In the Memory of Mr. Gupta and seven other members who dissolved the council in 1957 till the Second Guardian is appointed. The Council, by virtue of its actions, repudiated the plot of Persian Hands of Cause who wanted to abandon the Guardianship, emphasized in the Will and Testament of Abdul Baha. This council was restored in 2002 under the Guardianship of the Third Guardian Joel B. Marangella.

For the first time in history, a religion has been given to men which cannot be split up into sects, for the two Wills - those of Baha'u'llah and the Master, are so strongly constructed and so authentic beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it is impossible to divorce the body of the teachings from their provisions. The principle of successorship (as found in the Guardianship) endowed with the right of Divine interpretation, is the very hub of the Cause unto which its Doctrines and Laws fit like the spokes of a wheel - tear out the hub and you have to throw away the whole thing.

Ruhiyyih Khanum in her paper Twenty-Five years of the Guardianship '