"What the Guardian was referring to was the Theocratic systems, such as
the Catholic Church and the Caliphate, which are not divinely given as
systems, but man-made and yet, having partly derived from the teachings of
Christ and Muhammad are, in a sense, theocracies. The Baha'i theocracy, on
the contrary, is both divinely ordained as a system and, of course, based
on the teachings of the Prophet Himself... Theophany is used in the sense
of Dispensation..."