Dr. Leland Jensen
Knight of Baha'u'llah
Professor Pepe Remey
Via Malenchini 6
Florence Italy
February 18, 1992
Dear Pepe,
I welcome your conciliatory letter of February 9, 1992. This is the greatest idea that either of us have put forth so far and I encourage this vane of thought. I am all in favor of your idea to "bury the hatchet" as you put it, but I am unwilling to buy your friendship for 8 cents or $8,000, as this money would not go to either God or Mason. This money can be much better spent in establishing the "Kingdom of God," and/or to ameliorate your miserable condition. You need to change your morbid outlook of trying to crawl into a tomb, to entering into activities and friendship of a very spiritual and loving community of friends devoted to establishing God's Kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven, which has been sent from God in the Revelation of Baha'u'llah. To be in the Kingdom here is to be in the $ Kingdom there. The friends here would welcome you with open arms. You not only would have lovely friends, but they would help you with all of your needs. You would be provided with a place to stay either with friends or in an apartment.
Should you get your wish to be with Mason in hell, as you put it, you two would soon hate each other, for hell is not a condition of joy, singing and happiness, but one of sorrow, severe suffering and regret. You will hate Mason for bringing you down to the crypt, which is your present aspiration, for in hell there is absolutely no way to help yourself or Mason, as there is no freedom of choice in the next life, that is to make yourself or Mason right with God. Freedom of choice is limited to this world only. Mason will hate you, for you now have the freedom of choice to get yourself right with God but you are wasting this opportunity. After getting right with God then when praying to Him to ameliorate and better Mason's condition God will hear you, for God hears the prayers of His faithful servants.
I didn't come to establish myself, but to save those that will listen, and to reestablish what the Covenant-breakers on Mt. Carmel and Mason threw out. You need to read very carefully the enclosure, my letter to Kam a waverer in his membership in what they call "the mainstream Baha'is". There has been an escalation of sincere inquries of those "mainstream Baha'is", that are wavering in their violation. As things look now it should not be too long before we will have our 144,000.
To be with Mason whether he is in heaven or hell and then to square yourself with God somehow should not be your goal, but to square yourself with God now while you are still on earth, for there is no free will in the next life. It is not for me to say whether Mason is in heaven or hell, that judgement is with God.
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To me it seems that you equate Mason with God, and that you turn to him instead of God. God has created us to know Him and to worship Him only. To know God is only possible through the Revelations of the Divine Manifestations. To be a good guy, that is, to have a "clear conscience" because you "have done so much good all of your life" is not enough. I didn't give my proofs for you to worship me, but to guide you back to the Kingdom that both you and Mason had abandoned. You need to get yourself right with what Baha'u'llah revealed, 'Abdu'l-Baha delineated and Shoghi Effendi set up as his successor, the IBC/UHJ, with Mason and his successors as its presidents. This is the only way the truth and the life. If you could only give yourself to God, all of the Lord of Hosts' heavenly angels will come to your support and bring you up out of the hell that you are now in.
A defective mitral heart valve is a very serious malady. You need to come to Missoula to live and to come under Medicare and medicaid, and be surrounded by your loving friends to aid and support you. If you continue to go the route that you are now going it won't be long until your heart enlarges and becomes so inefficient that you will have congestive heart failure, where you will swell up with ascites and edema. Also in Missoula we have one of the best mitral valve lesion surgeons in the world. You must not procrastinate. Time is of the essence.
If you don't come here to live you should at least come here to become acquainted with all your loving friends before you become so disabled that you won't be able to do that. Yes, we have wasted so much valuable time in adversity as to bring you to a state of crisis. So, no more of that. We must communicate as loving friends, not as enemies. I am glad you put out the olive branch. Let us all benefit from it.
In faith,
Leland
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Source: Dave Cornell