Covenant-breaking - excommunication
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Documents authorizing[edit]
Expulsion of Covenant-Breakers[edit]
"The authority of expulsion and reinstatement will be exercised by the Hands of the Cause of God, subject in each instance to the approval of the Universal House of Justice."
- (From a letter of the Universal House of Justice to the Continental Board of Counsellors, June 24, 1968, in Lights of Guidance, no. 621)
Ex-Communication[edit]
"Ex-communication is a spiritual thing.... Only actual enemies of the Cause are ex-communicated."
- (From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to the National Spiritual Assembly of India, May 8, 1948, in Lights of Guidance, no. 607)
See also[edit]
- Loss of administrative rights (contrasted with ex-communication)
