Local Spiritual Assemblies are at the present newly-born
institutions, struggling for the most part to establish themselves both in the
Bahá'í community and in the world. They are as yet only embryos of the majestic
institutions ordained by Bahá'u'lláh in His Writings This is also true of
National Spiritual Assemblies.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter to the National Spiritual Assembly of Bolivia, July 30, 1972; compilation:
Lights of Guidance)
