Enumerating the obligations incumbent upon the members of
consulting councils, the Beloved reveals the following:—“The first condition is
absolute love and harmony amongst the members of the assembly. They must be
wholly free from estrangement and must manifest in themselves the Unity of God,
for they are the waves of one sea, the drops of one river, the stars of one
heaven, the rays of one sun, the trees of one orchard, the flowers of one
garden. Should harmony of thought and absolute unity be non-existent, that
gathering shall be dispersed and that assembly be brought to naught.”
(Shoghi
Effendi, from a letter dated March 5, 1922; ‘Baha’i Administration’)
