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Response to Jeffrey's post: that "luminous person and heavenly man"

Dear Jeffrey,

We know that there are many, many highly intelligent women and men amongst our separated sans-Guardian Bahá'í sisters and brothers. Why can they not discern the contrast between the true and legitimate authority of `Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi  Effendi who wrote the following two statements, and the non-existent authority of Hands of the Cause who formed their own International Bahá'í Council to replace the legitimate Body formed by Shoghi Effendi?:

"ERE LONG, THY LORD SHALL MAKE THEE A SIGN OF GUIDANCE AMONG MANKIND"  (`Abdu'l-Bahá writing to (Charles Mason Remey)

"most significant milestone in the evolution of the Administrative Order of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh in the course of the last thirty years." and "the greatest event shedding lustre upon the second epoch of the Formative Age of the Bahá´í Dispensation potentially unsurpassed by any enterprise undertaken since the inception of the Administrative Order of the Faith on the morrow of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Ascension, ranking second only to the glorious events associated with the Ministries of the Three Central Figures of the Faith . . ."  (Shoghi Effendi, writing  about his decision to form the embryonic Uiversal House of Justice, January 9th, 1951)

The IBC formed by the Hands after they illegally dismissed the President of the Council formed by the first Guardian was assigned to greet visitors to the Holy Shrines and other relatively insignificant duties,--certainly not "the greatest event shedding lustre upon the second epoch of the Formative Age of the Bahá´í Dispensation", and certainly not "...unsurpassed by any enterprise undertaken since the inception of the Administrative Order of the Faith on the morrow of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Ascension, ranking second only to the glorious events associated with the Ministries of the Three Central Figures of the Faith . . .", and definitely not  "...ranking second only to the glorious events associated with the Ministries of the Three Central Figures of the Faith . . ."

Cannot our intelligent separated sisters and brothers clearly see that a legitimate Universal House of Justice could not "evolve" out of duties such as greeting visitors to our Holy Shrines? A Universal House of Justice is a Universal Court and a legislative Body, and was officially and infallibly delineated by the first of our Guardians, Shoghi Effendi, to evolve out of an International Bahá'í Court, a stage officially identified by Shoghi Effendi to be "a necessary prelude" to efflorescence as a Universal House of Justice.

Hands of the Cause have no authority in the Bahá'í Faith, unless specifically assigned authority by a living Guardian, and the body of 'greeters' which they established was certainly not a "necessary prelude" to the efflorescence of the highest Legislative Body of the Bahá'í Faith, and the body which they established briefly was certainly not the body delineated by Shoghi Effendi to evolve to become the Legitimate Universal House of Justice complete with a "sacred head" as delineated by the Master in His sacred and immutable Will and Testament in paragraph #25. Hands of the Cause had no authority to form an International Bahá'í Council in the manner that Shoghi Effendi did. Yes, he had that true authority in the Bahá'í Faith. The Hands had none.

The fact is that a legitimate Universal House of Justice could not and did not evolve out of that band of 'greeters' formed by the renegade Hands of the Cause.  The sans-Guardian Hands of the Cause even usurped authority to make their rule that Hands of the Cause could no become elected to their sans-Guardian Universal House of Justice. Hands of the Cause have no authority in the Bahá'í Faith to make rules, not to mention rules related to membership in the Highest Legislative body of the Faith.

The fact is that their bogus/headless UHJ did not "evolve" out of anything.  The sans-Guardian Hands illegally, without authority to do so, simply called for the election of their illegitimate UHJ. Those elected members of that illegitimate body had no personal experience as members of an International Bahá'í Court, no body of previous legislation and experiences to draw wisdom from, no "sacred head" able to to "...insist upon a reconsideration by them of any enactment he conscientiously believes to conflict with the meaning and to depart from the spirit of Baha'u'llah's revealed utterances." in the manner
that Shoghi Effendi infallibly stated that a Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith who is that "sacred head" "must" do, and no Guardian to provide "...the necessary guidance to define the sphere of the legislative action" of the elected representatives of the Faith in the manner that Shoghi Effendi taught to be a necessary feature of the Bahá'í Guardianship, of which the Faith must not be deprived.

Surely, many of our intelligent separated sisters and brothers, as soon as they see those facts articulated for them, as Orthodox Bahá'ís have been doing for decades, will quickly discern that it is obvious why Shoghi Effendi did not take the Presidency of the embryonic
Universal House of Justice for himself, but rather assigned that Station to Charles Mason Remey with the clear intention that the very International Bahá'í Council which he himself formed should, by the same stages that he himself infallibly delineated, evolve to eventually effloresce as the legitimate Universal House of Justice complete with a "sacred head" as delineated by the Master, which "sacred head" can be no other person except a living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith.  Surely they will readily understand that Shoghi Effendi neither authorized nor planned nor intended that the Body which he established should be dissolved by mutineers, its President/Head exiled, defamed and denigrated and that a bogus/headless and unguided body should be substituted in its place.

The website of the living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com

By Ross Campbell

that "luminous person and heavenly man"....

 

"ERE LONG, THY LORD SHALL MAKE THEE A SIGN OF GUIDANCE AMONG MANKIND"

The above quotation has been extracted from a Tablet addressed to Mason Remey and may be found in the publication "Star of the West" (Vol. V, No. 19, March 2, 1915). In addition to this brilliant and unique promise made to him by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, he was frequently eulogized by Him in other Tablets that are recorded in various issues of the "Star of the West" where, for example, He has addressed him as: "O thou enlightened beloved son," has extolled him as that "luminous person and heavenly man," and referred to "the loftiness of thy nature, the strength of thy effort and the purity of thy intentions." Moreover, He expressed His infinite love for him, stated he was confirmed "in service to the Kingdom," and informed him that his devoted labours for the Faith were "a magnet of the confirmations of the Abha Kingdom." Moreover, during ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s visit to Philadelphia on June 8-10, 1912, this significant account is recorded in the "Star of the West":

"Mr. William Remey came in about this time and when Abdul-Baha saw him, he greeted him most warmly" and said to him, "Your brother [Mason] mentioned your name to me. You are greatly blessed by having such a brother. At present you do not know how greatly you are blessed but you will see this with your own eyes. Your whole family will be glorified; they will be proud that they have such sons as Mr. Remey and yourself."

Mason Remey’s accomplishments in his outstanding service to the Faith over a period of more than half a century were unique, manifold, marked by exemplary devotion to the Covenant, as attested by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and recognized by Shoghi Effendi, and certainly remain unparalleled by any other male believer in the Faith to this day and include the following, to enumerate the most notable:....

Joel B. Marangella
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A message today with parallels to Jeremiah's message to ancient Israel

Jeffrey's posting reminded me about the bliblical story ofJeremiah.  I am going to draw attention to some of those parallels here.

There are many such parallels between the time of Jeremiah and the disobedience of ancient Israelites to their Covenant with Almighty God and the current disobedience towards `Abdu'l-Bahá, the Center of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh, by the renegade UHJ currently on Mt. Carmel and their Heterodox Bahá'í adherents around the Earth. During a similar time span of years as Jeremiah's prophesying against the waywardness and unfaithfulness of the ancient Israelites (647-617 B.C.E.), Joel B. Marangella, the third Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith has been constantly exposing the false visions heralded by the
headless heterodox Bahá'í UHJ on Mt. Carmel, and its other many violations of the Covenant of our Lord Bahá'u'lláh.  The third Guardian's message has also included warnings
with similarities to the warnings contained in Jeremiah's message to disobedient Israelites.

Ross Campbell

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My fervent prayer and resolve for 2009

Sometimes I get discouraged over the fact that the Great Violation of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh has continued for about 50 years now, with no apparent end in sight as the faithless sans-Guardian Bahá'ís continue their legal assault against the small faithful band of believers who insist upon believing that Bahá'u'lláh, `Abdu'l-Bahá, and Shoghi Effendi meant what they said about the Covenant and the divine Institutions of Bahá'u'lláh's wondrous System.

But when I consider the fact that this faithless covenant-breaking on the part of most of the Baha'is of the world today really should not have come as a surprise, and that rebellion against God and His leadership has been the hallmark of religious history since the beginning of time, then it does not seem so discouraging.  The faithlessness and waywardness of humanity is just part of the great battle between the Army of Light and the forces of darkness that is now upon us.

`Abdu'l-Bahá has said: "O thou who art firm in the Covenant! ...[T]he hearts are afflicted by the murky breaths of the Covenant-breakers and harmony hath decreased among the friends. Gracious God! A hundred times it hath been foretold that the violators are lying in ambush and by every means desire to cause dissension among the friends so that this dissension may end in violation of the Covenant. How is it that, notwithstanding this warning, the friends have neglected this explicit statement?"  (Selections,  p. 211)

Jeffrey

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If there were any remaining doubt...

If there were any remaining doubt that Shoghi Effendi had, in fact, erected the embryonic Universal House of Justice, they had only to read his message of 30 June 1952 dispatched some six months following his appointent of the first contingent of the living Hands of the Cause on 25 December 1951, thereby establishing the Institution of the Hands of the Cause. For this message stated: "At the World Center of the Faith, where at long last the machinery of its highest institutions has been erected, and around whose most holy shrines the supreme organs of its unfolding Order, are in their embryonic form, unfolding."

Incredulous as it may now seem, the decision made by the Hands of the Cause in their first conclave held in ‘Akka, subsequent to the passing of Shoghi Effendi, would clearly reveal that in spite of the unprecedented importance and significance Shoghi Effendi had placed upon the appointment of the International Bahá’í Council as the first of the "supreme organs" of Bahá’u’lláh’s "unfolding Order," they inexcusably overlooked the importance and significance of these messages and their bearing on the question of the continuance of the Guardianship, for they never realized that Shoghi Effendi had, in fact, created the embryonic Universal House of Justice and understood that it was unquestionably a complete and perfect Institution "from the first." Moreover, they failed to realize, as did all of the believers at the time, the momentous implication to be found in Shoghi Effendi’s appointment of Mason Remey as the permanent and irremovable Head of this Institution (an appointment confirmed in his message of 2 March 1951), who, by virtue of his appointment, as its President, would become, according to the sacred and immutable provisions of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Will and Testament, at such time as he presided over this body as an actively functioning Institution, none other than the Guardian of the Faith. The other eight members appointed by Shoghi Effendi to this body, although provisionally appointed at its inception, would be, as Shoghi Effendi outlined in his Proclamation of 9 January 1951, elected to this body in due course.

Joel B. Marangella

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The false actions of the sans-Guardian UHJ expose their false interpretations

In Jeffrey's post entitled: “the embryo possesses from the first all perfections . . . "  he has quoted a message from the third Guardian which discusses a letter written by Shoghi Effendi:

"Shoghi Effendi had addressed a letter to the United Nations Special Palestine Committee in July 1947 and, in discussing the Bahá’í Administrative Order, he had referred to his plans to establish this International Council in stating that: “the foundations are now being laid by the national and local councils” and are “paving the way for the constitution of the World Council, to be designated as the Universal House of Justice, which, in conjunction with me, as its appointed Head and the authorized interpreter of the Bahá’í teachings, must coordinate and direct the affairs of the Bahá’í community . . .”

We all know well the common proverbial expression:  "Actions speak louder than words."

Here, as quoted, are the words of Shoghi Effendi:

“the foundations are now being laid by the national and local councils” and are “paving the way for the constitution of the World Council, to be designated as the Universal House of Justice, which, in conjunction with me, as its appointed Head and the authorized interpreter of the Bahá’í teachings, must coordinate and direct the affairs of the Bahá’í community . . .”

And here are decades of actions by the sans-Guardian/heterodox Bahá’í administration of Mt.Carmel/Wilmette:

'the foundations are now being laid by the national and local councils' and are 'paving the way for the constitution of the World Council, to be designated as the Universal House of Justice, which, without me, as its appointed Head and without an authorized interpreter of the Bahá’í teachings, must, alone, coordinate and direct the affairs of the Bahá’í community . . .'

Take note that the double quotation marks enclosing Shoghi Effendi's exact official teaching have been replaced by single quotation marks in the version which expresses the bogus UHJ's false interpretation by its actions, which false interpretation of those vital words of the first of our Guardians, the illegitimate UHJ on Mt. Carmel has been foisting upon the Bahá’í world for more than forty years.

Clearly, as observed in Shoghi Effendi's official 1947 letter to the United Nations Special Palestine Committee, he foresaw and taught that an authorized interpreter of the Bahá’í teachings would be necessary to "coordinate and direct the affairs of the Bahá’í community . . .” while a legitimate Universal House of Justice is operational.

That official statement by Shoghi Effendi, the first of our Bahá’í Guardians, exposes to be utter nonsense and abject error the comment often written and spoken by heterodox Bahá’ís that the interpretations of the Bahá’í Writings made by Shoghi Effendi before he died are sufficient/adequate to guide Bahá’ís and humankind during all of the remaining centuries of this Holy Bahá’í Dispensation.

And that foolish comment has been repeated so many, many times by heterodox Bahá’í believers that it is impossible that their leaders and bogus UHJ members could deny knowledge of that commonly held view amongst their adherents/followers, and yet they conspicuously neglect to rebuke that utterly foolish and spiritually dangerous comment which is so totally in violation and conflict with the official teaching of the first of our Guardians quoted above.

And by their very actions they have continuously supported that false comment.

Such negligence which has been consistently displayed by the bogus UHJ currently on Mt. Carmel for decades is the very essence of apostasy.

The website of the living Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com

Ross Campbell