Shoghi Effendi: Divorced From the Institution of the Guardianship, the World Order of Baha’u’llah Would be Mutilated

 “Divorced from the institution of the Guardianship, the World Order of Baha’u’llah would be mutilated and permanently deprived of that hereditary principle which, as Abdu’l-Baha has written, has been invariably upheld by the Law of God…”  Shoghi Effendi. The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 148.

"He who symbolizes the hereditary principle in this Dispensation has been made the interpreter of the words of its Author…” The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 153

 

"What does it mean to symbolize?  It is well known that the symbol is not the literal thing.  The symbol represents, stands for, something.  When we speak of a thing as being symbolized, it means that one thing stands for, represents, another thing, but it is not that thing represented.

           "The hereditary principle is continuous succession.  Therefore, when the guardian is spoken of as “symbolizing the hereditary principle”, it means that the continuity of the guardianship represents, stands for, the principle that things – in this case authority – are handed down in orderly continuous succession from generation to generation.  It represents hereditary succession.

            "This does not mean that the guardianship does not and cannot descend according to the strict law of hereditary succession, but it does mean that adherence to the strict law of hereditary succession along physical lines is not absolutely essential.

            "The history of our Faith provides ample evidence that persons who, according to the law of heredity, should have inherited honorable and important positions, were deprived of those positions because they proved themselves unworthy of the trust.  Surely, Baha’u’llah would not have enjoined adherence to a law so inflexible as to force an incumbent guardian to turn the helm of the Faith over to an incompetent, spiritually bankrupt person simply because that person was a physical descendant." 

Charles Gaines.  The Covenant Trilogy.



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