The Failed Abortion of "The Child of the Covenant" - The "Divinly-Conceived" Bah á'í Administrative Order Delineated in the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá

POSTED ON BEHALF OF THE GUARDIAN OF THE BAHA'I FAITH

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THE FAILED ABORTION OF "THE  CHILD OF THE COVENANT "‹ THE "
DIVINELY-CONCEIVED" BAHA'I ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER DELINEATED IN THE WILL AND
TESTAMENT OF 'ABDU'L-BAHA


Following the passing of Shoghi Effendi on 4 November 1957, the living Hands
of the Cause gathered in
http://Bahai-Guardian.com/daily.observe.html#_Toc415050664  conclave at
Bahji, 'Akka to determine who Shoghi Effendi had appointed as his successor.
The very fact that they held this conclave which is not called for in the
Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá already provided clear evidence of their
complete unfamiliarity with or ignorance of the provisions of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's
Will and Testament, for that sacred, divinely-conceived and immutable
Document requires the Guardian to appoint and make known his successor in
"his own life-time" thereby precluding the need for any meeting or conclave
following the passing of the Guardian to determine his successor such as
would be required if a testamentary document were used.  If any further
proof of their ignorance of this fact is required, one need only read the
"Official Statement" issued by the Hands, under date of 19 November 1957,
in which they announced that a body of nine Hands whom they had delegated
"met, in order to open the Guardian's safe and desk [and] search for a Will
and Testament if one was executed by Shoghi Effendi. . . .and the
non-existence of a will and testament executed by Shoghi Effendi was
definitely established."

The Hands, as evidenced above, failed to realize that such a search would
inevitably prove fruitless, for Shoghi Effendi would have scrupulously and
faithfully adhered to every clause of the provisions of the Will and
Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and this Will required him to appoint his
successor in his own-lifetime.  Nevertheless, having not found a will and
testament one would have expected that the Hands would have then, at the
very least, considered it necessary to read over again and refresh their
knowledge of those provisions of the Will and Testament dealing with the
matter of succession. Had they done this, their error in expecting to find a
will and testament left by Shoghi Effendi appointing his successor would
have been clearly revealed to them.  If they had then, in the light of all
that Shoghi Effendi had written about the divine genesis, the sacredness and
the immutability of the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha and the
essentiality and indispensability of the Guardianship to the World Order of
Bahá'u'lláh, remained unwavering in their faith that Shoghi Effendi would
never have failed to appoint a successor under the terms of that Will, a
Document which he had  extolled in his writings as the Will of Bahá'u'lláh
as well and a part of the explicit Holy Text.  It would have undoubtedly
been obvious to them then that they had overlooked, some significant act,
statement or message  of Shoghi Effendi in which had identified his
successor.  Having reached this conclusion, they certainly would have
undertaken a careful, thorough and comprehensive review, of his acts and
particularly  the historic and epoch-making messages  he had dispatched to
the Bahá'í world, during the concluding years of his ministry  in which he
had  announced and acclaimed the erection"at long last" of the international
institutions of the Faith at the World Center of the Faith, in anticipation
of discovering the identity of his successor

Instead of taking the time to do this, they hastily on the very first day of
their deliberations, decided that the Guardianship had come to an end and
incredibly announced in an "Unanimous Proclamation" issued at the end of
their conclave, under date 25th of November, 1957, that "Shoghi Effendi
Rabbani passed away in London (England) on the 4th of November, 1957,
without having appointed his successor."

In reaching such a frightful and baseless conclusion, the Hands (with one
notable exception) had, in effect, in their own minds, shamelessly and
ignominiously  aborted the "Child of the Covenant" and had declared this
sacred Child dead and buried, incredibly  ignoring the fact that Shoghi
Effendi had identified the "Child of the Covenant"‹ the "Administrative
Order"‹ in his writings as:

* "DIVINELY-CONCEIVED"

* "DIVINELY APPOINTED"

* "DIVINELY ORDAINED"

* "THE HEIR OF BOTH THE ORIGINATOR  [Bahá'u'lláh] AND THE   INTERPRETER
['Abdu'l-Bahá] OF THE LAW OF GOD"  AND CONSEQUENTLY "THEIR WILL."


If, on the other hand, the Hands of the Cause had taken the time to initiate
an intensive and comprehensive research of the acts, writings and messages
of Shoghi Effendi, without bias and preconceived ideas, they may have
discovered to their surprise and certainly contrary to their expectations,
that Shoghi Effendi's appointed successor was in their very midst and one
whose multiple services to the Faith over a period of more than half a
century had been unparalleled by any other male Hand of the Faith.  They may
have realized that, it had been because of this distinction and of his
exemplary devotion and fidelity to the Covenant, as recognized by
'Abdu'l-Bahá in his many eulogies of Mason Remey,
http://Bahai-Guardian.com/eulogy.html  Shoghi Effendi had appointed Mason
Remey the President of the International Bahá'í Council‹the embryonic
Universal House of Justice, a body over which according to the terms of
'Abdu'l-Bahá's Will, only the Guardian of the Faith presides as its
permanent and "SACRED HEAD."

And they would have perhaps come to understand that, although Shoghi Effendi
had proclaimed his decision to establish this "NASCENT INSTITUTION" on 9
January 1951 http://Bahai-Guardian.com/Proc9.Jan.html  "AS THE MOST
SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE IN  EVOLUTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER " and one that
"HISTORY WILL ACCLAIM AS THE GREATEST EVENT SHEDDING LUSTRE  UPON SECOND
EPOCH OF FORMATIVE AGE," he had, of necessity,  not instructed Mason Remey,
to activate this Council as a functioning body during the remaining years of
his ministry.  He had assigned tasks to individual members only to carry out
its initial "threefold function" pertaining to matters within the Holy Land
but had stated that to these would "be added further functions in course of
evolution of THIS FIRST EMBRYONIC INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTION"   And if they
had recalled that 'Abdu'l-Bahá  had stated that "THE EMBRYO POSSESSES FROM
THE FIRST ALL PERFECTIONS . . . IN ONE WORD, ALL THE POWERS. . ."  they may
have then perceived the tremendous implications involved in Mason Remey's
appointment as the embryonic head of this embryonic Universal House of
Justice. In their research the Hands would have further found Shoghi
Effendi's highly significant message of 23 November 1951 in which he had
projected the important role  the International Bahá'í Council, during the
Ten Year Global Crusade then in progress, once it had become an actively
functioning body.  An extract of this message is quoted below:

"For unlike the first and second Seven Year Plans, inaugurated by the
American Bahá'í Community, the scope of the third Seven Year Plan,
[subsequently replaced by the 10 year Global Crusade] the termination of
which will mark the conclusion of the first Epoch in the evolution of the
Master Plan designed by 'Abdu'l-Bahá will embrace all the continents of the
earth, and will bring the Central Body
http://Bahai-Guardian.com/worldorder.html directing these widely ramified
operations into direct contact with all the National Assemblies of the
Bahá'í world, which, in varying degrees, will have to contribute their share
to the world establishment of the Cause of Bahá'u'lláh, as prophesied by
'Abdu'l-Bahá and envisioned by Daniel,‹a consummation that, God willing,
will be befittingly celebrated on the occasion of the Most Great Jubilee
commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the formal assumption by
Bahá'u'lláh of His Prophetic Office."

The CENTRAL BODY mentioned in the message above (which has been underlined
above by this writer) is, of course, none other than the International
Bahá'í Council that Shoghi Effendi had appointed only some eleven months
earlier.  But, significantly, Shoghi Effendi had not authorized this
International Council to assume an active role as a functioning body under
the Presidency of Mason Remey and one that involved "directing"  the
"operations" of the National Spiritual Assemblies of the Bahá'í world in
their prosecution of the goals of the Ten Year Global Crusade, while he was
still living, for the very reason that the President of the Council, Mason
Remey, who had been appointed by him, and identified in his message of 2
March 1951, was, as a consequence, undeniably the Guardian-to-be.
Therefore, the Council's activation had to await Shoghi Effendi's demise
which actually took place on 4 November 1957 at the mid-point of the
Crusade.

Neither the  Hands nor the believers throughout the world had perceived, at
the time, the tremendous implication  in the message quoted above in which
Shoghi Effendi had not only confirmed the appointment of his successor but,
in an indirect but clear way, had predicted that his own passing would take
place some time during the Ten Year Crusade.  He obviously realized, that by
veiling the prospect of his unexpected passing in this indirect way, the
believers would not perceive the imminence of his passing which otherwise
would have had a highly deleterious impact on the believers as they labored
to achieve the goals of the Ten Year Global Crusade  scheduled to commence
in little more than a year from the date of this message.

The Hands of the Cause, tragically enough, perceived none of the foregoing,
and with two exceptions (later only one) inexcusably lost faith in the
immutability of every clause of the provisions of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's
divinely-conceived and sacred Will and Testament and the immortality of that
"Child, of the Covenant" and, in unseemly haste, ignominiously decided, on
the first day of their conclave in 'Akka, that the Guardianship had come to
an end.

Furthermore, the Hands did not permit the International Bahá'í Council to
exercise the active role that Shoghi Effendi had projected for it in his
message of 23 November 1951, cited above, but appointed a body of nine Hands
titled "Custodians of the Bahá'í World Faith, " a superfluous and
illegitimate body completely outside the provisions of the Will and
Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá which usurped not only the functions of the
International Council but those of the Guardianship as well for a brief
period of some five and a half years when they were assumed by an equally
illegitimate sans-Guardian Universal House of Justice elected in 1963.

The inquirer at this point may well ask:

* Why had Shoghi Effendi appointed his successor in this indirect manner
(although within the terms of the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá) as a
result of which, not only had the Hands  obviously failed to perceive this
appointment but the entire Bahá'í world, as well?

* Why didn't Mason Remey inform the Hands during the first conclave of the
Hands of the manner in which he had inherited the Guardianship?


The answers to these questions as well as others, are discussed in detail in
articles found on my web page where further irrefutable evidence
http://Bahai-Guardian.com/irrefutable.html is also provided based on the
clear statements of Shoghi Effendi that attest to the legitimacy of Mason
Remey's accession to the Guardianship
http://Bahai-Guardian.com/Mason.proc.html   and which prove conclusively
that the Hands completely failed in their contemptible attempted abortion of
the" Child of the Covenant."

Joel Bray Marangella

Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith

http://Bahai-Guardian.com