It should be remembered, however, that although National and
Local Spiritual Assemblies can receive divine guidance if they consult in the
manner and spirit described by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, they do not share in the explicit
guarantees of infallibility conferred upon the Universal House of Justice. Any
careful student of the Cause can see with what care the Guardian, after the
passing of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, guided these elected representatives of the believers
in the painstaking erection of the Administrative Order and in the formulation
of Local and National Bahá'í Constitutions.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 7 December 1969 to an individual believer; ‘Messages from
the Universal House of Justice 1963 to 1986’)
