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On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The question is 'would anyone write on behalf of the Guardian without him
> approving it'. I don't think so. Thus it is a mute point who wrote it.
Albert,
As this letter written on behalf of the Guardian states, this is not a
mute point at all:
P.S. -- I wish to call your attention to certain things in "Principles
of Bahá'í Administration" which has just reached the Guardian;
although the material is good, he feels that the complete lack of
quotation marks is very misleading. His own words, the words of his
various secretaries, even the Words of Bahá'u'lláh Himself, are all
lumped together as one text. This is not only not reverent in the case
of Bahá'u'lláh's Words, but misleading. Although the secretaries of
the Guardian convey his thoughts and instructions and these messages
are authoritative, their words are in no sense the same as his, their
style certainly not the same, and their authority less, for they use
their own terms and not his exact words in conveying his messages. He
feels that in any future edition this fault should be remedied, any
quotations from Bahá'u'lláh or the Master plainly attributed to them,
and the words of the Guardian clearly differentiated from those of his
secretaries.
(Shoghi Effendi, The Unfolding Destiny of the British Baha'i Community,
p. 260)
Susan
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