...as the position and aims of the Bahá’í Faith are better
understood and more fully recognized, will gradually be superseded by the
permanent and more appropriate designation of House of Justice. Not only will
the present-day Spiritual Assemblies be styled differently in future, but they
will be enabled also to add to their present functions those powers, duties,
and prerogatives necessitated by the recognition of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh,
not merely as one of the recognized religious systems of the world, but as the
State Religion of an independent and Sovereign Power.
- Shoghi Effendi (Quoted by the Universal House of Justice in the ‘Notes’ section of the
Kitab-i-Aqdas)
