'Abdu'l-Bahá is constantly engaged in ideal communication with any Spiritual Assembly which is instituted through the divine bounty, and the members of which, in the utmost devotion, turn to the divine Kingdom and are firm in the Covenant. To them he is whole-heartedly attached and with them he is linked by everlasting ties.... (‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, The Local Spiritual Assembly)
