Dear Vinson,
I have written you several letters supplying you with the proofs of the continuation of the guardianship in the world. I did this by taking you at your word (in your book), that you had an open mind. There are several things, however, that could be stumbling blocks in accepting the truth after it has been presented. One is, if a person accepts the idiom, for any reason, that the Guardianship has come to an end, then that person can no longer see, for he has become dead. It is like the Will and Testament states. "Whoso deviateth, separateth himself and turneth aside from him (the guardian) hath in truth deviated, separated himself and turned aside from God" (W&T p. 11). For such a person there is no hope, unless he repents, for he will be visited by "...the wrath, the fierce indignation, the vengeance of God" (W&T p. 11).
There is another stumbling block, however, just as deadly, and that is they perceive, wrongly, that by having card-carrying membership to that organization that used to be part of the Baha'i faith, before it separated itself from the guardianship and from God, that they are somehow still in the Baha'i faith. They believe that their organization will be able to establish peace in the world, and that their administration will be the administration of the world.
How wrong can they be? Shoghi Effendi tells us that the Will and Testament of Abdu'l-Baha is the 'Charter' of the World Order of Baha'u'llah (WOB p. 144). As to that organization, on which you have based your hopes, it has violated every provision of that charter and can in no wise be the Baha'i administration.
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The administration was established by Shoghi Effendi. He was shocked when he learned that he was the guardian. He didn't feel he could cope with the task of his legacy left by his grandfather, Abdu'l-Baha, to establish the divine plan in the world. He left the Holy Land and went into occultation of several years. During that time he formulated the rudiments for an administration taken from the Babi administration, and had Horace Holley, a lawyer, finalize it into legal language for incorporation purposes. This administration became a womb that serves the purpose of bringing the Abha Kingdom as found in Abdu'l-Baha's Divine Plan to all the countries of the world.
This womb is called "This Age of Transition", which began with the passing of Abdu'l-Baha (WOB p. 171). This age of transition came to an end with the passing of Shoghi Effendi. We are now in the period of tests and judgment. This will be followed by the great catastrophe which will eliminate or destroy the various religious organizations that are apostate including the apostate Baha'i Administration. The catastrophe will clear the way for the next stage of the World Order of Baha'u'llah--Internationalism, which will include an International Tribunal. (See the index of the book 'The World Order of Baha'u'llah under Internationalism and under the title 'Tribunal, Supreme', for understanding).
Once the womb has served its purpose the baby leaves it and is born into this world. The same thing with the chick in the egg; when the shell has served its purpose the chick picks a hole in the shell and escapes from it. If a baby or a chick should remain in its encasement after it has served its purpose, it dies. The same is true of a person who happens to remain in that Baha'i administration, after it has served its purpose and become apostate, he dies.
There are millions of Covenant-breaking Baha'is in the world. Before the catastrophe only 144,000 will come out of that shell of oppression (see Iqan p. 31). Using their Intellects, 'sealed in their foreheads', they will come out of Israel under its new
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name Baha'i from all over the world and join the ranks of those who are now under the provisions of the Covenant (Rev. 7:1-8). The rest will either be purified in the fire or perish. Two-thirds of the people will be destroyed and the third that is left will be purified in the fire (Zech. 13:7-9). One-third will perish in one hour (Rev. 9:15 and 18:10,17,19).
"After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands" (Rev. 7:9)
Right after the catastrophe there will be mass conversion. They will be standing before the throne with the guardian seated upon it and the lamb with 7 eyes and 7 horns.
"Then one of the elders addressed me saying, 'Who are these, clothed in white robes, and whence have they come?' I said to him, 'Sir you know.' And he said to me. 'These are they who have come out of the great tribulation'" (Rev. 7-13,14 and Rev. 13:1-4).
The first four nations to become Baha'i states will be those that now form 'The Beast': The 'Lion', England; The 'Eagle', America; 'The Leopard', France; 'The Bear', Russia (Dan. 7:4-6). They are called beast because they are not spiritual; they have not come under the Covenant of Baha'u'llah. After the catastrophe they will turn toward the kingship seated on the throne and to the lamb and come under the provisions of the Covenant. They then will become living creatures.
"And round 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 (Rev. 4:7). Revised Standard Version.
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Of course the lion is England; the ox is Russia. The symbol of Russia before it became Communist was the young bull or the ox. Shoghi Effendi tells us in pilgrim notes that after the catastrophe communism will come to an end; then it will go back to the ox for its symbol. The symbol of the face of a man refers to France. Two years ago the French Parliament adopted the picture of DeGalle as their symbol. Again, the eagle is the U.S.
"And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives for and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worships him who lives forever and ever; they cast their crowns before the throne, singing,
'Worthy art thou, our Lord and God, to receive glory and power, for thou didst create all things, and by thy will they existed and were created.'" (Rev. 4:9-11).
The one that is seated on the throne is the guardian. For the next 5000 century cycle there will be an Aghsan seated on the throne. The guardian is our connection between God and man in the interim of the Manifestations. To be separated from the guardian is to be separated from God (W&T p. 11). All throughout the Old Testament, as well the prophets tell us that both David's line of descent and his throne will exist forever, such as:
"Once and for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David His line shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me" (Psalms 89:35,36).
Ezekiel also describes these four living creatures as coming out of the nuclear fire coming down from the north. (Read chapter 5, 'The Late Great Planet Earth', Hal Lindsey.)
"As I looked, behold, a stormy wind come out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness round about it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming bronze.
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And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the form of man, but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings" (Ezekiel 1:5)
These four nations will become very spiritual. The four wings represent the highly spiritual condition of the cherubim that have two sets of wings.
"As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man in front; the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the four had the face of ox on the left side and the four had the face of an eagle at the back" (Ezekiel 1:10).
These four nations will be so united as to reflect one another in their oneness. They went straight ahead and not turn even a hair's breadth from the Covenant (v.12). Beside each of these nations there was a wheel which represent a Baha'i government (v.15). The construction of these governments were "like the gleaming of a chrysolite" (v.16).
The pure chrysolyte is an exquisitely clear, slightly tinted green. We read in the ancient philosophies of the Chrysolite Tablet it is the symbol of absolute sincerity and truthfulness, purity and selflessness. Only when our hearts are free from every form of prejudice can they become the 'chrysolyte tablet' whereon may be engraved our thoughts and motives.
Their construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel (v.16). That is these very highly spiritual nations set up the first International Baha'i Tribunal (WOB p. 41 and 203: W&T p. 13). This international Tribunal is the wheel that surrounds the other wheels. Over this International Tribunal is the throne, the throne that the Covenant-breakers rejected when they set up their headless handless body. On this throne is a human form, the Davidic line of descent, entitled the guardian (v.26). This government is under the bow (v.28), which is the sign of the Covenant (Genesis 9:13) which is Baha'u'llah's Covenant (v.26).
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This will bring peace to the world. Each Nation as the majority of its people become Baha'i they will join the International Tribunal. By the end of this century all the nations will become Baha'i states and Internationalism will be established. The International Tribunal is the precursor of the Universal House of Justice. It is the Lessor Peace. By the end of this present century all the peoples of the world will be Baha'is. They will have set up secondary Houses of Justice, then they will elect the Universal House of Justice. This will have completed a six thousand year cycle of Adam, and starts the millennium of perfect government and of the Most Great Peace.
The International Tribunal is an integral part of God's plan. As I have pointed out this is supported by scriptural prophecies and by Baha'u'llah Himself as found in the Book, 'The Gleanings from the Writing of Baha'u"llah', and as well it is established in the Will and Testament of Abdu'l-Baha, and put in motion by Shoghi Effendi in his messages to the Baha'i world (1951), where he said his International Council would become an International Tribunal and then effloresce into the Universal House of Justice.
The hands of the faith were not endowed with infallibility. That is why God placed them under the direction of the guardian. When they decided to do away with the guardian this was a fallible act, a very fatal one for them, for they then separated themselves from God (W&T p. 11). Then when they decided to do away with Shoghi Effendi's plan of the International Baha'i Council to become an International Tribunal this was also a fallible act. When they set up their headless handless body this was also a fallible act. This body that they created out of their imagination was also a fallible act, so the decisions of this headless body are also fallible decisions.
When the hands messed around with God's business they messed everything all up. None of the Baha'is, if they were awake, should
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have ever followed them, for the hands had dug a grave for them. Their organization is apostate and it will go, along with all the other apostate religious organizations, into the fire. When a tree produces bad fruit it is cut down and put into the fire.
This despicable affront to God's Kingdom is akin to the Catholic Church that in 325 A.D. during the Council of Nicaea imposed the Trinity Doctrine on Christianity, deifying Jesus and making him a physical descendant of God instead of his physical father of Joseph (see Romans 1:3,4 and Luke 3:23), who was a descendant of King David. Thus, they separated themselves from the Kingdom of God. By the atrocity of this act and by teaching the resurrection of the physical body of Jesus, the Christians are looking at the sky for the return of Christ instead of looking at the Exilarchs for the second coming. This church then became a tomb, forcing the Christians to accept the Trinitarian Doctrine at the threat of being killed; and today the Christians are being denied the Kingdom of God by remaining in the tomb.
Today the renegade Baha'is are being deprived of the Kingdom by being entombed in their apostate administration. The guardian, the Davidic king, will never be set over the tomb of dead disbelievers; any more than Baha'u'llah, when He came didn't set Himself over that tomb of the Christian church that believes that it is the bride of Christ. They are both for Hells-fire.
They both are antichrists (1 John 2:18). The Trinitarians are anti Jesus being a male sperm descendant of David through his father Joseph, which is the only means of Jesus being a Christ (1 John 2:22). That headless monster administration is anti the continuation of that Davidic kingship that Baha'u'llah proclaimed, when He said that He sat upon the throne of David, and Abdu'l-Baha continued in the guardianship, in the Will and Testament.
They are both are among the heads of the beast. The Catholic Church is the head, the "one is," which the Papacy started in the days of the apostles and continues until the great catastrophe.
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That mongrel administration is the one that comes up last, "and when he comes he comes he must remain only a little while" (Rev. 17:1). The and the other five heads of the beast go with the beast into perdition (utter destruction) (Rev. 17:11).
They are both the enemies of God and evoke His wrath!
They both are trying to prevent God's plan which began with Abraham, of setting up God's Kingdom on earth as prophesied by Jesus, as denoted in Baha'u'llah's Covenant, and as delineated in Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament. Jesus said concerning that Babylonian whore religion, "Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;" (Rev. 18:4). Abdu'l-Baha tells us concerning those that separate themselves from the guardian: "May the wrath, the fierce indignation, the vengeance of God rest upon him!" (W&T p. 11).
Both the trinitatian clergy and that perverse renegade administration are doing the same damnable things that the Jewish clergy did in the time of Jesus, that he so lashed out against:
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in" (Matt. 23:13).
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrities! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, saying, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' Thus you witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up then, the measure of your fathers. You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?" (Matt. 23:29-33)
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men's bones
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and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity (Matt. 23:27,28).
The leaders of these three religions are dead and those that are entrapped in these tombs are also dead. The question is, can the dead in that bogus administration resurrect the dead? The people that would accept the Covenant-breakers headless handless body, are like those that are buried in one cemetery being dug up and reburied in another cemetery.
Those that originally became buried in that graveyard are those that were forced to by the threat of expulsion, by first the 'hands' and then by that headless handless body, after the guardian had declared them Covenant-breakers. By this threat of expulsion, from which they still believed was the right Baha'i faith, they were oppressed from using the God-given right to investigate the matter for themselves; so they died in ignorance. (See the Iqan Page 31).
When they separated themselves from the living guardian they then separated themselves from God and died (W&T p. 11). The reason for their death was when God put them to the test to see if they would separate themselves from the guardian, and thus from God, for any reason! they failed the test and became dead. Baha'u'llah explains why those that separated themselves from the guardians are dead:
"They who are its appointed interpreters [guardians] they whose hearts are the repositories of the secrets, are, however, the only ones who can comprehend its [the words of God] manifold wisdom. Whoso, while reading the Sacred Scriptures, is tempted to choose therefrom whatever may suit him with which to challenge the authority of the Representative of God among men, is, indeed, as one dead," (Gleanings from the writings of Baha'u'llah, Pages 175- 176)....
It is very regretable to me to the very core that there are billions of people out there that are dead in these cemeteries.
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There is no way to reach them. When I try to reach the Covenant-breakers they turn away in terror refusing to talk with me or read our explanations. They believe without investigation, that I am a Covenant-breaker. If they do happen to read our messages they are unable to comprehend because they are dead, and their only refuge is their tomb, and as such they are relegated to hells fire.
We have nothing to fear! The only ones that will enter that dastardly organization are the dead that are seeking their kind. Those that will recognize the Baha'i claim of the Kingdom will not come from those in the cemetery but from among the unoppressed souls that seek the truth from among the living. If they should happen to look into the graveyard and see that headless, handless body they will ask, "of what divine authority is there for the existence of this headless dead body," for any body without a head is dead? They will find that these Covenant-breakers are unable to show from scriptures or from the Covenant any divine bases for its existence. They will find in the Covenant divine authority for a body of the Universal House of Justice with the live guardian sitting at its head (W&T pp. 11, 14). Jesus said: "He [God] is not God of the dead, but of the living" (Matt. 22:32).
We, 'The Baha'is Under the Provisions of the Covenant', are the only ones that have a message for the world. There is very great trouble in this world, especially in the Middle East, the site for Armageddon. The situation in the Persian Gulf and the Arab-Israeli conflict is out-of-hand and there is no man- made solution. There are three great religious people, the Muslims, Jews and Christians which claim the Holy Land, especially Jerusalem, belong to them. However, Baha'u'llah moved the throne of David that His father sat upon to Israel and placed it on Mount Carmel in the "Tablet of Carmel":
"Render thanks unto Thy Lord, O Carmel. The fire of thy separation from Me was fast consuming thee, when the ocean of my presence surged before thy face, cheering thine
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eyes and those of all creation, and filling with delight all things visible and invisible. Rejoice, for God hath on this Day established upon thee His throne, hath made thee the dawning-place of His signs and the day spring of the evidences of His Revelation.... He, verily, loveth the spot which hath been made the seat of His throne, which His footsteps have trodden." (Gleanings from the writings of Baha'u'llah page 15).
In the book of his Covenant [the Kitabi-Ahd], Baha'u'llah continues His descendancy from King David to His son Abdu'l-Baha, 'the Most great Branch' to succeed Him on the throne, stating that he had issued from this ancient root. Abdu'l-Baha in continuing this Branch used the Persian word 'Aghsan' in his Will and Testament. In that same legal document he sets up the legal requirements for the succeeding Aghsan to sit upon the throne. These requirements are two in number: 1) He must be an Aghsan 2) He must be appointed by the previous guardian. When Abdu'l-Baha adopted Mason Remey he called him "my Aghsan". When Shoghi Effendi appointed Abdu'l-Baha's Aghsan, Mason Remey, to be the Head of the embryonic Universal House of Justice during his lifetime, he appointed his successor, for the Will and Testament stated that the Head of the Universal House of Justice is the guardian. Abdu'l-Baha designated these succeeding Aghsan as guardians to guard the Baha'i faith. This throne on Mount Carmel is now desolate for the present king, Joseph Pepe Remey Aghsan, is now in voluntary exile.
There are three great religions that are awaiting the coming of a Messiah. The Christians and the Muslims are looking for him to come out of the sky. The Jews however, according to their historical literature, state that he can only come from the Exilarchs. We are the only ones in the world that have a message, for we have along with the scriptural proofs, the genealogy of Baha'u'llah all the way back to King David as is found in the
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Jewish literature. Some of the highlights of that genealogy are enclosed.
When this genealogy, along with scriptural proofs and the legal Baha'i documents of the continuation of that genealogy in the guardianship of the Baha'i faith, is filed in a criminal charge in the courts of Israel, it will receive immediate universal coverage. Jesus said:
"And this gospel [good news] of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the earth as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come" (Matt. 24:14--The New English Bible Version).
At the time of this great event of the Proclamation of the Davidic Kingship to the world, they will also see in its place that abomination, this disgusting, loathing, detestable, headless, handless body in authority in the place of God's promised kingship. They will see the seat of His throne desolate. Jesus said:
"But when you see 'the abomination of desolation' usurping a place which is not his (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must take to the hills... For those days will bring distress such as never has been until now since the beginning of the world which God created--and will never be again. If the Lord had not cut short that time of troubles, no living thing could survive" (Mark 13:14-20; The New English Bible Version).
Certainly we can place the blame for the great catastrophe upon the shoulders of the Covenant-breakers, for they have usurped the authority of the throne and in the place of it taught a great abomination for the past 30 years leaving out the very core of the Baha'i message of that of the Kingdom. Two thirds of the people of this earth will perish because of them. Assuredly "May the wrath, the fierce indignation, the vengeance of God rest upon them".
With hope in the Kingdom of Abha
Leland Jensen, N.D.
Source: Dave Cornell, http://web.archive.org/web/20030525190009/www.lelandjensen.net/html/doc/890000brown.htm