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 '