In the eighteen years since that achievement, [the completion of the International Archives Building in 1957] the community of the Most Great Name has grown rapidly in size and influence:
- from twenty-six National Spiritual Assemblies to one hundred and nineteen,
- from some one thousand to seventeen thousand Local Spiritual Assemblies,
- and from four thousand five hundred localities to over seventy thousand…
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated 5 June
1975; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)