As I have already stated, in the course of my references to
‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s station, however great the gulf that separates Him from the
Author of a Divine Revelation it can never measure with the distance that
stands between Him Who is the Center of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant and the
Guardians who are its chosen ministers. There is a far, far greater distance
separating the Guardian from the Center of the Covenant than there is between
the Center of the Covenant and its Author.
(Shoghi Effendi, from a letter dated February 8, 1934; ‘The World Order of
Baha’u’llah’)
