It should also be borne in mind that, great as is the power
manifested by this Revelation and however vast the range of the Dispensation
its Author has inaugurated, it emphatically repudiates the claim to be regarded
as the final revelation of God’s will and purpose for mankind. To hold such a
conception of its character and functions would be tantamount to a betrayal of
its cause and a denial of its truth. It must necessarily conflict with the
fundamental principle which constitutes the bedrock of Bahá’í belief, the
principle that religious truth is not absolute but relative, that Divine
Revelation is orderly, continuous and progressive and not spasmodic or final.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message dated 8 February 1934, printed as ‘The
Dispensation of Baha'u'llah’ in ‘The World Order of Baha'u'llah’)
