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1933-08-12 the Cause and personalities
USBN #80 - January 1934 - pages 6
Regarding the principle that the Cause must not be allowed to center around
any Baha'i personality, the Guardian wishes to make it clear that it was never
intended that well qualified individual teachers should not receive from local
Assemblies every encouragement and facilities to address the public. What the
Guardian meant was that the personality and popularity of such a speaker should
never be allowed to eclipse the authority, or detract from the influence of the
body of the elected representatives in every local community. Such an individual
should not only seek the approval, advice and assistance of the body that
represents the Cause in his locality, but should strive to attribute any credit he
may obtain to the collective wisdom and capacity of the Assembly under whose
jurisdiction he performs his services. Assemblies and not individuals constitute
the bedrock on which the Administration is built. Everything else must be
subordinated to, and be made to serve and advance the best interests of these
elected custodians and promoters of the Laws of Baha'u'llah. - (To Mr. Alfred E.
Lunt, August 12, 1933.)
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