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Spiritual Assembly is a term given by `Abdu'l-Bahá to refer to elected leadership councils that govern the Bahá'í Faith. They exist at local and national levels (and at some points in history, regional).
Local Spiritual Assemblies Local Spiritual Assemblies existed in `Abdu'l-Bahá's time, and are elected annually by the believers in a specific electoral process. These were ordained by Bahá'u'lláh as local Houses of Justice, but are called Spiritual Assemblies, until they have reached a level of maturity that would allow them to take on the full responsibilities of a Local House of Justice. National Spiritual Assemblies `Abdu'l-Bahá ordained Secondary, or National Spiritual Assemblies in his will. They are elected annually by a system of electoral delegation. He also specified that these National Spiritual Assemblies constituted the foundation of the Supreme, or Universal House of Justice. The members of each National Spiritual Assembly would constitute the electors of the Universal House of Justice when it was eventually brought into being. Some of the earliest National Spiritual Assemblies were United States and Canada In 1927 the members of the US and Canada National Spiritual Assembly were: Horace Holley, Roy C Wilhelm, Alfred Lunt, Allen McDaniel, Carl Scheffer, Louis Gregory, Amelia Collins, May Maxwell, and Florence Morton. See also | ||||||||
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