“The Five Year Plan to which this community is now summoned
is the opening campaign of these critical years. It is the third global plan
embarked upon by the Army of Light in its implementation of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's
Divine Plan, that world-encompassing programme disclosed in His perspicuous
Tablets and described by the Guardian of the Cause of God as the Charter for
the propagation of the Faith throughout the world.”
The other two global Plans were the Ten Year Crusade, 1953
to 1963, and the Nine Year Plan, 1964 to 1973.