It is incumbent upon the Trustees of the House of Justice to take counsel
together regarding those things which have not outwardly been revealed in
the Book, and to enforce that which is agreeable to them. God will verily
inspire them with whatsoever He willeth, and He, verily, is the Provider,
the Omniscient.(101)
It seemed especially fitting that the election—carried out by the
assembled delegates and those voting by mail—should take place in the home
of the Master, whose Will and Testament had described nearly sixty years
earlier the intent and scope of the authority bestowed by Bahá’u’lláh’s
words:
Unto the Most Holy Book every one must turn and all that is not expressly
recorded therein must be referred to the Universal House of Justice. That
which this body, whether unanimously or by a majority doth carry, that is
verily the Truth and the Purpose of God Himself. Whoso doth deviate
therefrom is verily of them that love discord, hath shown forth malice and
turned away from the Lord of the Covenant.(102)
An important preliminary step for the election had been taken by Shoghi
Effendi in 1951, in his appointment of the membership of the International
Council to assist him with his work. In 1961, as he had explained would be
the case, the second step in the process had been taken when this
institution evolved into a nine-member Council, elected by the members of
the National Spiritual Assemblies. Consequently, when the Ten Year Crusade
came to its victorious end in 1963, the Bahá’í world had gained important
experience in the challenging act it was then called on to perform.
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