…the fundamental reason why the unity of the Church of
Christ was irretrievably shattered, and its influence was in the course of time
undermined, was that the Edifice which the Fathers of the Church reared after
the passing of His First Apostle was an Edifice that rested in no wise upon the
explicit directions of Christ Himself.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The World Order of
Baha’u’llah’)
