...
There is a tendency to mix up the functions of the Administration and try to
apply it in
individual relationships, which is abortive, because the Assembly is a nascent House
of Justice and is supposed to administer, according to the Teachings, the
affairs of the community. But individuals toward each other are governed by
love, unity, forgiveness and a sin-covering eye. Once the friends grasp this
they will get along much better, but they keep playing Spiritual Assembly to
each other and expect the Assembly to behave like an individual...
(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi
Effend to an individual believer, October 5, 1950; compilation: ‘Living the Life’; compilation:
Lights of Guidance’)
