As to the order and the management of the spiritual affairs
of the friends, that which is very important now is the consolidation of the
Spiritual Assemblies in every centre, because on these fortified and
unshakeable foundations, God's Supreme House of Justice shall be erected and
firmly established in the days to come. When this most great Edifice shall be reared
on such an immovable foundation, God’s purpose, wisdom, universal truths,
mysteries and realities of the Kingdom, which the mystic revelation of
Bahá'u'lláh has deposited within the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, shall
gradually be revealed and made manifest.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated
19 December 1923, translated from the Persian, quoted by the Universal House of
Justice in a letter dated 9 March 1965; ‘Messages from the Universal House of
Justice 1963-1986’)
