… the administration of the Cause is to be conceived as an
instrument and not a substitute for the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh, that it should be
regarded as a channel through which His promised blessings may flow, that it
should guard against such rigidity as would clog and fetter the liberating
forces released by His Revelation. (Shoghi Effendi, excerpt from a letter dated
February 27, 1929, ‘The World Order of Baha’u’llah’)
