rom Him. If it could be separated from Him, He would
not be God. If the rays could be separated from the sun, it would not be
the sun. Therefore, if one imagines separation of the Most Great
Infallibility from the supreme Manifestation, He would not be the supreme
Manifestation, and He would lack the essential perfections.

But acquired infallibility is not a natural necessity; on the contrary, it
is a ray of the bounty of infallibility which shines from the Sun of
Reality upon hearts, and grants a share and portion of itself to souls.
Although these souls have not essential infallibility, still they are
under the protection of God--that is to say, God preserves them from error.
Thus many of the holy beings who were not dawning-points of the Most Great
Infallibility, were yet kept and preserved from error under the shadow of
the protection and guardianship of God, for they were the mediators of
grace between God and men. If God did not protect them from error, their
error would cause believing souls to fall into error, and thus the
foundation of the Religion of God would be overturned, which would not be
fitting nor worthy of God.

To epitomize: essential infallibility belongs especially to the supreme
Manifestations, and acquired infallibility is granted to every holy soul.
For instance, the Universal House of Justice,(138) if it be established
under the necessary conditions--with members elected from all the
people--that House of Justice will be under the protection and the unerring
guidance of God. If that House of Justice shall decide unanimously, or by
a majority, upon any question not mentioned in the Book, that decision and
command will be guarded from mistake. Now the members of the House of
Justice have not, individually, essential infallibility; but the body of
the House of Justice is under the protection and unerring guidance of God:
this is called conferred infallibility.

Briefly, it is said that the "Dayspring of Revelation" is the
manifestation of these words, "He doeth whatsoever He willeth"; this
condition is peculiar to that Holy Being, and others have no share of this
essential perfection. That is to say, that as the supreme Manifestations
certainly possess essential infallibility, therefore whatever emanates
from Them is identical with the truth, and conformable to reality. They
are not under the shadow of the former laws. Whatever They say is the word
of God, and whatever They perform is an upright