Written in 2009 by Nosrat Bahremand
Under the guidance of the Third Guardian of the Baha'i Faith.
UNEQUIVOCALLY AND UNDENIABLY YES!
The question as to whether Shoghi Effendi had foreseen his early passing is asked by those Baháís who, in their lack of faith in the indestructibility of the Covenant of Baháulláh and the immutability of the Will and Testament of Abdul-Bahá, have inexcusably never taken the time or made the effort to search for an affirmative answer, which, otherwise, they would have been certain they would find, if they were to undertake a thorough review of the actions taken by Shoghi Effendi and particularly of the historic messages he had dispatched to the Baháí World during the latter years of his ministry.
GOD, IN TRUTH, KEEPETH WATCH OVER ALL THINGS
Had the Hands recognized the preeminent role of the International Council and permitted it to function as clearly intended by Shoghi Effendi they would have remained faithful to his plans for the future development of the institutions of the Baháí Administrative Order and, in doing so, have inevitably discovered and recognized the identity of his successor in their midst.
UNDENIABLE CONCESSIONS GRANTED BY A TRUE BAHÁÍ
An understanding of the difficulty that is faced by Orthodox Baháís in reaching any settlement in our dispute with the heterodox Baháís, on religious grounds, may be facilitated and better understood by an individual or the members of a court unfamiliar with the Baháí Faith and, in this case, with the status and the role of the Guardian of the Faith as its appointed Head, if it is realized that the basic issue involved and the real reason why the National Spiritual Assembly has initiated its lawsuit in the first place is purely a religious one, based on its belief that the Guardianship of the Faith ended with the passing of Shoghi Effendi, and its perverse refusal, together with the heterodox Baháís, under their jurisdiction, not to mention those Baháís outside of the United States and the members of their so-called and grossly misnamed Universal House of Justice, to recognize and accept the undeniable evidence, presented to the contrary.
WHAT WILL BE YOUR EXCUSE WHEN YOU MEET SHOGHI EFFENDI IN THE NEXT WORLD?
CAN THEY PREVAIL AGAINST GODS IMMUTABLE
PURPOSE?
Consequently, Shoghi
Effendis writings were shamefully disregarded in the actions that
were then taken by the Hands and they inexcusably placed no importance
on and ignored, as well, the historic and
epoch-making decisions he had recently made
pertaining to the establishment of the highest Institutions of the Faith
at the World Center and had announced in glowing terms in messages to
the Baháí World during the concluding years of his
36-year ministry. 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 . . .
This spurious body, clearly
created outside of the provisions of the Will and Testament of
Abdul-Bahá then reigned over the Faith for a period
of some six years until its demise and its functions assumed by an
equally illegitimate and sans-Guardian so-called Universal House of
Justice, elected in 1963.
Joel Bray Marangella
Guardian of the Baháí Faith
AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
Every practicing Christian,
if asked, would be able to insert the words that precede the above
quoted phrase in The Lords Prayer and
would be able to inform you that the completed quotation is a
supplication to God to establish the Kingdom of God on earth
AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
Will the Kingdom of God
that is established on earth in response to this supplication be one
that has been imperfectly fashioned by the minds of men, who possess no
knowledge of the features of that heavenly Kingdom, or must it possess
only those divinely-appointed features that have been uniquely revealed
by the Manifestation of God in this long-awaited Day of
God?
Joel Bray Marangella
Guardian of the Baháí Faith
FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT
THEY DO JESUS CHRIST
The above words uttered by Jesus Christ on the
cross at the hour of His crucifixion may aptly be applied to the equally
despicable spiritual crucifixion by the Hands of the Cause of Mason
Remey, following the issuance of His Proclamation to the Baháí World at
Ridván 1960 as the second Guardian of the Cause of God.
Can we forgive however the
inexplicable spiritual blindness and loss of faith in the indestructible
Covenant of Baháulláh and the Will and
Testament of Abdul-Baháthe sacred and immortal
Child of the Covenantexhibited by his
fellow-Hands, who had but recently attained their spiritual rank.
Joel Bray Marangella
Guardian of the Baháí Faith
THE ULTIMATE PARADOX
Is it not a blatant paradox that, since the passing
of Shoghi Effendi, that the sans-Guardian, and therefore headless,
illegitimate and so-called Universal House of Justice has now so
perverted the meaning of fidelity to the Covenant of
Baháulláh that they now ludicrously label as
Covenant-breakers those believers who have continued to faithfully and
steadfastly adhere to every clause of
Abdul-Bahás divinely-conceived, sacred and
immortal Will and Testamenta part of the explicit Holy
Textwhereas, in marked contrast, it is they, who in their
abandonment of the Guardianship, have thereby faithlessly declared major
clauses of this Will and Testament null and void and have, in
consequence, undeniably become themselves the arch-breakers of the
Covenant of Baháulláh?
Joel Bray Marangella
Guardian of the Baháí Faith
THIS MOST GREAT
ORDER
How can any true believer
suffer under the illusion that this most great Order
this Divine Masterpiece which the hand of the Master-builder of
the world has designed for the unification of the world-wide Faith of
Baháulláh will ever be supplanted
by a man-made imperfect system, minus the living Guardian presiding as
its sacred head, that has now been ignominiously erected
outside the sacred provisions of Abdul-Bahás
Will and Testament by those who, in their lack of faith in the
indestructible Covenant of Baháulláh and in
the immortality of this divinely-conceived Child, have
repudiated this glorious Testament and have declared that the
Guardianship of the Cause of God came to an end with the passing of
Shoghi Effendi?
Joel Bray Marangella
Third Guardian of the Baháí Faith
THEY ARE UNDENIABLY PSEUDO BAHÁÍS Shoghi Effendi has
stipulated that one of the essential requirements that must be fulfilled
to be accepted as a Baháí is: Steadfast
adherence to every clause of Abdul-Bahás sacred
Will.
GODS IMMUTABLE PURPOSE" Shoghi
Effendi
To what immutable purpose
of God was Shoghi Effendi referring?
In Shoghi Effendis seminal work, first
published in 1934, titled: The Dispensation of
Baháulláh and considered by him to be
his spiritual testament, he states that The bedrock on which this
Administrative Order is founded is Gods immutable Purpose for
mankind in this day.
Joel Bray Marangella
Guardian of the Baháí Faith
FOR THEM The major divinely-conceived, sacred and
immutable provisions of the Will and Testament of
Abdul-BaháDocument stated by Shoghi Effendi to
be nothing less than a part of the explicit Holy Textare no
longer applicable and have now become null and void. If these
Baháís then argue that these terms of the Will and
Testament no longer apply, they will, in effect, have declared that a
part of the explicit Holy Text, destined to endure as long as the
Dispensation of Baháulláh itself endures, has
now become null and void. A SATANIC
TRINITY This unholy trinity exerted its baleful and
all-pervasive influence over twenty-six of the twenty-seven Hands of the
Cause of God, gathered at their conclave in Akká, following
the passing of Shoghi Effendi, and, as a result, they decided and
announced to the Baháí world, to their eternal
discredit and shame, that he had been unable to appoint a successor, and
thereupon nefariously set about rendering null and void the major
provisions of the Baháí Administrative Order as
delineated by Abdul-Bahá in His divinely-conceived
and sacred Will and Testament.
THE WORLD ORDER OF BAHÁULLÁH SHALL
NEVER BE
DOES SHOGHI EFFENDI CONTINUE TO
FUNCTION AS THE GUARDIAN OF THE FAITH IN THE NEXT WORLD?
FAITHLESSNESS, DISOBEDIENCE AND PERVERSION
OF WHICH TWENTY-SIX OF THE THEN TWENTY-SEVEN HANDS OF THE CAUSE
SHALL STAND FOREVER CONDEMNED BECAUSE OF THEIR INIQUITOUS ACTIONS
FOLLOWING THE PASSING OF SHOGHI EFFENDI.
THE FORGOTTEN
PROMISE FOUND IN ISAIAH 9
With the end of the Guardianship, as they believed, the Hands obviously had also terminated their own institution, with the death of the last surviving Hand (as only a living Guardian could appoint future Hands)...
SHOGHI
EFFENDIS SIGNIFICANT PROMISE
...in their undue haste to do so, [the Hands] did not take the time to discover the manner in which Shoghi Effendi had clearly effected the appointment of his successor...
WRONG ON ALL
COUNTS
A message addressed to those Baháís who maintain the following beliefs:
That the Guardianship of the Faith ended with the passing of Shoghi Effendi because he was restricted under the terms of the Will and Testament of Abdul-Bahá to the appointment of an Aghsán as his successor WRONG.
WILL GOD PERMIT THESE WAYWARD BAHÁÍS TO CONTINUE THEIR BLASPHEMOUS REPUDIATION OF THE DIVINELY-CONCEIVED AND SACRED WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ABDUL-BAHÁ WITH IMPUNITY, A DOCUMENT THAT SHOGHI EFFENDI ACCLAIMED AS THEIR WILL AND GODS IMMUTABLE PURPOSE FOR MANKIND IN THIS DAY ?
Future unbiased, sincere and spiritually minded scholars, initiating a study of the Faith may find it difficult to place their hands on those writings of Shoghi Effendi, the first Guardian of the Baháí Faith, in which he discusses at length the Baháí Administrative Order, much less find it possible to review the historic and epoch making messages that he dispatched to the Baháí world during the seven closing years of his ministry, for a careful review particularly of these messages of great import will glaringly reveal the extent to which they had been ignored, if not inexcusably forgotten, following the passing of Shoghi Effendi in November of 1957, by twenty six Hands of the Cause.
Joel Bray Marangella,
Guardian of the
Baháí Faith
November, 2007
THE FLAGRANT AND INEXCUSABLE BETRAYAL OF SHOGHI EFFENDI
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.
Shoghi Effendi, 30 June 1952
...they will therefore certainly conclude that the Hands had diabolically corrupted the Baháí Administrative Order in their replacement of the divinely-conceived institutions of that Order with a grossly flawed system of their own making, and thereby had become patently guilty of nothing less than a shameless and nefarious betrayal of all that Shoghi Effendi had so faithfully labored to achieve during his thirty-six year ministry.
Joel Bray Marangella,
Guardian of the Baháí Faith
September,
2007
THE BAHÁÍ
FAITH UNDER THE GUARDIANSHIP AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM
THE GUARDIAN
OF THE BAHÁÍ FAITH.
MY ACCESSION TO THE GUARDIANSHIP
A SUMMARY OF THE TRUE FACTS
Not only misinformation, but a deplorable lack of information has been posted on Baháí newsgroups, from time to time, questioning the validity of my accession to the Guardianship of the Baháí Faith.
A SUMMARY OF THE AIMS, TEACHINGS AND HISTORY OF THE
BAHÁÍ FAITH.
Un
Summario
de Sus
Objetivas,
Enseñanzas e
Historia COMMENTARY ON THE PROCLAMATION OF SHOGHI
EFFENDI SHOGHI EFFENDI, 9 January 1951 "THE ERRING
HANDS ON TRIAL"
A HYPOTHETICAL TRIAL HELD IN THE NEXT WORLD OF THE FORMER HANDS OF THE
CAUSE OF GOD WHO, UPON THE PASSING, OF SHOGHI EFFENDI IN 1957, DECLARED
THE GUARDIANSHIP FOREVER ENDED. USENET NEWSGROUP POSTINGS ON "TALK RELIGION BAHAI"
Shoghi Effendi had yet to appoint the first contingent of the Hands of the Cause when he wrote his letter of 23 November 1951 in which he referred to the International Baháí Council as the Central Body."
" IF YOU SAY YES," I ACCEPT AS VALID THE FOLLOWING ACTS AND PRONOUNCEMENTS OF SHOGHI EFFENDI
THEN YOU ARE LEFT WITH ONE INESCAPABLE CONCLUSION.
Certainly, having become apprised for the first time of the decisions, acts and historic messages of Shoghi Effendi cited above, these believers will certainly say yes,"
DO THESE BAHÁÍS CARE THAT THEY, IN EFFECT, CONSIDER THAT THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ABDUL-BAHÁ ARE NOW NULL AND VOID, DESPITE THE FACT THAT SHOGHI EFFENDI HAD DECLARED THIS SACRED DOCUMENT TO BE A PART OF THE IMMORTAL AND IMMUTABLE EXPLICIT HOLY TEXT?
"NAUGHT CAN RESIST THY WILL NOR FRUSTRATE WHAT THOU HAST PURPOSED BY THY POWER"
Baháulláh
IT HAS COME TO THIS!They dare not disclose to the enquirer the very existence of an integral part of the explicit Holy Textthe divinely-conceived, sacred and immortal Will and Testament of Abdul-Bahá.
AN ILLEGITMATE NONDESCRIPT ADMINISTRATIVE BODY PRETENDING TO BE THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE OF THE BAHÁÍFAITH and nothing more than a headless caricature of the divinely-conceived and immortal institution bequeathed to us by the Center of the Covenant.
THE SATANIC COLLUSION TO TERMINATE THE INSTITUTION OF THE
GUARDIANSHIP THE DIABOLICAL SUBVERSION OF THE BAHÁÍ
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER PERPETRATED FOLLOWING
THE PASSING OF SHOGHI EFFENDI BAHÁULLÁH PROMISES UNINTERUPTED
GUIDANCE
ABDUL-BAHÁ WRITES OFF THE
AGHSÁN IN PART THREE OF HIS WILL AND TESTAMENT
ABDUL-BAHÁS UNIQUE PROMISE TO A
BELIEVER
THE DISPENSATION OF BAHÁULLÁH Author Shoghi Effendi
SHOGHI EFFENDI FORETELLS HIS PASSING AND IDENTIFIES HIS
SUCCESSOR.
THE PROCLAMATION OF SHOGHI EFFENDI
Dated 9 January, 1951
Dated Ridván, 1960 Dated November 12, 1969
February 6, 1974 15 May, 1874 4 February, 1974 THE THREE
SECRETARIES OF THE INTERNATIONAL BAHÁÍ COUNCIL Although appointed by Shoghi
Effendi and assigned a role that they were to perform during the Ten
Year Global Crusade. Dated 9 July and 21 October 1960. Author Joel B. Marangella A LETTER AND FIVE MESSAGES ACCLAIMING SHOGHI EFFENDIS
"EPOCH-MAKING" DECISIONS, BOTH IGNORED AND FORGOTTEN AND THEIR IMPORT
UNPERCEIVED.
That a man-made, obviously
fallible, sans-Guardian and hence an illegitimate and illicitly formed
Universal House of Justice would still delude themselves into believing
that they would be able to successfully establish the World Order of
Baháulláhthe long-prayed for,
long-awaited and promised "Kingdom of God on earth as it is in
Heaven."
Author Joel B. Marangella
Author
Joel B. Marangella
Author Joel B. Marangella
WINTER 73-74 WINTER 74-75 NOV. 1977 JAN. 1985 ILLEGITIMATE REIGN OF THE CUSTODIANS.
LETTER TO THE ILLIGITIMATE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE.
THE WILL AND TESTAMENT AND
TABLETS OF ABDUL-BAHÁ
SHOGHI EFFENDI INFORMS THE UNITED NATIONS OF HIS ROLE AS THE "APPOINTED
HEAD" OF THE FUTURE BAHÁÍ "WORLD COUNCIL" PRIOR TO ITS FORMATION IN 1951
THE PROCLAMATION OF MASON
REMEY
THE PROCLAMATION OF JOEL BRAY
MARANGELLA
EULOGY TO MASON REMEY
A TRIBUTE TO MASON REMEY
WHO NEVER WROTE A SINGLE LETTER
OPEN LETTERS TO THE
BAHÁÍS
THE
ULTIMATE DELUSION
UNANSWERED LETTERS TO
RÚHÍYYIH KHÁNUM
CHART BASED ON THE PROCLAMATION OF
SHOGHI EFFENDI
ARTICLES APPEARING IN THE PUBLICATION: "HERALD OF THE COVENANT"
"The Tree
of the Covenant"
"The
Violation of the Covenant of Baháulláh at the
World Center of the Faith"
"What is the meaning of Loyalty to the
Covenant of Baháulláh and who are the
present-day Covenant-Breakers?"
"Commentary on the Will and Testament
of Abdul-Bahá"
TABLET OF THE HOLY MARINER DOOMS THE
BOGUS UHJ TO OBLIVION.
A CRITIQUE OF ADIB TAHERZADEHS
BOOK, "THE COVENANT OF BAHAULLAH"
SHOGHI EFFENDI DEFINES THE
"AGHSÁN"
THE EMBRYO A Perfect and
Complete Organism at Conception
OTHER ARTICLES SUPPORTING THE
CONTINUING GUARDIANSHIP