September 8. On this date in 1916, the Star of the West magazine published the first five of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablets of the Divine Plan.

 

September 8. On this date in 1916, the Star of the West magazine published the first five of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablets of the Divine Plan.

On December 23, 1918, 'Abdu'l-Bahá sent his secretary Ahmad Sohrab to the United States to personally deliver the Tablets of the Divine Plan. These collective letters, along with Bahá’u’lláh’s Tablet of Carmel and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's Will and Testament were described by Shoghi Effendi as "three of the Charters" of the Bahá’í Faith, which along with the Kitáb-i-Aqdas (which Shoghi Effendi described as "the basic laws and ordinances on which the fabric of His future World Order must rest") set the foundation of the Administrative Order.  Ahmad Sohrab would later be declared a Covenant-breaker by Shoghi Effendi.