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 (From a letter dated February 27, 1929,
published in ‘The World Order of Baha’u’llah’)
