The workings of the community, as you will appreciate, are organic
in nature and so is its growth. As time passes, the community expands, and
conditions change, the House of Justice will make such adjustments and
developments as are required. In so doing, the House of Justice takes
cognizance of the conditions prevailing in the community and any views
presented to it, reserving for itself the right of an unfettered decision in
the manner described by Shoghi Effendi in "The Dispensation of
Bahá'u'lláh". Its first consideration must always be to remain faithful to
the revealed purpose of Bahá'u'lláh, as expounded and interpreted by Abdul
-Baha and the Guardian.
(From a letter dated 18 May 1995, written on behalf of
the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer)
