These Bahá'ís [the misled who believe there is no living Guardian] have never been informed, of course, of Gayle Woolson's Haifa Notes, (Feb.16-25,1956). Gayle was a renowned pioneer to Latin America and member of the first Regional Bahá'í Assembly of South America, whose outstanding teaching successes in several countries of Latin America during the first Seven Year Plan were frequently reported in the United States Bahá'í News at the time. In her notes she reported that Shoghi Effendi was queried by a fellow-pilgrim about a son and he had replied: "EVERYTHING THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE WILL AND TESTAMENT WILL BE FULFILLED. THE BAHÁ'ÍS MUST NOT BE ANXIOUS ABOUT THIS."
Moreover, these new Bahá'ís would certainly also have no knowledge of the highly significant promise enshrined in 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet to Mason Remey, as recorded in the "Star of the West" (Vol. V, No. 19, March 2, 1915) that was fulfilled exactly 36 years later on the date of March 2, 1951.That promise was that: "ERE LONG, THY LORD SHALL MAKE THEE A SIGN OF GUIDANCE AMONG MANKIND." It was on March 2, 1951 that Shoghi Effendi identified Mason Remey in a message to the Bahá'í world, as the President of the International Bahá'í Council, whose establishment "at long last" as "the first embryonic International Institution" he had proclaimed two months earlier on 9 January 1951, and he had extolled as an "historic decision marking the most significant milestone in the evolution of the Administrative Order of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh" since its inception thirty years earlier upon the Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and had acclaimed as an event "which history will acclaim as the greatest event shedding luster upon the second epoch of the Formative Age of the Bahá'í Dispensation . . . ranking second only to the glorious immortal events associated with the Ministries of the Three Central Figures of the Faith."
It should be glaringly obvious from the foregoing discussion that the Guardianship of the Cause of God is unquestionably an institution of this world and that this essential and indispensable institution was therefore certainly not taken by Shoghi Effendi to the next world nor was it an institution that was meant to come to a premature end upon the passing of Shoghi Effendi, only thirty-six years following the inception of the Bahá'í Administrative Order.
Joel B. Marangella
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