We should, however, be careful, as you mention in your
letter, not to make this system develop into a hard and fast creed or form. The
Cause is pure and free from such things and it ought to be the task of the
friends to keep it broad and progressive. Man is always apt to fall into the
habit of doing a thing in a certain way, and thereby become captive to
prescribed forms. It should therefore be the duty of the assemblies everywhere
to see that, though certain temporary measures are taken to further the Cause,
they do not crystallise into hard and fast creeds.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a
letter dated 16 October 1926 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual
believer; ‘Unfolding Destiny’)
