The Universal House of Justice appoints the Counsellor members of the International Teaching Centre and the Continental Counsellors. Members of Auxiliary Boards are appointed by the Continental Counsellors. All these individuals fall within the definition of the "learned" given by Shoghi Effendi in the statement quoted above. (246:1)

184. refer ye whatsoever ye understand not in the Book to Him Who hath branched from this mighty Stock
Baha'u'llah invests Abdu'l-Baha with the right of interpreting His holy Writ (see also note 145). (246:2)

185. the School of Transcendent Oneness
In this verse and the ones which immediately follow it, Baha'u'llah confronts one of the reasons some of the Babis rejected His claim to be the Promised One of the Bayan. Their rejection was based on a Tablet addressed by the Bab to "Him Who will be made manifest" on the reverse side of which the Bab had written: "May the glances of Him Whom God shall make manifest illumine this letter at the primary school." This Tablet is published in Selections from the Writings of the Bab. (246:3)

These Babis maintained that, since Baha'u'llah was two years older than the Bab, it was not possible for Him to receive this Tablet "at the primary school". (246:4)

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