letter jensen to charles gaines july 30 1991

[Note from publishers: There is a reference on the bottom of page 10 by Dr. Jensen that Shoghi Effendi set up a Babi administration when he set up the first International Baha'i Council. This was later corrected by Dr. Jensen in 1/7/94 letter.]

Dear Charles,

It was so nice to read your letter written to the second International Baha'i Council of May 1, 1991, and the accompanying Addendum, the GUARDIANSHIP AND THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE, a critique of the document entitled, "THE EXPOUNDER OF THE WORDS OF GOD." I want to thank you very kindly for your effort. It was read and because of it I am prompted to respond with this Epistle, probably the most important one that I have written. This was made possible by the research and insight of my beloved wife, Wind, who gave a splendid and clear dissertation at the forum several weeks ago laying this out very elegantly, and that of Neal Chase and Kay Woods who contributed largely for this writing.

I want you to know that you are a very dear and close friend of mine, an elder and a co-worker in the Cause of God; but nobody in this world knew the meaning of the Will and Testament including myself until I had broken the 7th seal, which I did when I wrote my 7th Epistle to Pepe on the 2nd of May this year.[1]

In chapter five of the Book of Revelation it tells us that there is one prophesied to appear who would be seated on the throne holding in his hand a scroll written within and on the back. In my previous writings and epistles I have explained that this one seated on the throne (of David) was Mason Remey, the first Aghsan guardian, and the scroll is the Book of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah, which appoints 'Abdu'l-Baha as His successor, who wrote the addendum to it ("written on the back"), which is the Sacred Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha that delineates Baha'u'llah's Covenant. The script goes on to ask, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?", then it goes on to say: "And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it." Then it goes on further to state that only the Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes was "Worthy (art thou) to take the scroll and to open its seals." Where it says "or to look into it" means to understand it. The meaning of the scroll remained hidden until I broke the 7th

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1. See my Epistle to Brent when reading my seventh Epistle to Pepe.

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seal. See my Epistle to Brent and my Seventh Epistle to Pepe where I explain the fifth chapter.

The explanations that you make in your Addendum were the consensus of myself and the Baha'i world at the passing of Shoghi Effendi.

Before the passing of Shoghi Effendi the believers were instructed to be very firm in the Covenant and each were given copies of the Will and Testament (W&T) when they entered the faith. The language seemed to be very difficult, so they never endeavored to master it. As they had an infallible guardian to interpret the Will and guide them, they didn't feel it necessary to know the Will for themselves, all they needed to do was to turn to Shoghi Effendi, which they did. They thought Shoghi had a son that would succeed him in the guardianship and be a duplicate of him, so they had nothing to worry about. Upon the passing of Shoghi, however, there was no son to guide them, and not understanding the Will and Testament they were all very confused and were in great danger to error. As they had no guardian to turn to for guidance, this was a very fertile ground for error and usurpation of the leadership of the faith. Had the believers been knowledgeable of the W&T they would have known that Shoghi Effendi was not to be succeeded by a duplicate of himself, but by the Universal House of Justice (UHJ). In the last two paragraphs of the Will 'Abdu'l-Baha tells us that we must turn to Shoghi Effendi and be obedient to him and then to the Universal House of Justice. That is why God did not give Shoghi Effendi a son. There was no Universal House of Justice at that time. That is why Shoghi Effendi set up an embryonic UHJ with Mason Remey as its president. This is what they should have all turned to. Re-read the last two verses of the Will and Testament and you will find that Abdu'l-Baha was only depicting one guardian to be Infallible and that was Shoghi Effendi and not to any succeeding guardians.

O ye faithful loved ones of 'Abdu'l-Baha! It is incumbent upon you to take the greatest care of Shoghi Effendi, the twig [Afnan] that hath branched from and the fruit given forth by the two hallowed and Divine Lote-Trees [The Bab and Baha'u'llah], that no dust of despondency and sorrow may stain his radiant nature, that day by day he may wax greater in happiness, in joy and spirituality, and may grow to become even as a fruitful tree.

For he [Shoghi Effendi] is, after 'Abdu'l-Baha, the guardian of the Cause of God, the Afnan, the Hands (pillars) of the Cause and the Beloved of the Lord must obey him and turn unto him. He that obeyeth him [Shoghi Effendi] not, hath not obeyed God; he that turneth away from him [Shoghi Effendi], hath turned away from God and he that denieth him [Shoghi Effendi], hath denied the True One. Beware lest anyone falsely interpret these words, and like unto them that have broken the Covenant after the Day of Ascension (of Baha'u'llah) advance a pretext, raise the standard of revolt, wax stubborn and open wide the door of false interpretation. To none is given the right to put forth his own opinion or express his particular convictions. All must seek guidance and turn unto the Center of the Cause [Shoghi Effendi] and [then] the House of Justice. And he that turneth unto whatsoever else in indeed in grievous error.

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In the above quote from the W&T it is indubitably clear that the Master was writing about one guardian only and that was Shoghi Effendi, in contrast to your Addendum and the consensus of the mass of the Baha'is. And when he stated to turn to the House of Justice he was not just telling them to turn to the elected body of the House of Justice, as was also supposed in your Addendum, but to the House of Justice which includes both the elected members and its appointed member, its president. On page 14 of the W&T 'Abdu'l-Baha tells us that this House consists of an elected body and the guardian as its head and member for life. Therefore when one turns to the UHJ one turns not just to the elected body. An elected body is not the UHJ. The UHJ consist of both a hereditary head and an elected body. The way to distinguish a phony UHJ from the Baha'i UHJ is that the Baha'i UHJ has the hereditary guardian at its head, this alone is what we must all turn to. There have been four attempts to form a UHJ: The World Court at the Hague, The League of Nations in Switzerland, The United Nations in New York, and the UHJ fabricated by the "Hands" on Mt. Carmel. None of them are the Baha'i UHJ because they don't have the guardian at its head. The first three are imitations, but don't even have the Baha'i name, much less a guardian as its head or president. The fourth one is bogus, or phony as it operates as the Baha'i UHJ, but it too doesn't have the hereditary guardian, in compliance of the W&T, as its head, or president. The only one that the Baha'is must turn to is the one that is in compliance with 'Abdu'l-Baha's W&T, having the hereditary guardian at its head.

By this body all the difficult problems are to be resolved and the guardian [not Shoghi Effendi] of the Cause of God is its sacred head and the distinguished member for life of that body.[2]

The UHJ only is the successor to Shoghi Effendi, not a guardian as the people had looked for. During the life of Shoghi Effendi there was no active UHJ. It consisted in embryo only, as the first International Baha'i Council (IBC). It was this council that succeeded Shoghi Effendi. It consisted of an appointed head (an Aghsan guardian) and an appointed body that was to become a World Court in 1963. After this its body was to become elected and then it would finally blossom into the UHJ by the end of this century.

Mason made a mistake. Upon the passing of Shoghi Effendi, the very first thing that he should have done was to call the members of that IBC together, having its first meeting and thus activating it and making it no longer embryonic. He should have declared that this IBC/UHJ was the successor to Shoghi Effendi. This Council should then have declared all of Shoghi Effendi's "Hands" dissolved, as they could only function under the direction of Shoghi Effendi and without him they didn't exist as "Hands". This Council should have forbidden the defunct "Hands" from holding their clandestine meeting. For these "Hands" had no authority to hold such a meeting as they were under the direct supervision of the guardian that appointed them--Shoghi Effendi. Mason should not have attended that clandestine meeting giving it credence. If they disobeyed, the Council should have expelled them from the Baha'i faith.

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2 W&T, page 14.

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Baha'u'llah established the doctrine of the infallibility of the Divine Manifestations. They alone have essential infallibility. Baha'u'llah made a Covenant conferring infallibility upon 'Abdu'l-Baha. 'Abdu'l-Baha made a Covenant (W&T) bestowing conferred infallibility upon Shoghi Effendi, and a Covenant conferring infallibility upon the UHJ that was to succeed Shoghi Effendi. The infallibility from Shoghi Effendi was not passed down to any one member, either appointed or elected to the UHJ, but to the entire UHJ (head and body).[3] This was the only infallible successor to Shoghi Effendi.

Shoghi Effendi was the only infallible guardian. He was unique, that is, one of a kind. He was both head and body, that is, his body was not the body of the UHJ. His head was ghusn--Aghsan (wood) and his body Afnan (iron). 'Abdu'l-Baha said when the Rod of Wood and the Rod of Iron are united it becomes the Rod of Gold. The Rod of Gold is infallible. All succeeding guardians are Aghsan guardians (not gold) and are therefore not infallible. They are united together with the other members of the body making it a head and body of gold. Therefore 'Abdu'l-Baha did not confer infallibility on the Aghsan guardians, but upon the UHJ.

...The meaning is that certain personages guided the people with a staff grown out of the earth, and shepherded them with a rod, like unto the rod of Moses. Others trained and shepherded the people with a rod of iron, as in the dispensation of Muhammad. And in this present cycle, because it is mightiest of dispensations, that rod grown out of the vegetable kingdom and that rod of iron will be transformed into a rod of purest gold, taken from out the endless treasure houses in the Kingdom of the Lord. By this rod will the people be trained--'Abdu'l-Baha[4]

And

Verse 5. 'And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron.' This great son is the promised Manifestation who was born of the Law of God and reared in the bosom of the divine teachings. The iron rod is a symbol of power and might--it is not a sword--and means that with divine power and might he will shepherd all the nations of the earth. This son is the Bab. 'Abdu'l-Baha[5]

Because within Shoghi Effendi's person was both the wood and the iron, within him also were the corresponding powers of the twin institutions. Shoghi had both of the twin pillars within his personal body. His successor, the IBC/UHJ, the Golden Branch, is also the "twin pillars" and has both of these

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3 "Now the members of the House of Justice [including the distinguished member, the Aghsan guardian] have not, individually, essential sinlessness; but the body of the House of Justice is under the protection of God: this is called conferred infallibility" (Some Answered Questions, p. 199).

4 Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha, page 166--Compiled by the Research Department of the ?Universal House of Justice?, Translated by a committee at the Baha'i World Center.

5 'Abdu'l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, pages 80-81.

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twin institutions within it's body--both wood, the (Aghsan) head and iron, the elected body.

Salutation and praise, blessing and glory rest upon that primal branch [ghusn--Aghsan] of the Divine and Sacred Lote-Tree, grown out, blest, tender, verdant and flourishing from the Twin Holy Trees; the most wondrous, unique and priceless pearl that doth gleam from out the Twin surging seas...[6]

Shoghi Effendi was unique because he was an Afnan, and ghusn, that is, he was a male descendant of Muhammad (Iron Rod) and a collateral relation of the Bab (Iron Rod), and through his mother, a daughter of 'Abdu'l-Baha (Wood Rod). All the succeeding guardians however, are only Aghsan guardians (male descendants of David and Baha'u'llah) and therefore are to sit upon the throne of David. However Shoghi was not a male descendant of David and Baha'u'llah, therefore he could not sit upon the throne of David--meaning that he could not sit at the head of the Universal House of Justice. He had however, powers more potent (a Rod of Iron and of Wood) than an Aghsan guardian (a Rod of Wood only). These were the powers of an absolute monarch. Everyone had to obey him no matter what he said or did. On page 11 of the W&T it makes this very clear. The language here is the same as that in the last two paragraphs of the W&T, only more fully stated. Wherever it states the guardian, in the above mentioned paragraphs, it refers only to Shoghi Effendi, for 'Abdu'l-Baha in the very first phrase states: "The sacred and youthful branch," an appellation that he used exclusively in referring to Shoghi Effendi. Wherever its states the UHJ, or them, it refers to the members of the UHJ, both elected and the one appointed by the previous guardian.

The sacred and youthful branch [ferrah--Afnan!--Shoghi Effendi], the guardian of the Cause of God as well as the Universal House of Justice, to be universally elected and established, are both under the care and protection of the Abha Beauty, under the shelter and unerring guidance of His Holiness, the Exalted One (may my life be offered up for them both). Whatsoever they [Shoghi Effendi and then the UHJ] decide is of God. Whoso obeyeth him [Shoghi Effendi] not, neither obeyeth them [the members of both the head and body of the UHJ], hath not obeyed God; whoso rebelleth against him [Shoghi Effendi] and against them [the members of the UHJ both head and body] hath rebelled against God; whoso opposeth him [Shoghi Effendi] hath opposed God; whoso contendeth with them [members of the House, both head and body] hath contended with God; whoso disputeth with him [Shoghi Effendi] hath disputeth with God; whoso denieth him [Shoghi Effendi] hath denied God; whoso disbelieveth in him [Shoghi Effendi] hath disbelieved in God; whoso deviateth, separateth himself and turneth aside from him [Shoghi Effendi] hath in truth deviated, separated himself and turned aside from God. May the wrath, the fierce indignation, the vengeance of God rest upon him! The mighty stronghold shall remain impregnable and safe through

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6 W&T, page 3.

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obedience to him [Shoghi Effendi] who is the guardian of the Cause of God. It is incumbent upon the members [both the head and the body] of the House of Justice, upon all the Aghsan, the Afnan, the Hands of the Cause of God to show their obedience, submissiveness and subordination unto [Shoghi Effendi] the guardian of the Cause of God, to turn unto him [Shoghi Effendi] and be lowly before him [Shoghi Effendi]. He that opposeth him [Shoghi Effendi] hath opposed the True One, will make a breach in the Cause of God, will subvert His word and will become a manifestation of the Center of Sedition.[7]

In the above, where it says "him" has been erroneously interpreted as pertaining to not only the Afnan/Aghsan guardian, Shoghi Effendi, but also to the Aghsan guardians who will be members and presidents of the House of Justice. However the paragraph begins with the words "The sacred and youthful branch", which according to the text of the Will refers only to Shoghi Effendi. In the previous paragraph on page 11 'Abdu'l-Baha entitles Shoghi Effendi as the "youthful branch" and likewise on page 3 he is entitled the "sacred branch". This makes Shoghi the only person, referred to in the Will as "The sacred and youthful branch". The "him" in the paragraph therefore can only be Shoghi Effendi, as he alone is the only individual subject named in the paragraph.

But just think for a minute. What would happen if it did refer to the Aghsan guardians? How would the House of Justice be able to operate if the elected members had to obey, or not to oppose, or not to contend, or not to dispute, or not deviate from the opinions of the president and had to remain submissive and subordinate to him, who has only just one vote in the House like any other member? They would all be so constrained and intimidated, for fear that they would violate the Covenant, as to be nothing more than just a rubber stamp as to the opinions of their president. This would be true to the point where they would not be necessary, for they could not present their views, or vote their own conscience as they are instructed to do. No, the above refers solely to that infallible, unique and priceless pearl of whom 'Abdu'l-Baha, the Center of the Covenant, referred to as the "Center of the Cause." It is to him that everyone must turn and then to the next infallible body, the Universal House of Justice that has both a body and a president.

Just what happened after laying to rest the body of Shoghi Effendi was as follows: the "Hands" announced to the Baha'i world that Shoghi left no son and did not appoint in a will the name of "another branch" to be his successor. Mason did not activate the first International Baha'i Council and step forth proclaiming to the Baha'i world that it was the successor that Shoghi Effendi had set up and proclaimed to the Baha'i world some six years previously.

Because of this, confusion abounded, leaving fertile ground for the evil in men's hearts and the wickedness of their minds to pervert and lay aside the Holy Text. The Hands of Shoghi Effendi, that saw that they might not be the Hands of a successor to Shoghi Effendi, and the widow of the "Beloved Guardian" Shoghi Effendi, although she was the wife of the guardian, saw that she would not be the wife or mother of a successor, and therefore co-conspired with the Persian

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7 W&T, page 11.

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Hands to do away with the guardianship. Once they were entrenched in power they made plans to do away with the first International Baha'i Council. They wasted no time. The day after they returned to Haifa, after burying Shoghi Effendi in London, where he had passed on, they met in a clandestine meeting, which they called a conclave, and starting with the Persian hands, one after another stood up and recited a doctrine which they had agreed upon the night before and said "BADA" (a Persian word meaning that God had changed his mind, or broke His own Covenant) since Shoghi had no son and he left no will, and therefore the guardianship has come to an end[8]." After each of the Persians had recited the above quote the guardian's widow stood up and recited the above quote stating that she knew for certain that her husband, Shoghi Effendi, had no son and that he certainly did not write a will, thus the guardianship had ended. Then all the rest of the Hands fell in line reciting the above quote, placing themselves in power to protect the Cause of God from having another guardian. Their creed was: Unity at all cost, sans guardian, although the only point of unity in the Baha'i faith is the guardianship. Then they passed another resolution stating: now that the guardianship has ended, none of the believers should discuss this further, not even with their own families, including husband and wife, with the threat of expulsion from the faith. Thus they replaced the point of unity (the guardianship) as supplied by the Covenant with that of "Oppression", which Baha'u'llah in the Iqan said would inflict His faith.

Mason went along with this violation, after they promised him they would not violate Shoghi's plans for 1963, for the IBC/UHJ which included him as president to become a World Court on Mt. Carmel. Mason then would be recognized as the head or Judge of this court and as such, the guardian. He was hoping to have them return to the provisions of the Covenant by gentle persuasion, but every time that he brought it up in private conversation he was reminded that it was taboo to discuss the issue. After several years, in 1959, when they were so firmly entrenched in the control of the Baha'i faith, the "Hands" held another conclave. In this conclave the "Hands" expelled the dormant IBC/UHJ from the faith. The very IBC/UHJ that Shoghi Effendi had set up to be his successor and that he had proclaimed was the greatest event in the 500 thousand year cycle, second only to the three central figures of the Baha'i faith. Thus they expelled from the faith the institution that Shoghi Effendi had set up to be his successor. So you can see that the "Hands" usurped the Faith completely non-authoritatively, as anyone taking just a cursory look at the W&T could easily see. For they had absolutely no authority to do what they did.

By the "Hands" eliminating the IBC/UHJ successor to Shoghi Effendi, that Shoghi Effendi himself had appointed six years previous to his passing (during his lifetime), they were not only acting non-authoritatively and therefore breaking the Covenant, but they were also in rebellion to Shoghi Effendi, and because of this they rebelled against God. Thus they deviated, separated themselves and turned aside from him (Shoghi Effendi) and therefore "have in truth deviated, separated themselves and turned aside from God[9]". They got away with this by convincing their ignorant followers that this was the only way to save the Baha'i

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8 This may not be the exact wording of the quote.

9 Will and Testament page 11.

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faith from accepting a succeeding guardian, and so they declared "BADA", that God had broken His own Covenant by not giving Shoghi Effendi a son leaving no heir. Accordingly they led them to believe that the guardianship had come to an end, not realizing that the president (head) of that council, Mason Remey, was the embryonic guardian of the embryonic UHJ, for the head of the UHJ is the guardian.[10]

Now that these "Hands" were no longer just erroneously taking over the leadership of the faith, but had committed the unforgivable sin of separating themselves from God and becoming His enemy. They left Mason with no other alternative but to separate himself from them and proclaim their violation of the Covenant to the body of believers. Mason left Mt. Carmel right after the conclave and when he was aboard ship on his way to America, with short stays in Italy and Paris, he wrote several appeals to the "Hands" urging them to give up their violation, to change their evil ways and return to the Provisions of the Covenant. They didn't budge in their violation so he wrote them a "Last Appeal." Then just before the National American Convention of Ridvan 1960, he sent out his Proclamation to the secretaries of all the Local Spiritual Assemblies exposing the violation of the "Hands" and showing them that he was their guardian to whom they should all turn. But the "Hands" had sent out cablegrams to the National Spiritual Assemblies stating that Mason Remey had broken the Covenant, that they had to expel him from the faith and that all the believers must avoid him. The "Hands" didn't explain just how such authority was given to them in the Covenant or to charge Mason with a crime or violation to justify their removing the guardian from the faith, something for which there are no provisions in the writings. The guardians are members for life of that body of the IBC/UHJ. No, he bad not broken the Covenant. They were the Covenant-breakers and he had already expelled them from the faith for Covenant-breaking.

The Baha'is were aIl screwed up world-wide. No one was going by the Provisions of the sacred Covenant. Thus like sheep, they followed the wolves in sheep clothing and went against their guardian in foolishness and ignorance, for they refused to even read Mason's Proclamation or to listen to anyone explaining what happened. They were like the Jews that were loyal to the Sanhedrim in opposition to Jesus. When Pontius Pilate asked them if he should free Jesus or Barabbas they all cried, "give us Barabbas and crucify Jesus." The Baha'is are much more guilty than they for they had all the examples of past violations, and Baha'u'llah had revealed the great principle of the "Independent Investigation of the Truth."

However, Mason, an Aghsan guardian, being fallible, made many mistakes besides letting the "Hands" get control, as I have just explained. He himself, didn't understand the Covenant and the Will and Testament, for he too thought that the last two paragraphs of the W&T, as well as on page eleven, referred to all the succeeding guardians as well as Shoghi Effendi. He too thought that Shoghi Effendi was a prototype of all succeeding guardians. So in his

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10 "By this body (of the UHJ) all the difficult problems are to be resolved and the guardian of the Cause of God is its sacred head and the distinguished member for life of that body." (W&T p. 14)

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Proclamation he stated to them that he was their infallible guardian, and he assumed all the powers of an Afnan/Aghsan guardian although he was not an Afnan. He used the Council as a modus operandi for his appointment to the guardianship, thus when he set up an International Baha'i Council instead of being its head and calling it into action, he appointed Joel Marangella, who was neither an Aghsan or an Afnan, as its president, stating that he himself would not function as the head of a Council. Mason said that he would not let them tell him how to spend his money. He didn't seem to know why Shoghi Effendi used this method to appoint him. He was not realizing that only a living Aghsan guardian can be the president of an IBC/UHJ, and in accordance with the W&T it was the only way he could function as a guardian, and that Shoghi an Afnan (twig) and Ghusn (branch) guardian followed the Muslim rule of government as an absolute monarch. The only way an Aghsan guardian, a descendant of David and Baha'u'llah, in accordance with the W&T, could function as a guardian was to serve as guardian (head) of a Council, or IBC/UHJ. Mason didn't see that Shoghi Effendi was unique, just one of a kind, and that there will never be another like him, being infallible and being an absolute monarch.

And I [Mason] must be assured of this and at the same time I must conserve my independence as Guardian of the Faith and not have any Baha'i organization over me and dictating to me how I should spend the Guardian's fund....[11]

I don't know just what all was going through the head of Mason at this point. There is one thing that comes out clear and that is that he didn't understand the difference between the Afnan (twig) and Ghusn (branch) guardian who is guided by both the Bab and Baha'u'llah, as he was a descendent of these twin holy seas, and that of an Aghsan (branch) guardian who is only a male descendent of Baha'u'llah.

O my loving, friends! After the passing away of this wronged one, it is incumbent upon the Aghsan (Branches), the Afnan (Twigs) of the Sacred Lote-tree[12], the Hands (pillars) of the Cause of God and the loved ones of the Abha Beauty [Baha'u'llah] to turn unto Shoghi Effendi--the youthful branch [ferrah--Afnan] branched from the two hallowed and sacred Lote-Trees [the Bab and Baha'u'llah] and the fruit grown from the union of the two offshoots of the Tree of Holiness [the Tree of Life, or the Cabala],--as he is the sign of God, the chosen branch [ghusn--Aghsan], the guardian of the Cause of God, he unto whom all the Aghsan [including Mason], the Afnan, the Hands of the Cause of God and His loved ones must turn [meaning all of us]. He is the expounder of the words of God [he diffused the Divine fragrance] and after him will succeed the first-born of his lineal descendants [He had no son]. (W&T, p. 11)

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11 A letter to James Meyer of July 18, 1967, by Mason.

12 The tree of which there is no passing, meaning the Divine Manifestation, who cannot be bypassed so as to go directly to God.

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That which was to succeed Shoghi Effendi, as he had no son, was the first International Baha'i Council, but as I have explained it was abolished by the "Hands" for a "Headless Monster," an elected body only. At this time Mason was about to permanently get rid of the body of the IBC, which would grow to be the UHJ, by eliminating everything that Shoghi Effendi had erected. He wrote in his third letter to James Meyer on July 1, 1967:

Shoghi Effendi was a very confused soul. He was an ego maniac. He flouted and disobeyed the laws of Aqdas and created all this confusion himself. Therefore the only thing for me to do has been to explain this condition in my letters to the Friends telling them frankly that my first step is to wipe out and to efface everything that Shoghi Effendi did and then inaugurate a new Faith based upon the teachings of Baha'u'llah and not upon the Bab.

'Abdu'l-Baha, in the Will and Testament on page 11, said that both Shoghi Effendi as well as the UHJ are under the care and protection, under the shelter and unerring guidance of both Baha'u'llah and the Bab.

The sacred and youthful branch [far--Afnan], the guardian of the Cause of God [Shoghi Effendi] as well as the Universal House of Justice [that is to succeed Shoghi Effendi], to be universally elected and established, are both under the care and protection of the Abha Beauty [Baha'u'llah], under the shelter and unerring guidance of His Holiness, the Exalted One [the Bab] (may my life be offered up for them both). (W&T, p. 11)

Some of the friends have an understanding that these guardians (plural) have a hot wire or tube connecting their minds with the minds of the Bab and Baha'u'llah making them divinely guided and giving them infallibility. Mason went so far as to state that it is through their infallibility that the UHJ receives its infallibility. But this is all kibosh. This infallibility refers solely to Shoghi Effendi and then to the UHJ which succeeds Shoghi Effendi, and it does not mean that this guidance comes from on high through a mystical tube or something, but from the writings of the Bab and Baha'u'llah, the source of our guidance. This is why the Manifestations of this day wrote their Revelations.

Shoghi being an Afnan (Shiite) guardian, had access to the writings of the Bab and the administrations of the Imams, but the Western world was forbidden by the Bab, Baha'u'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi from having the Bab's writings translated into languages other than its original tongue. That is, it was intended only for Shiite Islam. Therefore Shoghi Effendi was guided by both the Bab and Baha'u'llah. Shoghi laid the groundwork, that is he used the Babi administration to spread the Baha'i faith around the world and to establish an IBC (an embryonic UHJ) to succeed him. Therefore this guidance came from both the writings of the Bab and Baha'u'llah in accordance with the provisions of the Sacred Will and Testament.

Mason seated on the throne in chapter 5 of the Book of Revelation, held in his hand a scroll, the Covenant of Baha'u'llah and the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha, that was sealed with 7 seals. He couldn't break the seals nor look into the scroll (the Covenant and W&T) to know its meaning nor could anyone

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else in the world. So Mason rebelled against Shoghi Effendi and them, the IBC/UHJ, and thus he rebelled against God. He opposed him (Shoghi Effendi), he disputed with him, he disbelieved in him, he deviated, separated himself and turned aside from him (Shoghi Effendi), and threw out everything that Shoghi Effendi did and therefore "in truth [he] deviated, separated himself and turned aside from God." Mason then inaugurated a new Faith, which he said was "based upon the teachings of Baha'u'llah (and not upon the Bab)."

In The Guardian's Letter, published by Charles Mason Remey--December 1966--he wrote down his misconceptions of what Shoghi Effendi did and of Mason's new religion.

This mistake has caused so much confusion and misunderstanding and trouble that the only thing for the second Guardian to do, to set matters aright, is to discard all which Shoghi Effendi did and to institute a New Faith which shall be the Orthodox Faith of Baha'u'llah under the Holy name of ABHA in order to carry out the conditions that will lead to the establishment of the TRUE Baha'i Faith (of Baha'u'llah) which Faith has not yet been established in the world.

Here Mason has not only separated himself from God but he has established a new religion in opposition to the Baha'i faith, called the ABHA Father Faith. He then went even further into violation and apostasy. In his letter to Charlie Murphy in September 1969, in which he expelled Rex King as Satan, he announced that a whole new cycle would begin on January 1, 1970, the cycle of his Abha Father Faith. As he had already destroyed the Baha'i faith, by doing away with the elected body of the UHJ with himself as president, he began replacing it with what he wrote to Nancy Hardaway. Mason wrote that he would appoint twenty-four elders from among his disciples and they would be his Hands. They will advise him and he would make all the decisions in the place of what is written in the W&T and as put forth by Shoghi Effendi. This new administration was to last until the next Manifestation comes in a thousand years from January 1, 1970.

In your letter to the second International Baha'i Council you write:

It appears to me now that because of the frustration in dealing with Pepe, his refusal to accept his station as the Guardian, the disappointment in discovering the character and flaws in Mason and Pepe, we are trying to strip the Guardian of his legitimate status and authority, and reduce him to nothing more than the Chief Executive of the Universal House of Justice.

I believe this is absolutely contrary to everything in the Will and Testament, and have submitted this Addendum in defense of the Guardianship as a separate, independent, and equal institution in its own right, with a clearly defined sphere of influence and authority.

In the second paragraph of the above we agree that the Guardianship of Shoghi Effendi is separate, and independent of the UHJ which succeeds him.

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When you speak of the UHJ, you do so as just an elected body only and the guardian as a separate institution. You cannot say a UHJ is just an elected body with the guardian of it separate. Contrary to your statement, that the twin institutions are separate, Shoghi Effendi stated: "Acting in conjunction with each other these two inseparable institutions administer its affairs, coordinate its activities, promote its interests, execute its laws and defend its subsidiary institutions.....Far from being incompatible or mutually destructive, they supplement each other's authority and functions, and are permanently and fundamentally united in their aims"[13]. They are both members of that one body--the appointed hereditary head and the other elected members--and what they (head and body together) decide is of God. When you are quoting on page 11 of the W&T concerning the Guardian, it refers only to Shoghi Effendi. And where it states the UHJ it means the head and the body as a single unit, and what they decide is of God and is without error. No place in the W&T does it state that the guardian, that is the head of the UHJ, is the infallible interpreter of the word. Shoghi Effendi in his codification of the laws before his passing interpreted the Aqdas, the Holy Book that we all must go by. Therefore no succeeding guardian can interpret the Aqdas; if he does so then he would be going against Shoghi Effendi and thus against God. No Aghsan guardian can do away with, alter or change anything by Shoghi Effendi, 'Abdu'l-Baha or Baha'u'llah.

The guardians that are the head of the UHJ are the executive members of that body. Their function is to educate the world as to the teachings of Baha'u'llah. They are "to spread the sweet fragrances." They have Hands to assist them in carrying out their function. They keep the people abreast as to actions of the UHJ as well as share with the people Shoghi Effendi's codification of the Aqdas. The guardian has been given the Huquq (the money) to carry out this important function. To expound means to diffuse!

The obligations of the Hands of the Cause of God are to diffuse the Divine Fragrances, to edify the souls of men, to promote learning, to improve the character of all men and to be, at all times and under all conditions, sanctified and detached from earthly things. They must manifest the fear of God by their conduct, their manners, their deeds and their words.

This body of the Hands of the Cause of God is under the direction of the guardian of the Cause of God. He must continually urge them to strive and endeavor to the utmost of their ability to diffuse the sweet savors of God, and to guide all the peoples of the world, for it is the light of Divine Guidance that causeth all the universe to be illumined... (W&T, p. 13)

When Shoghi Effendi interpreted the teachings he did not look at the word, then go before a UHJ and tell them what it meant, but expounded it to the world in his writings and messages. On page 154 of the World Order of Baha'u'llah, Shoghi Effendi says:

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13 The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah, p. 148.

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Nor is this Order identified with the name of Baha'u'llah to be confused with any system of purely aristocratic government in view of the fact that it upholds, on the one hand, the hereditary principle and entrusts the guardian of the Faith with the obligation of interpreting its teachings, and provides, on the other, for free and direct election from among the mass of the faithful is that body that constitutes its highest legislative organ.

Some people have the concept that when the guardian interprets it means that the guardian goes before the UHJ, looks at the teachings, then tells the members of the UHJ what these teachings mean and then the members of UHJ go by these interpretations. This is not true at all. The UHJ makes all the decisions, including what the teachings say, then the guardian publishes this to the world. Two different words are used. In the W&T 'Abdu'l-Baha uses the word expound and Shoghi Effendi uses the word interpret.[14] Both are correct. To expound means to publish, or tell the world, what has been passed in the UHJ. In order to do this he must put it in a language that the people can understand. This means that in order to tell the world what was passed it must be translated into the various languages and dialects. This is the function of the executive branch, one of the pillars of the UHJ.

Shoghi Effendi was both an Afnan and a Ghusn. The Ghusn pertained to the Davidic line of his genealogy, which was the head and Branch of Wood. The Afnan pertained to his body, which is of iron, from his genealogical descent of Muhammad and the Bab; therefore he is a combination of both the wood and the iron making him the Branch of Gold. The UHJ also has these two, the Branch of Wood which is the Aghsan, or head, and the Branch of Iron which is the elected body of the UHJ. Because Shoghi Effendi's body was of iron, he was able to read all the writings and teachings of Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha and know what they meant. He wrote down his findings and then he published them abroad. When he read the writings, which were in Persian and in Arabic, he had to be proficient in these languages to do so; then he had to translate them into English and have other interpreters beside himself to interpret (translate) them into over two hundred languages and maybe thousands of dialects so that all the peoples of the world would understand the writings and teachings of 'Abdul-Baha and Baha'u'llah. So he, being unique (Branch of Gold), made all the decisions and settled all the difficult problems in the faith and then he published (expounded) his decisions to the world. None of the succeeding guardians are a Branch of Gold in and of themselves. They are Aghsan guardians (Branches of Wood), therefore they can only function as the head and as a member of the IBC/UHJ. They take part in the decision making (deliberations), but they have just one vote, and once the majority of the House decides an issue the guardians, themselves, are bound to abide by it and must publish it to the world, as they are the executive branch (Branch of Wood).

Because Shoghi Effendi didn't have a son, another Branch of Gold, he set up the IBC/UHJ to succeed him. This IBC/UHJ is also a Branch of Gold, as it had the Branch of Wood in the presidency of Mason Remey, an adopted son of

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14 In Arabic the same word is used for expound and for interpret. The executive Aghsan guardian does both.

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'Abdu'l-Baha, and it had the Body of Iron with the members coming from all over the world. The IBC/UHJ makes all the decisions and legislates all laws that are not written in the Aqdas, and then the head (the King) expounds and interprets (publishes and translates) to all of the world. 'Abdu'l-Baha in The Secret of Divine Civilization confirms this:

Since the primary means for securing the peace and the tranquility of the people, and the most effective agency for the advancement of high and low alike, is this all important matter, it is incumbent of those learned members of the great consultative assembly [IBC/UHJ] who are thoroughly versed in the Divine Law to evolve a single, direct and definite procedure for the settlement of litigations. This instrument should then be published throughout the country by the order of the king [the Aghsan guardian--Davidic king], and its provisions should be strictly adhered to. This all-important question requires the most urgent attention.[15]

Interpret comes from the Latin "interpretari," which means to explain or expound from "interpresetis, meaning an agent between two parties."[16] Party #1 is the full membership of the IBC/UHJ. It decides all questions including the meanings of the word. The Aghsan guardian is the "agent" (go between) on what the IBC/UHJ has decided and he then expounds (publishes) this information to party #2, the public.

To interpret means to make clear and expound, not to do away with or change. To think that the succeeding Aghsan guardians have the same latitude of decision making as the Afnan/Aghsan guardian, Shoghi Effendi, would mean that the Baha'i faith has come to an end. For the Aghsan guardian, Mason Remey, holding the view that the succeeding guardians are infallible and have the same scope of decision making as Shoghi Effendi, has so interpreted that Shoghi Effendi was nuts. So he "infallibly" threw out the entire Baha'i faith and established a new religion of his own making to replace it, saying that his religion would exist for a full one thousand years from January 1, 1970. Mason's successor, Joseph Pepe Remey has interpreted the situation--maintaining that Mason had the authority to do this as he is the infallible guardian and the interpreter of the word as being authoritative, due to Mason's infallible powers of being the interpreter of the word. In a letter to me from Pepe of May 30, 1991 he wrote: "Mason's only purpose was to protect the institution of Guardianship from extinction--nothing more." He only wanted the preservation of the guardianship but not the twin institutions of the IBC/UHJ. His concept of the guardianship was the common misunderstanding of the W&T. He believed in the infallibility of succeeding guardians and in interpreting everything, meaning making all the decisions, throwing out completely everything that Shoghi Effendi interpreted and did. This makes the guardianship a separate institution and then eliminates the IBC/UHJ, leaving the guardianship as an absolute monarchy, as it was under Shoghi Effendi, functioning without an elected body. Although Mason hated Shoghi Effendi, he wanted to be just like him.

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15 'Abdu'l-Baha, Secret of Divine Civilization, p. 38.

16 Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, second edition, p. 960.

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As these two guardians interpreted (explained) the text to mean that they could go against Shoghi Effendi, throw out everything he did and violate 'Abdu'l-Baha's W&T to the point of eliminating the Baha'i faith and establishing a new religion in its place, shows once and for all that the Aghsan guardians are not the infallible interpreters of the word. Nor do they have a pipeline or tube direct from on high, giving them some mystical power that enables them to know the meanings of the word, or the power to function separately from the UHJ, as Shoghi Effendi did. No, my explanation of the Aghsan guardians is that they work in close association with the other members of the IBC/UHJ during the decision making process --in which they all have one vote--and then the Aghsan guardian expounds the sweet savors, the teachings, as well as the actions of the IBC/UHJ to the world. To think that they have a hot-line direct from on high, that enables them to know the meanings of the words is ridiculous. All people in the faith including 'Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi and the members of the IBC/UHJ make their decisions based on the Divine Writings, and their accuracy depends upon their closeness to these writings and is influenced by their genome and previous indoctrinations. To give an example, I will show that people and computers have much in common--this is easily understood by computer buffs. What a computer will do is based upon the capabilities of that computer, its make, how many "K's" it has and what kind of software is fed into it. Without software the computer will do nothing. The software fed into a human being (so to speak), is what he acquires during his first three maturation periods of seven years each. At the age of 21 he becomes an adult and what he does with his life from then on depends upon his genealogy and his indoctrination that he acquired when he was a minor. With the coming of Shiloh the genealogy of David shifted from Judah to gentile, a different genealogy and background. Because of this 'Abdu'l-Baha gave infallibility to the first guardian, Shoghi Effendi and then to the that succeeds him.

Shoghi Effendi was unique, being that he was the twin pillars of wood and iron in his own person. He was given the assignment by 'Abdu'l-Baha of establishing the "Divine Plan" in the world. This consisted of establishing the faith, among other things, in every country, province and island of the world by 1963. When he became guardian only a very little of the Baha'i Revelation had been translated (interpreted) into any other language from it's original Arabic and Persian. That which had been interpreted had many errors in translation and therefore he had to make new accurate translations (interpretations). He then expounded (published) them to the world.

Shoghi was accurate, because one of the pillars of Shoghi was that of iron (Afnan). The other pillar of Shoghi was wood (Aghsan). Shoghi was infallible because the iron and wood were united in one person. That is, by being both iron and wood (Branch of Gold), he looked at the word (the teachings) and knew what they meant and then published them abroad. The successor to Shoghi Effendi, the IBC/UHJ (Branch of Gold), is also freed from all error. The IBC/UHJ is also infallible because the body of the House is iron and the head of the House is wood which is united together in a single body (IBC/UHJ). Whatever they decide is of God, and unto them all must turn to and whoever goes against them goes against God (page 11 W&T). Also see the following:

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And now, concerning the House of justice which God hath ordained as the source of all good and freed from all error...By this House is meant the Universal House of Justice... Unto this body all thing must be must be referred... By this body all the difficult problem are to be resolved and the guardian of the Cause of God is its sacred head and the distinguished member for life of that body.... The legislative body must reinforce the executive, the executive must aid and assist the legislative body so that through the close union and harmony of these two forces, the foundation of fairness and justice may become firm and strong, that all the regions of the world may become even as a Paradise itself."[17]

As I understand it most of the writings of Baha'u'llah are still in their original tongue and have not been translated and published. Some of them may pertain to today, but most are for the future generations. Therefore, future Aghsan guardians will have to translate (interpret) them into other languages, or perhaps just into the Universal tongue and then publish them abroad. But if anything in these writings is obscure or unclear, the guardian must refer them to the full body, of which he is a member, for them to deliberate on their meanings, to elucidate and clarify. For only the full membership (head and body together) of the UHJ is freed from all error. Then the Aghsan guardian, who is just of wood and fallible, interprets (translates) them into various languages and then expounds (publishes) them to the world.

The Aghsan guardians diffuse and expound to the mass of the believers what has been explicitly revealed. That which is not clear must be referred to the full membership of the UHJ for clarification, for it alone is infallible. It is the House of Justice, with both the head and body, that alone is freed from all error, not the Aghsan guardian. Therefore, after the Afnan/Aghsan Guardian, Shoghi Effendi all must turn to the UHJ. Whatever they decide is of God. 'Abdu'l-Baha said that if the UHJ was established during his lifetime that he, himself, would be subjected to it.[18] Then why not Mason and Pepe and all succeeding Aghsan guardians?

From the age of nine 'Abdu'l-Baha became a firm believer in Baha'u'llah, his father; from that time on he was his father's supporter and servant. His name means servant of Glory--'Abdu'l means servant and Baha means glory. By his very close association with Baha'u'llah throughout his life he became so infused with Him, as to perfectly reflect the light of Baha'u'llah, that is, he perfectly reflected His Revelation. Shoghi Effendi, a descendant of the Twin Holy Seas (Afnan and Ghusn) of the Bab and Baha'u'llah, was brought up in the Holy household and because of his very close association with 'Abdu'l-Baha, he became so knowledgeable in the Revelation that he was then appointed to succeed 'Abdu'l-Baha to know the meaning and then expound upon the words. Mason on the other hand came into the faith as a young adult, and from a very different genealogy and indoctrination--one that is quite adverse to that of the Baha'i faith. He was grafted into the Aghsan genealogy and was programmed

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17 Will and Testament pp. 14,15.

18 'Abdu'l-Baha, Ten Days in the Light of Akka, p. 25.

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into the Baha'i Revelation, but lacked this knowledge in his formative years. He did missions around the world for 'Abdu'l-Baha, but he did not grow up in the Holy household. In the later part of Shoghi's mission, he did bring Mason to Mt. Carmel. This gave him a chance to observe the operation of the faith at its threshold, but life for Mason there was so tough that he had to take long vacations to recover. During such vacations he partook in the interests of his pre-Baha'i years that had a very detrimental influence upon him during the years of his guardianship. Mason never understood the Covenant and Will and Testament. He didn't know that he was a different kind of guardian than Shoghi Effendi (a Branch of Gold). He never realized this difference or that it was due to the fact that he was only an Aghsan guardian (a Branch of Wood) and did not share in the infallible decision making of Shoghi Effendi. Nor did he see that he could only function as the head and as a member of the IBC/UHJ. Pepe also lacked a Baha'i education during his early maturation period. Pepe was never in the Holy household nor was he from a Baha'i background, but was adopted by Mason and brought into his living quarters at the time when Mason was separating himself from Shoghi and from God. Pepe never became a Baha'i but became a follower of Mason's new religion, and was to succeed him as the head of that religion, believing that Mason was the infallible interpreter of the word, and could function alone as Shoghi Effendi had, and as such had the authority to do away with the Baha'i faith. Not knowing the Baha'i faith, much less the meaning of the "scroll", he is highly opposed to me and my mission, believing that I am in violation of the infallible guardian, Mason Remey. Pepe thinks this because I am a firm believer in the Baha'i faith and do not accept that Mason had the right to destroy it for one of his own, and because of my support of the twin institutions, in which the Aghsan guardian is the head of the IBC/UHJ and can only function in that frame-work.

I, on the other hand, was well prepared for my work in the faith. I was conceived by very strong Baha'i parents and being a third generation Baha'i, was raised and educated into the Baha'i faith from early infancy on into adulthood. My parents and grandparents were among the first Baha'is in America and were among its first great teachers of the faith. They were always very firm in the Covenant and Testament. With the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha, I was seven years of age and witnessed the great violation at that time. We were living in Kenosha, Wisconsin which had one of the largest Baha'i populations in America and a great storm arose when the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha was read. Over half of the membership were in violent opposition to the W&T, supporting Ahmad Sorab--who was seeking the guardianship for himself. All the while my parents stood in firm support of that Holy Document and were successful in helping to maintain the Baha'i community, although about half of its members defected. This I will never forget--the great storm of arguments against, and the stern firmness of my parents in support of the W&T. The necessity of being firm and knowledgeable in the W&T was thus acquired at an early maturation age and has been with me all of my life. Now I again find myself in strong support of this "Charter" of the World Order of Baha'u'llah.

Where it says that if "any of the members commit a sin, injurious to the common weal, the guardian of the Cause of God hath at his own discretion the right to expel him," means that if someone votes or is in opposition to the views of the Aghsan guardian or contends with or is not lowly before him or if a member's views happen to be against the common weal, the guardian can't expel

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him because he hasn't committed a sin. The members of the House must have complete freedom to vote their own conscience. If the House passes a bit of legislation that the Aghsan guardian is in opposition to, then he can have them reconsider, but he cannot veto it. If they reconsider and it still passes, the guardian cannot expel them, but he himself must accept and proclaim this to the world as the sweet fragrances.

Though the Guardian of the Faith has been made the permanent head of so august a body he can never, even temporarily, assume the right of exclusive legislation. He cannot override the decision of the majority of his fellow-members, but is bound 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.[19]

The guardian must obey the majority decision of his fellow members of the IBC/UHJ. He cannot expel a member for voting his conscience. If a member goes against the common weal (common good) in voting his conscience, which is what he is instructed to do, the guardian cannot expel him; but if he commits a sin, such as taking a bribe to vote against the common good, so that some person or persons will benefit--like what goes on in the Congress of the United States--or influences the passing of legislation in such a way that he could get his hands in the till so that he or his family could benefit at the expense of the common good, or is guilty of embezzlement etc., then the guardian can expel him. However, it must first be established that he has committed such a sin. This must be determined by either his own confession, or by a court or a jury, such as a grand jury, or the IBC/UHJ, then the guardian by his own discretion can expel him from the IBC/UHJ. This clause was put in the W&T to keep the corruption out of this administration that is found in other institutions or governments. It was not to keep a balance of power between the twin institutions whereby the guardian is able to expel someone that disagrees with him.

Unto this body [IBC/UHJ] all things must be referred. It enacteth all ordinances and regulations that are not to be found in the explicit Holy Text. By this body all the difficult problems are to be resolved and the guardian of the Cause of God is its sacred head and distinguished member for life of that body. (W&T, p. 14)

Up until now no one has comprehended the meanings of these two documents, the Covenant and the Will and Testament, which have been the cause of all this confusion. Why has God held this information back and allowed all this confusion, violation and corruption to happen? Certainly the meanings could have been made so clear as to avoid all this. My answer to this is that this is a test to teach all the believers to become knowledgeable and to be on guard at all times, to see with their own eyes and not through the eyes of others, to know of their own selves and not through that of anyone else, and to not support false leaders. It is also a test that separates the sheep from the goats. For instance the believers should have never turned to the "Hands", who

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had absolutely no authority to lead them or to guide them into all this violation and degradation. They should have all been so knowledgeable that the mass of believers would have put a stop to this at the very beginning.

The main reason for this is so that the Cause would go through these very important tests before the Kingdom is established, and for the people to see the results and the punishment for all this violation; for the law is based upon rewards and punishments. It is through this that God separates the sheep from the goats. When the people see how terrible God is in punishing, with all the calamities that are yet to befall the people, they will, for a full thousand years, be ever so watchful and careful not to violate the Covenant (to know and understand it), so that the world will enjoy a full thousand years of peace.

The central point of unity in this world is the Aghsan guardian. The reason being is that they are the descendants of King David. Baha'u'llah in His Proclamation said that He sat on the throne of David. The only way that He could sit upon that throne was to be a lineal sperm descendant of David, which is shown in His genealogy. This makes Him the second Christ (Messiah). Jesus was the first Christ, but the difference between them is that none of Jesus' ancestors sat on David's throne. Jesus is descended from Nathan the prophet, who is the brother of King Solomon who sat on the throne. This is shown in Jesus' genealogy[20], whereas all of Baha'u'llah's ancestors sat on David's throne. God made a Covenant with David that there will always be a descendant of his seated on his throne and that this throne will last forever:

Thou hast said,"I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant: 'I will establish your descendants forever, and build thy throne for all generations.'"

I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went forth from my lips. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David. His line shall endure for ever, his throne as long as the sun before me. Like the moon it shall be established for ever; it shall stand firm while the skies endure.[21]

Baha'u'llah made a Covenant continuing David's lineage in His son, 'Abdu'l-Baha, by making him the Center of the Covenant. 'Abdu'l-Baha adopted a son, Mason Remey, as his natural son died in infancy. Then 'Abdu'l-Baha made a Covenant, his Will and Testament, appointing his grandson, (the son of his daughter), Shoghi Effendi, to be the Guardian of the Cause of God upon his passing[22] by making him the "Center of the Cause[23]." Shoghi Effendi made a Covenant, setting up an IBC/UHJ on January 8, 1951, appointing 'Abdu'l-Baha's son, Mason Remey, an Aghsan by adoption, to be its president which is

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20 Luke 3:23-31.

21 Psalms 89:3,4 and 34-37.

22 W&T p. 11.

23 W&T p. 26.

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tantamount to appointing an Aghsan guardian to be the head of the IBC/UHJ. The reason that Shoghi Effendi used this method was that only an IBC/UHJ (not a guardian) could succeed him[24], and an Aghsan guardian, an inseparable pillar of the IBC/UHJ, can only function as the head and member of the UHJ. He cannot function independently, therefore Shoghi Effendi could not appoint him to be his sole successor in the guardianship, as this would have made him equal to Shoghi Effendi.

The IBC/UHJ is the "Golden Branch." It unites the Branch of Wood and the Branch of Iron. The Revelation of Moses is represented by the Branch of Wood which is Aaron's Rod of Wood that budded and was placed in the Holy of Holies. This represents the Davidic kingship that Baha'u'llah is a descendent of, with all of His ancestors being seated upon the throne of David. The Revelations of Jesus, Muhammad and the Bab are represented by the Branch of Iron. They were prophesied by name, address, date and mission, giving them the mandate of iron. 'Abdu'l-Baha said that the Bab was a Rod of Iron.[25] The Revelation of the "World Order of Baha'u'llah" is represented by the Branch of Gold, for it combines the Branch of Wood and the Branch of Iron in the IBC/UHJ.

And in this present cycle, because it is mightiest of dispensations, that rod grown out of the vegetable kingdom and that rod of iron will be transformed into a rod of purest gold, taken from out the endless treasure houses in the kingdom of the Lord. By this rod will the people be trained. --'Abdu'l-Baha[26]

The Branch of Wood is the Davidic Kingship which is continued in the Aghsan guardianship of 'Abdu'l-Baha's son. The Branch of Iron is continued in the return of Jesus, who has just recently set up the second International Baha'i Council. He is the Knight on the white horse with the iron sword in his hand in Revelation chapters six and nineteen. This Rod of Iron is being given to the IBC/UHJ. The Covenant-breaking "Hands" threw out the Branch of Wood, the guardianship and the Covenant-breaking guardian, Mason Remey, threw out the Branch of Iron (the body of the IBC/UHJ), bringing the Baha'i faith to an end!

Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems; and he has a name inscribed which, no one knows but himself. He is clad in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is the Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, followed him on white horses. From his mouth issues a sharp sword [iron] with

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24 W&T p. 26.

25 Some Answered Questions, pp. 80-81.

26 Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha, Compiled by the research Department of the ?Universal House of Justice?, Translated by a committee, at the Baha'i World Center.

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which to smite the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron; he will tread the wine press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has a name inscribed, King of kings and Lord of lords [Baha'u'llah].[27]

I am the last of the Knights of Baha'u'llah left. All the rest have either died off or have been removed from the faith by the Guardian for Covenant-breaking. The King that I am establishing (championing) is Baha'u'llah. Baha'u'llah referred to His Revelation as a robe. It is dipped in blood because it was ushered in by the blood of 20,000 martyrs. This robe has disappeared due to the Covenant-breaking "Hands" setting up in its place a headless monster--an elected body without a head (guardian). Then the Covenant-breaking guardian set up another monster--a head (guardian) without a body. The Knight on the white horse has reunited the Branch of Wood, the head, and the Branch of Iron, the body, with his recent establishment of the second International Baha'i Council, thus reestablishing the Branch of Gold.

I fulfill the prophecies for the return of Jesus in the third chapter of Zechariah for the high priest (a great educator), but I am not a Manifestation. I was opposed by Satan (Rex King) on the date given by Daniel. It says, "Blessed is He who waiteth and cometh to the 1335 days", or years, which 'Abdu'l-Baha calculated in Baha'u'llah and the New Era as April 21, 1963. I wore the dirty garment, and by establishing the second International Baha'i Council I have begun to set up the Baha'i Courts (verse 7). As it says in verse 8, I am bringing forth the BRANCH--the Golden Branch--by setting up the second IBC. In verse 9, I had the "stone with seven eyes before me" which was a stone wall with seven watch towers surrounding the Montana State Prison. Jesus said that on his second coming he would be in prison, for he was not in prison on his first coming.[28] Of course Baha'u'llah was in prison, but he was not in there on a dirty garment charge and his prison didn't have a stone wall with 7 watch towers (7 eyes) surrounding it. In the fourth verse it says: "And the angel said to them that were standing before him, 'Remove the filthy garments from him.' And to him he said, 'Behold, I have taken your iniquity from you...'" In the ninth verse it says I will remove the iniquity of the land in one day. The iniquity of Jesus and the iniquity of the land, which is my name (le land), the French article for "the" is "le", thus the return of Jesus is called by my name, Leland. The iniquity that God will remove from me is the iniquity that he put on me to get me into prison. If I didn't have that iniquity I couldn't be the return of Jesus. It is the proof that I am the return of Jesus. If mythical Jesus should happen to descend from the sky the way the Christians believe, he would have to be in the Montana State Prison and have the iniquity of the dirty garment, or he couldn't be the return of Jesus. However mythical Jesus only exists in the minds of the apostate Christians. So the only Jesus that was to return is myself that fulfilled prophecy.

Baha'u'llah was prophesied by name: Mark 8:38. He was prophesied by address: Isaiah 35:1,2. He was prophesied by date: Daniel 12:11--April 21, 1863.

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27 Revelation 19:11-16.

28 Matthew 25:36,44.

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In the same way I am prophesied by name: Zechariah 3:9, also by address: Zechariah 3:9, and by date: Daniel 12:12--which 'Abdu'l-Baha interpreted as April 21, 1963, 100 years from Baha'u'llah's proclamation[29]--was when I began my mission. Baha'u'llah fulfilled the prophecies for the return of Christ i.e. a descendant of King David which is anointed. I fulfill the prophecies for the return of Jesus, the high priest (Zechariah 3:1). The Catholic version states: "And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord: and Satan stood on his right hand to be his adversary."

In the book of Revelation the return of Jesus is prophesied to come with many titles, for example in Chapters 6 and 19 he is the man on the white horse, and in 19:12 it states: "His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems [titles]; and he has a name inscribed which no one knows but himself [Leland]." One of the titles is the Lamb. As the Lamb I broke the seventh seal on May 2, 1991, and right after that I was able to know the meaning of "the scroll written within and on the back" (the Covenant and Will and Testament), of which nobody else in the world knew. This epistle (to you, Charles Gaines) is the sounding of the trumpet of the "seventh angel"[30] through which the meaning of Covenant and the Will and Testament is made known. "Then God's temple in heaven was opened [made clear], and the ark of his covenant was seen [comprehended] within his temple [Holy of Holies].[31]" 'Abdu'l-Baha explained that the "seventh angel" is a man with heavenly attributes that will come so that voices will be raised and the Divine Manifestation will be proclaimed[32]...the Spiritual and Divine Kingdom will be established:

'And there was seen in His temple [means the diffusion of the divine teachings in this epistle] the ark of His Testament.' That is to say the Book of His Testament [W&T] will appear in His Jerusalem [the law of God], the Epistle of the Covenant will be established, and the meaning of the Testament [W&T] and of the Covenant will become evident [with the writing of this Epistle]. The renown of God will overspread the East and West, and the proclamation of the Cause of God will fill the world. The violators of the Covenant will be degraded and dispersed, and the faithful cherished and glorified, for they cling to the Book of the Testament [W&T], and are firm and steadfast in the Covenant [of Baha'u'llah].[33]

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29 Baha'u'llah and the New Era, Chapter 14 (Prophecies of Baha'u'llah) see the section--Coming of the Kingdom of God.

30 Revelation 11:15.

31 ibid 11:19.

32 Some Answered Questions p. 66.

33 ibid pp. 70,71.

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The return of Jesus is the return of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, entitled the Son, in the personage of "the land" (Leland), whereas Baha'u'llah's Revelation is entitled the Father and comes in the personage of Hussein Ali. The Son returns to establish his Father's Kingdom, for the Branch of Wood was thrown out by the "Hands" and the Branch of Iron was thrown out by Mason. The Son is to reign until all things are put under his feet:

For in Adam [physical body] all die, so also in Christ [Jesus] shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ [Jesus] the first fruits, then at his coming [second] those who belong to Christ [Jesus, the land]. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom of God the Father [Baha'u'llah], after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet. "For the last enemy to be destroyed is [spiritual] death. For God has put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it says, "All things are put in subjection under him," it is plain he is excepted who put all things under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things under him, that God may be everything to every one.

By the above quotes where the prophecies reveal that Jesus would return as the high priest, and that he would be a knight on a white horse, and have a Rod of Iron to smite the nations and to rule them with a Rod of Iron, to have many diadems (titles) such as the Lamb, and the seventh angel, and to be the "he" in "Blessed is he who waits and cometh to the 1335 days," or years as commented by 'Abdu'l-Baha in Baha'u'llah and the New Era, in the chapter of prophecies of Baha'u'llah, under the subtitle of Coming of the Kingdom of God that this date refers to April 21, 1963, or the 100th year anniversary of Baha'u'llah's Proclamation, and at this date Jesus II would begin the establishment of the Kingdom of God. 'Abdu'l-Baha said in Some Answered Questions on pp. 66-70 that the seventh angel would be a man with spiritual qualities and perfection and that he would establish the Kingdom. As for the man on the white horse, Shoghi Effendi knighted me as a "Knight of Baha'u'llah" and I am the only knight left of those that Shoghi Effendi knighted. And Paul said in the above quote that the Son himself will come and establish the "kingdom of God the Father [Baha'u'llah], after destroying every rule and every authority and power and will reign until he has put all enemies under his feet....For God has put all things in subjection under him." Because it is God that is to put all things in subjection to me, giving me the power, rule and authority to establish the "Kingdom of God the Father [Baha'u'llah]". Then, as God is All Powerful, it will be done. I thus have the power and authority to reestablish the IBC/UHJ that the Covenant-breakers, the "Hands" and Mason, threw out. I reunite the Branch of Wood and the Branch of Iron for it was prophesied in Zechariah 3:8 that through me, Jesus the High Priest, that God would establish the BRANCH, which is the Branch of Gold. This is prophesied throughout the Bible, starting in Genesis on down, often referred to as sticks. The following was researched and written by Kay Woods:

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Dr. Leland Jensen is the Lamb who fulfills prophecy for the return of Jesus the High Priest who's mission is to establish the "BRANCH" that has been missing from the Baha'i World Faith.

Hear now, O Joshua the High Priest, ...behold, I will bring forth my servant, the BRANCH. (Zechariah 3:8)

It is clear now that Leland's mission to establish the Kingdom of God on earth, includes more than just placing the head, the Davidic King or Branch of Wood that the Hands threw out, back onto the body. The mistakes in the Baha'i Faith also included Mason Remey throwing out the Rod of Iron, or body, by failing to activate the first IBC with himself as president, and then eliminating it altogether. It is the complete mission of the Lamb to restore both institutions of the guardianship and the legislative body, and unite them as one body, the Kingdom of God on earth. Therefore, Dr. Leland Jensen establishes the Kingdom of God by establishing the Branch of Gold, the glorious BRANCH which yields the fruit of the former ages of the Baha'i Faith.

His [Abdu'l-Baha's] Will and Testament should be regarded as the perpetual, the indissoluble link which the mind of Him Who is the mystery of God has conceived in order to insure the continuity of the three ages [of Wood, Iron and Gold] that constitute the component parts of the Baha'i Dispensations. The period in which the seed of the Faith had been slowly germinating [the Wooden age] is thus intertwined both with the one which must witness its efflorescence [the Iron age] and the subsequent age in which that seed will have finally yielded its golden fruit.[34]

When Dr. Leland Jensen took the scroll from the right hand of the one seated on the throne, Mason Remey, he was given ALL authority, rule and power to have charge of the courts[35] and from that time on, all other authority was put under his feet. He is seated at the right hand of God, because his authority is greater than that of ANYONE else, including Aghsan guardians.

The Lord says to my lord: "Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool." (RSV) The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength [Iron Rod] out of Zion [UHJ]: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb [embryonic UHJ] of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand [the Lamb] shall strike through kings [including guardians] in the day of his wrath. (Psalms 110:1-4)

By being the Lamb who takes the scroll out of the Hand of the one (Mason) seated upon the throne, and as the High Priest who unfurls and explains the

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34 The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah, Shoghi Effendi, p. 143-144.

35 Zechariah 3:7.

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scroll, the Will and Testament of Abdu'l-Baha, Dr. Leland Jensen has all rule, power and authority to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. All must be obedient to the Lamb, and therefore the second IBC to which he transmits his Rod of Iron (authority) through his liaison officer, making it a Rod of Gold, which is the institution to which all must be obedient. It is by this Rod of Iron that the Lamb has "charge of the courts". One of the titles of Jesus on his return is the knight on the white horse and "from his mouth issues a sharp sword with which to smite the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron.[36]"

"Thus says the Lord of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here." (Zechariah 3:7)

And,

He [the Lamb] who conquers and keeps my works until the end, I will give power over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron.[37]

It is incumbent upon the Lamb to understand the scroll so that through his Rod of Iron, his explanations and commentaries, he can guide the court, the second IBC, as it matures and evolves. By activating this court, the Lamb's sword, his Word is made flesh. Jesus rules with a Rod of Iron, but the IBC/UHJ by receiving the Lamb's authority, through his liaison officer, rules with a Rod of Gold, that is, it is freed from all error.

The Lamb performs his mission to establish the Kingdom by reuniting the guardianship (Branch of Wood) with the body of the IBC/UHJ (Branch of Iron) and by guiding it through the liaison officer, making them into one Branch of Gold. Thus it is clear that the Lamb's mission was not created in the imagination of the ones following the Lamb, or by the Lamb himself. It was erected by Shoghi Effendi to be his true successor. This is foretold in scripture; particularly by the prophet Ezekiel who sees the Branch of Wood, the guardianship, and the Branch of Iron, the elected Universal House of Justice, joined together as one stick which is the Golden Branch, the Universal House of Justice with the Aghsan guardian at its head. It is also representative of Shoghi Effendi who was also a Golden Branch thus giving him complete infallibility, through his genealogy which will be explained shortly.

The word of the Lord came to me: "Son of man, take a stick and write on it, 'For Judah, and the children of Israel associated with him' ... "[38]

Judah is the Stick of Wood because it refers to the Davidic kingship, from which Baha'u'llah is descended. Israel is the Baha'i faith under its new name.

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36 Rev. 19:15.

37 Rev. 2:26-27.

38 Ezekiel 37:15-16

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...then take another stick and write upon it, 'For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him';

The stick of Ephraim ("multitude of nations") pertains to the Stick of Iron, the second IBC. Ephraim means "double fruitfulness"[39], because unlike the guardianship, which is the executive branch, the elected body is both legislative and judicial--it both enacts laws and makes the decisions by majority vote. The stick of Joseph is Baha'u'llah (the "true Joseph"[40]) who gathered the multitude of nations. Joseph had two sons, one was named Ephraim and the other, Manasseh. Manasseh is the house of Israel or the great nation of Israel consisting of all twelve tribes. Ephraim is a "multitude of nations", which are all the countries who elect the UHJ.

Ezekiel envisions the fulfillment of the Lamb's mission to establish the Branch of Gold, with the union of the Stick of Iron and the Stick of Wood into one stick.

and join them together into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. (Ezekiel 37:17)

Ezekiel continues,

'Will you not show us what you mean by these?' say to them, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph...and I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand. [the Twin Institutions are not separate, but one]...Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone...and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; and they shall no longer be two nations, divided into two kingdoms [Judah-guardianship and Ephraim-elected body]. They [the Baha'i World Faith] shall not defile themselves any more with idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. (Ezekiel 37:18-23)

With the establishment of the Branch of Gold (IBC/UHJ) all the difficult problems of the world are solved in a council, instilling everlasting justice and righteousness in the world.

These two sticks are also representative of the predecessor to the IBC/UHJ, Shoghi Effendi. Shoghi Effendi's unique infallibility, from which he received his

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39 Smith's Bible Dictionary, revised and edited by F.N. and M.A. Peloubet; John C. Winston Co., 1884; p. 175.

40 God Passes By, Shoghi Effendi, p. 23.

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unerring guidance and authority, comes from the Twin Holy Trees of the Bab and Baha'u'llah. 'Stick' in Hebrew is 'ets, meaning 'tree'. In the Will and Testament, Shoghi Effendi is referred to as the "primal branch" of the "Divine and Sacred Lote-Tree", branched from the "Twin Holy Trees"[41] of the Bab and Baha'u'llah. A special thanks to Wind Jensen for pointing this out.

The stick of Ephraim and the stick of Judah are two 'trees', representative of the Bab, the Rod of Iron[42] and Baha'u'llah, the Branch of Wood, which he saw united as one stick or 'Tree', the Branch of Gold, for it accompanies the "Golden Age" of peace on earth.

Like Ezekiel, 'Abdu'l-Baha saw the Twin Institutions, 'sticks' (trees) united as one 'stick' (tree).

It is hoped that ye will be nurtured in the shade of the lote-tree of Divine Grace, and practice that which God desireth. Ye are all leaves of one tree and drops of one sea.[43]

In the following biblical passage, the Twin Institutions are represented by Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh. Jacob gives them his blessings, but one was to receive a greater blessing of inheritance than the other. In this scenario, Jacob chooses Ephraim over Manasseh.

When [Jacob] Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, "Who are these?" Joseph said to his father [Jacob], "These are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, Bring them to me, I pray you, that I may bless them...And Joseph took them both, Ephraim [the UHJ] in his right hand toward Israel's [Jacob's] left hand, and Manasseh [the guardianship] in his left han. toward Israel's [Jacob's] right hand, and brought them near him. And Israel stretched out his right hand [the hand of authority] and laid it upon the head of Ephraim [the UHJ] and his left hand upon the head of Manasseh [the guardianship] crossing his hands, for Manasseh was the first-born [the guardianship came into being first]. And he blessed Joseph, and said, "...let them grow into a multitude in the midst [Jerusalem] of the earth." (Genesis 48:8-16)

Jacob places his right hand upon Ephraim, the body--Rod of Iron, designating him to become the "multitude of nations", thus Ephraim, the UHJ, receives the greater blessing. Upon the head of Manasseh, the "first-born" [representative of the guardianship which was erected before the IBC/UHJ] Jacob places his left, or lesser hand.

Jacob continues to explain why he favors the head of Ephraim (body-the Rod of Iron) over the head of Manasseh (guardianship-the Rod of Wood).

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41 Will and Testament, p. 3.

42 Some Answered Questions, pp. 80-8 1.

43 A Traveler's Narrative, Abdu'l-Baha, p. 84.

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When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; and he took his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. And Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this one is the firstborn; put your right hand upon his head."

But his father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; nevertheless his younger brother [Ephraim] shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations." So he blessed them that day, saying, "By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" [the Twin Institutions]; and thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh. Then Israel said to Joseph..."Moreover I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope [shoulder--Mount Carmel] which I took from the hand of the Amorites [Covenant-breakers][44] with my sword [Rod of Iron, Dr. Leland Jensen's authority) and with my bow [Rod of Wood, the guardianship]." (Genesis 48:17-22)

Although Ephraim was not the "first-born" son, he was given the greater blessing, the inheritance of the multitude of nations, which elects the members of the body of the UHJ. Here Jacob (Israel) makes the body, the multitude of nations, greater than the Aghsan guardianship. For Ephraim, the UHJ, makes all the decisions, including deciding on the meanings of the words and then the guardian publishes the meanings and decisions to the world. Joseph was very surprised to find Jacob granting Ephraim the greater blessing over Manasseh, the first-born. Likewise, many Baha'is are under the myth that it is the guardianship, the first-born line of Davidic Kings and not the IBC/UHJ that has a special infallible authority through a mystical pipeline from God. Many are also under the misconception that Mason Remey, the first Aghsan guardian, was Shoghi's successor, not the Branch of Gold. When in fact the true successor to Shoghi was the body that he appointed with Mason as its president, because the complete body of Shoghi, a Branch of Gold, can only be succeeded by another complete body, the IBC/UHJ with the guardianship, a Branch of Gold. As Shoghi was the twin pillars of the guardianship, the Branch of Wood, and the body, the Branch of Iron, in himself, by being a descendant of both the Bab and Baha'u'Ilah. Shoghi is therefore a Golden Branch and can only be succeeded by another Golden Branch. Likewise, an Aghsan guardian (Branch of Wood) can only be succeeded by an Aghsan guardian (Branch of Wood). The true successorship to Shoghi Effendi, the Center of the Cause of God, is the same infallible and

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perfect synthesis of the two branches, the twin institutions of guardianship and Universal House of Justice. Shoghi, the embodiment of both branches, made the decisions of a council by being able to read and understand the Holy texts, and then by expounding and publishing his decisions, which is the complete job of the Twin Institutions. Only a complete body that makes the decisions, with an expounder who publishes its decisions and translates them into the various tongues, can imitate the unique station of Shoghi Effendi, not just an Aghsan guardian. Shoghi appointed a complete body as his successor when he appointed the first IBC with Mason as its president, but rather than activating the body, Mason Remey threw out the body, believing that he alone could succeed Shoghi. The only true successor to Shoghi Effendi left in the world, is this Branch of Gold. The Lamb reestablishes this BRANCH by activating the second IBC, that is the UHJ in infancy, completely bypassing Mason Remey by default.

Manasseh, representative of the guardianship, is the great nation of Israel (the Baha'i faith is Israel under its new name Baha'i). Baha'u'llah on his journey from Baghdad to Mount Carmel gathered a remnant of the twelve tribes, which were the first Baha'is. When one accepts Baha'u'llah's Covenant, he is grafted into the Baha'i faith (Israel under its new name). Then under Shoghi Effendi it was brought to all countries, but with the passing of Shoghi Effendi the Faith fell into the "Hands" of the Cause, instead of the IBC/UHJ, who established a headless monster in its stead. Manasseh means "one who causes [an earlier deceased child] to be forgotten"[45] The first Aghsan guardian, Mason Remey, caused those who came under him to "forget" Shoghi's unique successor, his appointed body, the IBC/UHJ, with Mason as its president.

When Mason became the guardian, the Baha'i Faith was in a state of "forgetfulness". In the Zohar, from a commentary on the Jewish Talmud, there is a description of a ram created in the twilight, in the 6th day of creation.[46] The twilight is the period of dusk, just after the sun goes down, when the rays are still seen just beyond the horizon. Twilight also describes the confused state of a woman after having been injected with the drug "scopolamine" or "Twilight sleep" to relieve the pain of childbirth. At one time this drug was administered as a sedative to subdue labor pains, yielding such side effects as amnesia and hallucinations.

The Baha'i Faith entered into twilight just after Shoghi Effendi died when it was not understood who his successor would be. Like the woman under the influence of scopolamine, the Baha'i Faith was forgetful, asleep and busy creating their own fantastic administration that was nothing like the true one that was to succeed Shoghi Effendi.

The ram in this scenario is representative of Mason Remey (descendant of Ra'amah or Ram) who caused the surviving remnants under his guardianship to "forget" Shoghi's unique authority separate from his own. The Hebrew meaning

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45 Encyclopedia Judaica, McMillan, 1971; vol. 14, p. 851.

46 Zohar, Jewish Publication Society of America, Vol. 3, p. 12.

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influence of scopolamine, the Baha'i Faith was forgetful, asleep and busy creating their own fantastic administration that was nothing like the true one that was to succeed Shoghi Effendi.

The ram in this scenario is representative of Mason Remey (descendant of Ra'amah or Ram) who caused the surviving remnants under his guardianship to "forget" Shoghi's unique authority separate from his own. The Hebrew meaning of "Ramah" or "ram" is to "throw out."[47] After Shoghi's passing, Mason failed to activate the council that Shoghi appointed. He then inaugurated his own religion, throwing out Shoghi's institution, claiming it to be in error, although 'Abdu'l-Baha conferred infallibility upon Shoghi Effendi, and to go against him was to go against God.

The following prophecy by Isaiah implies the unique relationship between the Branch of Wood (guardianship) and the Sword of Iron (the elected body of the UHJ).

Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double [the twin institutions]. For I have bent Judah as my bow [the guardian must be flexible [obedient] to the decisions of the body]; I have made Ephraim [the body] its arrow [Leland]. I will brandish your sons...and wield you like a warrior's sword [the word gone forth from the Knight on the white horse]. Then the Lord will appear over them, and his arrow [Leland] go forth like lightning; the Lord God will sound the [jubilee] trumpet..." (Zechariah 9:12-16)

To protect the Baha'i Faith, the meaning of the true successor to the Golden Branch, Shoghi Effendi, as put forth by Abdu'l-Baha in the Will and Testament, remained in embryo, "hidden", or sealed up. For this reason, Baha'u'llah referred to his son, 'Abdu'l-Baha as the "Mystery of God". As to the "secret" of succession after 'Abdu'l-Baha's passing, Abdu'l-Baha states:

As to the question ye have asked me, know verily that this is, a well-guarded secret. It is even as a gem concealed within its shell. That it will be revealed is predestined. The time will come when its light will appear, when its evidences will be made manifest, and its secrets unraveled.

And as to the complete understanding of the Will and Testament Shoghi Effendi pens:

We stand indeed too close to so monumental a document to claim for ourselves a complete understanding of all its implications, or

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47 Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Dugan Pub., p. 109 The Hans-Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, Spoken Languages Services Inc., Ithaca, N.Y., 1976, p. 360-361.

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to presume to have grasped the manifold mysteries it undoubtedly contains.[48]

With the breaking of the seven seals of the Will and Testament by the Lamb, the true meaning of the Will it is no longer a mystery that 'Abdu'l-Baha conferred infallibility upon Shoghi Effendi, and his successor, the Golden Branch, that the Lamb establishes. By giving birth to and activating the IBC/UHJ, the Lamb was able to unveil this "mystery" of God. By breaking the seventh seal of the scroll the Lamb has uncovered its meanings so that his body of believers may resurrect and educate the world, which is absolutely in fulfillment of prophecy.

...but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel [the Lamb], the mystery of God, [the meaning of the Will and Testament] as he announced to his servants the prophets, should be fulfilled. (Rev. 10:7)

And

For he [the Lamb] has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.[49]

A sound assurance that the seventh angel WILL accomplish his appointed mission from God is from 'Abdu'l-Baha who writes:

The seventh angel is a man qualified with heavenly attributes, who will arise with heavenly qualities and character. Voices will be raised, so that the appearance of the Divine Manifestation will be proclaimed and diffused...in that day of God, the Spiritual and Divine Kingdom will be established...[50]

In the following passage, the Lamb is described as being an 'arrow', "hidden" in the quiver, until he activated the second IBC and explained the meanings of the Will and Testament, through his explanations and commentaries (sword). He is hidden, because the mystery of the Will and Testament, that has never been fully comprehended by anyone accept the Lamb, was unveiled by the authority of his appointed mission to establish Baha'u'llah's Revelation, the Branch of God.

The Lord called me from the womb [the Lamb who was the embryonic UHJ activated the second IBC], from the body of my mother he named my name [Leland]. He made my mouth like a

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48 World Order of Baha'u'llah, Shoghi Effendi, p. 8.

49 Ephesians 1:9.

50 Some Answered Questions, pp. 56, 57.

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sharp sword [Rod of Iron--his explanations and commentaries], in the shadow [mystery] of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me away. And he said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified." (Isaiah 49:1-3)

The Lamb is the one "hidden" whose job to establish God's plan was to be revealed in the future. 'Abdu'l-Baha prophesies of him again.

Verily that Infant is born and exists and there will appear from His Cause a wonder which thou wilt hear in future. Thou shalt see Him with the most perfect form, most great gift, most complete perfection, most great power and strongest might! His face glisteneth a glistening whereby the horizons are illumined! Therefore, forget not this account as long as thou art living, forasmuch as there are signs for it in the passing centuries and ages.[51]

Furthermore:

...in this brilliant age and divine cycle, the nobel Personage, the Radiant Star, the Distinguished one, will manifest with virtues which will eventually amaze the peoples, for he is in spiritual virtues and divine perfections loftier than all the Individuals; nay, rather, He is the Source of Divine Benediction and the Center of the Radiant Circle. He is certainly comprehensive. There is no doubt that He will reveal Himself to such a degree as to bring all under his overshadowing shelter.[52]

The Branch of Gold, the government for the Kingdom of God on earth will be established by the Lamb and it is certain that those who pass every test of obedience to the Lamb and follow him wherever he goes, shall find it beautiful and glorious.

In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious [as gold], and the fruit of the land [Leland] shall be the pride and glory of the survivors [the Baha'is who pass the test of obedience to the Lamb] of Israel. And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, every one who has been recorded for life [the Lamb's book of the life] in Jerusalem, when the Lord shall have washed away the filth [opposers of the Lamb] of the daughters of Zion [in Minneapolis] and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgement and by a spirit of burning [separation from God]. (Isaiah 4:2)

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51 Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha; Vol. II, p. 484.

52 Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha Abbas, p. 541.

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The following has been researched and written by Wind Jensen and Neal Chase:

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Although people had been reading the Book of the Covenant and the Will and Testament ever since the early 1920's, they couldn't understand its full meaning. It is not until the Lamb comes and breaks the seventh seal that the full meaning is now brought to light. Over the years, all the differences and difficulties in the Faith have been the result of people's lack of understanding the Covenant and the Will and Testament. Shoghi Effendi himself, the appointed authoritative translator and interpreter of the Will and Testament, warned the Baha'is of his day that they were failing the test and missing the full meaning of the Will and Testament. Although he himself totally comprehended the full meaning of the Will and Testament he did not disclose this to the people. Shoghi writes:

I strongly feel the urge to elucidate certain facts, which would at once reveal to every fair-minded observer the unique character of that Divine Civilization the foundations of which the unerring hand of Baha'u'llah has laid, and the essential elements of the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha has disclosed. [However] I consider it my duty to warn every beginner in the Faith that the promised glories of the Sovereignty which, the Baha'i teachings foreshadow, can be revealed only in the fullness of time, that implications of the Aqdas and the Will of 'Abdu'l-Baha, as the twin repositories of the constituent elements of that Sovereignty, are too far reaching for this generation to grasp and fully appreciate. I cannot refrain from appealing to them who stand identified with the Faith to disregard the prevailing notions and the fleeting fashions of the day..."[53]

Shoghi Effendi purposely kept the meaning of the Covenant and the Will and Testament from the people not only because they did not have the capacity for it, but because he said they would not even appreciate it for they were ingrates! Therefore at the death of Shoghi Effendi no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth knew the full meaning of the Covenant and the Will and Testament. This corresponds to the fifth chapter of Revelation in which the one seated upon the throne, Mason Remey, holds the document of the Covenant and the Will and Testament in his hand, which is the authority for him being seated on the throne. This is the scroll written within: the Book of the Covenant, and on the back: the Will and Testament, which is sealed with seven seals, and as Mason himself couldn't understand it, he therefore failed the test. The Lamb, Leland, took it away from him to give its true meaning and establish it in the world.

Mason was unable to understand the Will because of his genome (heredity) back to Nimrod's (Satan's) brother, Ram of the Remey's and because of the

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53 Shoghi Effendi, World Order of Baha'u'llah, p. 16.

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environment in which he was brought up, a strict military household where everything was under the absolute say of his father Rear Admiral Remey. Mason was conditioned and had the genetic make-up of those that do not make group decisions through consultation, but of those who rule alone and everyone else obeys them. Thus, Mason gloried in his pagan Remey genealogy thinking that this made him great and entrenched himself in his cryptalogy (worshiping his ancestors) instead of glorying in that heritage of his adopted father 'Abdu'l-Baha and of the great ancestry of David. The real glory was in the true spirit of the Kingdom of God from Baha'u'llah, Himself, and the infallible guidance of Shoghi Effendi to which all the Houses of Justice and all future guardians must turn. Mason also screwed up because he failed to recognize the person who came in 1963 (Leland) and because he didn't go by Shoghi Effendi. Therefore he was unable to look into the scroll and uncover its true meaning. Instead, like the Hands before him, he went against God by going against Shoghi Effendi. Mason did away with the plan of Shoghi Effendi to have the first International Baha'i Council (IBC) which was the Universal House of Justice (UHJ) in embryo to succeed Shoghi Effendi and be born into the world. He scrapped the Council, did away with the Baha'i Faith and said that he had to set up a new religion called the "Abha father Faith." Because of this confusion the people fail to see the meaning of the Covenant and understand that the IBC/UHJ was the infallible successor to Shoghi Effendi and not one person. All the problems and differences that have been in the Faith occurred because of this lack of comprehension concerning the Covenant.

So we see, that with the screw up of the Hands and the screw up of Mason, the Lamb with this authority invested in him went and took the scroll (the Covenant and the Will and Testament), which was sealed, out of the hand of Mason seated on the throne. The Lamb has now broken the seals and brought the meaning of the Covenant and the Will and Testament to light. This became a test and the storm prophesied by 'Abdu'l-Baha to occur at this time with the sounding of the trumpet (Epistle to Charles); and, as prophesied, the falling away of some has now happened. Since the death of Shoghi Effendi only one man, Dr. Leland Jensen, has continually passed all the tests. God had designated him as the Lamb so that we, today, who are worthy and pure of heart can pass these tests under his guidance and the grace of God. Through the sanction of God, Leland fulfills the prophesies for the only one who would be able to do this. He has now broken the seventh seal (on May 2, 1991) and the storm 'Abdu'l-Baha describes on pages 70 and 71 of Some Answered Questions has descended.

One of the reasons people failed to understand the Covenant was due to the difficult language that 'Abdu'l-Baha employs in the Will and Testament. Not only have Arabic and Persian speaking people commented on the greatness and absolute mastery of language employed by 'Abdu'l-Baha, but they have also admitted to their own personal deficiency and lack of understanding and capacity to be able to comprehend the fullest meaning of the document.

In Danny S.'s paper, Genealogical References in the Will and Testament written May 1, 1990, exactly one year before the breaking of the seventh seal by the Lamb, he writes:

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The following analysis of some passages of the Will and Testament is merely the result of one soul trying to comprehend part of the Will. I hope that in the coming days further insights from the friends under the guidance of the Lamb will improve on my thinking on these issues.

With the breaking of the seal by the Lamb, and under his guidance, this prayer and hope has now been fulfilled exactly one year later.

The idea behind researching genealogical references in the Will concerning Shoghi Effendi was brought about for the purpose of clarifying the difference between the station of Shoghi Effendi and that of the succeeding guardians who function as the presidents of the Universal House of Justice. (The audio tape of Danny S.'s lecture confirms this as well as all the witnesses who attended the meeting.)

The question came up that since Shoghi Effendi was unique, being both an Afnan and an Aghsan branched from the twin holy trees of both the Bab and Baha'u'llah, and all future guardians are only from the tree of Baha'u'llah, being exclusively Aghsan, what is the original Persian and Arabic language employed in the Will to distinguish one from the other?

The results brought about several new Persian and Arabic words which the people need to know and understand. At the time, they were not clearly defined, but with the breaking of the seventh seal by the Lamb, and this new research by his wife Wind Jensen, this absolutely, positively proves our point that Shoghi Effendi, alone, and uniquely, was given special authority and powers way beyond that of all future guardians. This is an absolute, positive proof that Shoghi Effendi was unique because of his genealogy, which the other guardians don't have, making him the Golden Branch; and none of the other guardians qualify, for their genealogies only inherit the Branch of Wood.

The words or terms employed by 'Abdu'l-Baha in his Will to distinguish Shoghi Effendi from all future guardians that refer to his genealogy, are:

• 1. Aghsan--plural for "branch," referring exclusively to Baha'u'llah's male descendants from the line of David.

  2. Ghusn--"branch." Singular form of Aghsan meaning one "branch" from the Tree of Baha'u'llah, referring to any one male descendant of Baha'u'llah from the line of David.

  3. Afnan--plural for "twig," referring exclusively to the male co-lateral descendants of the Bab from the line of Muhammad.

  4. Far' (pronounced "ferrah")--"twig." Employed as the singular form of Afnan by 'Abdu'l-Baha in His Will meaning one "twig," referring to any one male co-lateral descendant of the Bab from the line of Muhammad.

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Effendi is alternately referred to as Aghsan (ghusn) and Afnan (far') showing that he is descended from both the Bab and Baha'u'llah. No other guardian of the Cause of God can ever claim this distinction as they are all only branched from the one tree of Baha'u'llah being ghusn only and bearing Aghsan as their title. For this reason Shoghi Effendi is described by 'Abdu'l-Baha as unique, meaning one of a kind, and he bestows upon him special authority not possessed by the other guardians who are Aghsan only and must function in the framework only as the presidents of the Universal House of Justice. The proof is in the language of the Will itself. The original Arabic and Persian terms employed by 'Abdu'l-Baha, from which the following is translated, are underlined and in bold. Referring to Shoghi Effendi as both an Aghsan (ghusn) from Baha'u'llah and an Afnan (far') from the Bab, being branched from the Twin Holy Trees of Baha'u'llah and the Bab. 'Abdu'l- Baha writes on page 3, the first page of the Will and Testament:

Salutation and praise, blessing and glory rest upon that primal branch [ghusn--Aghsan] of the Divine and Sacred Lote-Tree, grown out, blest, tender, verdant and flourishing from the Twin Holy Trees [of the Bab and Baha'u'llah]; the most wondrous, unique and priceless pearl that doth gleam from out the Twin surging seas [of the Bab and Baha'u'llah]...for behold! he [Shoghi Effendi] is the blest and sacred bough [far'--Afnan] that hath branched out from the Twin Holy Trees [of the Bab and Baha'u'llah]. Well is it with him that seeketh the shelter of his [Shoghi Effendi's] shade that shadoweth all mankind.

Again on page 11, 'Abdu'l-Baha repeats this same description of Shoghi Effendi as being both the Aghsan (ghusn) from Baha'u'llah's tree and the Afnan (far') from the tree of the Bab:

O my loving friends! After the passing away of this wronged one, it is incumbent upon the Aghsan (Branches), the Afnan (Twigs) of the Sacred Lote-Tree, the Hands (pillars) of the Cause of God and the loved one of the Abha Beauty to turn unto Shoghi Effendi--the youthful branch [far'--Afnan] branched from the two hallowed and sacred Lote-Trees [of the Bab and Baha'u'llah] and the fruit grown from the two offshoots of the Tree of Holiness,--as he is the sign of God, the chosen branch [ghusn--Aghsan], the guardian of the Cause of God, he unto whom all the Aghsan, the Afnan, the Hands of the Cause of God and His loved ones must turn. He [Shoghi Effendi] is the expounder of the words of God and after him will succeed the first-born of his lineal descendants.

Clearly Shoghi Effendi is BOTH an Afnan (far') from the Bab and an Aghsan (ghusn) from Baha'u'llah; and therefore his successor has to be both an Afnan and an Aghsan, both iron and wood. According to 'Abdu'l-Baha, the dispensation of Baha'u'llah is unique because unlike the dispensations of the past, such as Moses' which was like a Branch of Wood, or Jesus', Muhammad's or the Bab's which were like Branches of Iron, the dispensation of Baha'u'llah combines these two branches, the Branch of Iron and the Branch of Wood, into one Branch which becomes the Branch of Gold. The Branch of Wood, which began in the dispensation of Moses, represents the line of Davidic Kings because like the

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budding staff representing the vegetable spirit of growth and reproduction, the lineage of David goes on forever--for the life of this planet and David shall never lack a man to sit upon the throne. The Branch of Iron represents the body of the Universal House of Justice and the head is represented by the Branch of Wood of the line of David. Together, united in the Universal House of Justice of Baha'u'llah, both body and head, we have the iron and wood combine to form the Branch of Gold. Likewise within Shoghi Effendi, who is of the Bab (whom 'Abdu'l-Baha designated as iron[54]) and also is of Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha (the Davidic kings which are the Branch of Wood), these two branches of the wood (ghusn) of the Aghsan and the iron (far') of the Afnan are united together in Shoghi Effendi making him the Branch of Gold. On the periodic table of the elements iron is called "ferrum." Thus the iron (ferrum) of the Bab is the Arabic and Persian word for twig (far' pronounced ferrah) that 'Abdu'l-Baha uses in his Will.

Because Shoghi Effendi is the Branch of Gold only another Branch of Gold can be his successor. Had Shoghi Effendi had a first born son or any sons for that matter they would have been Golden Branches inheriting the unique genealogy of their father of both the iron of the Bab and the wood of Baha'u'llah. However, Shoghi Effendi had no first born son and he had no second son nor any sons at all, so the Will and Testament says, on page 12, that he must appoint another branch to succeed him. As only a Golden Branch can succeed Shoghi Effendi (who is also a Golden Branch) he had to set up an IBC/UHJ that consists of both the wood and the iron, the head and the body, to succeed him.

In the writing's of 'Abdul-Baha, the Administrative Order of the Golden Branch of the IBC/UHJ, to succeed Shoghi Effendi, is referred to as the Branch that will grow and flourish after the physical genealogy of Shoghi Effendi (also the Golden Branch) comes to an end, for Shoghi had no sons. Shoghi Effendi, quoting 'Abdu'l-Baha, writes:

"Fear not," are His reassuring words foreshadowing the rise of the Administrative Order established by His Will, "fear not if this Branch [the Golden Branch of Shoghi Effendi] be severed from this material world and cast aside its leaves; nay, the leaves thereof shall flourish, for this Branch [the Golden Branch] will grow after it is cut off from this world below, it shall reach the loftiest pinnacles of glory, and it shall bear such fruits as will perfume the world with their fragrance."[55]

Shoghi Effendi had no sons and his genealogy came to an end when he was "severed from this material world." The leaves, which are the teachings contained within the writings of Baha'u'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi, preserve the Golden Branch in the IBC/UHJ to succeed Shoghi Effendi, as they give the provisions and foreshadow "the rise of the Administrative Order." This "Administrative Order" is the Golden Branch that is growing after the genealogy

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54 'Abdu'l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, pp. 80-81.

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of Shoghi Effendi, who had no sons, "is cut off from this world below." The Branch referred to by 'Abdu'l-Baha in the above prophecy cannot be himself, as Shoghi Effendi says that it is specifically the Branch referred to in the Will and Testament. It therefore can only be the two Golden Branch successors of 'Abdu'l-Baha, Shoghi Effendi and after him the IBC/UHJ for these are the only Golden Branches referred to in the Will. The Golden Branch of the IBC/UHJ "shall reach the loftiest pinnacles of glory, and it shall bear such fruits as will perfume the world with their fragrance." In wonderful, lucid and clear language Shoghi Effendi identifies the genuine Administrative Order of the Faith (IBC/UHJ) established in the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l- Baha as the Golden Branch that, when established in all the world, will usher in the Golden Age of the Kingdom of God on earth. Nothing could be clearer.

The general consensus of Charles and others is that the twin institutions function separately like two separate pillars. This is not true. In the case of Shoghi Effendi, the authority of the body, the iron, was his through his father's side of the family who was descended from Muhammad and the Bab. Shoghi received the authority of the head, the wood, through his mother's side which was descended from Baha'u'llah. Thus Shoghi Effendi had the twin pillars in his one person because of his genealogy. After the death of Shoghi Effendi the institution of the IBC/UHJ succeeded him which combines the twin pillars that Shoghi had in his one body into the one body of the IBC/UHJ. For it is clear that the wooden head of the guardianship and the iron body are the twin "inseparable institutions."[56] The "chosen Successors" to Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha, as delineated in the Will and Testament are Shoghi Effendi and after him the IBC/UHJ. In the World Order of Baha'u'llah, on page 19 and the top of page 20 and again on the bottom of page 21, Shoghi Effendi explains that the twin successors to both Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha are the twin institutions. In Shoghi Effendi's guardianship, the twin genealogies and twin powers were contained in one person and after him the Universal House of Justice combines the powers of the twin institutions, the iron body and the wooden head, into one body. Within Shoghi's body are the powers of the twin pillars and they are indeed inseparable. Likewise, after the passing of Shoghi Effendi the twin pillars are combined in the IBC/UHJ that has the Aghsan guardian as the president of its members; and the twin institutions in this one body are just as inseparable as those twin pillars within Shoghi's own person. When the Holy scriptures mention and refer to the Universal House of Justice, this cannot be imagined to exist without the Aghsan guardian, who is the head and president of it. The misconception of the people has been that by the institution of the UHJ is meant just the body and by the institution of the guardianship is meant just the head that function as separate institutions. We see that Shoghi Effendi directly succeeded 'Abdu'l-Baha and he functioned with both his body and his head united together and inseparable. After him succeeds the Universal House of Justice which functions with both its body and its head united together as the inseparable twin institutions. As Shoghi Effendi could not function in any capacity at all whatsoever with his head separated from his body, neither can the body of the IBC/UHJ function as a body alone nor can it function as a severed head alone without the body. Nothing could be clearer.

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They [Baha'u'llah and 'Abdul-Baha] have also, in unequivocal and emphatic language, appointed those twin institutions of the House of Justice and of the Guardianship as their [Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha's] chosen Successors, destined to apply the principles, promulgate the laws, protect the institutions, adapt loyally and intelligently the Faith to the requirements of progressive society, and consummate the incorruptible inheritance which the Founders of the Faith have bequeathed to the world.[57]

The twin pillars are the twin institutions. These twin pillars, represented by the wood and the iron for the guardianship and the body respectively, were combined in Shoghi's personal body. Because of this he was an infallible Golden Branch. Then, as he had no son, these twin pillars, the Aghsan wooden head and the iron body are combined in the one, whole, Golden body of the IBC/UHJ. Because of this union of the wood and the iron pillars, the IBC/UHJ is the infallible Golden Branch that succeeds Shoghi.

Since Shoghi is an infallible Golden Branch he can 1) look at the words and understand their meaning, 2) expound the meaning to the public, 3) publish the meaning to the world, and 4) interpret/translate it into various languages of the world. Since the IBC/UHJ is the infallible Golden Branch that succeeds Shoghi, they can 1) together, as a full body, look at the words and discover their meaning,, 2) the Aghsan guardian expounds the meaning to the public, 3) the Aghsan guardian publishes the meaning to the world, and 4) the Aghsan guardian is in charge of interpreting or translating,it into the various languages of the world. However, the meaning of the writings doesn't need to be discerned if they are clear and not obscure. In this same vein, if an interpretation/translation of the writings could go several different ways, for instance if there were three different words that the one original word could be translated into, then this is unclear and the final decision falls to the full membership of the House, and even if the guardian votes contrary to the consensus of the House, he must submit and support its infallible decision.

In the future the Aghsan guardians, who make sure the Baha'i writings are published, will also help decide when to publish them. For in each new guardianship new and great lessons are to be learned. For example, a guardian in the future will educate humanity on telepathy and other latent mental abilities. This guardian will want to make sure all the obscure areas of this subject, in the writings, are brought before the House. He will also want to make sure that all the Baha'i writings on this subject are translated and published. And since so few of the Baha'i writings are translated and published, it is a very big task to oversee all of this and make sure it is done property.

Within the Golden Branch of the Universal House of Justice, the full successor to Shoghi Effendi, is the sub-branch of wood, namely the Aghsan guardians who are its presidents and members for life of that body. As the Aghsan guardians are the Branches of Wood they cannot succeed Shoghi Effendi as his successor because he was unique being the Branch of Gold and therefore only another Branch of Gold can succeed him. This Gold Branch is the IBC/UHJ

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--both body and head--that succeeds Shoghi. As the paragraph on page 12 refers to the guardian of the Cause without designating Shoghi Effendi explicitly, as in other places in the Will, the criteria for successorship as written by 'Abdu'l-Baha applies to the presidents of the UHJ (as well as Shoghi Effendi) who on page 14 are also designated as the guardian of the Cause. However, since. the Aghsan guardians are only Branches of Wood they can only appoint their successors to be Aghsan Branches of Wood who function exclusively as the president of the Universal House of Justice and not as the unique Golden Branch of Shoghi Effendi. REMEMBER, no matter how much the Aghsan guardians of wood may share with Shoghi Effendi the title of Guardian of the Cause of God and therefore inherit the right to appoint Hands, choose their successors to the presidency of the House, collect the Huquq, diffuse the divine fragrances (interpret or expound the teachings to the public) or expel members of the house found guilty of committing a sin injurious to the common weal, they can never, even temporarily usurp the mighty power and supreme authority that 'Abdu'l-Baha invested in Shoghi Effendi alone. For to go against Shoghi is to go against God and after him, to go against the IBC/UHJ (both body and head) is to go against God and this does not pertain to any one member of the House, including its president and head, but only to the body as a whole.

'Abdu'l-Baha makes all this very clear in the Will and Testament on both pages 25-26 and page 11. No matter how fierce the opposition of Satan and his followers may be it is completely impossible to swerve away from the truth in light of the Persian and Arabic terms employed by 'Abdu'l-Baha in his Will which distinguish between Shoghi Effendi exclusively, and all future guardians. Even the violators and dissenters cannot deny or argue that Shoghi Effendi is the only Afnan/Aghsan guardian there ever was or ever will be. On page 11 of the Will and Testament 'Abdu'l-Baha writes:

The sacred youthful branch [far'--Afnan!--Shoghi Effendi only], the guardian of the Cause of God as well as the Unversal House of Justice, to be universally elected and established, are both under the care and protection of the Abha Beauty, under the shelter and unerring guidance of His Holiness the Exalted One (may my life be offered up for them both). Whatsoever, they [Shoghi Effendi and then the UHJ] decide is of God, Whoso obeyeth him [Shoghi Effendi] not, neither obeyeth them [the members of both the head and body of the UHJ], hath not obeyed God; whoso rebelleth against him [Shoghi Effendi] and against them [the members of the UHJ both head and body] hath rebelled against God; whoso opposeth him [Shoghi Effendi] hath opposed God; whoso contendeth with them [members of the House, both head and body] hath contended with God; whoso disputeth with him [Shoghi Effendi] hath disputeth with God; whoso denieth him [Shoghi Effendi] hath denied God; whoso disbelieveth in him [Shoghi Effendi] hath disbelieved in God; whoso deviateth, separateth himself and turneth aside from him [Shoghi Effendi] hath in truth deviated, separated himself and turned aside from God. May the wrath, the fierce indignation, the vengeance of God rest upon him! The mighty stronghold shall remain impregnable and safe through obedience to him [Shoghi Effendi] who is the guardian of the Cause of God. It is incumbent upon the members [both the head and the

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body] of the House of Justice, upon the Aghsan, the Afnan, the Hands of the Cause of God to show their obedience, submissiveness and subordination unto him [Shoghi Effendi] the guardian of the Cause of God, to turn unto him [Shoghi Effendi] and be lowly before him [Shoghi Effendi]. He that opposeth him [Shoghi Effendi] hath opposed the True One, will make a breach in the Cause of God, will subvert His word and will become a manifestation of the Center of Sedition.[58]

No matter what is said by the opposition of the violators or by Satan himself, this paragraph refers to Shoghi Effendi only when using the word guardian! Clearly 'Abdu'l-Baha declares Shoghi Effendi "THE SACRED AND YOUTHFUL AFNAN!" which definitely refers to no other guardian, as Shoghi Effendi is the only Afnan guardian! Furthermore on page three 'Abdu'l-Baha designates Shoghi Effendi as "THE SACRED AFNAN" just as he did in the above paragraph on page 11. Also, right above the paragraph on page 11 (on the very same page!) 'Abdu'l-Baha designates Shoghi Effendi only as "THE YOUTHFUL AFNAN" thus naming Shoghi Effendi exclusively! In all instances 'Abdu'l-Baha uses the term far' which is AFNAN! No way, no how, is any other Sacred and Youthful Afnan any guardian other than Shoghi Effendi. Of this no one can deny, despite Danny S.'s preposterous statement "that each successor to the Guardianship is called both 'far'' and 'ghusn'." [59] Any believer or person who has even briefly understood the Covenant knows for a certainty that only Shoghi Effendi, and no other guardians at all, is, or will ever be an Afnan twig (far' of iron) descended from the Bab! To say that all successors to the guardianship automatically are called twigs (far') and inherit a genealogy from the Bab is impossible and ridiculous. The infallible interpreter line of guardians bearing the title Afnan twig or far' came to an end with the death of Shoghi Effendi who had no sons. Only the Aghsan lineage of guardians, who must function in the framework as the heads of the IBC/UHJ (something Shoghi didn't have to do as Afnan and absolute monarch being the Golden Branch all by himself), still continues in the world through the last living descendant of King David, which came through Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha. This descendant today is Joseph Pepe, grandson of 'Abdu'l-Baha. He, and he alone is the ghusn (Branch of Wood), as he has even admitted privately in a phone conversation, according to Danny S..

Likewise according to the explicit text of the Will on page 25 and 26, as on page 11, the word far' (Afnan) twig is used by 'Abdu'l-Baha. Here 'Abdu'l-Baha using the word Afnan, as he did on page 11, as referring to Shoghi Effendi only. 'Abdu'l-Baha confers upon Shoghi exclusively the title Center of the Cause because he is the Golden Branch and after him will succeed the IBC/UHJ.

O ye faithful loved ones of 'Abdu'l-Baha! It is incumbent upon you to take the greatest care of Shoghi Effendi, the twig [far'--Afnan!] that hath branched from and the fruit given forth by the two hallowed and Divine Lote-Trees [The Bab and Baha'u'llah], that no

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58 W&T, page 11.

59 Genealogical References in the Will and Testament, p. 4.

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dust of despondency and sorrow may stain his radiant nature, that day by day he may wax greater in happiness, in joy and spirituality, and may grow to become even as a fruitful tree.

For he [Shoghi Effendi] is, after 'Abdu'l-Baha, the guardian of the Cause of God, the Afnan, the Hands (pillars) of the Cause and the beloved of the Lord must obey him and turn unto him. He that obeyeth him [Shoghi Effendi] not, hath not obeyed God; he that turneth away from him [Shoghi Effendi], hath turned away from God and he that denieth him [Shoghi Effendi], hath denied the True One. Beware lest anyone falsely interpret these words, and like unto them that have broken the Covenant after the Day of Ascension (of Baha'u'llah) advance a pretext, raise the standard of revolt, wax stubborn and open wide the door of false interpretation. To none is given the right to put forth his own opinion or express his particular convictions. All must seek guidance and turn unto the Center of the Cause [Shoghi Effendi] and [then] the House of Justice. And he that turneth unto whatsoever else is indeed in grievous error.[60]

Woe to those who have falsely interpreted these verses to refer to any one else other than Shoghi Effendi, the single and unique Center of the Cause and after him, the body to be universally elected and established, which is born into the world and exists today as the infant IBC/UHJ, Shoghi Effendi's successor the Universal House of Justice (both body and head). "And he that turneth unto whatsoever else is indeed in grievous error."

Thus the people have been tested on, the meaning of the Covenant and the examination paper has become the Will and Testament itself. Even Danny S. was smart enough to see this for in the very first paper he wrote when he entered the Faith entitled, "How Severe the Tests", he quotes Adib Taherzadeh on tests:

They (Baha'u'Ilah and 'Abdu'l-Baha) interpreted the Scriptures of the past, explained many of their abstruse passages and statements, elucidated divine mysteries, expounded the teachings of God for this age, delineated the features of a New World Order and gave the details of the application of the laws and ordinances of Baha'u'llah.

However, on the subject of succession they remained silent and only at the end of Their lives did They disclose the identity of Their successors. There are many wisdoms in this. Such an action may be likened to that of a teacher who is always ready to answer questions and help his pupils solve their problems. Only on one occasion does he remain silent and refrain from helping them, namely, on the day of examination. On that day the students alone will have to find the answers. It is their test and it is also the day

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of separation. Those who pass are elevated to a higher class and those who fail are not.

The history of the Faith demonstrates that the Covenant has always provided the testing-ground for the believers. The Bab gave the glad-tidings of the appearance of 'He Whom God shall make manifest' but did not explicitly disclose the identity of Baha'u'llah. Baha'u'llah established a mighty Covenant appointing 'Abdu'l-Baha as the Center 'of that same Covenant but kept this appointment a well-guarded secret until, shortly before His ascension, He handed the Kitab-i-Ahd (Book of My Covenant) to 'Abdu'l-Baha. This document, in the terms of the above analogy, became the examination paper for the entire body of Baha'u'llah's followers. Some passed and others failed the test. Similarly, the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha in which Shoghi Effendi was appointed as the Guardian of the Faith was kept a secret. It was after His passing that this document was read, Again, this produced tests for the believers. Some who had ambitious ideas and a lust for leadership opposed Shoghi Effendi as the Guardian of the Faith.[61]

Then Danny writes: "Every appointment of a successor is a test, separating those who wish to follow their own ideas from those who choose to obey God through authoritative instructions." Nothing can be more authoritative than Jesus himself giving the true instructions on how the UHJ is the full successor to Shoghi Effendi, the sacred and youthful branch. Yet like others in the past, and Adib himself, Danny S. fails the test for ambitious ideas and a lust for leadership. All of his own actions recall the words: "O how thou art fallen from heaven O Lucifer..."[62]

Now that the evidence against your tract (the two women) has been fully presented we move on to the motive, the reason you were prompted to write such a tract and openly attack the Covenant and the Promised One himself.

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My dear Charles, it was decided that I should write this Epistle to you, for you have been my very dear friend and co-worker in the vineyard. It was felt that I alone should write to one held in so high esteem as you, and give you the loving consideration and care fit for one of your rank. It was you that recognized me immediately, although I hadn't seen nor knew of your whereabouts for some 15 years. You recognized my station, of being that great Teacher, the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, (who had an Academy that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had attended and that brought about the great nation of Israel). You were looking for, and were waiting to find, for a number of years, the one that was to establish the true Baha'i Faith, that you had recorded in your little green book. Several weeks before the very day that I

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61 Adib Taherzadeh, The Revelation of Baha'u'llah, pp. 136-137.

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came knocking on your door, you had written down this date in your little green book. You immediately embraced me and welcomed me as that great teacher that one Saturday morning. We have been great friends and co-workers in the Kingdom ever since. Therefore I write to you in this spirit of our friendship and fellowship.

I want you to know specifically that what I have written is not to be meant to be condemnatory towards you in any way, for your views were the consensus of the rank and file of Believers in the Orthodox Baha'i Faith of Mason Remey. But I have shown in this Epistle that these ideas are erroneous and were the cause of all the trouble that had ensued in the Faith since the passing of Shoghi Effendi. The Kingdom of God could never be established until the true meaning is known, and of course this will be in opposition to the views of those that were the consensus of the people. For some people it may be too difficult to comprehend all of this, but this should not be any reason for one to be in opposition to it. For those that believe in the Lamb know that only the Lamb could break the seven seals and look into the document (to conceive its meanings). For those that are firm in the belief of the Lamb have accepted its meanings and defended it immediately.

I have not gone into the why's and where's of the true meanings of the scroll so as to persuade anyone to accept my explanations and commentaries, but as an educational treatise so that they can teach the true Cause of God. The friends that have gone through the firesides accept me as the Promised Lamb of God and they follow the Lamb wherever he goes.[63] But there are some very evil ones out there, that had accepted me as the Lamb, and now have written a dastardly attack upon me and my dear wife, and for very ulterior motives. They are like snakes in the grass writing their text in secret behind my back, not to get answers from the Lamb, but writing their diatribe for Satanical purposes. They are doing the same thing that those delegates to the National Convention, in 1963 at Santa Fe, to elect a National Spiritual Assembly (NSA) did.

Right after Rex King arrived at the Convention site on the first day of Ridvan, he began showing the delegates a number of letters from the. guardian, Mason Remey, eulogizing him, saying what a great teacher he was and that he was glad that he had come over to the side of the guardian, etc. Rex was explaining to the delegates that Mason was grooming him to be the next guardian, so they all started buttering up to him to be on his side for favors after he becomes the guardian. One of the requirements was for them to be against the Knight, because he knew that I would not go alone with his Satanic ambitions. Rex patronized you Charles, to keep you on his side so that the others would support him. I believe that this is why you withdrew from that NSA, and the Baha'i Organization. Finally Rex went to Mason in Florence, Italy in September of 1969 with five hundred signatures and letters from the believers and two witnesses to pressure Mason into appointing him to be the regent guardian. This is when Mason expelled him from the Baha'i faith as Satan.

The same thing is happening today. Danny S. has been telling a number of the friends that Pepe is going to appoint him to be the next guardian on the

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basis that Pepe had written to him calling him his "boy". He interprets this as an adoption presumptuously, and if Pepe should die forthwith that he would be the next guardian. On this feeble Danny "boy" claim, he has gathered a very small number of fools around him ready to do any dirty work that could possibly enhance his status with Pepe. Their number one task is to go against me, in the same vein of those foolish delegates at that Convention in 1963. The second reason is that I would be opposed to such a scheme as I was with Rex. I can see his Satanic motives. Danny is not just satisfied of being the secretary of the newly formed IBC/UHJ, just as Rex was not satisfied being the secretary of the newly formed NSA 1963. He has to be the guardian. And what's more Danny wants to be the infallible guardian, as Mason had claimed for himself. Then he would be able to eliminate me and perhaps the IBC/UHJ as Mason did, setting himself up as the King of the entire world. But like Rex he wouldn't be satisfied with this. He would then try to place himself above Baha'u'llah as Rex King did. But could he be satisfied with this--Hell No! He would want to be above GOD ALMIGHTY! These are very sick people and need to be under psychiatric care. Who else in the Bible is like them? You guessed it. It was Lucifer!

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

For thou hasts said in thine heart, 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, the sides of the north:

I will ascend: above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.[64]

Danny is not the only one that has been claiming to be the next guardian. I have about two people a year who seriously make that claim. There are a number more also, that make the claim that they are Elijah, the return of Jesus and a number of notable characters. Most of their claims are blown away after several hours of talking with them. Most base their claims upon a gut feeling--they just know that they are because of their opinion of themselves, etc.--but they have no proof or tangible evidence to back up their claim. That is why their bubbles are easily burst, and they return to normalcy. However, there are those who have a more malignant obsession, such as Brent Mathieu. For several years now he has been telling me that he is going to be the next guardian. Mostly this is based upon his high opinion of himself, like Rex King. He looks at himself as being extremely intelligent, to such a degree that he cannot imagine that anyone one else other than himself could possibly fill that position. Then like Rex and Danny he starts to interpret the correspondence that he receives from Pepe and fantasizes himself being chosen by Pepe, by the things that Pepe

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writes, or perhaps by the carrot that Pepe dangles in front of him and he takes the bait and goes for it. All this time I am telling Brent that he is losing the station that God has set aside for him, by his not teaching the faith which 'Abdu'l-Baha has decreed that all must teach and that it is the "corner stone".[65] He was the first one that I had brought into the faith after I had left my accommodations at Deer Lodge. I saw that he was brilliant and I expected much from him, but he told me that he was never was going to teach the faith. He said he would just emphasize the spiritual, and so he has never held firesides or brought anyone into the faith. After his graduation as an ND (Doctor of Natural Medicine), one of the same degrees that I hold, he went into practice in Billings, Montana. I strongly urged him to start holding firesides and establishing a strong center of the Faith there, something that he never did. He, like Danny, felt that they are so brilliant that to teach the faith and bring people into it is something for others. For they feel so exalted, that people only need to look at them and see that they are a superior person.

A year ago at the gathering here in Missoula, I was mentioning that I was about ready to reestablish the IBC, and that Brent, Amy and others were candidates for it but there were certain conditions attached to it. They had to establish a strong center by teaching the faith and to write a research paper advancing the Cause. As Brent had no intentions of doing that, and as it became clear that he was not going to make it, he then decided to butter up to Pepe. The way he chose to do this was to attack me, thinking that Pepe was attacking my claim--someone now that was his (Brent's) enemy--because I was not going to appoint him to the IBC/UHJ and because he was not willing to teach the Cause. The course that he decided upon to get Pepe to make him his fair haired "boy" was to make up a long diatribe based entirely upon five points that I was not the Promised One for today and that the prophecies that I fulfilled all applied to Baha'u'llah. Brent went so far as to demand that I repent, saying that he was doing this to save me. He hoped to make a great impression on Pepe, thinking that Pepe was in opposition to my claim. And you will find that Pepe gave him the name of Knight Courageous. He had to be real courageous to attack the only Knight of Baha'u'llah left who is also the knight on the white horse in Revelation 6 & 19 that is to establish the Baha'i faith. If you have read my Epistle to Brent you will find that I had slain him on the battlefield destroying his weapons which were his five points. Did he make brownie points with Pepe by attacking my claim. Absolutely not! Carlotta tells me that Brent told her that Pepe wrote him just recently, telling him that he is not to be the next guardian, so his attack upon me not only didn't achieve its end, but became the cause of Brent being disqualified. Pepe wrote me concerning this on May the 30th:

The truth is, Leland, you cannot show me anywhere in my correspondence that I have opposed you personally or took objection to your spiritual claims....When you accuse me of setting Brent Mathieu against you, that is a lie.

However it was not a lie, for I don't lie. It was just an honest opinion. Who is a liar but the one who calls the Son of man a liar. The truths of the Son

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differ from their "truths", therefore they say the Son lies. For instance, now there is a full scale attack going on against me throughout the United States by two women and Danny, that have now suckered Todd Pxxxxxx and other so called believers in the Minneapolis area into it, with seven points (their truths), to show that I have erred. They sent out 50 copies of their paper behind my back and then sent me a copy by Express Mail. The evidence shows that they were in collaboration with Danny on these issues. These issues are the same explanations that I had previously given Danny and were the truths of the matter, as they were the truths of the Lamb.

God didn't send His Son into the world a second time to lie, but to explain the truths of the Kingdom that were hidden until I broke the 7th seal, so that all those that are eagerly waiting for the Son would be able to enter into it.

Here Pepe states that he never "opposed [me] personally or took objection to [my] spiritual claims." So it shows that Brent by attacking me personally and going against my claims was the wrong thing for him to do, and because of it he cannot succeed Pepe in the guardianship.

Now Charles you can easily see that Danny is taking the same road to destruction, by making the claim to successorship on the very feeble basis that he was called "his boy" by Pepe. In order to get brownie points with Pepe he is doing the same damn thing. He whispers around that he was called "his boy" by Pepe, and on this flimsy ground he is going to be the next guardian. This got him some cohorts, such as two women in Minneapolis to carry out his dirty work of making a savage attack on me and the Liaison officer in an attempt to discredit me and the newly formed second International Baha'i Council. He has been trying to keep it a secret that he is behind all this. The road that he has taken is the very same that Rex King and Brent had taken. His plan will fail and he will find himself and the women, as well as other collaborators, at a complete loss. The women have even gone so far as to claim that it was you, Charles, in consultation with them, that encouraged them to spread their dirty treatise through mass mailings which resulted in 50 copies of their garbage being sent to the various communities and individual believers. I took strong objection to this. I could not accept that you, one of my very dear friends, would OK such a devious thing. I am not asking you to respond to this, but to only let you know what is going on.

These two women claim that they are searching for the truth. They found the truth when they found the Lamb. There are two truths: one is that of Baha'u'llah and the Lamb (Baha'u'llah is the light and the lamp is the Lamb, Rev. 21:23). The other "truth" is that of the Devil and this is not the truth but a lie, for the Devil was a liar from the beginning: Nimrod, Lucifer, Rex King, Brent Mathieu and now Danny S.. They leave the truth of God and go for His adversary, the one that leads them astray. They leave the Kingdom and go to the place that the Devil has prepared for them, and you know what that is.

In this Epistle I have shown that I had broken the 7th seal of Revelation chapter five, thus I was able to look into the scroll--the Covenant and Will and Testament--discovering for the first time its meanings. Making it possible for the first time ever to do away with all the misunderstandings in the Baha'i faith by showing and proving that Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l- Baha were succeeded by the

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Guardianship of Shoghi Effendi and then by the IBC/UHJ. It is now shown that Shoghi Effendi was a Branch of Gold, by being a genealogical descendant of both the Bab (of iron) and Baha'u'llah (of wood). I show that the only thing that could succeed Shoghi was another Golden Branch. Mason, being an adopted son of 'Abdu'l-Baha, could not be Shoghi's successor because he was just a Branch of Wood, therefore Shoghi Effendi did not name Mason to be his successor, but set up an IBC/UHJ with Mason, a Branch of Wood, as the president and member of the Body of Iron, making the IBC/UHJ the sole successor to Shoghi, because together they are the Branch of Gold, as shown on the last page of the Will and Testament:

To none is given the right to put forth his own opinions express his particular convictions. All must seek guidance and turn to the Center of the Cause [Shoghi Effendi] and [then] the House of Justice [IBC/UHJ].

Then I have shown that the UHJ is composed of two inseparable elements (pillars) functioning only together as the one Body of Wood and Iron, making it of Gold; and this body alone is infallible as was Shoghi Effendi. For no single member of either the head or among the other members is infallible; and I show that all must turn to this, after Shoghi Effendi, for guidance. "And he that turneth unto whatsoever else is indeed in grievous error." I have shown that all have turned away from this body after the passing of Shoghi Effendi. The Covenant-breaking "Hands" threw out the Branch of Wood--the guardian--and Mason threw out the Branch of iron completely destroying the Golden Branch and the Baha'i faith. Then I have shown that God sent His Son, the return of Jesus (with me fulfilling the prophecies of the return of Jesus) to reestablish what the Covenant-breakers, both the "Hands" and "Mason", had thrown out, the Branch of Gold. This authority was given to me in Chapter 15 of Corinthians:

Then comes the end, when he [Jesus] delivers the kingdom to God the Father [Baha'u'llah] after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he [the Son] must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet... "For God has put all things in subjection under his feet.".....When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to him [God] who put all things under him (verses 24,25,27,28).

God has given me every rule and every authority and power, and with this authority and power I have reestablished the IBC/UHJ, the successor to Shoghi Effendi; and whoever rebels against him (Shoghi Effendi) and against them (the IBC/UHJ) have rebelled against God. "May the wrath, the fierce indignation, the vengeance of God rest upon him!"[66]

I have explained that this Epistle is the trumpet sound of the 7th Angel that 'Abdu'l-Baha explains in Some Answered Questions in pages 66-71:

'And the temple of God was opened in heaven, And there was seen in His temple the ark of His Testament.' That is to say, the Book

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of His Testament will appear in His Jerusalem, the Epistle of the Covenant[67] will be established, and the meaning of the Testament [Will and Testament] and of the Covenant will become evident. [Meaning that when I broke the 7th seal I was able to comprehend the true meaning, that was hidden, and explain it to the world]. The renown of God [then] will overspread the East and West, and the proclamation of the Cause of God will fill the world. The violators of the Covenant will be degraded and dispersed, and the faithful cherished and glorified, for they cling to the Book of the Testament, and are firm and steadfast in the Covenant.

'And there were lightnings and voices, and thundering, and an earthquake and great hail,' meaning that after the appearance [of the meaning] of the Book of the Testament [W&T] there will be a great storm, and the lightnings of the anger and wrath of God will flash, the noise of the thunder of violation of the Covenant will resound [another time], the earthquake of doubts will take place [which is starting now], the hail of torments will beat upon the violators of the Covenant, and even those who profess belief will fall into trials and temptations [pp 70,71].

Dear Charles, this Epistle is addressed to you, the recipient of the words that have never been spoken before, for you are worthy and blessed. From this Epistle many releases and messages will be formed that will go out to the world and to the Covenant-breakers. It will be most glorious!

I hear that you have had a heart attack. My hope and prayer is that you will have a speedy recovery.

To my friend and co-worker in the kingdom,

With real love,

Dr. Leland Jensen

Source: Dave Cornell, http://web.archive.org/web/20030723163143/www.lelandjensen.net/html/doc/910730gaines.htm