Additional proof from Shogi Effendi
Paul Henderson
CONTINUANCE OF THE GUARDIANSHIP
These messages were inexcusably overlooked or ignored by the Hands of
the Cause in their reprehensible hasty abandonment of the Guardianship
on the very first day of their conclave in ‘Akká following the
passing of Shoghi Effendi with the result that the momentous
significance and implications of these messages were never perceived
by them at the time and have remained unperceived by the Bahá’í
World to this day with tragic consequences for the Faith.
1. Message of 9 January 1951.
Actually Shoghi Effendi’s one and only Proclamation which opened
with the words: "Proclaim to National Assemblies of East and West
weighty epoch-making decision of formation of first International
Bahá’í Council" — "this first International Institution"
— and in which he further acclaimed this "historic decision" as
the "most significant milestone in the evolution of the Administrative
Order" and hailed "with thankful joyous heart at long last the
constitution of the International Council" as one "which history will
acclaim as the greatest event shedding lustre upon the second epoch of
the Formative Age of the Bahá’í Dispensation." (emphasis added)
He stated he was induced to make this historic decision, for the
following significant reasons:
". . .the establishment of the Jewish State after the lapse of two
thousand years."
". . .construction of the superstructure of the Báb’s Sepulcher
on Mount Carmel."
". . .the present adequate maturity of nine vigorously functioning
national administrative institutions throughout the Bahá’í
World. . ."
The present maturity of the nine National Assemblies mentioned by
Shoghi Effendi was vitally important because, as subordinate bodies to
the International Bahá’í Council, appointed some eleven months
earlier, they would be receiving direction from the Council in their
prosecution of the goals of the Ten Year Global Crusade scheduled to
commence in 1953, as projected in Shoghi Effendi’s message of 23
November 1951, discussed below.
2. Message of 2 March 1951.
This message identifies Mason Remey as the one whom Shoghi Effendi had
appointed as President of the International Bahá’í Council
established by him in his Proclamation. Significantly and for good
reason, Shoghi Effendi did not direct Mason Remey to convene the
Council as a functioning body during the remaining seven years of his
ministry and even appointed Rúhíyyih Khánum in his message of 8 March
1952 as the "chosen liaison" between himself and the Council to
preclude thereby any semblance of the assumption of the Presidency
himself of this "first embryonic International Institution" which,
upon its activation as a functioning body, would necessarily be
presided over by the Guardian of the Faith.
3. Message of 23 November 1951.
It may be seen from this message that Shoghi Effendi projects the
future role of the " Central Body" — the International
Bahá’í Council — appointed by him some eleven months
earlier in his Proclamation to be a role in which the Council would be
"directing these widely ramified operations" of the "National
Assemblies of the Bahá’í world" at some period during the
prosecution of the Ten Year Global Crusade scheduled to commence at
Ridván 1953. To direct these operations of the Assemblies the
International Council would have to emerge from the inactive state in
which it been carefully retained by Shoghi Effendi during his ministry
and its President would no longer be kept in waiting as the unborn
embryonic Guardian-to-be, but upon Shoghi Effendi’s passing, be
able to preside as the active President of an actively functioning
body which was none other than the embryonic Universal House of
Justice whose "sacred head" could be no one else but the Guardian of
the Faith under the terms of the Will and Testament of
‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
It is evident therefore that, for Shoghi Effendi to state in this
message that the "Central Body" — the International Bahá’í
Council — would be directing the National Spiritual Assemblies
in their achievement of the goals of the Ten Year Global Crusade, he
had to have foreseen for, in fact, he had predicted in this indirect
way, that his ministry would be coming to an end sometime during that
Crusade and that his appointed successor, having actively assumed the
Presidency of a fully functioning Council coincident with his passing,
would then accede to the Guardianship of the Faith. Unfortunately, it
is obvious that neither the Hands of the Cause nor any of the
believers in the Bahá’í world perceived at the time of Shoghi
Effendi’s passing, or at any time subsequent thereto, the
tremendous implications that were attached to the active role that
Shoghi Effendi had projected for the International Council in this
message, a role that both clearly further confirmed the identity of
his successor and indirectly portended his own unexpected passing
which, in fact, took place at the mid-point of that Crusade in
November 1957.
However, upon Shoghi Effendi’s passing, the Hands of the Cause
never permitted the International Council to perform the role
projected by Shoghi Effendi as they usurped supreme authority over the
Faith, shamelessly ignored the role assigned the Council in this
message, relegated the International Council to a minor role in which
it would perform only its originally assigned limited functions
confined to the Holy Land although Shoghi Effendi had stated, in
referring to the initial functions he had assigned the Council in his
Proclamation that "To these will be added further functions in course
of evolution of this first embryonic International Institution."
Having, in their blindness, usurped leadership of the Faith and
clearly ignoring the projected role Shoghi Effendi had envisaged for
the International Council, the Hands of the Cause appointed an illicit
body of nine Hands from their own number to which they gave the
appellation, "Custodians of the Bahá’í Faith," a body completely
outside the sacred and immortal provisions of the Will and Testament
of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and to which they, in spite of this fact,
incredulously delegated "all such functions, rights and powers in
succession to the Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith." Yet, according
to their own announced plans, this body would reign over the Faith for
only a brief life-span of some five and one half years, terminating at
Ridván 1963, when it would be replaced by an elected equally illicit
body, a headless, sans-Guardian Universal House of Justice which they
had the temerity to identify as the "Supreme Body" of the Faith. In
the intervening period before the election of their sans-Guardian
Universal House of Justice in 1963 the Custodians requested all
National Spiritual Assemblies of the Bahá’í World to recognize
their body as the "supreme body in the Cause" in an official letter
that would be addressed to them, with one NSA, in its response, even
referring to this short-lived and temporarily constituted body as the
"Most Supreme Body in the Bahá’í World Faith." This illicitly
established body of Custodians then shamelessly took over direction of
the National Spiritual Assemblies of the Bahá’í World during the
remaining years of the prosecution of the Ten Year Crusade.
As for the International Council, Mason Remey as President of the
Council was never permitted by the Hands of the Cause to exercise his
rightful role and, the Secretary General of the Council, Hand of the
Cause, Leroy Ioas, never wrote a letter to an Assembly, or anyone
else, in that capacity, nor did his two "Western and Eastern assistant
secretaries" (Ethel Revell and Lotfullah Hakim respectively), also
appointed to their positions by Shoghi Effendi, ever correspond, to my
knowledge, in a secretarial capacity with National Spiritual
Assemblies on behalf of the Council.
4. Message of 30 June 1952
This significant message read as follows: "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
. . ." The Hands of the Cause, following the passing of Shoghi
Effendi, obviously and inexcusably failed to realize, as discussed
above, that the International Bahá’í Council appointed by Shoghi
Effendi was not a provisional or temporary body but, in fact, nothing
less than the Universal House of Justice, albeit in its embryonic
form, even though he had clearly referred to this body in his
Proclamation of 9 January 1951, as "this first International
Institution" and this "Nascent Institution" and had assigned it a role
that could only rightfully be exercised by the Universal House of
Justice. Certainly, had they taken the time to review his messages to
the Bahá’í World, before reaching their hasty and ill-considered
conclusion that the Guardianship of the Faith had forever ended, they
should have perceived, as further corroboration of this fact, that the
passage in Shoghi Effendi’s message quoted above, left no doubt
that he had unquestionably brought into being the embryonic Universal
House of Justice under the provisional name of the International
Bahá’í Council. In his earlier message of 8 March 1952 they
would have further noted that he had again clearly identified not only
its embryonic President — the Guardian-to-be — but had
designated, as well, its Secretary General, its Treasurer and its
assistant secretaries for the East and West. Certainly Shoghi
Effendi’s statement that the "machinery of its highest
institutions" had been erected at the World Center could be a
reference to none other than the embryonic Universal House of Justice
— the International Council — and the institution of the
Hands of the Cause, the first contingent of whom he had been appointed
six months earlier in his message of 25 December 1951. It would have
then been clear why the International Council had been carefully
retained by Shoghi Effendi in an inactive state during his ministry
and why he never directed its President to convene the Council into a
functioning administrative body during the remaining seven years of
his ministry, so as to preclude its embryonic head — his
successor — from emerging into active life. And it would also be
clear now why he had assigned tasks only to individual members of the
Council during his ministry.
5. Message of October 1957.
In this last message of Shoghi Effendi to the Bahá’í World, a
month before his passing, he appointed a final contingent of the Hands
of the Cause of God and referred to the Hands, for the first time, as
the "Chief Stewards of Bahá’u’lláh’s embryonic World
Commonwealth" Having reached their hasty and unwarranted conclusion
that the Guardianship had come to an end with his passing, they
interpreted Shoghi Effendi’s reference to them in this message
as "Chief Stewards" to mean, as they stated in their "unanimous
proclamation" of 25 November 1957, that they had become "the supreme
body of the Bahá’i World Community" The body of the Hands,
ignoring the role that the International Bahá’í Council should
have rightfully performed, appointed a body of nine from their own
number, whom they identified as the "Custodians of the Bahá’í
World Faith" and whom they stated in this same proclamation would
assume "all such functions rights and powers in succession to the
Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith." Yet, at the same time, they
announced in their ill-conceived plans that the collegiate pseudo
Guardianship role that they had illegitimately delegated to the
Custodians would come to an end some six years later when the
temporary ill-gotten authority of this body would be turned over to
what would be a headless sans-Guardian so-called Universal House of
Justice to be elected in April 1963 that would be nothing more than an
incomplete, deformed fallible and illicitly formed body . They also
ignored the inconsistency to be found in the fact that, under their
plans, the "Chief Stewards,"–this once so-called "supreme body
of the Bahá’í World Community," as they had termed themselves,
would have long ceased to exist when the Commonwealth of
Bahá’u’lláh had attained its maturity in the fullness of
time. For, fallaciously convinced as they were that the Guardianship
had forever ended, there would be no future Guardians in their
sans-Guardian Faith to appoint Hands of the Cause and therefore there
would be no future "Chief Stewards." Moreover, what these Hands of the
Cause tragically failed to realize and most importantly failed to
perceive in this last message penned by Shoghi Effendi was the
undeniable implication and paramount significance to be found in the
phrase, "of Bahá’u’lláh’s embryonic World
Commonwealth." that followed Shoghi Effendi’s designation of
them as Chief Stewards. Shoghi Effendi’s insertion of the word
"embryonic" in this phrase definitely implied that these Chief
Stewards would remain an integral and inseparable part of that
embryonic Commonwealth as it developed and finally attained the full
plenitude of its power, for has not ‘Abdu’l-Bahá explained
in His writings (p. 312, BWF) that "the embryo possesses from the
first all perfections . . . in one word, all the powers" and therefore
the Hands of the Cause, as Chief Stewards, would continue to exist as
an Institution and were destined to remain an inseparable and eternal
Institution in Bahá’u’lláh’s Commonwealth. Having
failed to perceive the above, the Hands of the Cause obviously
overlooked the further significant fact that, as future Hands can only
be appointed by future Guardians, Shoghi Effendi had assured the
believers, once again, in this indirect way, in his very last message
to the Bahá’í World, that the Guardianship of the Cause of God
would continue to exist as long as the Commonwealth of
Bahá’u’lláh itself endured together with all of its other
divinely-appointed Institutions equally preserved and completely
intact, as delineated in the divinely-conceived sacred, immortal and
immutable terms of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
Joel Bray Marangella
Third Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith
Australia, 2003
NOTE: A faithful believer recently queried one of the heterodox
believers considered to be one of the learned Bahá’ís and
therefore supposedly thoroughly conversant, not only with the
Teachings but the writings and messages of Shoghi Effendi as well,
including particularly those contained in the book titled: "Messages
of Shoghi Effendi to the Bahá‘í World 1950-1957." It is
understood that this believer surprisingly admitted unfamiliarity with
that book and ignorance of the significant messages discussed above.
It would have been even more unlikely that this believer would have
been aware of Shoghi Effendi’s message of 23 November 1951,
which inexplicably was not included in the book cited above, and
appears only in a pamphlet published by the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States, in 1952 titled:
World Order Unfolds." Little wonder therefore that most of the
present-day believers remain similarly ignorant of these historic and
significant messages that prove so conclusively and irrefutably that
Shoghi Effendi, ever faithful to the sacred provisions of the Will and
Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, had unquestionably provided for
the continuance of the Guardianship and that these believers have, as
a tragic result, so readily fallen prey to the fallacious and
deceptive arguments of those who, having lost their faith in the
indestructibility of the Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh and in
the immortality of its divinely-conceived "Child" — the Will and
Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá — have abandoned forever
the Guardianship of the Faith.
JBM
Amir
NOT talk.religion.bahai.covenant.breakers
"Paul Henderson" <paul.j.h...@gte.net> wrote in message
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Brent Reed
That's such a poignant and intelligent statement!
Blessings to you!
Brent Reed
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/heartofthebahaifaith
"Amir" <newg...@thehood.co.uk> wrote in message news:<QYYLa.19185$0_6....@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>...
Pat Kohli
Amir wrote:
> this group is about talk.religion.bahai...
>
> NOT talk.religion.bahai.covenant.breakers
Pssssssssssssssst, don't feed the bears.
Best wishes
- Pat
kohli at ameritel.net
Freethought110
Exactly
> NOT talk.religion.bahai.covenant.breakers
NOR IS IT talk.religion.bahai.haifan.fundamentalist
These "covenant breakers," as you say, have as much right to be here
and call themselves Baha'i as much as any Haifan fundamentalist Baha'i
such as yourself.
Paul Henderson
page 252. "..Anyone who accepts that Baha'u'llah spoke for God, yet
disobeys and opposes either 'Abdu'l-Baha or the Guardian, deliberately
sets his will against the power of the Covenant...", and further, on
page 253 "...Covenant-breakers, on the other hand, are expelled from
the Cause of God by the Guardian Himself, the inspired agent of
Baha'u'llah..." Note that the text does not refer to Shogi Effendi,
but the Guardian, as established by the Will and Testament of
Abdu'l-Baha. To understand the Covenant, you must understand, in part,
the Will and Testament.
Amir-joon, I will not submit name-calling and slander to the users of
the group. I do not believe that is a Baha'i quality. I will only
refer you to the teachings you profess to believe.
brent...@yahoo.com (Brent Reed) wrote in message news:<95f0bfd7.03063...@posting.google.com>...
Ron House
> this group is about talk.religion.bahai...
>
> NOT talk.religion.bahai.covenant.breakers
The charter of this NG covers all discussion from any point of view that
is relevant to the Baha'i Faith. That includes things that you don't
like, but excludes train spotting and biscuit recipes. Please don't
raise this issue again, as making clearly untrue statements about the
charter of a newsgroup is (or will be, now that you have been informed)
mischievous and contrary to the recommendations for proper behaviour
made by Baha'u'llah.
--
Ron House ho...@usq.edu.au
http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house
MOST@btinternet.com Dermod Ryder
"Ron House" <ho...@usq.edu.au> wrote in message
news:3F00FBD5...@usq.edu.au...
> Amir wrote:
> > this group is about talk.religion.bahai...
> >
> > NOT talk.religion.bahai.covenant.breakers
>
> The charter of this NG covers all discussion from any point of view that
> is relevant to the Baha'i Faith. That includes things that you don't
> like, but excludes train spotting and biscuit recipes.
Aw hell, Ron! And just when I was about to spread some tempting recipes
here and elsewheres!
Anyway back on topic - trainspotting is interesting but not profitable.
Finding a train here is almost, though not quite, as difficult as finding a
new BIGS. Even in England, I understand it is possible, at least once in
the day, to find a train that runs on time whereas new BIGS are as rare as a
bird dentist.
I somehow doubt that this Amir gomer will last long hereabouts. When he
realises that his LSA credentials around here are as relevant as a colour
chart for the blind he'll likely take himself off .... to nobody's regret!
Just testing ... 1.... 2... 3.....!
QisQos
> > this group is about talk.religion.bahai...
> >
> > NOT talk.religion.bahai.covenant.breakers
>
> The charter of this NG covers all discussion from any point of view that
> is relevant to the Baha'i Faith. That includes things that you don't
Vegetarian Dog Biscuits Recipe
2 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup Powdered Milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tbs. brown sugar
3/4 cup Vegetable Broth
1/2 cup carrots -- optional
1 egg
Preheat oven to 300F. Mix all ingredients into a ball and roll out to
about 1/4" thick. Cut with bone-shaped cookie cutter, or strips, or a
cutter shape of your own choice. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and
bake 30 minutes at 300F.
gee...I hope this ain't off topic!
:-p
Qis
QisQos
> is relevant to the Baha'i Faith. That includes things that you don't
> like, but excludes train spotting and biscuit recipes. Please don't
> raise this issue again, as making clearly untrue statements about the
> charter of a newsgroup is (or will be, now that you have been informed)
> mischievous and contrary to the recommendations for proper behaviour
> made by Baha'u'llah.
This link works better:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.d.scott/dub/rail_enthusiasts.html
:-p
Qis
Ron House
> Vegetarian Dog Biscuits Recipe
Woops, you got me! Just shows you never know where connection might pop up.
Matt Menge
>
> I somehow doubt that this Amir gomer will last long hereabouts.
Few do.
Best Regards,
Matt
MOST@btinternet.com Dermod Ryder
"Matt Menge" <mspm...@msn.com> wrote in message
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Geez Matt - you're agreeing with me? Is this a first?????
Susan Maneck
>this group is about talk.religion.bahai...
>
>NOT talk.religion.bahai.covenant.breakers
>
Dear Amir,
Obviously you odn't know much about the history of this list. It was started
primarily by Fred Glaysher who hardly had the best interests of the Faith at
heart.