Master to consult with our friends,
especially the Assemblies, before we undertake any important decision in
our life especially when the subject pertains to any plan of service we
have in mind. There are always so many circumstances to take into
consideration. Personally Shoghi Effendi has no objection to any such plan
of service but would much prefer to have you consider, in consultation
with the friends, the subject from all its aspects, among others its
financial one.

Meanwhile, Shoghi Effendi hopes that you will devote all your free time to
the study of the Teachings, and at the same time help their spread in
Germany. Europe with all its menaces of war surely needs the principles of
the Cause that are the only foundations for a permanent establishment of
peace.

LETTER OF 8 APRIL 1931

8 April 1931

Shoghi Effendi wishes me to ... express his great pleasure for the service
you have been rendering the friends by visiting them and telling them of
your experiences in Haifa. Those who are privileged to visit the shrines
and obtain from it its life-giving spirit, should on their return home,
diffuse it among the friends, gladden their heart and thus draw them
nearer to the source of all blessing.

You mention in your letter that Mr. Herrigel is becoming conscious of the
mistake he has made. He surely ought to have studied the true situation
before taking sides and expressing his opinion. This is exactly what I
wrote to him on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, but he was blinded by Mrs.
White. Anyhow, Shoghi Effendi hopes that as time passes the truth that the
Master's will encloses will more and more dawn upon him and make him
repent for his past deeds.

[From the Guardian:]

Convey to the friends in Berlin the expression of my loving appreciation
of their devoted endeavours for the promotion of our beloved Cause. May
the Beloved bless richly their efforts and enable them to fulfil their
heart's desire.

LETTER OF 10 SEPTEMBER 1931(5)

10 September 1931

In regard to your father's spiritual testament, which betrays on the part
of the author an inadequate knowledge of the Baha'i Faith, the Guardian
feels that you should make it clear to all the inquirers that the late Dr.
Forel, as many other persons who have embraced the Cause, did not have a
complete understanding of the fundamentals of the Baha'i religion. He was
particularly interested in the social aspect of the Movement and owing to
some