Organization
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Bahá'í Cause to be organized but not rigidly[edit]
At Haifa, Syria, in 1920, the following question was asked Abdul Bahá by some American pilgrims:
"It is misleading, is it not, to say that the Bahai Cause cannot be organized?"
Abdul Bahá replied: "How is it possible that there should be no organization? Even in a household if there is not organization there will be hopeless confusion. Then what about the world? What is meant is that organization is not rigid! In ancient times it was rigid. In the Torah all the political affairs were rigidly fixed, but in this Cause they were not. In this Cause there is political freedom—i.e., in each time the House of Justice is free to decide in accordance with what is deemed expedient. This is a brief explanation of the matter."
- (Star of the West, vol. 13, issue 12, p. 325)
