The Guardian would strongly urge each and every member of
the National Spiritual Assembly to carefully peruse, and to quietly ponder upon
the outer meaning and upon the inner spirit as well, of all his communications
on the subject of the origin, nature and present-day functioning of the
administrative order of the Faith. A compilation of these letters has been
lately published in the States under the title 'Bahá'í Administration', and a
complete knowledge of that book seems to be quite essential to the right handling
of the administrative problems facing your National Spiritual Assembly at
present.
(From a letter dated 9 May 1934 to a National Spiritual Assembly;
compilation: ‘Studying the Writings of Shoghi Effendi, prepared by the Research
Department of the Universal House of Justice, November 1988)
