letter jensen to pepe december 17 1975

Month of November, 1975

Joseph Pepe Remey

Guardian of the Baha'i Faith

Via Malenchini 6

Florence, Italy

Dear Guardian,

I have your letter here of August 24th. I have been wanting to answer this letter with all due speed, but I have been hindered from doing this by circumstances. I had been so busy in doing so many things for the Faith that only I could do, and then there were other things of a non-Baha'i nature that also tapped my time. I just can't get done all the things that I need to do.

There is a move on in Montana to decentralize the State Institutions. They started with the retarded and the handicapped. My wife had a hand in the pilot project. Four years ago, three houses in residential districts were set up to place the retarded in a family-like setting; one in Billings, one in Great Falls, and one in Missoula. My wife purchased the house in Missoula and then rented it to the state for this project. Her house was the only one that was successful. In the last legislature, they passed a Bill to set up 58 such houses as the one here in Missoula in the State of Montana--ten of them to be in Missoula. In the pilot project there were but six of the retarded placed in the house purchased by my wife. In the law passed last January, they raised the number to be placed in these homes from six to eight or ten, so our house had to be enlarged, and this had to be done right away right after I had received your letter, otherwise they would not renew their lease with Dr. Opal. In remodeling the house, I made the patio into a large dining room and the attached garage into two bedrooms, a hobby room, and a storage room. During the time of the remodeling we were not receiving any rent (three months), so I had to hurry and get it done. It is now occupied and it is a show place for this type of project. Although I have so many other things to do, I feel that it is of the utmost importance to get to this letter.

In the interim, several of the very dear friends here have written you in answer to your letter to me, for they have such a deep understanding. By your replies, however, I see that I have to go into this subject--proposed in your letter--in depth.

You suggest that I go on about my work at the present time without an active Guardian. You state: "You have successfully carried on your work without an active Guardian thus far and for the accomplishment of that which you are aiming, an active Guardian does not seem essential at this time, at least." This is true, I don't need an active Guardian for me to carry on my work. In fact, the last thing that I need is someone to tell me how to do my work. If that were the case, I wouldn't be the Promised One of God. In no way is the Guardian to interfere in the work of the Promised One; and by the same token, the Promised One is not to interfere with the Guardian. Never would I want to do that. The work of the Guardian and the Promised One are complimentary one to another, and they both work within their own sphere, neither infringing on the domain of the other. No,

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I don't need a Guardian for me to be able to do my work, but the Cause of God needs a Guardian. That is why Baha'u'llah wrote the Book of the Covenant and 'Abdu'l-Baha His Will and Testament delineating a continuation of the Guardianship. Also, there are situations now arising in the Cause of God that require an active Guardian, and I intend to go into some of these situations in this letter.

Undoubtedly you have been in touch with Donald, for he has just written me and expressed the argument that you mention, and you state that my "claim goes much beyond the 'limits' of my understanding of the Cause of Baha'u'llah from Whose Writings we have been made to believe that "fully a thousand years would pass ere another High Prophet would appear." Donald in his letter to me quoted the entire paragraph from the Kitab-i-Aqdas: "Whoso layeth claim to a Revelation direct from God, ere the expiration of a full thousand years, such a man is assuredly a lying imposter..." I don't know why he brings this up. Certainly at no time have I ever laid claim to a Revelation direct from God, nor have I ever claimed to be a Manifestation of God, nor have I ever added or detracted one dot or tittle from the Revelation of Baha'u'llah. Mine is one of complete servitude as the Master 'Abdu'l-Baha has given us such a glorious example. In quoting this paragraph, Donald completely ignores the fact that there are other Promised Ones of God to come in this Dispensation of a thousand years. Baha'u'llah has stated that the high station that the true believer is destined to attain is that of the Prophets of the House of Israel, such as Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, etc.: "The station which he who hath truly recognized this Revelation will attain is the same as the one ordained for such prophets of the house of Israel as are not regarded as Manifestations 'endowed with constancy.'" (Baha'u'llah, cited in W.O.B., page 111, see also Advent, pages 63-64.)

You state in your letter to me: "What is more, that Baha'u'llah is Himself the Promised one of all ages--the return of Christ." But He is not the only One that is Promised to come in Holy Scriptures. Muhammad was prophesied to come as the Holy Spirit in the potency of the Comforter (KJV) and the Counselor (RSV). The Bab was also prophesied to come, as the Holy Spirit in the potency of the Door. 'Abdu'l-Baha also was prophesied to come, as the BRANCH. You go on to state, "All of your quotations from "Some Answered Questions" have previously been taken to refer to the person of Baha'u'llah." This might be so. The Jews who were patiently waiting for the appearance of their Messiah thought that all of the prophecies of their scriptures would be fulfilled with the Advent of the Messiah; such as those of the Advent of Muhammad, the Bab, Baha'u'llah, the Branch, and Joshua. They thought he would gather together the tribes of Israel, including those that had been lost in Assyria and re-establish them in their former greatness. When Jesus didn't do this, they took him as an imposter and slew Him. That is, Jesus did not bring the tribes of Israel back from Assyria to Israel, and at the time of Jesus, Jerusalem was full of Jews. Also, Jesus did not set them up in ascendancy as the scriptures pictured. They didn't know that a number of Promised Ones were prophesied; such as the Messiah, the Praised one (Muhammad), the Bab, Baha'u'llah, the Branch, and the Promised Joshua. They thought that when the Messiah comes He would be all of them. The Christians down through the ages have also taught that all of the prophecies of what is called the Old Testament refer to just one person, Jesus Christ. For instance, on Christmas morning they put a sign over a cradle with a doll in it saying "Prince of Peace" and they quote Isaiah 9:6,7. But Jesus said that he didn't come to bring peace but a sword. Had he claimed to be the Prince of Peace, He would have been the greatest failure of all history for we have had nothing but war ever since His Advent. They also refer to the rod out of the stem of Jesse in Isaiah 11:1-10 as referring to Jesus. (Read the 12th chapter of Some Answered Questions, where 'Abdu'l-Baha explains that the rod is Baha'u'llah and himself the Branch.) Because of these kinds of goings on, all of the Promised Ones of God have been

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rejected and some of them severely persecuted and martyred.

Perhaps some of the Baha'is have passed off the Lamb of the Book of Revelation--due to the fact that he hadn't made his appearance yet and they therefore didn't know who he was--with a shrug of the shoulders as referring to Baha'u'llah. But no matter how hard one tries to fit the Lamb into being Baha'u'llah, his efforts will end in frustration. It is just impossible to fit him into either the Bab, Bahau'llah, or 'Abdu'l-Baha. However, most of the knowledgeable Baha'is were waiting for one to come in 1963 A.D., in fulfillment of, "Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days" (Dan. 12:12), as it has been explained in Baha'i Writ to mean 1963 A.D. I have been a Baha'i all my life and by no means had the Baha'is taken this to mean that Bahau'llah had fulfilled this prophecy. I remember way over fifty years ago hearing Baha'is discussing that there was yet another Promised One that was to come in that year. Sometime after I was born in 1914 A.D., 'Abdu'l-Baha had announced that he was now in the world. In one of her later writings Ruhiyyih Khanum quotes this and makes a commentary that this referred to Shoghi Effendi. Many of the Bahais speculated that the one that was to come was Shoghi Effendi. My family did, but when he passed in 1957 A.D., it was quite evident that this prophecy did not refer to him. Many of the Baha'is that thought it referred to Shoghi--especially after he inaugurated his Ten Year World Crusade that would culminate in 1963 with a World Court on Mt. Carmel--later switched it to mean the U.H.J. set up by the Covenant-breaking hands, in spite of the wording of the prophecy which states "Blessed is He..." As this followed the prophecy of the Bab--a He--in the 7th verse and the prophecy of Baha'u'llah--a He--in the 11th verse, the twelfth verse states that this is also to be a He. Some of the publications of those that are now following that apostate Faith, state that the Promised One was born on that date, per jean Dixon's vision, and that he is about 12 years old now. They assume this because there is no one in their group that fulfills this prophecy. By the Ploy of the Hands, by labeling those that are firm in the Covenant as Covenant-breakers, they have cut themselves and those that ignorantly follow them off from Divine Guidance, and from ever recognizing the Promised One for they refuse to associate with those that adhere to the Provisions of the Covenant, or to listen to what they have to say.

Certainly Mason Remey was waiting for one to appear in 1963 A.D. When no one in the Orthodox Bahai Faith stepped forth on that date making a Proclamation and showing how he fulfilled the prophecies, he started to assume that he was that Promised One. In January of 1970 he wrote a notice to the Baha'is, stating: "Not long ago, I had a letter from an old friend who writes:

'Dear Mason Remey,

....I have recently been going through the Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Baha and Vol. III, page 541, I find this remarkable statement regarding a great Personage who is to appear in this present day. I quote:

O thou dear friend! - Know thou that the Distinguished Individual of every age is according to the virtues of that age. The Distinguished Personage who was in the former cycle, His Power and virtues were according to the former age, but in this brilliant age and divine cycle, the noble Personage, the Radiant Star, the Distinguished one, will manifest with such 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."'

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Then Mason went on and explained that this Promised One was himself, the Present Guardian. But he passed on not fulfilling this prophecy of 'Abdu'l-Baha. Therefore, some other person that was with the Guardian under the Provisions of the Covenant in 1963 A.D. and is still in active support of the Provisions of the Covenant is that Promised One.

Spread throughout the Baha'i writings are more prophecies concerning this Promised One. I don't have all of the Baha'i writings, unfortunately, but I have heard and seen a number of these over a span of many years. One is that he would be an American and come from the West. That he would have the same number of letters (6) in his first name and in his last name. During the funeral services held in the various cities for Horace Holley, Mrs. Moffet (a renouned Baha'i speaker visiting Joplin, Mo.) showed me this last one, and she was sure that it referred to Horace Holley. I don't remember where this one was recorded as I wasn't even thinking along these lines then. Undoubtedly she was wrong for he didn't fulfill these prophecies, although he had six letters in his first and last names and is an American. But he died a Covenant-breaker before 1963 A.D.

I quote the above to show that most assuredly that the mass of the Baha'is didn't think that all of the prophecies referred to Baha'u'llah. Now to get to the specific question--did the prophecies that I quote from Some Answered Questions actually refer to Baha'u'llah, specifically the 7th Angel of Revelation 11:15 of whom, in the book Some Answered Questions, 'Abdu'l-Baha states will come; "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..." (S.A.Q., page 66). Certainly as 'Abdu'l-Baha states that he will arise could not refer to Baha'u'llah for he had already come. Besides, in Holy Script the Manifestation of God is never referred to as an angel. Angels, cherubims, and seraphims denote degrees of spiritual development of men other than the Manifestation (read the first chapter of Hebrews).

'Abdu'l-Baha, starting on page 65 and continuing on to page 66, stated that the day of woe of Revelation 11:14 ("The second woe is past; and behold the third woe cometh quickly."), is the Day of the Advent of the Manifestation of God:

The first woe is the appearance of the Prophet, Muhammad the son of 'Abd'u'llah--Peace be upon him! The second woe is that of the Bab--to him be glory and praise! The third woe is the great day of the manifestation of the Lord of Hosts and radiance of the Beauty of the Promised One....Therefore it is certain that the day of woe is the day of the Lord; for in that day woe is for the ignorant. That is why it is said, 'The second woe is past, behold the third woe cometh quickly!' This third woe is the day of the manifestation of Baha'u'llah, the day of God; and it is near to the day of the appearance of the Bab." (S.A.Q., page 65-66). Following the Advent of Baha'u'llah in the day of the Manifestation of Baha'u'llah, the Day of God, "the seventh angel sounded;". Therefore the 7th angel definitely does not refer to Bahau'llah, but to a man with spiritual qualities of whom 'Abdul-Baha states in Some Answered Questions is yet to come and will establish the Divine Kingdom brought by Baha'u'llah: "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, and the world will be renewed... (Pages 66-67, S.A.Q.)

'Abdu'l-Baha, in S.A.Q., states that the establisher of Islam was Ali: "the law that Muhammad established and Ali promoted," (bottom of page 63 of S.A.Q.). For the Dispensation of the Bab it was Janabi Quddus: "the appearance of the Bab and the devotion of Janabi Quddus...one the founder and the other the promoter..." (last line of first paragraph and the second paragraph, page 64, S.A.Q.). Therefore the 5th angel of Revelation, chapter 9, was Ali and the 6th angel of Revelation 9:13 was Quddus. The trumpet that Ali sounded was the explanations and commentaries of Ali: "The Law and teachings of Muhammad, and the explanations and commentaries

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of Ali, are a heavenly bounty;" (Page 59, S.A.Q.).

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless Pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the Pit. And there came out of the smoke Locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. (Rev. 9:1-12, KJV)

Muhammad in many ways had indicated that Ali, His son-in-law, should be His successor. The star that had fallen from heaven was Omar. He was one of the most ardent supporters of Muhammad and was like a star of heaven, but upon the passing of Muhammad he prevented Ali from becoming the first Caliph by persuading the people of Islam to elect the successor of Muhammad. He then nominated Abu Bakr who was elected as the first Caliph (both religious and temporal head of Islam). Thus, 'to him was given the key of the bottomless pit'-the pit of error-the smoke out of the bottomless pit is by Abu Bakr becoming Caliph by election instead of the one indicated. This set a precedent, which became a tradition. With Ali being the first Imam and not being in the Caliph's seat, the issues of the light of the sun (Muhammad) became beclouded and darkened. Then after the passing of Abu Bakr, Omar became the second Caliph. It was during the reign of these two Caliphs that the whole of the Christian Middle East, Christian Egypt, Christian North Africa (the Maghreb countries), and the entire Zoroastrian Empire of Persia were conquered by Islam and became Muslim. Muhammad had forbidden the Muslims, in the Koran, from war except for defensive reasons and the breaking of treaties. But both Abu Bakr and Omar waged offensive wars conquering the Persian Empire and 3/4th of the Roman Empire, thus was Omar "given the key of the shaft of the bottomless pit." Islam is represented in the Great Pyramid by the grotto. The shaft of the bottomless pit is that shaft that connects the grotto with the bottomless pit. From this shaft came the Umayyads: "This beast means the Bani-Umayya who attacked them from the pit of error, and who rose against the religion of Muhammad and against the reality of Ali--" (S.A.Q., page 60). These Muslims coming out of Arabia and attacking both the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire were like hoards of locusts and they were like scorpions whose sting is in the tail. These Muslims wore their hair long in contrast to the Romans who wore their hair short. However, they were clean shaven and therefore looked like women. They filed their teeth as is the custom of some of the tribes of Africa, thus their teeth appeared as lions' teeth. As they rushed through the cities' streets in their chariots, the people came out to witness these people who looked like women, but between their legs sitting backwards on the floor of the chariots was a second warrior that shot poison arrows at the crowds of people lining the sides of the streets. The Muslims used the

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poison arrows, as did some African tribes, but this poison didn't kill but made the victim sick for about five months. Muhammad had forbidden the scorched earth policy in warfare, in the Koran-- that is, they were not allowed to destroy the vegetation which was necessary for food.

The king that was over them refers to the dynasty of the Bani-Umayyads, "of whom the first was Abu Sufian" (S.A.Q., page 80) (Abaddon or Apollyon). The second was Mu'awia, the son of Abu Sufian who in 660 A.D. declared himself Caliph in the place of Ali who was then Caliph. And in 661 A.D., Mu'awia killed Ali and established the Umayyads in power.

I have already explained in my article, "The Beast", that the "666" of Revelation 13:18, of which footnote 'g' (RSV) states: "other ancient authorities read six hundred and sixteen", is Abu Sufian, who in 616 A.D. became the Emir of Mecca and Muhammad's chief persecutor--and who Muhammad conquered in 628 A.D. and thus forced him into becoming Muslim. But he and his son and the rest of their clan coveted to take over Islam, which they succeeded in doing in 660-661 A.D. "Then after 3 1/2 days (1260 years) these Divine teachings, heavenly virtues, perfections and spiritual bounties," (of Muhammad and Ali), "were again renewed by the appearance of the Bab and the devotion of Janabi Quddus." (S.A.Q., page 64)

This is the appearance of the second woe, the Day of the Bab and the 6th angel Quddus:

Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet. Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. (Rev. 9:13-21, KJV)

The four Horns are the four governments of the nations that form the Beast, that are to become the four living creatures--the first Baha'i states after the catastrophe. They release the four angels (angels of destruction) bound at the river Euphrates. These are the first four angels that blow their trumpets of Rev. 8:7, 8, 10, 12. These are also the four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding back the four winds of destruction until the Lamb raises up the 144,000. With the dropping of the thermonuclear devices, a third part of the earth will be destroyed with a third part of the people (Rev. 8:7). And a third part of the sea shall be hit and a third part of the creatures in the sea will be destroyed. Many of the missles will miss their mark and land in the sea and many of the missles will be launched from submarines in the sea and will fall back into the sea. (Rev. 8:8) Many of the bombs will fall on the mountains and contaminate a third of the rivers of the world. The mountains are the fountains of the rivers. (Rev. 8:10). Due to the great dust clouds caused by the explosion of these thermonuclear bombs, only one third of the light of the sun, moon, and stars will come through (Rev. 8:12).

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"So the four angels were released, who had been held ready for the hour, the day, the month, and the year to kill a third of mankind." (Rev. 9:15) "The month" is a Baha'i month of 19 days. As each day is as a year, these are the 19 years (one vahid) from the Declaration of the Bab to the Declaration of Baha'u'llah (1844-1863). "The year" is the Most Great jubilee year of one hundred years from the Proclamation of Baha'u'llah on April 21, 1863 A.D. to April 21, 1963 A.D., when the Promised Joshua was opposed by satan (Rex King). That is when he started to oppose me. This brings us to the Day of Joshua (the return of Jesus), and he shall rule until he has complete victory in establishing the Kingdom of God on earth: "Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death (spiritual death)." (Cor. 15:24-26) This great destruction will come in the Day of Joshua (Rev. 18:8). The length of time for this destruction is "one hour". It will take but one hour and the thermonuclear war will be over. It takes 25 minutes for the missiles to come from Russia to their targets in the United States. They will be 15 minutes in the air before they are detected on this country's radar screens and possibly 10 minutes until the president presses the button for American missiles to be launched. Then it will take another 25 minutes until the U.S. missiles reach their targets, which gives but ten minutes leeway. As to the verse, "The number of troops of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten thousand" (Rev. 9:16), this is the number of those that will stand in active opposition to the heavenly army. They are both religious and secular. "The horses" in this cavalry are the intercontinental ballistic missiles, and "the heads of the horses were like lions heads" (Rev. 9:17). These are the thermonuclear warheads of the missiles. The "fire and smoke and sulphur issuing from their mouths." (Rev. 9:17) The fire is the heat of the blast, the smoke the percussion of the blast, and the sulphur is the radiation. "For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like serpents" (Rev. 9:19). As a serpent is propelled by its tail, so the missiles are propelled by their tails. "By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulphur issuing from their mouths" (Rev. 9:18). This is but the first wind of destruction. There are three more yet to come. The next two winds, the fall-out and the world-wide revolution which is to follow will take another third. (See Zech. 13:8)

As you can see, the 6th angel brings us to the 7th angel (the month, the year, the day, and the hour when a third of mankind is to be destroyed) "Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, 'The Kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever.'" (Rev. 11:15) The rest of this 11th chapter is fully explained in my Preface to my edition of Some Answered Questions, that I sent you. The Jubilee year of April 21, 1963 A.D. brings us to the same year prophesied by Daniel for "Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the 1335 days" which is 1963, as explained by 'Abdu'l-Baha in the book, Baha'u'llah and the New Era. This is also the date given by the 100 Red Granite blocks lining the Holy of Holies in the Great Pyramid.

Now we come to your next question: "It is difficult for me to be reconciled to your claim to be the Promised Joshua (Jesus), for Jesus was not to return (as you yourself state) in His former Person but rather the Christ was to return. Was not Baha'u'llah THAT Christ?" Believe me, my very dear Pepe, I don't in the least think that you are trying to oppose or to negate my claim in any way. You have a most marvelous spirit. This is the spirit of the pure of heart. If every one had your spirit, the whole world would soon believe and the great catastrophe would not occur. Donald, on the other hand, does not have this spirit. His is one of condemnation without investigation. But you have motivated me to go into some detail on your questions, and by so doing they will be written down so other

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people can read and believe. These answers, and many more are already answered in my book, "The Lamb's Book of Life", that I wrote when I had the "stone with seven eyes" before me. It is still in manuscript form, waiting to be edited before I publish it. When it is published, however, the bombs will drop.

In the Christian Scriptures (New Testament), there is both the prophecy for the return of Christ (the Anointed), which is the Holy Spirit that Jesus was anointed with, and for the return of Jesus. All throughout the Christian Scriptures, it tells us that Jesus Christ is to come again. The Advent of the Christ (the Holy Spirit) is like the appearance of the sun in a mirror. Jesus was such a mirror. He reflected God, through the Holy Spirit, in the potency of the Son of God. Muhammad was another mirror that reflected God, through the Holy Spirit, in the potency of the Comforter or Councilor (Praised one). The Bab was a mirror that reflected God, through the Holy Spirit, in the potency of the Door or Gate. Baha'u'llah was a mirror that reflected God, through the agency of the Holy Spirit, in the potency of the Glory of the Father or God. Baha'u'llah explained that they were all one. They are all seated upon the same throne and utter the same speech. He said that there is no difference among them except in the potency of their message, and that this is not due to any inherent weakness in any one of them, but is conditioned to the people to whom they give their message. Any one of them could have given the other's message, but didn't, for the people were not ready for it. Jesus said, "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth..." (John 16:12-13) These mirrors are the manifestations of God coming progressively like the grades in school, or the days of the week. Each of these had a Revelation direct from God--the laws, ordinances, teachings, and institutions for a complete new society or civilization progressive over the previous ones. The Advents of these Manifestations were prophesied by the prophets of the past; the name by which they would come, the address of their appearance, the date of their advent, and what they would do when they came. This was so the pure of heart could have assurance and not be following a false Christ (Manifestation). This was possible because God is the author of all Revelations and Divine prophecies. (See 2 Peter 1:20)

In addition to the Advent of the Divine Manifestation, there are prophecies in Holy Scriptures for other than Manifestations of God to come--such as the return of Elijah, which was fulfilled in John the Baptist; or the Advent of "the Branch", which was fulfilled in 'Abdu'l-Baha. In what is called the Old Testament, there are the prophecies of the coming of "Joshua the High Priest," "Blessed is he who waiteth and cometh to the 1335 days," "the land of Syene," etc., etc., that were not fulfilled with the Advent of any of the Divine Manifestations, or with the Advent of 'Abdu'l-Baha.

In the Christian Scriptures, there are the prophecies of the Advents of others than just the Divine Manifestations and that of 'Abdu'l-Baha: 'the Archangel' (I Thes. 4:15), 'the 7th angel', 'the man on the white horse', 'the Lamb' with the 144,000, the angel with the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain, the son of man on the clouds of heaven, the return of Jesus as the son of man, and the Bible ends with: "He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly; Amen. Even so, come Lord Jesus." (Rev. 22:20) In answer to your question, we are primarily concerned with the return of Jesus. And you are correct--the same person of Jesus is not to return, for Jesus said: "Yet in a little while and the world will see me no more" (John 14:18). It is like the return of Elijah that was not in the same person of Elijah--not the same soul or the same body--but an entirely new person, John the Baptist. You have already begun to see this when you recognize that Jesus is a person (like a mirror) and Christ was the Holy Spirit (the light in the mirror). In other words, Christ is not the last name of Jesus as mine is Jensen and yours is Pepe, but the appearance of the Holy Spirit. In the Holy prophecies, however, both are to return. As I have already explained, the return of Christ was progressively fulfilled by Muhammad, the Bab and Baha'u'llah, but none of these fulfilled the

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prophecies for the return of Jesus

Jesus warned us not to accept anyone coming in His name saying that they are the Christ: "For many shall come in my name, saying I am Christ; and shall deceive many." (Matt. 24:5) That is because the succeeding Manifestations were not to come in the name of Jesus. Muhammad did not come in the name of Jesus, but Muhammad. The Bab didn't come in the name of Jesus, but the Bab. Baha'u'llah did not come in the name of Jesus, but Baha'u'llah. I come in the name of Jesus (Joshua), but I don't claim to be Christ, a Manifestation of God. I do this for I fulfill the prophecies in the Old Testament for the Advent of Joshua and in the New Testament for the return of Jesus. For instance, I am not only the only Baha'i under the Provisions of the Covenant, but the only man of history, whose name is 'the land', that wore 'the dirty garment', that had 'the stone with seven eyes' placed before him, that had 'satan oppose him', on the date given by Daniel of 'Blessed is he who waiteth and cometh to the 1335 days' and the jubilee year of 1963 given in Rev. 9:15, that is now bringing forth and establishing the Branch in the world.

In the New Compact Bible Dictionary, Special Crusade Edition, of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, gives the following under the title 'Joshua': (Lord is salvation, Later Jeshua, Jesus)......4. High priest who returned with Zerubbabel, called Jeshua." In the time of Jesus, Joshua was no longer spelled Joshua, or Jeshua, but Jesus. Jesus on His first coming, however, did not have the 'stone with seven eyes' placed before Him, His name was not 'the land (Leland),' He did not wear 'the dirty garment', He didn't bring forth 'the Branch', and He didn't have 'satan' oppose Him on the date given by Daniel of "Blessed is he who waiteth and cometh to the 1335 days", nor in His day was the verse fulfilled that 'every one of you will invite his neighbor under his vine and under his fig tree.' (Zech 3:1-10) Therefore, the Advent of the Promised Joshua does not apply to Jesus on His first coming but His second.

In the 24th chapter of Matthew, the third verse, the disciples asked Jesus when he was going to come again, what would be the signs of his coming, and of the close of the age. In the following verses He gives the signs for His coming and for the end of the age. In the 15th verse, he tells them to turn to Daniel for the date. In the 12th chapter of Daniel, it gives three different dates for the return of Jesus Christ. In the 7th verse it gives 3 1/2 times for the return. A time is a complete cycle. In a cycle, or circle, there are 360 degrees. 3 1/2 times 360 equals 1260, the date of the Manifestation of the Bab--1260 A.H. Verse 11 gives the date of 1290. This is the date of the Manifestation of Baha'u'llah, who made His Proclamation exactly 1290 years after the Proclamation of Muhammad. The third date is recorded in the 12th verse: 'Blessed is he who waiteth and cometh to the 1335 days.' These 1335 are thirteen thirty-five years as the chronological time scale of the Bible is one day representing one year. These 1335 years are figured from the victory of Muhammad in 628 A.D., for the one to come on that date will have the victory in establishing the Kingdom. This date then refers to the date of the return of Jesus, for throughout the New Testament, it tells of Jesus being successful in establishing His Father's Kingdom.

Jesus, in speaking of His return, doesn't state that He will return as the Christ, but as the 'son of man'. Jesus associates the Advent of the son of man with and after the great Catastrophe: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days... And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in lamentation, and they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." (Matt 24:29, 30) "For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of Man will be. For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, and until the day that Noah entered into the ark and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence

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of the Son of Man will be." (Matt 24:37-39, The Kingdom, Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures) As for the other Promised Ones, the Bab, Baha'ullah, and 'Abdu'l-Baha passed before the catastrophe, so these prophecies don't refer to any of them. But the Promised Son of Man who came in the name of Jesus in 1963 A.D. is a son of man. I am a son of man, for my father was a man.

With the return of Christ (the Advent of the Holy Spirit), a new revelation direct from God comes into the world. With the return of Jesus, however, the same Revelation returns to the world. It is through this Revelation that the dead in Christ rise (believe). This Revelation of Jesus is the Book of Revelation: "THE REVELATION TO JOHN--The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him to show to his servants what must soon take place; and he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John (Rev 1:1)." This is the message that Jesus has for the world today, "For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." (Rev 19:10) This message was given in code (symbols and allegories) so that nobody down through the ages would know its meaning, until the return of Jesus comes in the Son of Man to explain it. That is because this message didn't pertain to the people before this time. 'Abdu'l-Baha explained the 11th and 12th chapters and part of the 21st chapter in his book, Some Answered Questions, but these chapters pertained to the Advent of Islam and the Advent of the Bab. All of the rest of the Book has been left untouched and nobody in the world knew the meaning until the Promised Joshua (return of Jesus) with the 'stone with seven eyes before him' broke the code and revealed the meanings. For instance, nobody knew the meaning of the Beast with seven heads and ten horns until the Promised Joshua wrote the article of The Beast. The reason that the code couldn't have been broken before is that the ones prophesied to come, the Lamb with seven eyes and seven horns, the seventh angel, the man on the white horse, had not yet appeared. When I had received the message from the second Guardian stating that Rex King was satan and I realized that he had opposed me in 1963, I looked and saw the stone with seven eyes before me and I was wearing the dirty garment and my name was Leland, 'the land'; I then found that the mystery had left the Book of Revelation and that for the first time I understood its meaning. I had been a Baha'i all of my life, and in teaching the Faith whenever I tried to fit the Lamb with seven eyes and seven horns into meaning Baha'u'llah, or the Bab, or 'Abdul-Baha I became frustrated. It was like placing the wrong piece in a jigsaw puzzle. It had to be made to fit or you couldn't force it in. When I discovered who was the Lamb and who was the seventh angel, and who was the man on the white horse, then all of the pieces of the puzzle went together very easily, and the seal of this Book was broken. In my Book, "The Lamb's Book of Life," the seven seals are broken. When it is published, the peoples of the world will come into the Cause of God enmasse. It is impossible to go into all of the things in this letter that are needed for a complete understanding. To do this, I would have to send you "The Lamb's Book of Life", and it isn't published yet. But in order for you to understand that not only Christ, but Jesus also is to return, it is necessary to go into certain chapters in the Book of Revelation and explain them:

After this I looked, and lo, in heaven an open door! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, "Come up hither, and I will show you what must take place after this." At once I was in the Spirit, and lo, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne! And he who sat there appeared like jasper and carnelian, and round the throne was a rainbow that looked like an emerald. Round the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clad in white garments, with golden crowns upon their heads. From the throne issue flashes of lightning, and voices and peals of thunder, and before the throne burn seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God; and before the throne there is as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And round

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the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle. And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all round and within, and day and night they never cease to sing, 'Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!' And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated upon the throne, who lives for ever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever; they cast their crowns before the throne, singing, 'Worthy art thou, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou didst create all things, and by thy will they existed and were created.' (Revelation, chapter 4)

The open door that John saw was the Bab. He says, "at once I was in the spirit, and to, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne!" (Rev. 4:2) The heaven here is the Baha'i Faith. The throne is the Revelation of Baha'u'llah, for through that Revelation God is to rule this earth. The one seated upon the throne is the Guardian of the Faith, for he is the interpreter of that Revelation. The rainbow round the throne is the Covenant of Baha'u'llah (See Genesis 9:13). The twenty-four elders are the twenty-four elders of the Baha'i Faith. The white garments signify their faithfulness to the Covenant, and their purity of heart. "From the throne issue flashes of lightning, and voices and peals of thunder". This is the oncoming thermonuclear holocaust. The seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God that are before the throne, are the seven Revealed religions that preceded the Baha'i Revelation: the Sabaian, Jewish, Hindu, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Christian and Islamic. The seven spirits are the Manifestations of these religions: Adam, Moses, Krishna, Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus Christ, and Muhammad. The sea of glass like crystal before the throne is the explanations of the Lamb with seven eyes and seven horns of these seven religions. That is, his explanations are as clear as crystal. The four living creatures before the throne are the four nations that now form the Beast and become the first Baha'i states: the lion, England; the ox, Russia (the symbol of Russia before it became communist was that of the ox); the face of a man, France; and the eagle, America. He who is seated upon the throne lives forever and ever means that as long as there is life upon this planet there will be a living Guardian seated at the head of the Baha'i Faith, which may be for billions of years yet.

And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals; and I saw a strong angel' proclaiming with a loud voice, 'Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?' And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it and I wept much that no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. Then one of the elders said to me, Weep not; lo, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.' 'And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders, I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth; and he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints; and they sang a new song, saying, 'Worthy art thou

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to take the scroll and to open its seals, for thou wast stain and by thy blood didst ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and hast made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on earth.'

Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, 'Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!' And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all therein, saying, 'To him who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might for ever and ever!' And the four living creatures said, 'Amen!' and the elders fell down and worshipped. (Revelations, chapter 5)

The scroll in the right hand of him who is seated on the throne written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals, is the Covenant of Baha'u'llah and the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha. That is, the Guardian is seated upon the throne through the authority of the Covenant and the Will and Testament. But the Guardian alone--one pillar of the World Order of Baha'u'llah--was not able to establish in the world this mighty scroll. Shoghi Effendi tried to establish the Kingdom by establishing an administration which the second Guardian expelled as Babi. Had Shoghi an insight into the Book of Revelation, he would not have set up his administration as the Bahai administration. The second Guardian tried to bring about the Kingdom, but he also was just one of the pillars and his plans didn't work out as he thought they would. The second Guardian knew, after he expelled Shoghi Effendi's administration, that the kingdom could only be established by the twin institutions, and that one of them, the body of the International Bahai Council, had died. The second Guardian knew that one was to appear in 1963 A.D. He also knew that Jesus was to reappear. He told me so. When no one in the Orthodox Bahai Faith stepped forth after 1963 A.D., making a proclamation with sufficient proofs to back it up, he assumed that he was that Promised One. Thus, in January of 1970 A.D., he proclaimed that he was that Personage, prophesied to come by 'Abdu'l-Baha. He should have known better, for he was already one of the Divine Institutions, the Guardian, and he couldn't be the other also. Also the Lamb is before the Throne, not seated upon it. By him not being the Lamb, he could not break the seven seals. He tried but things didn't work out as he had expected. For instance, he wrote several letters to the friends stating that the bombs were about to drop on Washington. Then in subsequent letters he stated that he didn't know why the bombs hadn't dropped as yet. He didn't comprehend that the four winds of destruction are held back until the 144,000 are chosen (Rev. 7:1-4). No one in the world has been able to break the seals except in a small part. That is, nobody but he who gave the Revelation to John--Jesus. Therefore, the meaning of the Book of Revelation (except a small part explained by 'Abdu'l-Baha) remained a mystery until the return of Jesus. Thus, Jesus upon His return is able to establish the Provisions of the Will and Testament in the world, by being able to break the seven seals: "Weep not; lo, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals." Judah is the Lion of the 12 Tribes--the ruling tribe. Jesus was a descendant of David through His father Joseph, and was thus of this tribe. This geneology is given in the third chapter of Luke, starting with the 23rd verse. Jesus was the sacrificial Lamb that was slain and returns as the Lamb with seven eyes and seven horns standing before the Throne. The Lamb standing as though it had been slain, before the throne and among the elders, is Joshua, the return of Jesus. The Guardian seated upon the Throne was Mason Remey. The elders are the Baha'is that were under the regime of Shoghi Effendi, but in the Great Violation of the Covenant remained firm and steadfast in the Provisions of the Covenant and came out of the violation with the second Guardian and remained faithful to him, and now come under the third Guardian. Joshua was among these elders.

About sixty years after the sacrificial Lamb was slain He gave His Revelation to St.

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John by sending an angel unto him (Rev 1:1). This Revelation was in code, (symbols & allegories); therefore, what Jesus had to say in His Revelation remained hidden in code until He returned, as the Lamb with seven eyes and seven horns, and gave His explanations. Mason Remey was unable to break the code, therefore he was unable to establish the Provisions of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament in the world. I took the scroll out of the hand of Mason Remey. That is, by being Joshua (Jesus), the Lamb, I break the seven seals; and thus, I establish the Provisions of the scroll in the world. I take it out of his hand, because he is not the Promised establisher. Because I have broken the seven seals, I have been raising up the believers, of whom the electorate of the Houses of Justice. After 1969 A.D., when Satan had finished with his dirty work, all that was left of the Faith was the Guardian (the King) and the elders, which Mason made Hands (Nobles) of the Faith at large. There was the king and his nobles, but no proletariat (believers) in the world. Mason was unable to raise up these believers, nor was anyone else able to raise up these believers except the Promised Lamb, by breaking the seven seals. Thus He is now establishing 'the BRANCH' in the world. These believers are the elect, God's chosen (the 144,000 of the tribes of Israel). This is God's heavenly army. When it reaches 144,000 the bombs will drop. Then the multitude will come in. By the end of the century, every eye will see me and every knee will bow before the Throne. At that time, this electorate will elect a National House of Justice in every country of the world and these National Houses of Justice will elect the Universal One. Then at that time the Lamb will place His crown in that Holy of Holies (the U.H.J.). Then all future generations of Israel (Baha'is), will know that Jesus, the Lamb (who now alone is standing in the Holy of Holies), established His Fathers Kingdom, and was succeeded by the elected membership of that body.

In order to have a clear understanding of this, you need to have a better understanding of the reason for the prophecies for the 144,000 of the 7th and 14th chapters of Revelation. In order to understand this, you need to understand the meaning of what is called the Old Testament from the time of Moses on.

He brought the 12 Tribes of Israel out of the land of Egypt into the desert of Sinai. While He was on earth, He was the Temple of God (Manifestation), the Intermediary between Israel and God. In the desert, He taught Israel His laws, ordinances, teachings and mode of worship. Then He made a tent in the desert called the Tabernacle. He divided it in two by a curtain. In one room was the Holy Place, or Sanctuary. In the other room was the Holy of Holies. In front of the Tabernacle he placed an Altar for sacrifices. In the Holy Place were the lampstand and the table of the bread of the Presence. The Holy of Holies having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, which contained a golden urn holding the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant, above which were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat.

With these preparations having thus been made, the priests went continually into the Sanctuary offering up prayers for those who had made animal or cereal sacrifice. But into the Holy of Holies, only the High Priest was allowed to go, and he only once a year to atone for all Israel.

Thus Moses, Who was the Temple of God (Manifestation), the Intermediatory between God and Israel, transferred from Himself to another Temple, the Tabernacle, this intermediatorship. With this transfer, the Temple with the High Priest standing in the Holy of Holies before the Ark of the Covenant became the Intermediary between Israel and God. Without this arrangement, Israel is apostate.

This Tablet of the Covenant that He made with Israel, just before He passed on, that He had placed in the Ark of the Covenant, was in three parts: 1. The blessing, which establishes Israel over all the peoples of the world (Deut. 28:1). 2. The curse, with which Israel goes into captivity (Deut. 28:36); and then, "the Lord shall scatter thee among all people from one end of the earth even unto the other..." (Deut 28:64). 3.The gathering and the re-establishing of Israel--all 12 Tribes (Deut. 30:1-9). This became the theme of the Bible from Moses on down and became the theme of the

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prophecies of the Old Testament from the time of Solomon on down. It is the theme of the prophecies of Jesus Christ in His Revelation to St. John in chapters 7 and 14. This is attested to by Paul in his epistle to the Romans, 11th chapter. This Covenant is much too long to reproduce in this letter, but because of its importance--the message of the Bible being based upon it--I recommend that before you go any further in reading this letter, read this Covenant in Deuteronomy, chapters 28, 29, 30.

God never makes a covenant with man but what He keeps every word of it. The first part, the blessing, became fulfilled at the time of Solomon when he built the Temple on top of Mt. Moriah, the site being purchased by David; and he had the High Priest transfer the Ark of the Covenant from the Tabernacle to the stone structure. At that time, Israel became elevated above all the peoples of the world. All of the kings of the earth payed tribute to Solomon and Israel became the richest Empire on earth. They were also the wisest, and people from all over the world came to study at Jerusalem. These people also were the most spiritual in the world. This was indeed the Golden age of Israel when all of the conditions of the first part of the Covenant were fulfilled.

Then Solomon did a dastardly thing, which started the curse. He broke the Covenant of Moses (I Kings 11:11), by going after other gods and bowing down before them (I Kings, chapter 11). After the death of Solomon, Israel split into the Ten Northern Tribes, and the two Southern Tribes of Judah and Benjamin. The Ten Northern Tribes gave up the Temple worship for Idolatry and the kingship of the Ten Northern Tribes became a suzerainty of Egypt. They suffered very severely the conditions of the curse from that time on. In 721 B.C., after three invasions by three different kings of Assyria, they were taken captive and brought into Assyria in the location which is now Baghdad, Iraq, and remained there until the coming of Baha'u'llah to Baghdad, when a remnant went with Him to Israel.

About six years after Israel divided into the Northern and Southern Tribes, the two Southern Tribes, who were now so weak after losing the Ten Northern Tribes in the split, were soon conquered by Egypt and their kings also became the Suzerains of Egypt. For about four hundred years, from the time of Solomon to 606 B.C., the Southern Tribes vacillated back and forth between Idolatry and Temple worship until they were taken into captivity into Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. In 586 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple, carting the Ark of the Covenant off to Babylon where it became permanently lost. From that time on, the Jews (the two Southern Tribes) were apostate, although some of the Jews returned to the site of Mt. Moriah in 536 B.C. and rebuilt the Temple. In 65 B.C., when Pompey, at the head of the Roman legions, conquered Jerusalem for Rome, he forced his way into the Holy of Holies to see what the Jews worshipped. To his surprise he found the room empty, and he exclaimed that the Jews worshipped nothing! Thus, the Jews knew they were apostate and still under the condition of the curse, and were therefore patiently waiting the coming of their Promised Messiah to re-establish the intermediaryship by placing the Ark of the Covenant in their Temple and to regather the 12 Tribes of Israel. When Jesus didn't re-establish them as they were at the time of Solomon, they slew him as an imposter.

Although Jesus was the mediatory of a New Testament, He did not enter into the rebuilt Temple of Solomon and place it there. The Jews would not allow Him to do this for He was not a High Priest after the Order of Aaron. He was of the Tribe of Judah and nothing in the writings of Moses was said about a High Priest being of that Tribe. He was a High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, however, and He did enter into the Sanctuary (Holy Place) in heaven, not with the blood of sheep and goats but with His own. He thus became an intermediary for those that believed on Him (Hebrews 9:24). However, he didn't re-establish the Intermediaryship for Israel here on earth; thus, Israel was not regathered by Him, but He did promise that He would raise them up in the Last Day (John 6:44, 54). On His first coming, He, "having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will return a second time, not to deal with

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sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him" (Heb. 9:28). This time He enters into the Holy of Holies here on earth with His own blood, being a Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, and thus He regathers and re-establishes Israel.

In 70 A.D., Titus, at the head of the Roman legions, entered Jerusalem and destroyed the city and the Temple, leaving only the Holy of Holies intact. He hacked the Jews up into little pieces and sold the remnant to the nations as slaves. In the 7th century A.D., Omar at the head of the Muslim legions conquered Jerusalem for Islam and had a mosque built over the Holy of Holies. He then made a decree that no Jew be allowed to re-enter Jerusalem or own land there.

The regathering and re-establishing of Israel is not possible without the return of the Temple. The Bab (the Door) was the return of Christ in the potency of the Sanctuary, and Baha'u'llah (the Glory of God), was the return of Christ in the potency of the Holy of Holies, and His Covenant is in His Holy of Holies. The Manifestations when they are on earth are the Intermediary (Temple) between man and God.

According to the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, it would be 2300 days from the transgression that makes desolate until the Sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state (Dan. 8:13, 14). The King James Version states that it would be 2300 days from the transgression of desolation until the Sanctuary shall be cleansed. Jerusalem became desolate due to the transgression of the Covenant until the Order of Artaxerxes in 457 B.C. (recorded in the 7th chapter of Ezra), to restore and rebuild the city. The time scale according to the Bible is that of one day representing one year; therefore, these are 2300 years. It was just exactly 2300 years from the order of Artaxerxes to the start of the Baha'i calendar on March 21, 1844 A.D. There are 456 years from 457 B.C. to the birth of Jesus, and there are 1844 years from the birth of Jesus to the Advent of the Bab. The Sanctuary was cleansed not with the blood of sheep or goats, but with the blood of the Bab and ten thousand of His followers. Thus, the re-establishment of the Sanctuary on earth.

The Revelation of Baha'u'llah is for the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven that Jesus asked us to pray for. Therefore, His Revelation is that of the Holy of Holies. Like Jesus, He is of the Tribe of Judah and not a descendant of Aaron, and according to Moses nothing was said of a High Priest in the Tribe of Judah. Being of the Tribe of Judah, He re-establishes the Davidic Kingship, but according to Moses these Kings (Guardians) are not allowed in the Holy of Holies--only the High Priest. So it is in the Baha'i Faith, with the Guardianship and the U.H.J.--"each operates within a clearly defined sphere of jurisdiction."

As Moses, the Manifestation of God, brought the 12 tribes of Israel out of captivity in Egypt, Baha'u'llah, the Manifestation of God for today, brings the remnant of the exiles of the 12 Tribes of Israel out of the countries (Assyria and Babylon) from which they had been taken captive. The southwestern part of Persia (Iran), where the Bab made His Proclamation was that part of ancient Babylonia where the Jews were taken into captivity. There was only a small part of the Jews that returned to Jerusalem with the edicts of the Zoroastrian kings to restore and rebuild the Temple and Jerusalem. Most remained in Babylon and after the Declaration of the Bab a remnant became the first Babis. Later, when Baha'u'llah made His Proclamation, many who were the descendants of these Jews became Baha'is. Some of these came to Israel and others traveled to other countries to spread the Faith.

The returning of Israel from the countries from where they had been taken into captivity, both the Northern and Southern Tribes, didn't begin until Bahau'llah made His Declaration on April 21, 1863 A.D., at Baghdad. The first Baha'is (believers) were the members of His own family, who were of the Tribe of Judah, and people living in and around Baghdad, some being descendants of the Ten Northern Tribes. Thus, when Baha'u'llah was taken a prisoner from Baghdad to Israel, we have the return of the remnant of the 12 Tribes of Israel to Israel, under their new name of Baha'i--of Glory (Isaiah 62:2; Rev. 3:2; Isaiah 6:3; Ezekiel 43:2).

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exiled from Jerusalem by the edict of Omar, could now return to Jerusalem. In 1868 A.D., the same year that Baha'u'llah was brought to Israel as a prisoner, the Sultan of Turkey issued a decree that the Jews could now buy and own land in Jerusalem. Thus, in the same year that Israel returned to Israel, apostate Judaism (Jews) began to return, and in 1948 A.D. they set up the apostate State of Israel. These Jews know that they are apostate and still under the provisions of the curse. They would like to do something about it. They would like to rebuild their Temple on Mt. Moriah and reinstitute Temple worship. In the 1967 war, they came into possession of the old part of Jerusalem, but they can't rebuild their Temple, for the Mosque of Omar is built on Mt. Moriah over their Holy of Holies, and this is the second most Holy Place of Islam. If a Jew should so much as walk toward this structure with as much as an ice pick in his hand, 'bedlam' would break loose.

Since the Six Day War, however, some Jewish archeologists have been doing some extensive excavations all around the Temple site. Dozens of cavernous rooms and a pillar from Solomon's porch have been uncovered. They are prevented from excavating under the Temple in the direction of the Holy of Holies due to opposition from two main quarters. First, is from the Moslem Arabs, who feel that any excavation under the Mosque itself could weaken the structure and cause it to collapse. Also, they know that this kind of excavation could be performed for only one purpose--to gather information for a possible rebuilding of the Jewish Temple. This, of course, they would never permit. It could trigger a full-scale war between the State of Israel and the Arab nations, and perhaps bring on World War III.

Second, are the ultra-religious Jews who believe that only the Messiah, when He comes, can rebuild the Temple. They are also afraid that should they come upon the Holy of Holies and enter it, that it would be desecrated, for only a High Priest can enter the Holy of Holies. As the High Priesthood came to an end after the Jewish dispersal by Titus and Adrian, and since no one can prove their descent from the Levitical Priesthood, these religious leaders are adamant in their opposition to further explorations in the Temple area.

If, by some miracle, the Jews should find some way to rebuild their Temple, and find their lost Ark of the Covenant, the room would still have to remain empty, or become desecrated, as there is no High Priest to enter it and place the Ark of the Covenant in it. Thus they would still be apostate.

When a Manifestation of God is on earth a High Priest is not necessary for He is the completed Temple, and therefore the Intermediary between God and man. With the passing of Bahau'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha became the intermediary between Israel (the Baha'is) and the Glory of God: "Baha'u'llah...with His supreme Pen, entered into a Covenant and Testament with the Bahais whereby they were commanded to follow the Center of the Covenant after His departure, and not turn away even to a hair's breadth from obeying him." ('Abdu'l-Baha, Tablet (Archives), cited in B.W.F. Page 358). "To the peoples of Faith, the clear appointment of the Center of the Cause, after the departure of the Manifestation, is considered the most important point in religious matters, as it is the greatest channel which connects the servants of God with Holy Divine Truth." (Mirza Abdu'l-Fadl, Baha'i Proofs, page 108)

With the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha, the twin institutions became the intermediary between Israel (the Baha'is) and the Glory of God. "The sacred and youthful branch, 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 decide is of God ..." (W.&T., Part I, para. 17, pp. 11)

Mason Remey in his 'A Last Appeal' explained that the Guardianship is the Kingdom of God on earth. Then members of the Universal House of Justice that would eventually be established would represent the High Priest in the Holy of Holies: "By this House is meant the Universal House of Justice, that is, in all countries a secondary House of Justice must be instituted, and these secondary Houses of justice must elect the

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members of the Universal one. Unto this body 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 the distinguished member for life of that body ..." (W&T., pp 14).

'Abdu'l-Baha did not set up the Universal House of Justice in the world although it was one of the twin institutions. He appointed Shoghi Effendi to be the first guardian, and left him His Divine Plan to be carried out. Therefore only one of the institutions, the kingship, succeeded 'Abdu'l- Baha. The other institution was only potentially here. In order for it to be established it would have to be elected by the believers and by National Houses of Justice. Believers existed but there were no National Houses of Justice. National House of Justice implies the national government of a Baha'i nation. In order to have these National Houses of Justice, Shoghi multiplied Israel (believers) to every country of the world. In order to do this, he evolved an administrative order of Local and National Spiritual Assemblies referring to them as embryonic Houses of Justice. Then he set up an International Council, which he referred to as the "first embryonic International Institution, marking its development into officially recognized Baha'i Court, its transformation into duly elected body, its efflorescence into Universal House of Justice..." (Cablegram, January 9, 1951) Shoghi Effendi appointed its membership--especially its president, Mason Remey. In Shoghi Effendi's program for his Ten Year World Crusade, the I.B.C. with its appointed membership (by him) was to become a World Court on Mt. Carmel in 1963 A.D. Sometime after that it was to have its body elected, then its efflorescence into a Universal House of Justice.

When 'Abdu'l-Baha, in His Will and Testament, decreed that the Twin Institutions would succeed Him, he appointed Shoghi Effendi to be the first Guardian, but he didn't set up the U.H.J. Therefore, the immature U.H.J. had to be already in existence. Shoghi was to carry out His ('Abdul-Baha's) Divine Plan, and have it completed at Ridvan 1963 A.D., the date for the Advent of the Promised One. I was only seven years old at the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha; therefore, I was unable to carry out my mission at that time. At Ridvan 1963 A.D., I was 7 times 7 or 49 years old, a complete cycle or the jubilee year of Israel. At that time I was the High Priest standing in the Holy of Holies. I am to be succeeded by the membership of the U.H.J. Until that time I alone stand in the Holy of Holies and no one else can start to enter it until the body of the world court is elected by the National Houses of Justice of the 'Four Living Creatures'. As the completed Temple is here, the High Priest standing in the Holy of Holies is now regathering Israel from the four corners of the earth to which they were scattered in the Great Violation of the Covenant.

In 1957 A.D., with the passing of Shoghi Effendi, the Hands of the Faith took over the function of the Guardianship of the Faith from the second Guardian, Mason Remey, by announcing to the Baha'i world that Shoghi Effendi had no son and had left no Will and Testament appointing a successor. Therefore, they claimed that the Guardianship had come to an end. The Will and Testament, however, doesn't state that the Guardian is to appoint his successor in a Will, but that He appoint his successor during his lifetime, which Shoghi Effendi did when he appointed Mason Remey to be the President of the International Baha'i Council that he called an embryonic U.H.J., as the president of the U.H.J. is the Guardian.

In the last Behje Conclave of the Hands of the Faith in 1959 A.D. they decided to perform an abortion of the International Baha'i Council by having its body elected in 1961 A.D., instead of having it become a Baha'i World Court on Mt. Carmel, per Shoghi Effendi's Ten Year World Crusade, at Ridvan 1963 A.D., for a plan of their own to set up in its stead a purely human institution of their own creation, a democratic international body, elected by National Spiritual Assemblies of less than half the nations of the world, without a Guardian as its head as decreed by the Will and Testament. They fallaciously named this headless monster the Baha'i U.H.J. There is no resemblance of this monster, however, with the Baha'i U.H.J., as set forth in

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'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament. The Baha'i U.H.J. will be elected when all nations become Baha'i and elect National Houses of justice. These National Houses of Justice will elect the Universal one and the Guardian will be its head. This will take place at the end of the century.

To this abortion and their fallacious plan the second Guardian objected strenuously. He left Mt. Carmel and came to America. On the way he started penning a first, second and last appeal to the Covenant-breaking Hands. The last appeal was completed in April of 1960 A.D. At the Ridvan period (April 21--May 2), 1960 A.D., he made his Proclamation that he was the second Guardian. When his appeals were rejected by the Hands and his Proclamation was received negatively by both the Hands and the mass of the believers, or let us say non-believers, he separated himself from both the mass of the believers and that body of the embryonic U.H.J. When he did this, both the body of the mass of the believers, and the body of the International Baha'i Council died in matrix, for a body cannot live without its head. In 1961 A.D., when the Hands had the body of that defunct I.B.C. elected, they aborted an already dead corpse, for the spirit (Holy Spirit) had already left it.

Both of these embryonic bodies created by Shoghi Effendi, his administration and his I.B.C., had to die in utero for no Guardian had been given the authority either in the Will and Testament, or any other Baha'i writing, to create either a Baha'i Administration or an embryonic U.H.J. The only authority that the Guardian has in this matter is to appoint the future head of the U.H.J., which Shoghi Effendi did when he appointed Mason Remey, so that this head when it was separated from that apostate institution (embryonic U.H.J.), that was apostate at its inception, did not die.

By the same token that a body cannot live without a head, a head cannot live without a body. So when the body of that embryonic U.H.J. died, the head was separated from it and didn't die because the body of that future U.H.J. was already alive in the world. God, however, had him hidden away in His hand. "He made me a Polished arrow, in His quiver He hid me away." (Isaiah 49:2) Before the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha, both Shoghi Effendi and I were alive in the world. When 'Abdu'l-Baha appointed Shoghi to be the first Guardian, He didn't appoint me to be the other institution until its body would be elected, for I was already appointed to that post by God Himself through the mouth of the Holy Prophets in Holy Scriptures. As God hid me away in the shadow of His hand, 'Abdu'l-Baha, although He knew this, would not break confidence with God and divulge this to the world. He did say he was already in the world and that I had six letters in my first name and six letters in my last. I am Baha'u'llah's hidden Tablet. The establisher of His Kingdom here on earth.

This embryonic U.H.J. created by Shoghi Effendi had to die in utero, for had it come forth in 1963 A.D., as a Baha'i World Court, there would be two pre-U.H.J.'s alive in the world. This could never be for if they both continued we would have two U.H.J.'s eventually in the world. Therefore the apostate one died in Ridvan 1960 A.D. and resurrected three days (years) later in 1963 A.D. in the One that God had purposed--the Lamb standing in the Holy of Holies before the angel of the Lord, Mason Remey, with Rex King, Satan, at His right hand to oppose Him. In Scripture it states that it looked as though it had been slain and come to life (Rev. 5:6) "Standing" means that I was standing in the service of the Guardian and Rex King was standing in opposition to me. I was the only person on that N.S.A. that stood up for the Guardian, Mason Remey. All the rest of that Assembly supported Rex in his take over of the Administration.

Zechariah, the prophet, in one of his visions sees the High Priest and the Guardian succeeding "the man whose name is the Branch"--'Abdu'l-Baha: "make a crown and set it upon the head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, "Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall grow up in his place, and he shall build the Temple of the Lord. It is he who shall

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build the temple of the Lord, and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule upon his throne. And there shall be a priest by his throne, and peaceful understanding shall be between them both. And the crown shall be in the Temple of the Lord as a reminder...'" (Zech. 6:11-13)

'Abdu'l-Baha is the man whose name is the Branch. The successor to the Branch is Joshua, the High Priest, who is by his throne and the guardian who is seated upon the throne. The guardians are succeeded by an endless chain of guardians. The Lamb will start to be succeeded by the body to be elected in 1987 A.D. when the four nations that now comprise the Beast become the four living creatures by becoming Baha'i states and electing their National Houses of Justice. These will elect the body of the World Court on Mt. Carmel. Then, by the end of the century and after the four waves of the catastrophe are over, this Court will effloresce into the Universal House of Justice. Joshua, the High Priest, wears His crown and rules over the House of Israel and has charge of the Courts in the interim (Zech. 3:7), for He is the king of kings and Lord of Lords. He then places his crown in the Universal House of Justice as a reminder to all future generations of Israel (Baha'is) that the High Priest is standing in the Holy of Holies, as the elected members to that body. Baha'u'llah is the light of this and I am the Lamp. (Rev. 22:23)

As one of the twin pillars of the Faith, the Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, tried to establish the World Order of Baha'u'llah by inventing an Administrative Order, which he termed the Baha'i Adminstration, he was interdicted from doing this, according to his own words. In his book The Administrative Order, he states: "Though the Guardian of the Faith has been made the permanent head of so august a body he can never, eventemporarily, assume the right of exclusive legislation... He interprets what has been specifically revealed, and cannot legislate except in his capacity as a member of the Universal House of Justice. He is debarred from laying down independently the constitution that must govern the organized activities of his fellow-members, and from exercising his influence in a manner that would encroach upon the liberty of those whose sacred right to elect the body of his collaborators." (The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah, page 58) Thus, his Administration became the seventh head of the Beast and goes with the Beast into the fire and is utterly destroyed with the Beast and its other six heads.

Mason Remey tried to resurrect Shoghi Effendi's Administration under his Guardianship, but this was soon taken over by Satan, inactivating temporarily, the Lamb of God who is standing in the Holy of Holies. This caused the second Guardian to dissolve that N. S.A., and then to expel Shoghi Effendi's Administration out of the Baha'i Faith as Babi. As the Babi Faith no longer exists in the world, those that adhere to that Administration are no longer Bahais, and should not be considered Baha'is but apostate Babis. This seventh religion goes into the fire with the Beast and is utterly destroyed forever. It is never to be re activated.

There is only one Baha'i Administration, and that is the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha. This administration is to be established in this world by the High Priest in the Holy of Holies and assisted by the Guardian seated upon the Throne. I look forward to a very happy and close relationship between the two of them. The Guardian is to protect the Cause from the onslaught of the ignorant and insincere. He enforces the laws, ordinances, teachings and Covenant of Baha'u'llah: and he promulgates the explanations and commentaries of the Lamb on the 7 Revealed Religions preceding the Baha'i era; the Sabaian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Christian and Muslim.

Today the Promised Lamb, with his sword in hand--the sword being the Word of God--raises up the 144,000, the twelve tribes of Israel from all over the world; then the bombs drop and the masses that are left become believers. They are the electors of Local and National Houses of Justice, and these National Houses elect the Universal one. Then the Lamb lays His crown in the Temple as a reminder to future generations of Israel that the High Priest is standing in the Holy of Holies,

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which will be the membership of the U.H.J. Thus God will be among His people Israel forever.

The first Guardian of the Faith could not establish the Kingdom--regather Israel from the countries of the earth from which they had been dispersed--because they had not as yet been dispersed. With the great violation of the Covenant by the Covenant-breaking Hands, and expulsion of Shoghi Effendi's administration from the Baha'i Faith--making those that adhered to that administration apostate--Israel was then dispersed throughout every country, province, protectorate, state, and island of the world outside the iron and bamboo curtains.

Isaiah, in prophesying on the third part of Moses's Covenant, stated that Israel would be gathered a second time: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. "And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. (Isaiah 11:11, 12)

In order for this gathering to take place, Shoghi Effendi's International Baha'i Council had to die and resurrect as the High Priest standing in the Holy of Holies, so that the Jews, Christians and Muslim (for all three believe in the Covenant of Moses) can see their returned Temple--the Bab in the potency of the Sanctuary, Baha'u'llah in the potency of the Holy of Holies, with His Covenant in the Holy of Holies, bringing forth the Branch, which establishes the Davidic kingship in the Guardianship, and the High Priest standing in the Holy of Holies before the Ark of the Covenant, as the activated pre-U.H.J.

In order for Israel--the pure (circumcised) of Heart--to recognize the re-established Temple, it is necessary to show how the Bab and Baha'u'llah fulfill the prophecies of their scriptures. In order for Israel--God's Chosen--to recognize the High Priest standing in the Holy of Holies, it is also necessary to show how He fulfills the prophecies of their scriptures. For example, He came in the prophesied name, 'the land' (Leland); the prophesied date, '1335 days' (1963 A.D.); the prophesied address, 'the stone with seven eyes' (Montana State Prison); the prophesied profession, to bring forth the Branch ('Abdu'l-Baha's W.& T.); the prophesied appearance, 'the dirty garment' and 'the change of raiment' (the dirty beef, and the new robes of the High Priest); the prophesied standing before the angel of the Lord (the Guardian); how the prophesied 'Satan' resisted Him (Rex King)--Zech. 3:1-9 and Dan. 12:12--and that He the prophesied 'gatherer of Israel that comes from the mountains of the Northwest (Montana) and is 'the land (Leland) of Syene' (the red granite rocks in the Holy of Holies in the Great Pyramid prophesying of the date of his Advent, April 21, 1963 A.D., and the date of His Proclamation, April 29, 1971). By showing them these things, the Jews will recognize their completed Temple with the High Priest standing in the Holy of Holies and the Christians and Muslim will recognize the return of Jesus Christ as prophesied in the Christian scriptures.

There is only one man in all history that fulfills the prophecies for the Advent of the Bab and that is 'Ali Muhammad. There is only man of all history that fulfills the prophecies of the coming of Baha'u'llah and that is Husain Ali. There is only one man in all history that fulfills the prophecies for the Advent of the Branch and that is 'Abdu'l-Baha. There is only one man in all history that fulfills the prophecies for the Advent of Joshua, the High Priest, and that is Leland.

Although the Bab and Baha'u'llah fulfilled the prophecies for the return of Christ, the mass of the Jews, Christians and Muslims didn't become Baha'is. This is because the Christians and Muslim are waiting for the return of Jesus, and the Jews are waiting for the Advent of their Messiah that is to re-establish them. They

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didn't see by the prophecies of their scriptures how the Bab and Baha'u'llah could possibly fulfill the prophecies for the one they were waiting for, and rightfully so. You can't fit the Lamb as pictured in the 7th and 14th chapters of Revelation and Joshua the High Priest of the 3rd and 6th chapters of Zechariah into being either the Bab or Baha'u'llah, no matter how hard you try. It is like trying to press a piece of a jig saw puzzle into a space where it doesn't belong, and the mass of the Christian, Jews and Muslim are not going for it. I'll admit that there were a lot of careless Baha'is (very careless), that tried to pass off the Lamb, the 7th angel and Joshua as meaning Baha'u'llah. Several times when I tried to fit the Lamb or the seventh angel into being Baha'u'llah when those that I was teaching asked about them, I saw that they didn't fit, and I stopped trying to pass these off as meaning Baha'u'llah. Had they meant either the Bab or Baha'u'llah, you can be quite sure that 'Abdu'l-Baha when He gave His commentaries on the 11th and 12th chapters of Revelation, in Some Answered Questions, would have given their explanations also. What He did say about the seventh angel was that he was a man with spiritual qualities that was yet to come.

The Christians down through the ages have been guilty of the same carelessness. They tried to fit all of the prophecies of the Old Testament as being fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth, but most of the prophecies didn't fit Him, so as a result the Jews didn't accept Him and have remained alienated from Christ and Christianity. When the Christians and the Muslims find that all of the Prophecies for the return of Jesus and Christ, have now been fulfilled in the Baha'i Faith under the Provisions of the Covenant, and the Jews find their completed Temple with the High Priest standing in the Holy of Holies before the Ark of the Covenant, they will all come into the Cause enmasse. There will be mass conversion.

Although the International Baha'i Center is so beautiful on the slopes of Mt. Carmel at Haifa, Israel, very few of the Jews have become Baha'is. How come? Some of the greatest Jewish religious 'savants' have come to Israel and have seen the beautiful Baha'i gardens and structures on Mt. Carmel, and have become very well acquainted with the Baha'i claim. Why are they remaining aloof? It is quite clear, as several of my Jewish friends and rabbis have told me. The Jews will only accept it when the true Messiah gathers all of Israel (12 Tribes) from all over the world, by the complete re-establishing of the Temple--including the High Priest as was set up by Moses. They resisted Christianity for almost two millennia because it was not the complete Temple, and for the same reason they have resisted the Baha'i Faith.

Now, for the first time, the Temple has been re-established by the return of the Messiah, with the Advent of the Bab (Sanctuary), the Advent of Bahau'llah (the Holy of Holies), with His Covenant in the Holy of Holies, which establishes the Davidic kingship, and now the return of Jesus, the High Priest, standing in the Holy of Holies before the Ark of the Covenant calling Israel to return from the four corners of the earth. Without this intermediary (the completed Temple), there would be left no life upon this earth (Matt. 24:22). Jesus said: "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations: then shall the end come." (Matt. 24:14) When the Bible was translated into the language of every country of the world, the Christians were waiting for the end to come. Shoghi Effendi, in the last years before he passed, was telling the pilgrims that came to see him of the great catastrophe that was about to descend upon the world, for with the completion of his Ten Year World Crusade, the Baha'i Faith under his Administration would be established in every part of the world, but the end did not come then either. Why? Because his establishment that he had preached throughout the world was not the message of the Kingdom that Jesus had referred to. The one that He had referred to was the one in which the son of man, Jesus, the High Priest, standing in the Holy of Holies before the Ark of the Covenant, would preach throughout the world. When this message of the Kingdom is preached by the 144,000 of the 12 Tribes of Israel throughout the world, then the end will come. I know when this is to be, and we

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don't have very much time to raise up the 144,000. If, when the appointed hour comes, we don't have the 144,000 there will be no life left upon this planet, and the blame will be upon our shoulders. In order to have the elect, the chosen, the 24 elders that are now in various parts of the world must preach this message. In order for them to do this, they must be informed of it. THIS IS GUARDIAN'S WORK! --for the good king examines the credentials of the Promised One of God and proclaims Him to his subjects. You are prophesied in the Bible. When you write your Proclamation to the elders--those Bahais that came under the Guardianship of Mason Remey--it will be a book of proofs; of the Bab, Bahau'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha, of the Guardianship of Mason Remey and, of your Guardianship, and those of the Lamb of God standing in the Holy of Holies before the ark of the Covenant. Then religious leaders, government officials, men in high places will throw their lots in with the Guardianship. The elders will translate this book into the various languages of the world and thus bring about the 144,000.

You, my very dear Joseph Pepe Remey, are the mighty angel of the tenth chapter of the Book of Revelation. You are the Guardian of the great thermonuclear holocaust--thus the legs of fire. You place one on the sea, the Great Revelation of Baha'u'llah, and the other on 'the land', Leland. The open book in your hand is your Proclamation. Of course you can use this letter to you or any other of my writings without any Permission from me--unless I should designate it as being personal only to you.

And now, my very dear Joseph, we come to your appointment to the Guardianship. In no way must you or anyone else accept you as Guardian on my say so, or because I accept you, but you and everyone else must accept you on the basis that I accept you, and that is simply that you were the last one appointed by the second Guardian, Mason Remey.

You tell me that you have evidence in Mason's own hand appointing Donald to be the third Guardian and that you hold to that. But then you have the same evidence that before Donald's appointment, Mason appointed Joel Marangella. Why don't you hold to that? It is because Donald was appointed after Joel. Certainly you must be in possession of copies of Mason's directives to the Baha'i world. In one of them, he clearly stated that his last directives and appointments cancel out previous ones that are in conflict with his later directives. Whether or not it is in his own handwriting has nothing to do with it, for no place in the Sacred Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l- Baha does it state that the Guardian must appoint his successor in his own handwriting. Shoghi Effendi appointed his successor in a telegram, and we hold to that.

You tell me of your great friendship between you and Donald, and that Donald possesses the spiritual qualities that you found in Mason. This must never be the criteria, for didn't Rex King have such a magnetic personality and radiate these spiritual qualities that he was able to bring most of the Orthodox Baha'is under his leadership? Besides, Baha'u'llah tells the searcher after truth to shut the door of friendliness and enmity upon all the people of the earth (The Seven Valleys, page 5). The reason for this is that if one has love for a person that person may direct the searcher away from the pathway of investigation. Also, if one doesn't listen to the proofs of his enemies, he may not be able to find the truth, for it may be possessed only by his enemy. Thus, we must be like the true scientist that examines all of the evidence impassionately, and cling to only that which is true. This is what I did, and this is what every person in the world must do if he is to reach salvation.

And now for the denial. This comes from the breath of Satan. The serpent in the Garden of Eden, 'Abdu'l-Baha explains in S.A.Q., is the mind's attachment to the things of this world. This attachment causes man to reject that which God sends down through His Manifestations and Chosen Ones. God wants every man to be heavenly and in His image, but man wants to be earthly and in the image of the animal--thus he rejects the proofs of the Promised Ones.

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Satan, however, is a spirit that seeks a station above his station and leads the elders away from the true ones (Isaiah 14:12-23). This spirit was personified in Rex King and thus the second Guardian, Mason Remey, rebuked him as the Satan of our era. He first resisted me, then he attacked Mason, and then you. He sent a breath of his spirit out into the world. This breath then is picked up later by other deniers. Two have arisen, one very close to me and another very close to you, that have Picked up this foul breath from the atmosphere, and those that come under their breath become sick. The believers, especially the elders, need to be protected from these, and thus the reason for the Guardianship.

In a letter to me, Donald in his denial of my claim hurtles against me the same basis for denial that was hurtled against 'Abdu'l-Baha for His claim by the Arch Covenant-breakers of Baha'u'llah's Covenant, as attested to by Mirza Badi'u'llah and Mirza Shua'u'llah and quoted by 'Abdu'l-Baha in His Will and Testament (Part I, para. 6, page 6 and para. 9, page 8).

Donald in his letter to me quotes the entire paragraph from the Kitab'i'Aqdas which starts with 'Whoso layeth claim...': "Whoso layeth claim to a Revelation direct from God, ere the expiration of a full thousand years, such a man is assuredly a lying imposter..."

In commentary on this paragraph Donald states: "Therefore my feeling is that whosoever lays a claim to seek recognition of his own person and attributes himself titles for the purpose of creating a group of his own is not of Baha'u'llah: indeed such a person is ready to claim for himself the position of intermediary between God and man, such a position existing only with each true Manifestation. Only Baha'u'llah hold such a position in our times, and this will be so for at least a thousand years..."

Notice how he twists the quote from: "Whosoever layeth claim to a Revelation direct from God," to: "whosoever lays a claim to seek recognition..." leaving out: "...a Revelation direct from God". Is not this very same denial of 'Abdu'l-Baha's claim to be the Center of the Covenant, and that of the Branch, hurtled against Him by the Arch Covenant-breakers? (See W.&T., Part I, para. 6, 9) Neither I nor 'Abdu'l-Baha ever did claim to have a Revelation direct from God, but both of us are Promised Ones from God. 'Abdu'l-Baha's mission was to interpret the Revelation of Baha'u'llah and set forth the Charter of the World Order of Baha'u'llah, His Will and Testament. Joshua comes to interpret the prophecies of the seven world religions and to establish the World Order of Baha'u'llah as set forth in 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament, and this man Donald Harvey has arisen to put me down with the same denial employed by the Arch Covenant-breakers.

I took special note that in your letter to me you did not twist the meaning of this paragraph that starts as follows: "Whoso layeth claim to a Revelation..." with your statement: "... we have been made to believe that fully a thousand years would pass ere another High-Prophet would appear"; and, of course, a High Prophet according to Bahau'llah is the Manifestation of God. With Donald's twisted version of this paragraph to mean any claim, why didn't he apply this formula of his and of the Arch Covenant-breakers, to Mason Remey, when he made his claim to be 'that personality' that 'Abdu'l-Baha said 'all people would come under his shadow' that the Baha'is were waiting for in 1963 A.D.? Undoubtedly, had he hurtled this missile against Mason Remey, the Guardian would have taken prompt action to correct or discipline him. As Donald was expecting to be the third Guardian, he did not dare to do this. Reflect! Did it ever occur to you that Donald could find no valid refutation of my claim, so he did as the Arch Covenant-breakers had done. Undoubtedly, Donald doesn't want a Promised One, as the former Hands didn't want a Guardian. If so, the next step of Donald's will be to denounce us as Covenant-breakers, as did the Hands with Mason Remey and those that followed him. Being suspicious of his trying to find

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some basis to label us Covenant-breakers, no one here has answered any of his letters, and they do need to be answered.

In the interim, Donald has been undermining the Baha'is Under the Provisions of the Covenant with the elders of the Faith. Such appears to be his purpose in a letter that he had written to Mrs. Mabelle C. Timmerman stating: "I know of groups of believers who systematically duplicate many Baha'i books and I have warned them that such copies are to be strictly kept off the streets and public places. The truth is that some have hoped to create thereby friction and an eventual lawsuit and Court test against the other group." This is a dastardly lie! No one here had ever hoped any time during the many years that we have been reproducing these books to create friction and an eventual lawsuit and Court test. The reason that we have been reproducing these books is to teach the Cause of God and deepen in the teachings of Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha. At no time have we ever violated the copyrights. Shoghi Effendi, when he had the Bahai material copyrighted, had the Guardian to have the final say. Everything that I have been publishing these many years has been through the authority given me by the second Guardian of the Faith, Mason Remey, in a letter to me of October 22, 1961 as follows: "As for my authority from me to publish anything to the Baha'i World--Whatever is in the writings of the Bab, Baha'u'llah or 'Abdu'l-Baha, and what is authentic over the signatures of Shoghi Effendi or of myself Mason Remey--all of this matter that is of accepted Baha'i authority can and should be put forth by both the spoken and written words of the Faithful. No special permission is required but any other matter written by the friends should be carefully weighed to make sure that it conforms to that which is contained in the Infallible Teachings of the Cause..." Faithfully (signed) Mason Remey. He said: "No special permission is required..." The only reason for the copyrights in the first place is so that some one else may not have the Baha'i material copyrighted and then prevent the peoples of the world to have these writings and/or so the Guardian could review the printed matter to see if it had been interpolated or changed. In reality the word of God is public domain, and no special permission is required. To prevent the faithful from spreading the Word of God is like taking an ax and cutting down the tree.

This lie that he told Mrs. Timmerman slanders this community and is not permitted in the Baha'i Faith. She spread this back-biting of our community--innocently of course--when she sent a copy of Donald's letter to Carlotta Hall here; and to Estelle Cowen, Clyde and Ethel Crane and their daughter, and to Charley Murphy, and God knows who else. She and these other elders need to know the truth. First, that Donald is not the third Guardian. Second, that the friends should be encouraged to spread the word of God.

In the last paragraph of your letter to me, you state: "In the meantime, let the matter of the Third Guardian rest and let each one decide for himself without making a definite issue of it." This may be very well and good, but Donald is very busy undermining the Lamb of God with the elders of the Faith, and it is they that will be bringing your Proclamation to the world thus bringing about the Great Projection of the Faith. They are not knowledgable in my claim, for the only ones besides those that I have brought into the Faith after I came to Montana, that I have made my claim to is my own family and to the Guardians Mason and Pepe. To Donald I sent copies of our publications only. Should you not arise and make your Proclamation soon, Donald will have insiduously undermined our position with the elders of the Faith and they would not have the information with which they could decide for themselves. It will be like when the Hands of the Faith insiduously undermined the continuation of the Guardianship, for several years, to the Baha'i world before Mason made his Proclamation. Or like when Rex under-mined Mason's position to those who were under his Guardianship. We have been through all of this before, and there is nothing to be gained for the kingdom to repeat this. This is not going to just work itself out. The purpose of the Guardian is to take decisive action and protect the

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the Cause of God.

Way back in 1963-64, I wrote Mason of Rex's take over of the N.S.A., but Mason decided to do nothing until Rex had destroyed the Faith under his Guardianship; and later, when he tried to get Mason to go along with him being the regent, Mason then rebuked him as Satan. Had Mason taken action sooner, the proletariat of the Faith would not have been destroyed by Rex. In your own words in a letter to Dr. Opal, Sept 18, 1972, you remark: "Although I have never met Leland in person I have always felt that he has a very acute perception about people because he was the first one to send warnings to Mason Remey about the kind of person R.K. is, you know who I mean, I'm sure. Mason has called him the Satan of the Faith and I was present when Mason cast him out... Leland understood all this some 9 years ago and it is a pity nothing was done then." In 1964, when Mason took no steps to stop this man, I tried to warn the Baha'i Community of what he was trying to do. This is when Mason protested my action as tainted, and rightly so, for it is Guardian business to protect the Cause.

How many times must the proletariat of the Faith be destroyed, however, before the Guardians arise and take prompt action? I have already written you about Donald. If not stopped in his masquerade at being Guardian, he will turn against the Promised One and lose his own soul--and he is now doing just that. Donald has a high station as an elder, and there is so much that he can do for the Cause of God; but not being the real Guardian, he lacks the spiritual within to properly evaluate the real Baha'i situation.

In his blindness he is spreading many false teachings--teachings that are in opposition to those that Mason and myself hold. For instance, he writes as if that apostate Babi Administration of Shoghi Effendi's is to again be instituted under the Guardianship as the Baha'i Administration. He has written words to this effect to many of the Baha'is Under the Provisions of the Covenant. In his letter to Mrs. Timmerman he states:

I feel it is not possible to erect now The Administrative Order in present circumstances. In fact The Administrative Order has been taken away from this world until there will be sufficient believers of high spiritual stature, At the end of the Guardianship of Shoghi Effendi many believers thought The Administrative Order was the Spirit of Baha'u'llah while in fact The Administrative is only an Instrument of that Spirit...

To the unbiased reader, Shoghi Effendi's words in The Administrative Order of Baha'u'llah which say that the Universal House of Justice and the Guardianship are "the twin pillars" of the Administrative Order should be sufficient to demonstrate that any so-called "Baha'i Administration" without one or the other is not the Administrative Order given by the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha. Shoghi's administration was not Baha'i because it lacked the Universal House of Justice, the sans-guardian administration is not Baha'i because it lacks the Guardian.

Donald undoubtedly recognizes that their administration lacks the Guardian; therefore, he has hope that they someday will set him up over their administration; therefore, he refers to the Covenant-breakers as just misled friends, not accepting that they are no longer Baha'is but apostate Babis and are the 7th head of The Beast. He lacks the understanding that their U.H.J. is but a purely human international institution that was not elected by National Houses of Justice. In addition to this, in order to have a U.H.J., "in all countries a secondary House of Justice must be instituted, and these secondary Houses of Justice must elect the members of the Universal one". The Covenant-breakers didn't even have N.S.A.s established behind the Iron curtain and the Bamboo curtain to take part in the election of their phony international institution, besides the fact that they didn't even have a single National House of Justice. Donald is still back in the understanding of the children of the half-light. He just doesn't seem to have heard a thing that Mason did or said. Rex destroyed the proletariat and now if Donald isn't stopped, he will destroy the elders that are so

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precious to God's plan. I am not to get into a dog fight with Donald. He would declare me a Covenant-breaker and cut me off from the elders. By the same token, I don't believe that you should either. I can't tell you what to do, but you need to write your Proclamation right away and send it to the elders.

In order for your Proclamation to be effective, now that Donald has been unfortunately pushed forward, it must be very thorough and at least as comprehensive as this dialogue that has been going on between you and I.

Now I would like to comment on some of the things that you have written to the friends here. The reason being that the correct response to these things is of prime importance.

In your letter to Brent of October 23, you state: "This is why there is such a great problem where Leland is concerned...perhaps one day in the future his claim will make sense to me. Right now, I'm confused and troubled by it". This is due to your faulty attitude towards proofs. The formula that you recite is that of the enemies of God, the denominations and sects--churches--and is not that of the Baha'i Faith, nor of any of the other of God's Revealed religions.

You state:

All religious writings are full of contradictions. Necessarily so, for if things were easily proven and clearly stated without contradictions then it would be too easy for anyone to accept them. Like a scientific formula which can be tested and proven. That would require no "faith" for true faith presupposes doubt. We must expose ourselves to all of that which is presented and then make our choices. Whenever anyone presents me with a matter which they can outline and give clear "proofs" for, it is then that I am on my guard for such a situation does not exist. Proofs are not what we need. People who try to "prove" something to me rarely succeed.

The whole world is troubled and confused and is about to be convulsed by your formula for arriving at the acceptance or rejection of a religion instead of proofs. They adhere to sound scientific principles and formulas when it comes to secular things, but then abandon these when it comes to acceptance of a religion, or the Promised One of God. Each of the denominations presents a theology (mythology) and then they get masses of people to accept their inventions on 'faith'. None of the sects (churches), offer irrefutable proof that the fabricator of their theology was sent by God. On the contrary, each try to prove the inventor by the invention, and as each conclude that their particular invention is correct and the others are wrong, they all testify against themselves. They each have a gimmick. For instance, the 7th Day Adventist claim they are right because they have their Sabbath on Saturday; the Mormans because they have their church arranged as did the early Christians; the Jehovah Witnesses, because they call on God by His true name, etc., etc. But where does it say in Scripture that Ellen White is to come and that she is to be a true prophetess of God, as 7th Day Adventists claim? Where does it say that Joseph Smith is to come and the Mormon Faith would be the true religion of God? Where does it give the address for his appearance or the date of his Advent? Where do the Scriptures give us the name of Russell, and that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society would have the infallible guidance for mankind? Where does it give the date for his appearance and the address for his advent? Where do the Scriptures give this information for Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science)? Or for Martin Luther, or Calvin, or any of the rest of them? No place, they are all spurious. The only thing that it says for anyone of them is that many false prophets shall come and lead astray even the very elect. They are able to put over their theology by the formula that you put forth. 'Believe on faith.'

This is not so with the religions of God. God never sends us a Promised One, a true representative of Him, without irrefutable proofs that He had been sent by God. God then holds the peoples responsible for their acts--either to accept or reject. Those that accept come into the 'heaven' of His Revelation and those that reject go into the 'hell' of being cut off from Divine Guidance. This is so that the Faith of God would be established on the solid foundation of factual proof. In the accept-

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tance of the Promised One of God, faith has nothing at all to do with it. Faith only enters after one accepts the Promised One on solid proofs that He has been sent by God, then one has faith that His Divine Guidance, or Revelation, has been sent by God and is true. This is the Baha'i argument!

In the Book of the Iqan, Baha'u'llah tells us that we do need proof. He states, "Why is it that the advent of every true Manifestation of God hath been accompanied by strife and tumult, by such tyranny and upheaval? This not withstanding the fact that all the Prophets of God, whenever made manifest unto the peoples of the world, have invariably foretold the coming of yet another Prophet after them, and have established such signs as would herald the advent of future Dispensations. To this the records of all sacred books bear witness. Why then is it that despite the expectation of men in their quest of the Manifestations of Holiness, and in spite of the signs recorded in the sacred books, should such acts of violence, of oppression and cruelty, have been perpetrated in every age and cycle against all Prophets and chosen Ones of God?" (Iqan, page 12,13)

The Promised Ones of God must not be accepted by faith, but by the irrefutable proofs (signs) given by God. This is so that no one is to believe erroneously. Faith doesn't enter into the picture at all until the credibility of the Promised One has been firmly established on the solid premise of absolute proof. Only then do we have faith that what the Promised One says is true, like the teachings of life after death, that requires faith, for we can't very easily establish that without dying first.

When the Manifestations of God and chosen Ones of God present their proofs, they are like scientific formulas that can be tested and proven if the evidences are examined with the impassionate mind of the true scientist. For instance, when Moses came to the Pharoah with His ten proofs. The first was when he threw down his rod of authority and it became the serpent of proof, and the priests threw down their rods, that they claimed for their authority, and they became the serpents of denial; then Moses's serpent of proofs swallowed their serpents of denial. The last proof of Moses was the passover, which brought the Israelites out of bondage. Their belief in Moses became so firm through these proofs, that the Jews have been observing the anniversary of this passover for nigh onto 3500 years and they have faith that the Messiah will come and gather the 12 Tribes of Israel from all over the world and re-establish them. Their faith is established upon the firm foundation of the proofs given by Moses for His Advent.

The Christian Scriptures (New Testament), is largely one of proofs that Jesus of Nazareth is the Promised Messiah (Christ). This is especially true of the Gospel of St. Matthew. The prophecy is given in the Old Testament (sign) and the New Testament shows the fulfillment in Jesus. When these proofs are pursued by a true scientific investigator--impassionately investigated, free of all previous notions and detached from friend or foe--this scientist arrives at the-conclusion that Jesus is the authentic Messiah. And authenticity is the criteria of believability. Below are reproduced a few of these signs and their fulfillment in Jesus:

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Couple the above with the date given by Daniel for a Messiah to be cut off in 70 weeks of years from the order to restore and rebuild Jerusalem (70 weeks equals 490 years, as each day is as a year in Bible terminology, you have 490 years from 457 B.C. to the crucifixion of Jesus--490 minus 456 equals 34 A.D.) you have the irrefutable proof that Jesus was the Promised Messiah, for only He fulfilled those prophecies. The above is a scientific formula made by God, the same as any other scientific formula, such as water (H2O). When it is examined by the pure heart of the scientist, one becomes a believer, and he then has faith that everything that He Revealed is from God and true.

The Baha'i Faith has spread around the world on the same kind of irrefutable proof for the Bab and Baha'u'llah as the Bible gives for Jesus of Nazareth. Therefore, we all have faith that what has been Revealed by their pens are the words of God and are true; and are infallible.

The infallible Divine Guidance that I have comes from my being the Promised return of Jesus (not Christ) standing alone in the Holy of Holies, establishing His Father's (Baha'u'llah's) Kingdom. Not being a Manifestation, my infallibility is circumscribed, i.e., the establishment of 'Abdul-Baha's Will and Testament in the World. In this letter to you I have put forth a Divine Theology--how God has put it together--which is infallible. It must be accepted by all people not on the basis of faith that this theology is better than those of the theologians--which are mere conjectures, idle fancies and imaginations--but solely on the basis that I am that infallibly guided Promised One sent by God, for the main purpose to infallibly guide the people, by my explanations and commentaries on Holy Script. This infallibility comes from God, for God never sends a Promised One into this world and then withholds Divine Guidance from Him in His performance of His Mission. Not being a Manifestation of God (He doeth as He pleaseth), my infallibility is circumscribed. This is outlined in Holy Scriptures. Being the Promised Joshua, the return of Jesus standing in the Holy of Holies, being the one that comes from the mountains of the Northwest that returns Jacob (Israel) to God, the Lamb of God with the 144,000, the 7th angel, the man on the White Horse, the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings, I rule until I have put all enemies under my feet, then I become subjected also to the Father. As I am the pre-U.H.J., I am succeeded by the U.H.J. This must be accepted on faith, as put together by the Promised One, who is not accepted on faith, but on the basis of absolute fact that I am the Promised One, that I alone in all history fulfilled the Divine Formula, which is irrefutable proof, when observed impassionately (scientific attitude), which is recorded in Holy Script in signs (prophecies), such as the scientific formula of water, H2O, of which only the Promised One fulfills. God created this Divine Formula so that all 'people can be absolutely sure that I am that Promised One, so they can have faith that my theology is Divine and is the only correct one in this day. Therefore, this is the Day of Joshua.

The U.H.J. and the Guardians also have circumscribed infallibility. Their infallibility is conferred and is outlined in 'Abdu'l-Baha's Sacred Will and Testament. I am also the establisher of the Branch, which is the Provisions of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament. I am the interim between 'Abdu'l-Baha and the U.H.J. When it comes into being, I, of course, must be submissive to it.

It should be borne in mind that I, the institutions of the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice have been anticipated by 'Abdu'l-Baha in an allusion He made in a Tablet addressed, long before His own ascension, to three of His friends in Persia. To their question as to whether there would be any person to whom all the Baha'is would be called upon to turn after His ascension, He made the following reply: "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,

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and its secrets unravelled." When 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament was read, part of the secret was revealed to the Baha'is. These were the children of the half-light. Now the rest of the secret is being made manifest by my fulfilling the prophecies, and by my explanations and commentaries.

Today, as a Baha'i, I, of course, am lowly and submissive to the Guardian. Being the Promised One, I am the admonisher of past, present and future Guardians. To understand this, the Guardians are like the ancient kings of Israel that all of the Israelites were commanded to obey. When the kings were good kings and operated under the laws of Moses as directed by the High Priest, then everything went well and Israel prospered.' When they performed differently than ordained, Israel suffered the conditions of the curse. When a king would err and not listen to the High Priest, God then would send a prophet to admonish him. Both the High Priest and the prophet were under the domain of the king, but blessed was the king that listened to his God sent admonishers.

The Guardians have not been given a 'carte blanche' authority by God for the things that they have been doing. They need to get back to operating entirely within their sphere of operation. All of the trouble in the Baha'i World has come because the Guardians have wandered outside their sphere of jurisdiction. They then became fallible: Shoghi Effendi, when he evolved an Administration which he called Baha'i, and appointed members to a body of a pre-U.H.J.; Mason, when he assumed the role of the Promised One for today. 'Things didn't go as he thought they would.'

Because you are the Guardian, whether you accept it or not, you must be very careful of what you say or do. Everything must be checked to see if it is in accordance with the Revelation of Baha'u'llah, and that you are operating in the sphere of the Guardianship as outlined in 'Abdu'l- Baha's Will and Testament. For instance, you must not take things in the teachings out of context and give them a meaning other than the one intended. You quote often a statement made by 'Abdu'l-Baha that: "The man who lives the life according to the teachings of Baha'u'llah is already a Baha'i." Here 'Abdu'l-Baha is not suggesting that this is possible. He is merely admonishing the Baha'is to live the Baha'i life in accordance with the teachings of Baha'u'llah. If this is stated wrong, one may get the idea that he can remain aloof from the Divine Manifestation and His Covenant, and is in no need of the Promised Ones. In no way must it negate the necessity of entering into the Cause of God, or remain outside of it. To remain outside would be to be dead. If a person possessed all of the virtues and practiced them, but didn't have the knowledge of God, he would be dead, for the purpose of all human life is to know God and worship Him. 'Abdu'l-Baha goes into this subject in detail in the last chapter of Some Answered Questions.

I point the above out to you to you especially because of its grave importance and consequences. First, if one should happen to get the idea that he could get his own spiritual development by remaining outside of the Cause of God, and that 'is the only thing that matters in the final analysis', he may not arise and teach the Cause of God, and thus lose his own salvation. Bahau'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha tell us:

Teach ye the Cause of God, O people of Baha, for God hath prescribed unto every one the duty of proclaiming His Message, and regardeth it as the most meritorious of all deeds. Such a deed is acceptable only when he that teacheth the Cause is already a firm believer in God, the Supreme Protector, the Gracious, the Almighty. (Gleanings, page 278)

...Teaching the Cause is of utmost importance for it is the head cornerstone of the foundation itself. (complete text, W.&T., page 10)

It is known and clear that today the unseen divine assistance encompasseth those who deliver the Message. And if the work of delivering the Message be neglected, the assistance shall be entirely cut off, for it is impossible that the friends of God could receive assistance unless they be engaged in delivering the Message. (Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Baha, Vol. 11, page 390-391)

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Second, if one should possess all of the spiritual qualities, and he should get the idea that this is the only thing that matters, he may not feel it important to recognize the Promised One for today and follow His Divine Guidance, and thus become a lost soul and go into the fire along with the Beast and be destroyed or purified with the rest of the sinners. To give you a prime example of this, let us suppose--and I hope that God forbids--that Donald, who according to you has all of those spiritual qualities, should happen not to recognize me and be Divinely Guided by me, he would go into the fire along with the rest to either be purified or destroyed--for, according to his letters, he holds that the great catastrophe that is to be is only that of the crustal shift of the earth, as put forth by Mason Remey, which he said would not be until 1992 A.D. I can assure you that Paris will be destroyed long before that by the great thermonuclear holocaust that is upon us.

I don't want you to get the idea that I am, in pointing this out, in any way diminishing the necessity of living the Baha'i life. Heavens no! For this is the wisdom for the appearance of the Divine Manifestations and the Promised Ones. Therefore, all must turn unto them.

There are so many things that I need to go into, but this letter has become far too long. Perhaps one day in the near future we may be able to be together when we can discuss all of these many things. I have, however, one last thing that I must go into with you now, that can't wait until then, and that is that I don't think you are a coward. You state so many times of your woes, of the vectides hurtled against you by those who claim to be Baha'is, and that you do not want to put yourself in such a position, i.e., the Guardianship, where you would be a prime target. I am sure that if you really saw that you are the Guardian and that you must arise and make your Proclamation, you would do so. For it must be borne in mind that Jesus said: "That whomsoever shall save his life will lose it and he who shall lose his life for my sake, shall save it." And, "Whomsoever shall come after me let him pick up his cross and follow me." It is also not so long ago that streams of precious blood of the Babis and Baha'is--over 30,000--were shed in this glorious pathway to usher this Most Glorious Cause into this world.

May the Glory of Glories rest upon you, my very dear Joseph Pepe Remey,

Joshua

December 17, 1975

Source: Dave Cornell, http://web.archive.org/web/20030525165442/www.lelandjensen.net/html/doc/751100pepe.htm