936 the National Assembly...the national committees and Local Spiritual Asemblies were sufficiently strong to come together for the prosecution of an international missionary program.-Loni Bramson-Lerche, Development of Bahai Administration, Studies In Babi and Bahai History, Vol.1, Moojan Momen, editor, Kalimat Press, 1982, pp.258-275.
About 5 in 1000 went to university that year
and most people in the UK ate bread, margarine,
dripping, tea and a little condensed milk
if they were lucky, with tragedy
staring many of the working class in the face,
as conditions slowly rose for most.
The form and pattern slowly set
for a new World Order;
a massive turbulence rose over Europe;
a sense of crisis became endemic
and a reactionary conservatism
gripped people everywhere:
the roaring twenties gave way
to a mythologized hungry thirties
and its equally mythologized Auden generation.
We went to two billion during that decade
as an Administrative Order
served to unify and propagate
the fragrances of mercy wafting,
at last, over all created things.
Ron Price
11 October 1995
