A collection of excerpts containing chronologically issued answers to some of the questions submitted by individual believers and institutions

4/17/2017

LSA’s are “as yet only embryos of the majestic institutions ordained by Bahá'u'lláh in His writings” - July 30, 1972

Local Spiritual Assemblies are at the present newly-born institutions, struggling for the most part to establish themselves both in the Bahá'í community and in the world. They are as yet only embryos of the majestic institutions ordained by Bahá'u'lláh in His writings. . . . 
- The Universal House of Justice  (From a letter dated July 30, 1972, to a National Spiritual Assembly; Developing Distinctive Baha’i Communities, NSA of USA, 1998 edition)