A Bahá'í… will not make the mistake of regarding the sayings
and beliefs of certain Bahá'ís at any one time as being the Bahá'í Faith. The
Bahá'í Faith is the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh: His Own Words as interpreted by
'Abdu'l-Bahá and the Guardian. It is a revelation of such staggering magnitude
that no Bahá'í at this early stage in Bahá'í history can rightly claim to have
more than a partial and imperfect understanding of it.
(The Universal House of
Justice, from a message dated 3 January 1979 addressed to the Participants in
the Bahá'í Studies Seminar held in Cambridge on 30 September and 1 October
1978; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 1963 to 1986’)
