Queen Marie is considered the first
Monarch
to become a Baha'i:
“It is like a wide embrace,” such is
the testimony of Royalty to its claim and position, “gathering together all
those who have long searched for words of hope. It accepts all great Prophets
gone before it, destroys no other creeds, and leaves all doors open.” “The
Bahá’í teaching,” she has further written, “brings peace to the soul and hope
to the heart. To those in search of assurance the words of the Father are as a
fountain in the desert after long wandering.” “Their writings,” she, in another
statement referring to
Bahá’u'lláh
and
‘Abdu’l-Bahá, has testified, “are a great cry toward peace,
reaching beyond all limits of frontiers, above all dissension about rites and
dogmas… It is a wondrous message that Bahá’u'lláh and His son ‘Abdu’l-Bahá have
given us. They have not set it up aggressively knowing that the germ of eternal
truth which lies at its core cannot but take root and spread.” “If ever the
name of Bahá’u'lláh or ‘Abdu’l-Bahá,” is her concluding plea, “comes to your
attention, do not put their writings from you. Search out their Books, and let
their glorious, peace-bringing, love-creating words and lessons sink into your
hearts as they have into mine.”
ShoghiEffendi, The World Order of Baha’u'llah, p. 196.
