…the Bahá’í
Administrative Order is an integral part of the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh; it
is a divinely conceived system which, as the Guardian explained in The
Dispensation of Bahá’u’lláh, “incorporates within its structure certain
elements which are to be found in each of the three recognized forms of secular
government, without being in any sense a mere replica of any one of them, and
without introducing within its machinery any of the objectionable features
which they inherently possess. It blends and harmonizes, as no government
fashioned by mortal hands has as yet accomplished, the salutary truths which
each of these systems undoubtedly contains without vitiating the integrity of
those God-given verities on which it is ultimately founded.”
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter
dated 18 July 2000 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an
individual believer)
