most mighty document (1979)

The Most Mighty

Document

source: Dave Cornell, http://web.archive.org/web/20020610010520/http://www.lelandjensen.net/html/doc/790421mostmightydocument.htm

You have but one day

which is one year

From April 21, 1979 to April 21, 1980

This brings you to the hour (during Ridvan)

in which one third of the people will be killed

Then you will get that which you deserve

(Rev. 9:15)

(see pages 61 to 66)

During Ridvan 1980

(from April 21 to May 2)

If you are not 100 miles from the epicenter

of a nuclear explosion

(any city with 100,000 population or a military objective)

and in an adequate fallout shelter

You will be destroyed or severely burned

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"Then another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has power over fire, and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle ['The Most Mighty Document'], 'Put in your sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.' So the angel swung his sickle on the earth and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great wine press of the wrath of God; and the wine press was trodden [thermo-nuclear war] outside the city [the Law of God--Covenant], and blood flowed from the wine press [centers that are hit], as high as a horse's bridle, for one thousand six hundred stadia.* *About two hundred miles [in diameter]."

(Rev. 14:18-20)

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The DAY and the HOUR

For the destruction of one third of mankind by a thermo-nuclear War is recorded in Revelation 9:13-16:

"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, which is 19 years, or 19 Vahids. A Vahid is 19 months of 19 days.

There were 19 Vahids from when the sixth angel, Quddus, sounded his trumpet on August 12, 1844 (recognized and became a follower of the Bab) to the proclamation of Baha'u'llah on April 21, 1863.

The Year is the Golden Jubilee year of Baha'u'llah's Proclamation of April 21, 1963--the Advent of the seventh angel.

The Day is the Day of Judgement, when the seventh angel indicts the world for breaking the "everlasting Covenant" April 21, 1979 to April 21, 1980.

The Hour will occur during Ridvan (April 21 to May 2) 1980.

The thermo-nuclear holocaust will be over in one Hour.

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The Bible doesn't tell us to go up in the sky--rapture, which is a myth of the magnitude of the mythologians of Greece and Rometo avoid the oncoming thermo-nuclear holocaust, but just the opposite:

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THE EVERLASTING COVENANT

"The Tree of Life" in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 1: 22-24), of which if man eats and lives for ever and ever, is the "Everlasting Covenant." It starts on the first page of the Bible with God deciding, 6000 years ago, to make man in "our image" (in the image of the Manifestations of God). Man had already been on this planet for millions of years but was in the image of the animal (the animal body; two eyes, two ears, a nose, a mouth, arms and legs, etc.) and was savage and barbaric. He started the process by making one man, Adam, in His image (first Manifestation of God):

"Then God Covenanted, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness;'. . . So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him. . ." (Gen 1:26, 27).

This Tree of Life comes to fruition on the last page of the Bible with its "12 kinds of fruit" (the 12 basic Baha'i principles).

"Then he showed me the river of the water of life [Divine Revelation of Baha'u'llah], bright as crystal [by the Lamb's explanations], flowing from the throne of God [Davidic] and of the Lamb through the middle of the city [New Jerusalem--the Law of God]; also on either side of the river, the tree of life [the Covenant of Baha'u'llah] with its 12 kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of tree [the Lamb's heavenly army] were for the healing of the nations." (Rev. 22:1,2)

God creates man in His image through the Holy Spirit. Through this Spirit man manifests God; love, mercy, justice, generosity, concord, fidelity, harmony, etc., and thus takes on the image of God. This Spirit descends upon a perfect man (a clear polished mirror), Manifestation, who then reflects God to the people. When a person turns to the Manifestation and receives a ray of this Spirit (a breath of the Holy Spirit) he then reflects this ray and is also in the image of God.

This Spirit descended upon Adam, the first Manifestation (first man in the image of God), in the Garden of Eden, and was therefore cast out of the Garden (innocence). Before Adam, man in the barbaric state (Garden of Eden), didn't know good from evil, but through the Manifestation of God, Adam, he was no longer innocent and was held accountable for his beliefs and acts, thus, sin through violation entered the world.

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Through this Spirit civilization began. Cain went east of Eden, Nod, built a city and started the Sumner (Chaldean) civilization near the Persian Gulf east of the Euphrates.

In order to civilize all people (make them in His image), God had a plan (blue print) to have His Spirit to descend upon a number of perfect men, Manifestations. They appeared to various peoples, and their message was progressive as the grades in school. The Spirit of God descended upon Moses in the "Burning Bush," Krishna in the "War Chariot of Arajuna," Zoroastor at the "Setting Sun," Buddha under the "Bo Tree of India," Jesus when he came out of the "River Jordan,'' Muhammad in the "Cave of Hira," The Bab in a "Dream" and Baha'u'llah in the "Dungeon of the Prison of Tehran." Through these Manifestations the present civilization in the world has come about.

This 'Blue Print' (Pathway to God) was inculcated into the Book of Adam, the Great Pyramid, in its Ascending Passageways. This edifice was constructed under the direction of Enoch, who walked with God. Each Pyramid (P) inch represents one solar year. Red Granite Blocks represent the Spiritual; in the Ascending Passageway, the Manifestations. Moses starts the first Ascending Passageway. To get the date of His Manifestation, the Exodus, measure the distance from the start of the Passageway to the first Red Granite Girdle Stone, then subtract this distance from the distance of the first overlay in the second Ascending Passageway (1455.778 inches or March 21, 1456 B.C.). Then for Krishna measure from the start of the Passageway to the second Girdle Stone and subtract this from the second overlay, etc. The date for the Advent of Jesus is from the start of the Ascending Passageway to the start of the second Ascending Passageway, the Baptism of Jesus in 30 A.D., "the Stone that the builders rejected." His Stone covered over the Passageway coming up from the Grotto where the Red Granite Stone of Muhammad occurred; it was broken up by the builders. The date for Muhammad occurred in the second Ascending Passageway, for he came after Jesus, 622 A.D.. Six hundred and twenty two inches up from the start of the second Ascending Passageway there is a mark; subtracting this from the full length of the Passageway, 1882 inches, gives you 1260 A.H. or May 23, 1844 A.D., the date of the Proclamation of the Bab. The floor passageway ends at March 21, 1844 A.D., the start of the Baha'i calendar. From this point on each inch represents one Baha'i month plus 1/19 of four and one quarter intercalary days which brings us to April 21, 1863 at the entrance point of the Holy

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of Holies, the date of Baha'u'llah's Proclamation. The 100 Red Granite Rocks forming the walls of this Chamber bring us to the Golden Jubilee of Baha'u'llah's Proclamation, April 21, 1963, the Advent of the seventh angel (Joshua, the Lamb). The 108 Red Granite Blocks forming the floor brings us to the Proclamation of Joshua in Ridvan 1971 A.D.. Add the nine Beams forming the ceiling to this date and you have Ridvan 1980. The first upper chamber represents the first wind of the destruction, the thermonuclear holocaust. The next chamber above that is full of insect shells, and represents starvation and disease. Add the eight beams above this chamber to the sounding of the trumpet of The Most Mighty Document on April 21, 1979 and you have the date for the election of the International Tribunal, during Ridvan 1987 A.D.

FROM THE FALL FROM INNOCENCE

TO THE RESTORATION

The Passageways, in the Great Pyramid, are left of the North and South Center Line, which divides East and West, 286.1 P. inches (about the length of gestation in humans). This represents Adam's Manifestation, and man's fall from innocence, and his continued resistance to the everlasting Covenant. After the 6,000 year period you return to the center line on April 21, 1878 A.D.. Each one of these inches (286) represents one Babi month of 19 days, 19 of these months equals one vahid. There are 15 vahids in 286. Add these 15 years to Baha'u'llah's Proclamation and you have April 21, 1878. The Ark of the Covenant--the Kitab-i-Aqdas--rests on the center line, and extends westward 19.2237 inches, one Baha'i Year, or April 21, 1879, when the pen of Baha'u'llah completed the Aqdas. In this Most Holy Book, Baha'u'llah, a descendant of David, enters into a Covenant, continuing the Davidic Kingship in this world by appointing his eldest son, The Most Great Branch, who is a Branch from the ancient Root (David), to succeed him. 'Abdu'l-Baha in his Will and Testament Covenanted that this Kingship would continue from his descendants in a line of Guardians of the Cause of God. He then adopted Mason Remey to be his son, and appointed his grandson Shoghi Effendi to succeed himself. Shoghi Effendi then appointed Mason Remey to succeed him. Then Mason Remey adopted Joseph Pepe and appointed him to succeed him. One hundred years after the appointment in the Aqdas (100 Red Granite Blocks forming the walls of the Holy of' Holies) the seventh angel sounds his trumpet,

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"The Most Mighty Document," on April 21, 1979 A.D., which will establish this Kingship in this world. One hundred and eight years later (108 Red Granite Blocks forming the floor of the Holy of Holies) in Ridvan 1987 A.D.. the nations that now form the Beast, will be Bahai countries and will elect the International Tribunal, which will establish peace in this world.

The Covenants of God Regarding Succession of His Prophets

"Every Prophet Whom the Almighty and Peerless Creator hath purposed to send to the peoples of the earth hath been entrusted with a Message, and charged to act in a manner that would best meet the requirements of the age in which He appeared." Gleanings, p. 79.

The Covenant Made by the Manifestations Concerning the Future Prophets

"The divine Prophets are conjoined in the perfect state of love. Each one has given the glad-tidings of His successor's coming and each successor has sanctioned the one who preceded Him. They were in the utmost unity but their followers are in strife." Promulg. U.P., p. 217.

"His Holiness Abraham, on Him be peace, made a covenant concerning His Holiness Moses and gave the glad-tidings of His coming. His Holiness Moses made a covenant concerning the Promised One, i.e. His Holiness Christ, and announced the good news of His Manifestation to the world. His Holiness Christ made a covenant concerning the Paraclete and gave the tidings of His coming. His Holiness the Prophet Muhammad made a covenant concerning His Holiness the Bab and the Bab was the One promised by Muhammad, for Muhammad gave the tidings of His coming. The Bab made a Covenant concerning the Blessed Beauty of Baha'u'llah and gave the glad-tidings of His coming for the Blessed Beauty was the One promised by His Holiness the Bab. Baha'u'llah made a covenant concerning a promised One who will become manifest after one thousand or thousand of years. He likewise, with His Supreme Pen, entered into a great Covenant and Testament with all the Baha'is whereby they were all commanded to follow the Center of the Covenant after His departure, and turn not away even to a hair's breadth from obeying Him."

'Abdu'l-Baha, Tablet (Archives), cited in B.W.F., p. 358.

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"'Abdu'l-Baha made a Covenant that one would come [the seventh Angel] in 1963 and would establish the Kingdom [Davidic] brought by Baha'u'llah. Also, in his Will and Testament he entered into a Covenant that a line of Guardians [Davidic Kings] would descend from him and be at the Head of the Universal House of Justice."

O Ye People of the World you have but one year to readjust your beliefs and to come into compliance with the Everlasting Covenant.

DAVIDIC KINGSHIP

"But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, Go tell my servant David, 'Thus says the Lord [Covenant] ... When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his [Solomon's] kingdom. He shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men but I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before me; your throne shall be established for ever.' In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David" (2 Sam. 7:4, 5 . . . 12-17).

Thou hast said, "I have made a

Covenant with my chosen one,

I have sworn to David my servant:

'I will establish your descendants for ever,

and build your throne for all generations.'

Psalms 89:3, 4

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MESSIANIC KINGDOM

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INTRODUCTION

This epistle addressed to Joseph Pepe Remey (Aghsan) is of special interest to all believers in Baha'u'llah. It answers many of the complex problems that have arisen among His followers that have not previously and adequately been dealt with. This is whether one accepts or follows the non-continuation of the Guardianship doctrine invented after the passing of Shoghi Effendi, or one of the other cults that have built their theologies around an especial personality that claims the guardianship.

OF GREAT INTEREST TO THE FOLLOWERS OF

CHRIST AND MOSES

This epistle deals with the Advent of the Messianic Kingdom (the re-establishment of the Davidic Kingship) as Promised in the Sacred Jewish and Christian scriptures. Jesus fulfilled the prophecies of Jewish scriptures for the Advent of the Messiah--this is what the Gospel of Matthew is all about (Matt. 1:23, 2:5, 2:15, 2:17, 3:3, 4:4, 4:7, 4:10, 4:14, 11:10, 12:17, 13:14, 15:7, 21:4, 21:42, 27:9). However he did not re-establish in this world, as prophesied, the Davidic Kingship. He did not marry and have a son and have descendants, an absolute essential in the re-establishment of the Davidic Kingship. He left his Revelation with the 12 apostles. But in the Lord's Prayer he asked us to pray for the Messianic Kingdom to come! "Thy Kingdom come, it will be done on earth as it is in Heaven". Thus Jesus did not set up the Messianic Kingdom. He did claim to be a descendant of David (an essential to the Messiahship, Luke 3:23-32). Luke gives this descendancy from David through Solomon's brother, Nathan, and not through the Kingly line, to Joseph the father of Jesus.

The word Messiah (Christ) denotes more than just "anointed". The Jews referred to their Kings as the anointed (Christ). It means a descendant of David that is anointed king by God. In Israel this was done by the Lord through the High Priest anointing a descendant of David with oil, consecrating him to his office. In the captivity, starting in 606 B.C., Israel (Judah) lost their kingship (anointed). In the prophecies that followed the kingship would be restored by a descendant of David being anointed king (Messiah) (Psalms 132:10-12). Jesus claimed to be that king, but he was not anointed king by God through a High Priest with oil, but directly by the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Him. This the Jews did not accept. As a result they had him crucified. Being cut off (Dan. 9:26) he did not marry and have a son, an essential to the establishment of the Davidic Kingship. Also, in the world

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he did not re-assemble the 12 tribes of Israel, another essential to the Messianic Kingdom; and he did not re-establish the Temple and place His Covenant in the Holy of Holies, an essential to the regathering of Israel. Thus, he had to come a second time so that all of this would be fulfilled.

AN ADOPTED SON HAS ALL THE RIGHTS AND PEROGATIVES

OF A NATURAL SON

The Christians accept the authority of the Messiahship of Jesus; he qualifies by the genealogy of Jesus back to David through Joseph. But because of the virgin birth they state that Jesus was the adopted son of Joseph with all the rights of a natural son, although there is no recording of a legal adoption in the scriptures nor in the archives. They claim that by Joseph taking Jesus as his son that this is all that is required to prove adoption; and that an adopted son has all the rights and privileges of a natural son, even the Kingship or Messiahship. Thus the Bible gives the genealogy of Jesus back to David through Joseph to prove his eligibility to be the Promised Messiah, for the Messiah must be a descendant of David through the male line of descent. All the kings of Israel descended from David through a male descendant (no queen ever sat upon the throne).

THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST IS A SON OF MAN

THAT IS DESCENDED FROM DAVID, ANOINTED BY GOD

The New Testament gives a number of prophecies for the return of Christ (a Messiah) in a new name (Rev. 3:12). Jesus said the son of man would come in Baha'u'llah, "Glory of the Father" (Mark 8:38, Luke 9:26, Matt. 16:27). Baha'u'llah fulfilled this prophecy. Jesus told us that Daniel had given the date for His return (Matt. 24:3, 15). Daniel gave the date of 2300 days (years) from the Abomination of Desolation that came to an end in 457 B.C. to the Sanctuary to be cleansed (or restored), the date that Christ (Messiah) was referring to for his return (Dan. 8:13, 14). There are 456 years from 457 B.C. to the birth of Christ. Subtract these B.C. years from the 2300 for the date of his return (2300 minus 456 = Mar. 21, 1844 A.D.); the date is the beginning of the Baha'i calendar. He also came from the east to Israel (Ezekiel 43:1-7, Isaiah 35:1,2). (See Baha'i literatures for explanation, especially "The Beast" and "Some Answered Questions.")

Jesus said that the world would never see him again personally (John 14:19), and everyone should reject all that would come in His name (Jesus) and claim to be the Messiah (Christ). Baha'-

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u'llah fulfilled the prophecies for the second coming of Christ (Messiah) like Jesus fulfilled the prophecies for the first coming, and he did not come in the name of Jesus but the name of Baha'u'llah as Jesus said he would come in.

Baha'u'llah not only fulfilled the prophecies for the second coming of Christ (Messiah), but like Jesus He descended from David; but unlike Jesus He descended down from David through the main line of descendancy--the line of the kings of Israel (Judah)--that is, from Solomon on down. Then Baha'u'llah did something that Jesus was unable to do, and why he had to come a second time. He married and had a son--a BRANCH (Zechariah 3:8, 6:12, Isaiah 11:1, 4:2, 60:21, Jeremiah 23:5). From this BRANCH succeeds the Davidic Kingship that sits upon the Throne of David and reigns forever and ever, that is, as long as there is life upon this planet (Rev. 4:9, Luke 1:33).

THE DAVIDIC LINE OF DESCENT FROM BAHA'U'LLAH

In the Book of His Covenant and in the Aqdas, Baha'u'llah appoints His eldest son 'Abdu'l-Baha, the most great Branch, to succeed Himself upon the Throne of David ("Baha'i World Faith" p. 209). 'Abdu'l-Baha's son, Husayn, died in infancy, so Baha'u'llah appointed 'Abdu'l-Baha's brother Muhammad Ali, the great Branch, to succeed 'Abdu'l-Baha. But Muhammad Ali broke the Covenant of Baha'u'llah, so at the same time that 'Abdu'l-Baha cut this Branch off of the Davidic tree, He adopted Mason Remey to be "His son" in the same manner that the Christians state that Joseph adopted Jesus to be his son, grafting this Branch to the Davidic tree. He called Mason Remey "Aghsan"--my son--almost every time that he addressed him. These are found in many Tablets addressed to Mason Remey recorded in the "Star of the West" Magazine. He is the only person in this world that he referred to as Aghsan, my son, grafting him into the Davidic tree ("O My Dear Son!", 'Star of the West' p. 144 Vol. X. "O thou enlightened and beloved son!", 'Star of the West' p. 229 Vol. X). 'Abdu'l-Baha didn't speak English. The way you say "my son" in Persian is "Aghsan". In 'Abdu'l-Baha's 'Last Tablet to America' He states: "Consider! The Divine Gardener cuts off the dry or weak branch from the good tree and grafts to it a branch from another tree. He both separates and unites" (BWF p. 438). Not only did the Christians uphold the adoption principle for the Messiahship as in the Joseph-Jesus instance, but 'Abdu'l-Baha upheld it in His Last Tablet to America; this principle has been upheld all the way back into antiquity and all the way down to our present times by peoples, kindreds and

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governments. It is a universal principle.

However, 'Abdu'l-Baha appointed Shoghi Effendi Afnan (a twig, p. 25 W & T) to become the Guardian of the Cause of God--not to the Davidic Kingship, the Baha'i Faith--for he was not of the Davidic line of male descent. Shoghi Effendi, in accordance with 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament, during his lifetime appointed 'Abdu'l-Baha's son, Mason Remey, to be the head of his embryonic Universal House of Justice (International Baha'i Council). 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament states that the head of the Universal House of Justice is the Guardian. Thus the Davidic Kingship is passed down in the Baha'i Faith from the BRANCH, 'Abdu'l-Baha Aghsan, to 'Abdu'l-Baha's adopted son Mason Remey Aghsan.

Mason Remey Aghsan had no natural son so he legally adopted Joseph Pepe, making him the crown prince of the messianic kingdom. Just before Mason Remey passed on he appointed his son Joseph Pepe Remey Aghsan to be his successor, the second guardian of the Baha'i Faith of the Davidic line of kings.

RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL IN ISRAEL

In the fulfillment of prophecy, Baha'u'llah being of the tribe of Judah (and Benjamin), a descendant of the line of Davidic kings that remained in Babylon (now part of Iran), was imprisoned in Teheran and then exiled to Baghdad, which is that part of the ancient Assyrian Empire where King Shalmaneser V in 721 B.C. took the ten tribes of Israel into captivity. These tribes became known as the ten lost tribes of Israel. They became lost in identity by being converted to Zoroastrianism and then to Islam. Baha'u'llah spent ten years in Baghdad teaching; and when he made His proclamation on April 21, 1863 A.D., the seed of these ten tribes of Israel became the first Baha'is along with His own family who were of the seed of Judah and Benjamin. Thus Baha'u'llah united a remnant of the 12 tribes of Israel (ten Northern and two Southern) (See Romans 11:23, 24). Then Baha'u'llah as a prisoner of the Turkish Empire was brought to Mt. Carmel in the valley of Sharon in Israel, fulfilling prophecy (Ezekiel 43:1-7, Is. 35:1, 2). Part of this remnant that he united accompanied him in His exile to what is now the state of Israel; thus, He brought a remnant of the 12 tribes of Israel out of captivity and returned this regathered Israel by its new name Baha'i (of Glory) to the country of Israel in fulfillment of a mass of biblical prophecies in the Old Testament. As one accepts Baha'u'llah's Covenant they became part of the Messianic Kingdom under its new name Baha'i, which means "of Glory" (See Romans 11:17-32).

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This kingdom was brought to every country of the world (every state, Province, Protectorate, Island and practically every city) during the Kingship of 'Abdu'l-Baha and the guardianship of Shoghi Effendi. In order to gather Israel together it was essential to have the Temple restored for it was the intermediary between Israel and God, "the dwelling place of God". It was destroyed twice, once in 586 B.C. and then by Titus in 70 A.D.

THE PROPHESIED TEMPLE OCCURS AT THE END

OF THE CHRONOLOGICAL PASSAGEWAY

The original Tabernacle that Moses had constructed in the desert was but a replica of what occurs at the end of the ascending passageways in the Great Pyramid (Acts 3:22, Isaiah 19:19, 20). It consisted of an Altar, Sanctuary, the Holy of Holies and Ark of the Covenant. Moses was brought up in Egypt in the vicinity of the Great Pyramid where he spent the first forty years of his life. What he built with hands was to be destroyed (Heb. 9:8). Solomon replaced the Tabernacle with a stone structure, which was destroyed by Nebucadnezzar in 586 B.C. This structure was rebuilt again by some returning Jews to Jerusalem. Then this second Temple was destroyed by Titus in 70 A.D. This Temple is to be replaced by an Ideal temple not built by hands (Heb. 8:2,5, 9.8,11, Ezekiel chapters 40-44). Christ Jesus did not establish this ideal temple here on earth, for the one built by hands was still standing during his lifetime (Heb. 9:8). This was to come with the second Advent. Ezekiel sees this restored temple in his vision as the Advent of the Bab and Baha'u'llah: "as Baha'u'llah (Glory of God) entered the temple by the way of the Bab (gate)..." (Ezek. 43:4). The Bab was the forerunner of Baha'u'llah. This restored temple occurs at the end of the ascending passageways, which is a Chronological time scale of one Pyramid inch representing one solar year. This is the pathway of God from Adam to the Advent of the Bab and Baha'u'llah in the Great Pyramid. This passageway comes to an end on Mar. 21, 1844, the start of the Baha'i Era (start of the Baha'i Calendar) and the proclamation of the Bab on May 23, 1844. This is the same date given by Daniel for the sanctuary to be restored at the time of the return of Christ (Matt. 24:3, 15, Dan. 8:13, 14). From this point on each inch represents one Baha'i month plus 1/19 of the 4 1/4 Intercalary days. This is at the start of the Altar. The Altar comes to an end just inside of the Sanctuary in the year nine of the Baha'i era. On this Altar the Bab and 10,000 of His followers were martyred, purifying the Sanctuary with their blood restoring it (see Dan. 8:14 in both KJV and RSV).

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The end of the Altar brings us to the year nine of the Baha'i Era when Baha'u'llah received the Holy Spirit and began His ministry. The number of inches from the end of the passageway (start of the altar) to the start of the Holy of Holies (the dwelling of God) brings us to the proclamation date of Baha'u'llah on April 21, 1863 A.D. These are the same dates that Christ gave for his second coming (for explanations see the books "Some Answered Questions" or "The Beast"). The Revelation of the Bab is of the potency of the sanctuary, and the Revelation of Baha'u'llah is of the potency of the Holy of Holies, the dwelling of God among men (the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven). Baha'u'llah in His Covenant appoints His Son the Most Great Branch from whom the Davidic Kingship descends, thus replacing the lost Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies. With this re-established Temple, the central point of worship of Israel, the 12 tribes of Israel were brought out of captivity to Israel.

THE DISPERSAL OF ISRAEL TO ALL OF THE COUNTRIES

OF THE WORLD

Shoghi Effendi Afnan, a twig (W & T p. 25) not of the Davidic line of descent through a male member, was the first guardian of the Cause of God. Being an Afnan, the kindred of the Bab, a descendant of Muhammad and not an Israelite, he assumed that The Bab was the Promised Lamb in the Book of Revelation that was to establish the Messianic Kingdom in the world. Thus he established the Administration of the Babi Faith into the Baha'i Faith, although 'Abdu'l-Baha had stated that the Baha'i Faith was not to be organized. He rushed to have this administration completed by 1963 A.D. (in his ten year world crusade) so that in this way The Bab would be the establisher of the Kingdom and the Promised Lamb. 'Abdu'l-Baha had explained that the 1335 days of Daniel's prophecy (Dan. 12:12) is 1963 A.D. and after this date the Kingdom would be established, meaning that is the date for the coming of the establisher of the Kingdom ('New Era' p. 302 '53 to '63 Ed.). In "Some Answered Questions" p. 66, He stated that the 7th angel, a man with spiritual qualities, would come and establish the Kingdom. This man then would also be the Promised Lamb of the Book of Revelation, for in the text they both do the same thing--establish the Kingdom. When Mason Remey, the first guardian of the Davidic line of descent, became guardian he expelled from the Baha'i Religious Faith (which is the Messianic Kingdom) the Babi Administration and made it clear that the Bab was not the Promised Lamb, or the establisher of the Messianic Kingdom. Thus the Baha'is had already separated

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themselves from the Baha'i Faith by breaking the Covenant, for they refused to continue in the Guardianship when it shifted from the Afnan line of descent of Shoghi Effendi Afnan (Babi) to the Aghsan (Baha'u'llah) line of descent of Mason Remey. By their not coming under the Davidic line of descent in the guardianship of Mason Remey Aghsan, they were now out of the Baha'i Faith as they continued to be the followers of that Babi Administration that was set up by Shoghi Effendi. As this administration had been established in all of the countries of the world, the followers of this administration were thus dispersed to all of the countries of the world (Deut. 28:64), for this administration (cancer) was then cut out of the Baha'i Faith as it formed no part of the Messianic Kingdom.

CHRIST JESUS BOTH KING AND PRIEST

Christ, the Messianic king, and Jesus, The High Priest (after the order of Melchizedek) have come a second time as have been prophesied in scriptures.

When Baha'u'llah fulfilled the prophesies in scriptures for the second coming of Christ, He then was also the second coming of the Messiah, the Promised Davidic King. Being a Manifestation of God, like Moses and Jesus (Deut. 18:15 and 18), He was the intermediator between God and Israel (God's chosen) as was Moses. As Moses transferred this Intermediatorship from himself to the tent of witness, the Tabernacle, with the High Priest standing in the dwelling place of God, the Holy of Holies, Baha'u'llah in His Covenant also transferred or continued the intermediaryship to the Most Great Branch. 'Abdu'l-Baha, in His Will and Testament, split the Kingship and the priesthood up into the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice. He then appointed an intermediary guardian (embryonic), Shoghi Effendi Afnan (twig), between Himself an Aghsan (Branch) and His son Mason Remey Aghsan. The embryonic Universal House of Justice already was in existence in the person of "the land'' (Leland), at the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha, who fulfills the prophesies of the return of Jesus, The High Priest, after the order of Melchiszedek, who had come a second time to establish His Father's (Abba or Abha) Kingdom. He was the Sacrificial Lamb that returned as the Lamb with seven eyes and seven horns (Rev. 5:6). He fulfills the prophecy of the Advent of Joshua the High Priest standing in the Holy of Holies (Zech. 3rd chapter). The seven horns are the seven religions preceeding the Advent of the Bab and Baha'u'llah. The seven eyes indicates that he is knowledgeable in these seven religions, breaking their seals.

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This is indicated by the stone with seven eyes that was placed before him; each of the watch towers having an eye (Zech. 3:9). He is now regathering Israel the second time, by fulfilling prophecy, (Is. 11:11) from the four corners of the earth. These are the 144,000 of Chapters 7 and 14 of Revelation.

Thus, by Leland fulfilling prophecy, and by his explanations and commentaries, he is establishing the Messianic Kingdom, the Davidic Kingship (Guardianship) and the Universal House of Justice which succeeds him in this world. This is the long promised (in scriptures) Messianic Kingdom--The Kingdom of God on Earth as it is in Heaven.

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Dear Joseph Pepe Remey, Aghsan

Help! Help! I am surrounded by pygmies! The spiritual and mental immatures are threatening the progress of the Faith. It seems like the only thing they use their brains for is to hold their hair up. I am in need of the rest of the 144,000 pure of heart, the spiritual and mental intellectual giants. This includes the 24 Elders and the Guardian to come to my rescue and help me fulfill my assignment, by God, to establish His Kingdom here on earth.

All I do is find myself responding to their immaturities and their lack of confidence in Baha'u'llah's Covenant, 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament and Mason Remey's guardianship. Many of them, in the reluctance of the living guardian to assume his responsibility, have thrown their hats into the ring as interpreters of the Baha'i Faith in deference to Mason's interpretations. They claim that they accept Mason's guardianship, but they don't accept his interpretations and actions in his guarding the Baha'i Faith; thus they make interpretations to suit themselves, creating new Covenant-breaking sects or divisions around their interpretations. Baha'u'llah gives us the center of the Cause--'Abdu'l-Baha and the guardians--to prevent this Faith from breaking up into these dastardly sects. Most of the friends have but a very meager understanding of the Baha'i Faith, which makes the guardianship essential. That is why we are instructed not to deviate even a hair's breadth from the center of the Covenant.

For instance, Mary Magdalene claimed that she accepted Mason's Guardianship and my role of Joshua, the establisher of the Baha'i Faith. This was just in words, however, not in actuality, for when her test came she rejected the guidance and interpretations of the First Guardian of the Baha'i Faith, Mason Remey, when he explained that Shoghi's administration was built around the Babi Faith and that he was the guardian of the Babi Faith, not the Baha'i Faith. How can she claim to accept his guardianship when she doesn't accept his interpretations and actions in guarding the Faith? She also severely attacked me when I wrote things that were in accordance with Mason's interpretations. Instead of her accepting his interpretations completely and then trying to understand the issues and the reality of the matter, she succumbed to her meager understanding that had been erroneously taught us by Shoghi Effendi, the guardian of the Babi

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Faith. She threw her hat into the ring guarding the Baha'i Revelation from Mason's interpretations and my explanations and commentaries, thus creating a new Covenant-breaking sect in Granville, Ohio; and she has exerted her efforts to get others to join it.

Another case in point is my nephew Leroy who I helped raise. He has just created another Covenant-breaking sect around his interpretations that are in deference to the interpretations of Mason Remey. They have gone all the way back to the writings of Baha'u'llah, just as if His Covenant is not a part of His writings. He has gotten his family and two other families to join his sect and he has now moved from here, bringing with him the other families. He is establishing his new sect in Palisades Park, N.J., and they are trying to get others here to join them. (See enclosed "An Open Epistle on the Seven Seals and the Lamb" written in refutation of some of their arguments.) He had claimed that he accepted Mason's guardianship, but here again this was just in words not in reality. He also accepted my role as the Promised Joshua, and your guardianship, but in order to go against me and your guardianship he had to go against Mason's interpretations.

There are only two religions in the world: that which comes from God, and that which comes from man. One is true, the other is false. One is the grain and the other the weeds. All of the denominations in the world are the weeds. These are built around the Revelations of God by the theologians who give us their meager understanding. They divide the religion of God up into sects and denominations. In the Christian religion they are the Baptist, Methodists, Catholic, Lutheran, Mormon, Jehovah Witness, etc. The religion of God comes to us in Progressive Revelations from time to time through the Divine Manifestations that fulfill prophecy. The way we distinguish them from the theologians is that they fulfill prophecy. For instance, Jesus came saying that he fulfilled prophecy, but the people in his time followed the sects of the Sadducies, Pharisees, Nazarites, Essenes, etc., that were created by the theologians. They denied Him and had Him crucified. (When the Bab and Baha'u'llah came they fulfilled prophecy; but here again the people were asleep in their theologies--sects and denominations--in Christianity, the churches--and they thus don't recognize the fulfillment of their religion.) The Baha'i Faith is the fulfillment of the past Revelations, and thus unites them all into the Kingdom of God on earth. The unity of this Kingdom is preserved by the Center of the Cause, the guardian. He is recognized by his fulfilling the Provisions of the Will and Testament. The establisher of this

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Kingdom is the Promised One of God. He is recognized by his fulfillment of prophecy. Who are the people of the world going to listen to: the religion of God that comes to us by His Promised Ones that fulfill prophecy, and the Center of that religion, the Guardian; or are they going to listen to the theologians, the man-made religions? This is the Judgement that has come upon the world, and those that go by the religion of man are bereft of Divine guidance and are outside of the Kingdom and are for the promised fire, the destruction of ungodly men or those that don't follow the religion of God (II Peter 3:7).

I don't write to you very often because I don't like to say things that might hurt your feelings. But I must tell things the way they are, if for no other reason than to get everything on the right track so to speak. Sometimes I become so disgusted with those that call themselves Baha'is and with the world that I feel they are not worth saving. But then God has laid it on my shoulders to save the world and to establish His Kingdom, so I trudge ahead against the inertia of the downward trend of the world. Thus, here I am writing to you again hoping to get through to you so that you may become some support to the Kingdom. I take issue with you not to put you down, but to try and get you to fulfill your role, so that my burden might be lightened, and the Cause go forward. I feel that if I can show you where you are off the track so to speak, you then could make the proper adjustments. If you don't know what your hangups are, how can you get over them? I think that your significant ones are those that you stated to Doctor Opal in your letter to her of May 11, 1978. You stated:

"As for the work Dr. Leland is accomplishing, there is not much anyone can say. We must patiently wait and see what develops. He has stated many things and has taken a very firm stand. I have been through all that when Mason first asked me to care for him. Mason, too, had many plans and expectations and I have seen all those hopes go down the drain so to speak. I cannot go through all that again with Dr. Leland. I can only hope that he succeeds in what he is trying to accomplish. As long as any Baha'i accepts Mason's Guardianship and is working for the preservation of the Institution of Guardianship, I am with that person. It matters not on what grounds they stand...perhaps we are living in times when instead of saying: 'Unite and multiply'.....the slogan is: 'Divide and Multiply'?? Who knows? The only sure things for any of us to do is to strengthen ourselves

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spiritually through the teachings of Baha'u'llah and thus hope that we will be better equipped to face what comes in the future."

I don't like to take something that you wrote to someone and then make an epistle on these points. If I don't do this, however, how can I take issue with you and then let the Baha'i world in on why you haven't assumed your responsibility? But this I must do for the salvation of the Faith.

To take the 'wait and see attitude' is not the right criteria to determine if one is who he says he is or not. For instance, in the time of Jesus, many took the wait and see attitude, but it took over 300 years before Christianity won over the inertia of the Roman Empire. By that time most of them had passed on in their unbelief. Also, when this is projected to the world most will take the wait and see attitude and while they are waiting the bombs will fall on them. Why? It is because these issues on which you take the wait and see stance are the very ones on which mankind is being judged. That is, a Promised One or the guardian cannot be determined by a wait and see criteria, nor can we accept one because he has taken a firm stand. This is also for the birds. Unless one's firm stand is backed up by the criteria of documentation, his firm stand means nothing. For instance, when Mason put forth his claim to the guardianship I examined his documentation by the criteria of the Will and Testament and I found indeed that he fulfilled its provisions. I did not take a wait and see attitude, but being firm in the Covenant I accepted all of his interpretations and actions as that of guardian as I had for Shoghi Effendi before him. I wasn't like those that, when he made decisions on the Faith that were not to their liking, or when he made decisions that were in opposition to the Guardian of the Babi Faith, I did not leave him as the others did that went a whoring after other guardians. This was a great test for those that had claimed that they were firm in the Covenant. They were like the ones--the mass of the Baha'is throughout the world--that had claimed they were firm in the Covenant, but when the test came they deserted the provisions of the Will and Testament and went a whoring after the Hands and a headless, ill-constituted UHJ--that is for the fire. When one breaks the provisions of the Covenant, or the Will and Testament, and goes a whoring after other guardians or other leadership other than the Promised One of God, then that person is left guideless and perishes or suffers the retribution of violation.

When Mason made his proclamation to be that "Personage"

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that was to come in 1963, or that he was the "Lamb of God" that breaks the seven seals, this is altogether a different story. First of all, he didn't present one iota of proof or documentation. It was just a blatant and unfounded assertion on his part. Of course, he had stated many things and had taken a very firm stand, but his strong feelings were not based upon actual fact that can be documented like he put forth for his guardianship. Naturally all of his "hopes, plans, and expectations" that he had put forth as the Promised One went down the drain, so to speak. You were unable to differentiate between which of his actions were those of the guardian, which were accurate, and those which he put forth under his assumption of being that Promised One, which he was not.

Your defect that keeps you from gaining your station is that you, like most of the rest of the world, go by how you feel rather than by the things that are actual factual, that are determined by examining the evidence or documentation that are measured by an established criteria. In this case the criteria is the Holy Writ--Baha'i, and those Revelations leading up to their fulfillment in the Baha'i Revelation. God holds everyone responsible, for each of us He has endowed with the faculty of the intellect which enables man to comprehend the reality of all things. If man refuses to use this faculty, he is an ingrate, and as a punishment he is in error. In his error he goes into the fire. The ancient Hebrew meaning of the word sin was not what we deem it today but means to miss the mark, thus the world goes into the fire for missing the mark. Thus, by you missing the mark, by your not using your faculty of the intellect, you add to the confusion of the world. I am not to be rejected on the grounds that you put forth:

"Mason too, had many plans and expectations and I have seen all of those hopes go down the drain so to speak. I cannot go through all of that again with Dr. Leland."

As I have already explained, his hopes, plans, and expectations were based on the assumption that he was that Promised One, which he was not; and for which he presented no proof or documentation to back it up. I, on the other hand, am that Promised One that Mason thought he was, and I back it up with the most detailed documentation based on the proper criteria of the Holy Scriptures, Baha'i and otherwise, including the Covenant.

Don't get me wrong. Mason was a spiritual giant, but like me he was surrounded by pygmies. Mason made his claim to be the

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Promised One before I had put forth my claim and documentation. He did this because he knew that someone had to be the Promised One, and that Shoghi's Administration didn't fill the bill as Shoghi had put forth. Being the first guardian of the Baha'i Faith, he was like a forerunner to me. Like the Bab that tore down the false theologies of Shi'ah Islam, he tore down all of Shoghi's bad interpretations that he made as the guardian of the Babi Faith, and he eliminated that Babi Administration out of the Baha'i Faith; otherwise the One that was prophesied to come in 1963 would never have been able to establish himself as the Promised One and then establish the Kingdom here on earth. When it was put forth to Mason, however, that he could not be the Promised Lamb of God because he was seated upon the throne, and therefore was not among the Elders before the throne as put forth in scriptures, he gave up the ghost and his claim.

"And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals" (Rev. 5:1).

The guardian is seated upon the throne (expounder of the Revelation of Baha'u'llah) through the authority of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah and the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha, which is the book written within and on the back side (an addendum). But Mason was unable to establish Baha'u'llah's Covenant and 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament in the world, for he was not the Promised Lamb and therefore could not break the seven seals. He was seated upon the throne--being the guardian--and therefore could not be the Lamb that is before the throne and among the Elders.

"And no man in heaven nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book...And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts, and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb...and they sing a new song (my commentaries and explanations) saying, 'Thou are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof:'" (Revelation 5:1-8).

This documentation was given to Mason in a letter sent to you January 9, 1974. A copy of this letter is herewith enclosed. Mason

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had requested certain information from my wife concerning one Jimmy Barrett that was on that NSA with me in 1963. This request was made in a letter sent to her by you. She was asked to get that information from me. Therefore, I had her to include in her reply why Mason could not possibly be the Promised Lamb as he was seated upon the throne. I was sure that this letter would be read to Mason as he had requested that certain information. Mason knew that all of those that he had appointed as his successor were pygmies and were unable to lead the Baha'i world aright. But when He saw my documentation of being the Lamb that was Promised, he then gave up the ghost. Why do you think he took that necklace with the medallion attached off from around his neck and left it to you? He knew that you were not able to lead the Baha'i world aright and neither was Donald. He knew for certain by documentation that I was the Lamb and that I would be able to establish myself and the Kingdom of God on this earth with or without you, or even in spite of you, if necessary. Therefore, he left you that necklace, for he knew that if I am the Lamb I should be able to educate you, so it was safe to leave you the necklace.

You make the statement that Mason had promised you that the Baha'is would support you the rest of your life. Of course, that was only if you assumed your responsibility. He adopted you, making you the Crown Prince--and the only prince--to accede the throne. 'Abdu'l-Baha appointed His grandson Shoghi Effendi to be the Guardian of the Cause of God--not the Guardian of the Baha'i Faith. Then Shoghi Effendi appointed 'Abdu'l-Baha's adopted son, Mason Remey, to become the next guardian. He is the only person in this world that 'Abdul-Baha called Aghsan (His son); thus, the only person in this world that Shoghi could designate as his successor. Therefore, you are the only one in this world that can assume the guardianship. Had Mason adopted any others it would have been possible for them to accede the guardianship of the Baha'i Faith. But he did not. Only a Branch--Aghsan--can ascend the Throne. Why do you think that he said that the Baha'is would support you the rest of your life? It is because you are the only one that he intended to be his successor. There is only one place in the Baha'i writings for anyone to be supported by a Baha'i Fund and that is in the Will and Testament. In order for you to be supported you need to qualify for the Guardian's fund. Why do you think that Mason adopted you and then left you the necklace with the medallion? He made you an 'Aghsan'--a branch--and then appointed you during his lifetime, in accordance with the provisions of the Will and Testament, because that is the only way that anyone would be entitled to receive the Huquq. When these

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monies started arriving in the name of the Guardian you turned them down. And now you complain, as an ingrate, that Mason's promise to you was not fulfilled. Had you taken over your responsibilities in the framework of the Will and Testament from the very beginning after his passing, you would have had all of the money you needed to carry on the Baha'i work; and you wouldn't have had to go outside of the Cause for it as you have done. You have no one to blame but yourself. The true Baha'is were willing. By your refusing to accept your responsibility, you have caused all of the trouble in the true Baha'i world. You have left us without our center of unity, for the guardian is the center of the Cause, not the head.

If you have all of the confusion of the Baha'i world that is outside of the Provisions of the Covenant, then I agree with you that you are "not prepared to assume the role and the obligations that go along with it." If you have the mistaken idea that the guardian is to establish the Faith, then you wouldn't know what to do with me. Both Shoghi Effendi and Mason Remey were mistaken in assuming such a role, as neither of them were the Promised Lamb or seventh Angel, the establisher of the Baha'i Faith. The Baha'is throughout the world thought that the Guardian is the head of the Faith, which is utterly unfounded. According to the Will and Testament, the UHJ is. The Guardian is the head of the UHJ, but he is not the head of the Faith.

"Should differences arise they shall be amicably and conclusively settled by the Supreme Tribunal..." (W & T, page 13)

"Unto this body (UHJ) all things must be referred. It enacteth all ordinances and regulations that are not to be found in the explicit Holy Text. By this body all the difficult problems are to be resolved and the guardian of the Cause of God is its sacred head and distinguished member for life of that body." ...This House of Justice enacteth the laws and the government enforceth them... (W & T, page 14).

That is, the guardian is the enforcer of the Laws of Baha'u'llah and those enacted by the UHJ.

"And now, concerning the House of Justice which God hath ordained as the source of all good and freed from all error" (W & T, page 14).

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Mason stated that the guardians made mistakes.

"His Holiness the Abha Beauty...is the Supreme Manifestation of God and the Dayspring of His Most Divine Essence. All others are servants unto Him and do his bidding. Unto the most Holy Book everyone must turn and all that is not expressly recorded therein must be referred to the Universal House of Justice. That which this body, whether unanimously or by majority doth carry, that is verily the Truth and the Purpose of God himself. Whoso doth deviate therefrom is verily of them that love discord..." (W & T, page 18)

The Promised Lamb is succeeded by the elected body. Therefore, as I have already explained before elsewhere, the Lamb being the pre-UHJ is the head and establisher of the Kingdom. Had you not the defect of going by how you feel rather than by documentation by an established criteria, you could have assumed your role of guardian and functioned in your sphere of jurisdiction and left the establishment of the Kingdom to the Promised One of God, who was sent for that purpose. In this there could have been no conflict.

I am not in support of Mason's assumed role as head of the Baha'i Faith and his establishing of God's Kingdom on this earth. I am, however, very firmly in support of his claim to be the first guardian and center of the Baha'i Faith, and the establisher of unity in the world. The Baha'is are pygmies--having such a meager understanding of the religion of God from Adam on down that they don't have a clear insight as to just how the Revelation of Baha'u'llah fulfills the past Revelations. Baha'u'llah is that King prophesied to come in Holy Writ--that is, he is the descendant of Jesse the Father of David (SAQ, Ch. 12)--that is to sit upon the throne of David:

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, the everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the Throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgement and with justice from henceforth even for ever... (Is. 9:7,8).

And that He "ruleth upon the throne of David" (See 'God Passes By', page 230).

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This kingship that is to exist for ever and ever is passed down only through the male member of descent, as were the kings of Israel. Therefore, His son, an Aghsan (GPB, page 239), and only an Aghsan, can sit upon the throne of David. The Baha'i Faith is the continuation of Israel under its new name, Baha'i, which means 'of Glory', and is prophesied to come in Holy Writ (See Isaiah 62:2, Rev. 3:12, Isaiah 6:3, Ezekiel 43:2). 'Abdu'l-Baha was the Crown Prince of the Aghsan, the eldest son, 'the most great Branch', 'who is issued from this ancient Root,' (Kitab-i-ahd, BWF, page 209). 'Abdu'l-Baha had only daughters that grew into adulthood. When his little son passed away, his wife Munirih stated: "When my darling little son Husayn passed away, Baha'u'llah wrote the following: 'The knowledge of the reason why your sweet baby has been called back is in the mind of God, and will be manifest in His good time. To the prophets of God the present and future are as one.'" According to the Covenant of Baha'u'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha's brother, Muhammad Ali, 'the great Branch', an Aghsan, was to succeed 'Abdu'l-Baha, but he broke the Covenant. "Consider! The Diving Gardener cuts off the dry or weak branch from the good tree and grafts to it a branch from another tree. He both separates and unites" (The Master's Last Tablet to America, BWF, page 438). 'Abdu'l-Baha separated Muhammad Ali from the good tree and grafted a branch from another tree into the tree of Holiness when he took Mason Remey to be his son, making him an Aghsan. He called him Aghsan (His son).

God gave us the prophecy through the mouth of His prophet Jeremiah that he would raise up a righteous Branch ('Abdu'l-Baha) unto David (Jer. 23:5, 30:9). From this Branch that is raised up to David comes the David Kingship, that is, there shall always be a son to this Branch to reign upon the Davidic throne.

"In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous branch ('Abdu'l-Baha) to spring forth for David,.....for thus says the Lord: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel" (Jeremiah 33:15 and 17). "Thus says the Lord: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time (something you can't do); then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken (something that can't happen) so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne" (Jer. 33:20,21).

Thus, there will always be a descendant of 'Abdu'l-Baha to reign upon His throne, although His son died in infancy. By 'Abdu'l-Baha grafting in Mason Remey by adoption, His line of descent continues forever.

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When 'Abdu'l-Baha appointed Shoghi Effendi Afnan (a Twig) (BWF, page 449) (W & T, page 25) 'the guardian of the Cause of God.' He did not appoint him to be the guardian of the Baha'i Faith. Only a descendant of Baha'u'llah through a male member--an Aghsan--could sit upon the throne of David. Although he, Shoghi Effendi, branched from the 'two hallowed and Divine Lote-Trees,' his descendancy from Baha'u'llah is through a female member--his mother, Diyaiyyih Khanum, 'Abdu'l-Baha's daughter--a Holy Leaf. His father was Aqa Mirza Hadi Afnan--a twig. The Afnans are descendants of Muhammad through Imam Husayn, who were not Israelites, much less descendants of Jesse. Baha'u'llah referred to the Babi Faith also as the Cause of God (The Ninth Ishraq, BWF. page 202). Shoghi Effendi, being of the kindred of the Bab (GPB, page 239), built his administration around the Babi Faith, not the Baha'i Faith, as explained by Mason Remey (See 'The Guardian's Letter' enclosed). "After him (Shoghi Effendi) will succeed the first-born of his lineal descendants" (Will and Testament, page 11). Shoghi had no issue, so therefore he had to "choose another branch to succeed him" (W & T, page 12). The only Branch (Aghsan) that he could choose was the one that 'Abdu'l-Baha had grafted into the tree to replace the one that he had cut off (Muhammad Ali) which was Mason Remey. Had Shoghi Effendi an issue, and had he chosen him to succeed him, he also would be an Afnan (twig). Had Shoghi grafted Mason Remey into the tree instead of 'Abdu'l-Baha, then he also could not have been seated upon the throne as he would have also been an Afnan (twig). Mason knew all of this. Why do you think that he adopted you? The only way to have a continuation of the Guardianship of the Baha'i Faith was for him to graft you into the Aghsan tree as he had been grafted into it, making you the Crown Prince, and then to appoint you as he had done. All of the others that Mason appointed are also guardians, for he appointed them, but none of them are either the guardian of the Cause of God, nor are they the guardian of the Baha'i Faith, for none of them are either an Aghsan or Afnan. They are the guardians of their own religion. Therefore all other appointments are null and void. The only person on this earth that could possibly be the guardian of the Baha'i Faith is you.

And now the reason for all of this, for "the wisdom of every command is to be tested" (The Tablet of Ahmad). The reason Baha'u'llah stated that God had taken 'Abdu'l-Baha's little son is so that all of these tests could take place. The necessity of these tests is so that the usurper may never sit upon the throne. See the Fifth Ishraq (BWF, page 199). The reason that Shoghi Effendi

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Afnan--Kindred of the Bab--(a twig) was appointed Guardian of the Cause of God is that, being of the kindred of the Bab, he would set up the Babi Administration. He was "under the unerring guidance of the Exalted One (The Bab)" (Dispensation of Baha'u'llah, page 57, or WOB, page 149). This is so that when the usurpers would gain control of that administration they wouldn't be seated upon the throne, but only in control of the Babi Administration and would become the 7th head of the Beast.

In the past, all of the religions were taken over by the usurpers, such as Christianity being taken over by the Papacy, and Islam by the Umayyads. But this is the day that is not to be followed by night. There always will be a descendent of David to sit upon the throne (Jer. 23:5, 30:9, 33:15 Hosea 3:5).

The first usurpers were the Hands, who took control of that administration by convincing the believers that the guardianship had come to an end and therefore they should be in control. Their stated reason is that Shoghi had no son and that he left no Will. Had the believers been awake to violation, they could have easily seen that neither was a valid reason for the guardianship to come to an end, for nowhere does it state that a guardian must appoint his successor in a Will, nor that he has to be a son of the Afnan, but a son of a son of Baha'u'llah, an Aghsan, and that this son can be grafted in--per 'The Master's Last Tablet to America". An adopted son has all the rights and perogatives of a natural son, including the Kingship. Mason had explained to me that this test will not come again as the believers will never accept an usurpation on the premise that the guardianship had come to an end. He told me the next test would be that they would not know which one appointed would be the Guardian. You see, Mason understood all of this. That is why he appointed so many different ones to succeed him so that the Cause could go through the other tests that were necessary.

The next test was the usurpation of the guardianship while the guardian was still alive and active, in spite of the fact that "the guardian of the Cause of God is the sacred head and distinguished member for life of that body (UHJ)" (W & T, page 14). There were at least two 'faux-pas' in this direction.

The first was the Covenant-breaking violation of the Joelites (Joel Marangella). He was able to accomplish this by first using the outworn shibboleth first used by the "Hands" "that the guardian was losing his marbles" and that he needed to save the Faith by stepping in and taking over the direction of the Faith. In doing this he had committed the greatest sin of backbiting. How else would he have been able to accomplish this without first

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undermining the Guardian? This same method was used in the past to usurp the seat of authority. Mu'awia, the son of Abu Sufian--'666'--in order to gain support undermined the 1st Imam, Ali, by stating that he had killed Othman, who had been elected before him to the Caliphship. Later, after it was too late, they found that this wasn't true. Therefore, not only is slander and backbiting forbidden in the Baha'i Revelation, but 'Abdu'l-Baha in the Will and Testament stated: "My object is to show that the Hands of the Cause of God must be ever watchful and as soon as they find anyone beginning to oppose and protest against the guardian of the Cause of God cast him out from the congregation of the people of Baha and in no wise accept any excuse from him. How often hath grievous error been disguised in the garb of truth, that might sow the seeds of doubt in the hearts of men" (W & T, page 12). Mason Remey had appointed all of the people that had accepted his guardianship as Hands of the Cause of God. But when their time came to defend the then living guardian from the sedition of the usurper, they acted as did the Hands before them, by joining the ranks of the usurper and turning against the Guardian of the Cause of God. The seditious could never usurp the scepter of authority from the true one unless he first undermined the base and position of the one that he is trying to usurp.

Let us now examine the argument of the great Covenant-breaking violation of Joel Marangella. In his letter of November 12, 1969, he tells us that in December of 1961 "a letter was received from Mason Remey in whose outer envelope was enclosed a smaller sealed envelope containing the following inscription by Mason Remey on its face:"

"Joel: Please take care of this sealed envelope among your papers in the Bernese Oberland. As I see things now it may have to do with the coming world catastrophe in or after 1963. You will know when to break the seal."

It is clear and evident to the reader of the instructions on this envelope that the recipient should break the seal of this letter only after the great catastrophe, and after the passing of the guardian, that is if he would be killed in the great catastrophe. But in violation to the instructions on the envelope, Joel opened the envelope after September 21, 1964--before the great catastrophe and while the guardian was still alive. The statement contained therein was handwritten at Washington, D.C. on December 5, 1961, and read as follows:

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"Dear Joel:

This is to tell you to tell the Baha'i World that I appoint you to be the third Guardian of the Faith according to the Will and Testament of the Master, 'Abdu'l-Baha.

Mason, Guardian of the Baha'i Faith

It is evident that Joel was to tell the Baha'i World that he was guardian, for at that time after the great catastrophe Mason would have perished in it, and at that time Joel would be the guardian, that is, if he should have survived the great catastrophe. On September 21, 1964, Mason announced his appointment of Joel as President of the Second International Baha'i Council, meaning that he would assume the office of guardian if he survived the great catastrophe. Joel realized and accepted this. Joel stated in this same letter of Nov. 12, 1969:

"I would be the third Guardian of the Faith unless, as he stated, I was unable to assume this Office. In this eventuality and apparently based on his conviction that the world catastrophe which he had prophesied would have grave and unpredictable consequences, he also designated the eight Vice Presidents as potential successors in order named (the one closest the top that survived would be the successor)."

Joel knew and understood all of this, for he stated in this same letter:

"I concluded then that such an announcement on my part would only be appropriate after the passing of the second Guardian. Also it occurred to me that such an announcement made after the passing of Mason Remey would then only be a confirmation of what had already been announced to the believers by the second Guardian at the time the second International Baha'i Council was created. The thought did not cross my mind at that time that it would ever be proper to make this announcement in advance of the passing of the second Guardian. In this regard, Baha'is had accepted as a matter of course that the incumbent of the Office of Guardian would hand over the scepter of this Office to his successor only at the hour

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of his death..." (This concept is upheld by the W & T, page 14).

Therefore it must be concluded that Joel could not ascend to that office, Head of the UHJ--the guardian of the Cause of God--while the guardian was still alive.

What then caused Joel to change his mind and to announce to the Baha'i World in his letter of November 12, 1969, that he was the third guardian, while the second guardian was still alive and functioning in that post? His violation is very similar to that of Muhammad Ali, 'Abdu'l-Baha's brother. This is cited in the W & T. Baha'u'llah in his Covenant appointed him to succeed 'Abdu'l-Baha, but he wanted to sit on the throne simultaneously with 'Abdu'l-Baha. 'Abdu'l-Baha resisted this, so Muhammad Ali set out to usurp the throne and thus he became the arch Covenant-breaker. Consult the Will and Testament. When Mason had decided to do away with the 2nd International Baha'i Council that he had created including Joel as president of it, and when He appointed someone else to succeed him in guardianship, and it came in loud and clear that Joel was not to be his successor, he then plotted to usurp the guardianship. All that he needed to do is wait for an opportune time to do so. This came in 1969 when Mason had sent out his epistle stating that Rex King is the Satan of our era. This caused quite a consternation among some of the Baha'is (those that backed Rex) so Joel struck at the weakest link, the apathy of the Baha'is.

In the summer of 1965, Joel states: "When (he) visited him in Florence, Italy...he instructed me to announce to the Baha'i World the activation of the second International Council." Then Joel quotes from a letter from Mason of February 18, 1966:

"I am turning the affairs of the Faith over to you as president of the second Baha'i International Council to handle this for me--you having the other members of the International Council to assist you...from now on I will leave you free to conduct the affairs of the Faith, I making suggestions when necessary (published in the Glad Tidings of May 1966)."

Joel contends that he then became the guardian of the Faith in the place of Mason Remey, but if you will note the wording of the letter that Joel was to handle the affairs of the Faith for Mason Remey, not in the place of him. And this handling of the affairs was to be under his direction and suggestions.

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Soon after Mason had set up under his guardianship, the administration of Shoghi Effendi, and had set up the second International Baha'i Council (for the first one had died in embryo), Mason, an Aghsan, who was the first Guardian of the Baha'i Faith, "under the care and protection of the Abha Beauty, under the shelter and unerring guidance of His Holiness the Exalted One..." (W & T, page 11), started to discover that everything that Shoghi Effendi had set up was all wrong--wrong for the Baha'i Faith--and that his administration formed no part of the Sacred Holy text. The administration of Shoghi Effendi, and that outlined in the Will and Testament and Covenant, were two separate and different things. In the Covenant of Baha'u'llah He states: "Kings are the manifestors of God's power and the source of His affluence. Pray ye in their behalf. The governments of the earth have been vouchsafed unto them. But the hearts of men He decreed unto Himself" (BWF, page 209). Shoghi was setting up an administration, which he termed as the embryonic World Order, that was to evolve into a world government and replace the governments that Baha'u'llah stated were vouchsafed unto the Kings. This is why the Soviet Government kicked that administration out of Russia, as it was seditious. It was being set up to replace their government. There is no administration set forth in the Will and Testament. We are to change the hearts of the people, including the kings of the earth, and thus have mass conversion. As set forth in the Will and Testament, these National Houses of Justice, of the Believers, will then elect the Universal one, and the guardian will be "Its sacred head and the distinguished member for life of that body."

When Mason saw this he began to dismantle Shoghi's administration, explaining to the believers that his administration was not the Baha'i administration but the Babi administration, and that he was the guardian of the Babi Faith not the Baha'i Faith. All of this met with the objection and greatest consternation of the so-called faithful who were not under the unerring guidance themselves, and therefore didn't understand. This gave the workers of iniquities the greatest opportunity to weave their web of violation to snare those that were not firm and steadfast in the Provisions of the Covenant and Will and Testament. When these workers of iniquities began "to oppose and protest against the guardian of the Cause of God," the so-called faithful Hands, instead of casting them "out from the congregation of the people of Baha and in no wise except any excuse from them," joined them (See W & T, page 12).

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the position of the guardian if they didn't first undermine his position. Joel in his letter of usurpation of 11-12-69 wrote the following to undermine the position of the Guardian:

"It is difficult to point to a specific date when the fortunes of the Faith under the hereditary Guardianship began to falter and then later to decline rapidly, but it was soon after the formation of the second International Baha'i Council. I, myself, suffered considerable consternation on more than one occasion at that time upon receiving letters from Mason Remey which were increasingly condemnatory of everything that the first Guardian of the Faith had said and accomplished during his ministry, and which presented views diametrically opposite from many of those which he had expressed in his Proclamation, Encyclical Letters, Daily Observations and other writings penned during the early years of his ministry. In several instances I felt moved to write to Mason Remey on these matters pointing out in some cases that I felt this continued criticism of the actions of the first Guardian would serve no useful purpose, even if justified, and would in the eyes of the believers weaken the basis of his own claim to the Guardianship. I felt increasingly frustrated and hopeless at the time, a feeling I am certain was shared by many of the faithful believers, as one by one the victories which we had won for the Covenant so recently, began to slip from our grasp. It was not long before the Baha'i administrative institutions under the hereditary Guardianship were dismantled by Mason Remey and the second International Baha'i Council which had been activated only some twelve months earlier was summarily dismissed without the slightest prior intimation to its President of his intention to do so. In a letter addressed to me on October 18, 1966, Mason Remey instructed: 'At your leisure will you kindly turn over to me such records as you have of the second Council that no longer exists.'"

The reason that Joel wrote his letter of usurpation was not only because Mason pulled down the second International Council that he had erected, including its President, but because he announced that another other than Joel was to become the next guardian: "This was an announcement in August 1967 that a person other than myself and not one of the original members of

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the second International Baha'i Council whom he had designated as potential Guardians, had been appointed the third Guardian of the Baha'i Faith" (Joel, 11-12-69). Mason had already stated that whenever he had made an appointment or decision, and then later made an appointment or decision that was in conflict with the previous one, that the previous one was then repealed and void. Joel understood this. Therefore the reason that he had decided to usurp the guardianship was that he saw another than himself becoming the next guardian.

Why then did he wait until November 12, 1969, to write his letter of usurpation? Why didn't he write it way back in August of 1967 when Mason appointed another than he to be his successor? In this same letter of usurpation he wrote: "Having finally come to the realization late in 1967 (after Mason appointed another in his stead) that I had actually been the Guardian of the Faith since 1964, the faithful friends may well ask why I did not forthwith claim this fact to them then and there...I can only say...I was certain that my claim to the Guardianship would now most certainly be openly repudiated by the very one who had appointed me to this supreme Office--my predecessor in the Office of the Guardianship...Further, I reasoned that (the) faithful friends were not yet prepared to accept my claim to the Guardianship." So like a fox he "elected to remain silent and await the course of events."

What made him decide to make his claim to the guardianship on November 12, 1969? What was the 'course of events'? On September 13, 1969, Mason Remey, Guardian, wrote an epistle denouncing Rex King as the Satan of our era, and this was distributed to the Baha'i World. Rex had been spending his energies to gain control of the Orthodox Baha'i Faith. As you know, this began way back in 1963 when he gained control of that newly formed NSA. I was on that Assembly so I know very well what took place way back then. His take-over is documented in several letters that I sent to that Assembly during that year that I was on it. These letters didn't get general circulation as they were sent only to NSA members. However, they have been reproduced and they are now available to anyone that would like a copy. In 1966, Mason dissolved that NSA, and Rex to a certain extent lost his power. But he continued to undermine Mason and he gained in influence in that Orthodox Faith. In 1969, he had a large following and he decided that he would now take over that religion. That was the purpose of his trip to see Mason. Instead of his supporting Mason in his purge from the Baha'i Faith of Shoghi's Babi Administration, he intended to blast Mason for it. He said in a letter--not dated--"Before I left for Europe I studied all of the

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letters I have from Mason directly sent to me, N.S.A. copies of correspondence while I was secretary of that body, and letters sent to other believers and shared with me. This totals over 500 letters...I was increasingly concerned with the communications which were flowing out of Florence. I was not alone in deepening concern over such matters as the attacks on the person as well as the dispensation of Shoghi Effendi as first Guardian of the Faith." He, therefore, was not concerned with Mason's cleansing the Faith from the defilement of the Babi Administration and helping him with it, but with using this as a basis of an attack to gain control of the guardianship. This was very similar to the attack of Muhammad Ali on 'Abdu'l-Baha in his attempt to gain control. He intended that this visit to Mason would be a confrontation. He would proceed to inundate him with a flood of rhetoric backed by his evidence (the 500 letters, etc.). For this reason, it was necessary for him to have several witnesses so he could authentically tell the Baha'i World how he had put Mason down. He was in hopes that this would convince Mason that he should be appointed regent in his stead, as he had gained control of the minds of the believers; and now that they were followers of him he should therefore be the guardian.

Rex stated in that letter: "In order that there might be no suggestion that the conclusions reached after the visit (confrontation) were mine alone, it was decided that two others, not of my family, would go with me. As a result of consultation (conspiracy) with a number of believers who knew of my proposed trip, it was decided that we should go unannounced." If he were going as a believer to see the guardian in order to gain understanding he would not have needed the witnesses. Because of his 500 letter back-up, he had a large number of believers convinced that Mason, in his clean-up of the defilement of the Faith, was incompetent and therefore needed a regent guardian, which he intended to force Mason to appoint Him.

Mason was on to him, however, and refused to meet the two witnesses, for they were stooges of Rex. He tried to pawn the two boys off on Mason as being believers under his guardianship, saying: "The two boys...had come a long way to see him." Mason said: 'They are not my followers, they are yours, and I refuse to see them.' Without allowing Rex to go into his act he told him: "You are the Satan of the Baha'i Dispensation", and thus he cast him out of the community of the people of Baha. Rex had failed! What was he to do? Up until this point he had accepted Mason as the Guardian of the Baha'i Faith. To continue to do so would mean that he is telling everyone that he (Rex) is Satan and thus he would

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lose his following--something he was not willing to do. At this point, none would accept him as the regent guardian. He was through. That is, unless he could find another guardian. Then it flashed through his mind that Joel is egotistical. He knew that Mason had appointed him successor. He stated: "I learned that Mason had appointed his successor in the person of Joel Marangella and that any further appointments (unless Joel had refused or been unable to serve) were false." So what does he do? He straightway sent a letter to Joel supporting Joel's claim to the guardianship. This is just exactly what Joel was waiting for. It didn't matter to him that it was Satan giving him the support he needed to make his claim. All he wanted to do was sit upon the throne even if Satan sat him there. Rex had the followers, something that he needed. He didn't care how he got their support, so he joined forces with Satan. He sent his letter of Proclamation out on November 12, 1969--just exactly two months after Mason's epistle of September 13, 1969, denouncing Rex as Satan.

Rex concluded his letter that I have been quoting from with a P.S. stating: "May we all rise together in the support of our Third Guardian, Joel Marangella!" Then he compiled a little 8-page tract supporting Joel's claim to the guardianship, entitled, "The Mutilation of the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha."

In this compilation, he acknowledges that 'Abdu'l-Baha continually called Mason Remey Aghsan (His son), and he wrote several Tablets stating the implications of this adoption. 'Abdu'l-Baha writes:

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When 'Abdu'l-Baha refers to Mason as the 'son of the Kingdom', he is referring to the Davidic Kingship of which throne Baha'u'llah sat upon and He 'Abdu'l-Baha--an Aghsan--was the Most Great Branch and also sat upon.

After 'Abdu'l-Baha grafted Mason into the Davidic Kingship line, he prophesies that ere long he would be appointed guardian. Rex quotes this:

"...Do not become despondent, neither be thou sad. Ere long thy Lord shall make thee a sign of guidance among mankind."

Breakwell Tablet

--meaning that later this son (Aghsan) would be appointed guardian. Here 'Abdu'l-Baha is prophesying that the Lord shall make him a sign of guidance among mankind. On page 11 of the Will and Testament, 'Abdu'l-Baha refers to the guardian as being a sign of God, and of course the guardian is a sign of guidance.

Rex goes on to state in his compilation:

"There are those who say that Mason Remey cannot be the Second Guardian because he is not of the blood line of Baha'u'llah."

Then he quotes from the Will and Testament:

"...then must he (The guardian of the Cause of God) choose another branch to succeed him" (W & T, page 12).

Rex goes on to state:

"The Hands say that the phrase 'another branch' refers to a blood relative of Baha'u'llah. They say that as there were no such relatives worthy of the station, there could be no more guardians."

Rex goes on further to state: "What does the Master say?"

"Consider! The Divine Gardener cuts off the dry or weak branch from the good tree and grafts to it, a branch from another tree. He both separates and unites. That is that which His Holiness Christ says: that from all the world they come and enter the Kingdom, and the children of the Kingdom shall be cast out."

Last Tablet to America (BWF, page 438)

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Here Rex recognizes that 'Abdu'l-Baha had grafted Mason Remey into the Aghsan tree in the place of Muhammad Ali, of whom he had cut off. Therefore the only person in this world that Shoghi Effendi could choose for his successor was Mason Remey, a branch (Aghsan). In the guardian appointing a successor, in so doing it does not make him a branch. He must already be a branch before he is appointed. "...then must he, (the guardian of the Cause of God) choose another branch to succeed him" (W & T, page 12). Otherwise, if he is not a branch (Aghsan), he could not possibly become the guardian of the Baha'i Faith by appointment only.

Rex goes on and states:

"Mason was the 'branch' from another tree grafted to the good tree. He was the Second Guardian of the Baha'i Faith!"

In spite of this, Rex goes on to promote Joel as the third guardian, although he knew that Mason had not grafted him into the tree. You are the only person, Joseph Pepe Remey, that Mason had grafted into the tree. Rex goes on to state in that same compilation:

"On the 5th of December, 1961, Mason Remey wrote in his own hand a letter in which he named Joel B. Marangella as his successor and the third Guardian:

"Dear Joel:

This is to tell you to tell the Baha'i World that I appoint you to be the Third Guardian of the Baha'i Faith according to the Will and Testament of the Master 'Abdu'l-Baha."

/s/ Mason. Guardian of the

Baha'i Faith

"In 1964 Mason Remey appointed the second International Baha'i Council with Joel Marangella as its president. In 1966 he turned the affairs of the Faith over to the President of the Council thus abdicating the guardianship because of his advanced age to Joel Marangella."

(from that 8-page tract by Rex King)

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Rex supported Joel fully in his claim to the guardianship, although he knew that he was not grafted in and was not the guardian. He was only using Joel. He had no intention of Joel or anyone else sitting in the seat of the guardianship and over Shoghi's administration but himself. First off, however, he had to dissuade the friends from believing that Mason was the guardian when he called him Satan and cast him out. If he didn't, he would lose his following, as none knowingly would want to follow Satan. In this he failed, however, for when he made his declaration most of the so-called believers remained with Joel, even those that were on that NSA that I was on in 1963 that had supported Rex in the take-over of that Assembly. None of them went with him, for when Rex had considered that he had all of the friends away from Mason he severely blasted Joel, and they all could tell then that he really was the Satan of our era.

Rex, in his own Proclamation as regent guardian, wrote another compilation with the same title as the one supporting Joel's claim, 'The Mutilation of the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha'. In this 'mutilation of the Will and Testament', he comes up with a whole new theology (mythology).

If it wasn't so tragic it would be hilarious. After he had shown how 'Abdu'l-Baha had grafted Mason into the tree in place of Muhammad Ali and that Shoghi Effendi had appointed him to be the guardian, he now comes up with the perfidious doctrine that Mason 'was in error' in claiming the guardianship, that "in one last desperate move to preserve the Institution of the Guardianship, he seized it himself." That when Shoghi Effendi appointed him to the presidency of the UHJ this was not meant to be his successor but to represent Shoghi Effendi. Then he quotes from the W & T to back this up. "...should he (the Guardian) not attend in person its (UHJ) deliberations, he must appoint one to represent him..." In order for one to represent the guardian in the above framework, the guardian would have to be alive and give him directions. There is a big difference between being a representative to and being president of the UHJ to which Shoghi appointed Mason. In being the president, he becomes the guardian upon the passing of the Guardian; and a person who is just a representative represents the guardian only while he is alive and doesn't remain representative or become guardian. Rex claims in his new mutilation of the Will and Testament that the second guardian of the blood line is living. This one is supposed to have been born in 1963 to fulfill the prophecy of Daniel of the 1335 days. Yet I am the only person in this world that fulfills this prophecy. He said that he is the second guardian, but it takes more than just the blood line to be a

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guardian. He must also be appointed by a guardian. The guardian must appoint in his own lifetime him that is to become his successor. If Mason was not the guardian, then the last guardian would be Shoghi Effendi. I can't see how Shoghi Effendi, who passed in 1957, could come back and appoint one born in 1963, for nowhere did Shoghi appoint one that was to be born in 1963 to be his successor. He claims that regents of the Faith have existed in the Baha'i Faith, such as the Greatest Holy Leaf. Of course she represented the guardian, but Shoghi was still alive and certainly she would not be empowered to appoint a successor to the guardianship. Only a guardian can do that. Besides, this boy is a descendant of the Covenant-breakers that 'Abdu'l-Baha had cut off of the tree, and no how could he become guardian unless you, Pepe, would graft him back into the tree by adoption as you were adopted and then appoint him to be your successor during your lifetime. Certainly the hierarchy set up by Rex wouldn't be able to do this. Besides, Rex was never appointed by Mason, or anyone else for that matter, to succeed him to the regency. He was self-appointed only. In 1969 Mason not only turned him down to this, but appointed him to the station of Satan forevermore.

He claims to be "Reginald (Rex) King, the present Regent of the Faith." He claims that Mason appointed him to this in a letter from Mason to him on February 14, 1963, which he quotes from:

"Be assured that your future is very great. God has chosen you to preserve His Cause. I leave all teaching matters in your hands--what you decide I approve without question. You are chosen by me to lead the Faith for you are its greatest living teacher."

There has been an innumerable number of leaders in the Faith from its inception. I personally know hundreds of them. But none of them because of this thought they were the regent guardian. This leadership mentioned by Mason refers to "teaching matters" and not to regent guardianship. Rex stated in that first letter I quoted from that: "I learned that Mason had appointed his successor in the person of Joel Marangella and that any further appointments were false." In his first 'Mutilation of the Will and Testament', he states: "On the 5th of December, 1961, Mason Remey wrote in his own hand a letter in which he named Joel B. Marangella as his successor and the Third Guardian." So you see, by his own statements he condemns himself and his claim to the successorship. This letter was written to Rex (2-14-63) before he was elected to that NSA that I also was on in 1963-64 in which Rex

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used this letter and other tactics to gain control of that Assembly, causing the Guardian to change his mind about Rex. Instead of Rex establishing Mason's teachings, he was establishing himself. Because Rex had gained control of the NSA, the guardian had to dissolve that Assembly. Because of his continued machinations and perfidity, the guardian eventually, in 1969, named him Satan of our era. I don't see how anyone could possibly accept his "mythology" unless they really wanted to follow Satan.

There are other violations almost as perfidious as those above. One is that of several elderly ladies that are in communication with Shoghi Effendi's spirit???? and that "he gives them Divine Guidance." In order for you, the guardian, and I, the Promised One, to be properly guided, all we need to do is turn to Shoghi Effendi through their intermediaryship.

Then we have the violation of Donald, and I hope you are able to rescue him. He bases his claim on a handwritten document appointing him the Third Guardian of the Baha'i Faith (not the second). Some deem his handwritten document should be given priority over your appointment, because it is hand written. But here again this is extra to the Will and Testament. No place in the Will of 'Abdu'l-Baha does it state that the appointment must be in a handwritten document. All that it states is that he must appoint a successor during his lifetime. It leaves the manner and style up to the guardian. Shoghi Effendi appointed his successor in a cablegram, but the "Hands" deemed that the appointment had to be in a Will. To add or subtract from the Will interpolates it; then it is no longer the document sent down by God:

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This looks like a perfectly good appointment, that is, to the unwary, unsuspecting, and the pygmies. But it just doesn't measure up to the Provisions of the Will and Testament to qualify Donald to be the second Guardian of the Baha'i Faith.

To begin with, he was not the last one appointed to be the guardian, an essential, which I have already many times pointed out to you. In spite of this, he claims that his appointment is valid and yours isn't because his is in a written document (a nonessential). But as you have already stated, an appointment in itself does not make a guardian. An absolute requirement before this type of an appointment could be valid is for Donald to first be a branch (Aghsan). Every requirement of the Sacred Will must be met. A spiritual descendant is not enough. We are all spiritual descendants. The requirement of the Will is that the appointee must first be an Aghsan (an absolute requirement). A natural descendant of Baha'u'llah also could not qualify, for 'Abdu'l-Baha removed all of the natural branches and the only one that he grafted in their place was Mason Remey; thus, the only person that Shoghi Effendi could appoint for his successor was Mason Remey Aghsan. Therefore, unless Donald Harvey could show that Mason had grafted him into the tree before he appointed him, like he did you, making him Donald Harvey Remey Aghsan before he appointed him, and had he been the last one appointed, then he would be the guardian. By Mason appointing a successor, this does not graft him into the tree. Unless an appointee is grafted into the tree prior to the appointment (an absolute requirement of the Will), the appointment is null and void. Shoghi Effendi did not graft Mason Remey into the tree by appointing him a successor. Mason was already grafted into the tree by adoption by 'Abdu'l-Baha. An adopted son has all the rights and privileges of a natural descendant of Baha'u'llah. Thus Mason's adoption of you makes you an Aghsan, and by his last appointment you alone are the second guardian of the Baha'i Faith. You have been this ever since the passing of the first Guardian of the Baha'i Faith, Mason Remey (Aghsan).

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There is one more thing that you could do, and that is for you to come forth and be coronated King of the Kingdom by the High Priest standing in the Holy of Holies, and then for you to take your seat upon the throne of God.

You need to get Donald to see all of this so that he can support you in your claim to the guardianship as you had supported him. I would like this very much. I always liked Donald, and had he actually been the Guardian I would have supported him in that role. I would like very much for him to become one of the 24 Elders, but he needs to stop his lying first. He has been spreading the lie stating that I claim to be a Manifestation of God with a Revelation direct from God, something that I vehemently deny. Never have I said or written such a statement, nor have I ever inferred in any way that I was. He has nothing whatsoever to base this on. He has spread this lie to several of his followers. I don't know what his need is in doing this unless it is malicious. I make the same claim, to be the Promised Lamb, that Mason claimed. Why didn't he write letters stating that Mason claimed to be the Manifestation?

I would also like for Joel to see this and become one of the 24 Elders. All sins are forgiven unto man unless they should see this and then persist in their error. Judas Iscariot when he saw what he had done--sold his Lord for 30 pieces of silver--had he repented

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instead of hanging himself he could have been forgiven. I am sure had he come to Jesus and repented, Jesus would have forgiven him. Then he could have established Christianity instead of Paul. Actually, Judas had greater capacity than the rest of the apostles. It is my opinion that Jesus had chosen him to be the establisher of his Revelation. Peter was the center of his covenant. When Judas failed, Jesus raised up Paul in his place and he established Christianity in the western world.

I also would like very much for the successors of Rex to come forth and receive a very high station in the Kingdom. I talked with several of them and it was my opinion that they were sincere, but sincerely wrong, as I so aptly pointed out to them. Certainly I am sure that should they see and repent they will be forgiven.

All of these wrong moves that have been made are to show that the Kingdom of God cannot be usurped. There are two main requirements to be a successor and that is to be an Aghsan and to be appointed. One of these in itself is not sufficient. The first lesson to be learned by these tests is that the Davidic Kingship cannot be passed down through a leaf--a female--for a leaf cannot sit upon the throne (a queen). Therefore Shoghi Effendi did not sit upon the throne of God--the Davidic kingship. He was an Afnan--a twig--and therefore established the Babi administration. The purpose of this administration was so that if any usurper should succeed he would only get possession of that Babi Administration and not sit upon the throne of God. There is something in common with all of the usurpers, and that is that they all were out to grab the seat at the head of the administration. They also all add to or subtract from the Provisions of the Will and Testament in order to establish their usurpation.

The former Hands in their usurpation stated that Shoghi had no son and left no will--both non-essentials, and are additional requirements to the Will. In their usurpation they came into possession of Babi (Shoghi) administration, but not the throne of God. By doing this they cut themselves off from the Divine Guidance from both he who is seated upon the throne and the Promised One of God. Thus they go into the fire and become destroyed.

Joel in his usurpation has also set up the Babi administration under his guardianship and thus did not usurp the throne. This usurpation also shows us that the guardianship cannot be usurped by being the first one appointed and then taking over the guardianship during the life of the living guardian. Here again, unless he repents, he goes into the fire. Should he repent and arise to support your guardianship, I would also like for him to be one of the 24 Elders.

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Rex's violation shows us that the guardianship cannot be usurped and then be replaced with a regency in the place of the living guardian. Also they have set up the Babi administration in place of the Baha'i. It also shows us that a natural branch that is cut off of the tree cannot become the guardian unless he is grafted back into the tree by adoption of the living guardian, and that he cannot be appointed guardian by a regent guardian, for only a guardian can appoint his successor in the guardianship. So Rex has gone to dwell where Satan dwells. Unless his successors repent, they will go to dwell with him and you know where that is.

Mary Magdalene's violation tells us that we cannot say that we believe in the guardian but not his interpretations and actions. Also one cannot say they believe in the Promised One and then say that when the Promised One supports the actions and interpretations of the guardian that "It is the work of Satan!" She had stated that when Mason Remey had cut out of the Faith the Great Violation when he removed from the Baha'i Faith the Babi administration of Shoghi Effendi, that he was under the influence of Satan because he was at that time living in a Catholic retreat. In other words, whenever the guardian makes an interpretation or initiates an action that is contrary to her meager understanding, she then states that this action is that of Satan, not the guardian. She wrote a broadcast when I supported Mason's interpretations and actions: Dr. Jensen..."this publicized letter of July 1, 1977, was not written by you. It is the work of Satan!" She throws her hat in the ring as guardian, although a female cannot be the guardian, when she states: "After forty-five years of battling to preserve this cause of God--I can recognize his (Satan's) handiwork!" Here she is claiming infallibility, and the guardianship. It is quite evident that she was not appointed to this post by a guardian, and because she is a female she was definitely not grafted into the Holy Tree as an Aghsan. This violation shows us that we should not follow anyone in the place of the guardian or the Promised One, especially a female. She also would establish the Babi Administration under your guardianship. Certainly I would like nothing better than for her to repent and to sit upon her throne as one of the 24 Elders. By her rejecting the guidance of the First Guardian of the Baha'i Faith and that of the Promised One, she will go blindly into the fire, where she is now living.

The violation of Donald shows us that a written document does not take precedence over a non-written document, that the last appointment takes precedence over all previous appointments, and that for an appointment to be valid the person must already be a Branch (Aghsan) before the appointment. Otherwise, in the future

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when the Kingdom is established in this world and in operation, perhaps a thousand people may come with slips of paper in their hands claiming to be guardians or regent guardians by claiming that the guardian had appointed them, without them being a natural or adopted descendant of you, Joseph Pepe Remey Aghsan. Also Donald would re-establish the Babi Administration under his guardianship, for he stated that it is not time yet to re-establish the Administration.

Now, Pepe, all these tests were absolutely essential in order to point out to future generations the wrong ways, so that they won't be repeated. Otherwise, after the Kingdom is established and in operation the Kingdom may be usurped.

These tests were so severe that they almost destroyed the Kingdom of God on earth before it became established. Only two remained in the Baha'i Faith. These are the two 'Knights of Baha'u'llah' that 'Abdu'l-Baha stated would establish the Kingdom, Drs. Opal and Leland Jensen. All of those that have accepted your guardianship have come to this realization through our guidance. Therefore, God in his infinite wisdom prophesied the coming of one in 1963 for this direct purpose so this Cause could go through all of these tests and still not be completely destroyed. You see, Pepe, you cannot establish yourself or the guardianship of the world, even with all of my interpretations. Certainly the followers of the Hands--the Great Violation--won't even listen to our explanations. From those that left that violation and came under the guardianship of Mason Remey, only 24 will come under your guardianship, and all of them will be through my explanations and commentaries. You will not be able to convince the mass of the people that are now outside the Cause of God that you are indeed the 2nd guardian of the Faith, for the peoples of the other beliefs view all of this as an internal squabble within a religion. However, through this mighty document, the rest of the 24 Elders will come forth and take their seats. This is what Christ meant when he said the whole world will come and enter the Kingdom, but the children of the Kingdom will be cast out. All the peoples of the world, 144,000 before the catastrophe, and the rest that are left after the catastrophe will accept you as their King, the Guardian of the Baha'i Faith. They will do this not because of you, but because I establish you.

Therefore, God in His infinite wisdom prophesied throughout the Holy Books one that would come in 1963 for the direct purpose to establish the Kingdom that was brought by Baha'u'llah. This is so the Baha'i Faith could go through all of these tests to its almost utter destruction, and then the Promised One comes and

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establishes it in the world. Each of the religions have had an establisher: Joshua for Moses, Paul for Christ, Ali for Muhammad, and Quddus for the Bab (see SAQ, pages 59, 63, 64). 'Abdu'l-Baha explains that the establisher of the Baha'i Faith was yet to come. He told us that the 7th Angel, a man with heavenly qualities, will arise so that the Divine Manifestation of Baha'u'llah will be proclaimed and diffused, and in that day the divine Kingdom will be established (SAQ, page 66). On page 302 of "Baha'u'llah and the New Era", 1953 Edition, 'Abdu'l-Baha tells that this establishing of the Kingdom will take place after 1963, the date given by Daniel for "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the 1335 days" (Daniel 12:12).

The first guardian of the Baha'i Faith, Mason Remey, was seated upon the throne by the provisions of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament. This is the "book written within and on the backside" (Rev. 5:1). He knew that in order to establish this Davidic Kingship in the world the Promised Lamb had to come and break the 7 seals. Donald, on his visit to Mason in September of 1972, asked Mason this question: "...in the Bible where it is spoken of the Lamb of God who will sit upon the Throne of God surrounded by the Faithful and where he will unfurl and unveil the scrolls, Mason confirmed that the Lamb of God is in fact the Guardian of the Cause of Baha'u'llah." Mason knew the Lamb would have to break the 7 seals to establish the Kingdom. But Mason didn't even know what the 7 seals were. He rambled on about "the Seven Lights or Candles of the Spirit. Each of the true followers of Baha'u'llah and of the Guardianship which is inseparable to this Cause should be as each of these Lights." Thus Mason, who was seated upon the Throne, could not be the Lamb before the throne. He was seated upon it, not before it, and therefore he could not break the 7 seals and establish the 'Kingdom of God on earth' (the Davidic Kingship). The only one that can establish the Kingdom is the Lamb, for he alone can break the 7 seals:

"And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth was able to open the book, neither to look thereon...And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof...And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the Spirits of God sent

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forth into all the earth...And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne...And when he had taken the book, the four beasts, and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints...And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation...And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth...And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts, and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands...Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing...And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever" (Rev. 5:3-13).

The Bab was the return of Christ, the return of the Holy Spirit--a Manifestation, the Door to the Kingdom. He cleansed the Sanctuary with His blood and ten thousand of His followers. He made his Proclamation and established the Baha'i Calendar just exactly 2300 years from the order to restore and rebuild Jerusalem which brought the 'transgression of desolations' to an end (in. 457 B.C.) in 1844 A.D. The order to restore and rebuild Jerusalem was given on March 21, 457 B.C. 2300 years from that date brings us to March 21, 1844 A.D., the start of the Baha'i Calendar. His message therefore was in the potency of the Sanctuary of the Tabernacle that descends from heaven (Dan. 8:13, 14--Eze. 43:1-7--Rev. 21:3).

Baha'u'llah is the return of Christ, the return of the Holy Spirit, in the potency of the Holy of Holies, the Supreme Manifestation of God. He explains how He fulfills the prophecies of His Manifestation. His Covenant fulfills the re-establishing of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies. His Revelation is that of the Kingdom. The establisher of this Kingdom is prophesied to come in the seven great revealed religions of the world. When he comes

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he fulfills these prophecies. These prophecies are obscure, as are all prophecies, and thus sealed. When he explains how he fulfills these prophecies, he breaks these seals, for the meaning of these prophecies were unknown before he does this. Each of the Promised Ones of God have done this; that is, they explain how they fulfill the prophecies of their coming.

Jesus said that He was "the root and the offspring of David" (Rev. 22:16). He was the Sacrificial Lamb that was slain (Rev. 5:6, 12). He was not a priest after the order of Aaron, therefore he could not enter the Tabernacle on this earth. He was a high priest, however, after the order of Melchizedec (Heb. 5:6). This sacrificial Lamb entered into the sanctuary not made by hands, "neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption of us" (Heb. 9:12). He returns as the Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth (Rev. 5:6). That is, these seven eyes mean that he is able to understand the meaning of the prophecies of the seven Revealed Religions that tell of his return Advent as the High Priest standing in the Holy of Holies--in the midst of the throne (Rev. 5:6). When he does this, every person in the world becomes a believer (Rev. 5:13). Thus, he establishes the Kingdom brought by Baha'u'llah.

Mason did not put forth a single instance where he fulfilled any of these prophecies, thus he did not break a single seal. Besides, he was seated upon the throne and not before it. I, however, fulfill the prophecies of these Revelations of God. I point out, or explain, how I fulfill these prophecies in the minutest detail so that there can be no doubt, breaking the Seals. Thus, I take the book out of the hand of him seated upon the throne--meaning that I take the establishing of the Kingdom out of the hand of the guardian. That is, I, the establisher, establish the Kingdom of the Manifestation of God. I am not the second coming of Christ, the Manifestation of God, but the second coming of Jesus, the High Priest, standing in the Holy of Holies before the Ark of the Covenant.

The people are unable to distinguish between the second coming of Christ and second coming of Jesus. Jesus was the Christ. The Holy Spirit descended upon him, anointing Him--thus, Jesus, the Anointed. The next person anointed with the Holy Spirit was Muhammad. The Bab was the third and Baha'u'llah was the fourth. Does that make Muhammad the second coming of Christ? No! The Jewish people lost their Davidic Kingship when they went into captivity in Babylon in 606 B.C. All throughout the Old Testament are the prophecies of the re- establishment of the

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Davidic Kingship. All of the kings were coronated by the High Priest by anointment with oil. Thus the Jewish people were looking for an Anointed One--Messiah, which means anointed. This anointed one had to be a descendant of David. The Gospel of Matthew explains how Jesus fulfills the prophecies for the Advent of the Jewish Messiah--Anointed--in the Greek language Christos, Christ in English. Both the Gospels of Matthew and Luke give the genealogy of Jesus back to David through his father Joseph. Jesus said: "I Jesus...I am the root and offspring of David, and the bright and morning-star" (Rev. 22:16). But Jesus did not establish the Davidic Kingship in the world. He didn't marry and have a son. He also did not reassemble the 12 tribes of Israel. Therefore, He had to come again. Muhammad was not a descendant of David; in fact He was not an Israelite. Therefore, He couldn't be the second coming of Christ. The Bab, who was a descendant of Muhammad and also not an Israelite, also could not be the second coming of Christ, although they were both anointed ones--Manifestations through the Holy Spirit. Baha'u'llah, however, has announced that He ruleth on the throne of David, (God Passes By, page 230). He being a descendant of David, and being Anointed with the Holy Spirit, fulfills the prophecies of the 2nd coming of Christ. He married and had sons (Aghsan). His firstborn, 'Abdu'l-Baha, became His successor on the throne of David. 'Abdu'l-Baha removed all the other Aghsan from the tree. Then he called Mason Aghsan (His son), grafting him into the tree. Thus Mason succeeded 'Abdu'l-Baha upon the throne of David, becoming the first guardian of the Baha'i Faith.

Baha'u'llah, however, did not fulfill the prophecies for the second coming of Jesus, who returns as the Lamb with 7 horns and 7 eyes and takes the scroll out of the hand of him who is seated upon the throne and establishes it in the world. It is obvious, therefore, that the return of Jesus, of a necessity, is another person other than the return of Christ. Baha'u'llah doesn't take the scroll out of His own Hand and open it because He can't open it. It therefore is evident that the one that is seated upon the throne at the time that the lamb takes the scroll is one that doesn't have the knowledge that Baha'u'llah has. This, then, can only refer to the guardian who is seated upon the throne.

Shoghi Effendi tried to fit the Bab into the role of the Lamb. It is for this reason that he established the Babi administration. But at the time of the Bab there was no one seated on the throne, for the dispensation of Baha'u'llah hadn't started yet and the Bab was not among the 24 Elders. He only had 18 disciples. Besides, 'Abdu'l-Baha explains on page 67 and the following pages of SAQ

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that the 24 Elders are in the dispensation of Baha'u'llah and not in the Bab's dispensation. All of the disciples of the Bab were martyred before the dispensation of Baha'u'llah. The Bab didn't fulfill the prophecies for the return of Jesus, and He was not of the root and offspring of David; therefore, He could not be the Promised Lamb or the return of Jesus. I fulfill the prophecies for the return of Jesus, and I am the only one in this world that does fulfill these prophecies. There, I, and I alone, establish the Branch in the world (Zech. 3:8). That is, I establish the Provisions of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament in the world. For instance, in this epistle I point out that only you, Joseph Pepe Remey Aghsan, fulfill the provisions of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will to be the second guardian of the Baha'i Faith. I am the only person in this world that could have done this. Nobody else in this world could do this, for I am the establisher of the branch in this world. I not only establish the Davidic Kingship--guardianship--but the UHJ in this world, for as I point out to the peoples of the world how I fulfill the prophecies of the establisher of the Kingdom in their books, I break the seals of their religion and they become believers. These Baha'i nations then will elect their UHJ.

I am the pre-embryonic UHJ, and I will be succeeded by the elected body as I have already explained to you in my other epistles.

This epistle is not intended to show how I fulfill all of the prophecies of the one that is to come in 1963 A.D. (the 1335 days of Daniel). This fills a book which is still in manuscript form and is not as yet published. I have gone into this subject, however, in my other writings, especially 'The Beast is about to be Dead'. Refer to them. To those that are not in possession of these other writings I will supply them on request. Let it suffice for here that I fulfill the prophecies for the Advent of Joshua, the High Priest, establishing the branch in the world, in the third chapter of Zechariah.

I had Satan (Rex) who began his opposition to me resist me (Zech. 3:1) on April 21, 1963, the date given by Daniel for 'Blessed is he who comes to the 1335 days' (Daniel 12:12). (1335 = 1963, page 302, Baha'u'llah and the New Era 1953 Edition). He so resisted me during that year--1963-64--that he passed a motion in that NSA, that we were on, to set up a Baha'i court and then have me castigated and thrown out of the Baha'i Faith. The guardian then wrote the NSA to cease and desist. I "wore the dirty garment" (prison garb) (Zech. 3:3) when I had "the stone with seven eyes before me" (Zech. 3:9) when I was in the Montana State Prison, which has a stone wall with 7 watch-towers. "The Lord rebuked Satan" (Rex) when Mason wrote his letter of rebuke

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of Rex on September 13, 1969, designating him Satan. I came in the name prophesied for the Advent of Joshua--"the land" (Leland) (Zech. 3:9), for the iniquities of Joshua (Zech. 3:4) and the iniquities of "the land" (Zech 3:9) are the same iniquities--the dirty garment. I had the "fair mitre" set upon my head when I became knowledgeable of what the prophecies of scripture that had not previously been explained by the Bab, Baha'u'llah, or 'Abdu'l-Baha meant (Zech. 3:5). I came into this knowledge when I had the "stone with 7 eyes before me" (Zech. 3:9). By my explanations and commentaries I "judge the House of Israel" by its new name, Baha'i (Zech. 3:7). For instance, I explain that only you can be the 2nd guardian of the Baha'i Faith, and that only I fulfill the prophecies for the Promised One that comes in 1963 A.D., something that the Baha'is are asleep to. Although this is a prominent prophecy, they are like the peoples of the past, not the least bit concerned about who that Promised One is. If I am not that One, who is? I "will keep His courts" (Zech. 3:7) for I am the pre-UHJ, as I have already explained to you in a previous epistle. I will establish the kingdom in my day and "Ye shall call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree" (Zech. 3:10).

Zechariah 3

"And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

2 And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.

4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments, and the angel of the Lord stood by.

6 And the angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua saying,

7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou

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shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.

8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for behold, I will bring forth my servant The Branch.

9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: Behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

10 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig- tree."

Immanuel (Hebrew), Joshua (Aramaic), and Jesus (Greek) have all the same meaning. The Catholics in their translation of the Bible use the word Jesus instead of Joshua in this 3rd chapter.

Jesus of Nazareth did not fulfill the above prophecy. He did not wear the dirty garment. He did not establish the Branch in the world. All Baha'is know that 'Abdu'l-Baha is the Branch. Baha'u'llah in His Book of the Covenant and in the Aqdas called 'Abdu'l-Baha the Most Great Branch. His name was not "the land" (Leland), nor did he have the "stone with seven eyes before him." Also he did not establish the Kingdom (call every man his neighbor).

I am the only man in history that fulfills the above prophecies. Thus I am the only person in this world that can establish you the true guardian in the world. So, I call you to come forth and be coronated King of the Kingdom, the second guardian of the Baha'i Faith, by Joshua, the High Priest standing in the Holy of Holies assembling the 12 Tribes of Israel, the 144,000, under their new name Baha'i.

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Appendix No. 1

January 9, 1974

Dear Joseph Pepe:

It was nice to have received your letter of December 28, which I am answering right away.

My husband tells me that Jimmie Barrett and Mary Magdalene Wilkins were the only ones on that Assembly that would listen to him, the rest were adamantly pro Rex. J. Barrett and M. Wilkins were confused and on the fence, so to speak. They finally fell over to support Rex to bring unity, leaving my husband standing alone. Since the Convention of 1964, my husband has had no further contact with any that were on that Assembly, and therefore does not know of Jimmie's present status.

It is Dr. Leland's opinion that Jimmie Barrett and all of the Baha'is under the Guardian, from the Guardian himself on down are in a state of suspended animation, and will remain there until the Great Projection, which is just about to take place.

In the Great Projection, the dead in Christ are to rise first (I. Thess. 4:16). These are the pure of heart of apostate Christendom. Then those who are alive, who are left (the Baha'is under the second Guardian), shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; (I Thess. 4:17).

God is always present (Omnipresent), therefore, the coming of God is the coming of a Promised One. This coming of the Lord will not be the coming of a Manifestation of God, as was the Bab and Baha'u'llah. This coming of the Lord will be the cry of command of an archangel's call, and the sound of the trumpet of God (I Thess. 4:16). An archangel is one who is very firm in the religion of the Manifestation of God. Of the more than 130 Knights of the Lord (who are to lead the hosts to victory; see The World Order of Baha'u'llah page 17) there are only two remaining in the Cause of God. The rest were expelled from the Baha'i Religious Faith for Covenant-breaking by he who sits upon the Throne, the Guardian of the cause of God. The archangel's trumpet blast that resurrects the dead is his Book that he wrote with the "stone with seven eyes before him". This Book of Life is now being readied for publication. The meeting the Lord in the air is not up in the sky where there is no air but here on earth where we are now

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breathing air, that is, in flesh. Being "caught up" is coming into his service, entering God's heavenly army, that Joshua is now raising up through his explanations and commentaries.

This archangel is also the Promised seventh angel that 'Abdu'l-Baha stated on pages 66 and 67 of the Book, Some Answered Questions, that is to come and establish on earth the Kingdom of God that was brought by Baha'u'llah. This seventh angel is also the Promised Lamb of Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 and 14 of the Book of Revelation, for when he sounds this trumpet the same thing happens as when the Lamb breaks the seventh seal (see Rev. 8:1-5 and Rev. 11:15-19 and Rev. 16:17-21).

Rex King sought a station above his station and God cast him out of heaven (the 9th heaven), the Cause of Baha'u'llah (see Isaiah 14:12-15), through he who sits upon the Throne of God, Mason Remey, the Guardian of the Cause of God (see Rev. 4:3). The Throne of God is the Revelation of Baha'u'llah. The Guardian sits upon the Throne, because he is the interpreter of the Revelation, as was 'Abdu'l-Baha, and he is the head (President) of the Universal House of Justice that will eventually be elected by National Houses of Justice. Therefore the Guardian is seated upon the Throne and not before it. Thus, he cannot be the Lamb that is before the Throne, that is to establish on earth the Kingdom of God that was brought by Baha'u'llah. Therefore, Mason Remey, and the Baha'is under him are in a state of suspended animation. The Promised Joshua is to bring forth the Branch (see Zech. 3:8). He is to establish the Cause of God as set forth in the Covenant of Baha'u'llah and the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha.

'Abdu'l-Baha is the Greatest Branch. He fulfills the prophecies of the coming of the Righteous Branch. In His Will and Testament the Guardians are branches. Through the Divine Plan of 'Abdu'l-Baha, the first gathering of the Tribes of Israel took place. Baha'i is Israel under its new name, Glory (see Isaiah 6:3 and 65:15). Therefore, 'Abdu'l-Baha has a station of Joshua but He does not fulfill the prophecies of the Promised Joshua in Zechariah three. The first gathering of the Tribes of Israel--the establishing of the Baha'i Faith throughout the world--went astray with the passing of the first Guardian, and thus, the Tribes of Israel became dispersed throughout the world. Therefore, the second Guardian was obliged to expel them along with their administration, out of the Baha'i Religious Faith, making them the 7th head of The Beast that now rules the world.

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became the theme of the prophets. This gathering is the Promised 144,000 of chapters 7 and 14 of the Book of Revelation. My husband is the Promised Joshua, because he fulfills the prophecies of the coming of the Promised Joshua, which means Jesus.

The Bab was the return of Christ, because He was a Manifestation of God and fulfilled the prophecies for the return of Christ. He came in the year 1260 A.H. that the Revelation of Christ gave for His coming; and in the year 1844 A.D. and 1260 A.H. that Daniel gave for His coming. He turned the Kingdom over to the Father (the Glory of the Father), Baha'u'llah, also a Manifestation of God after destroying every rule and every authority and power of Shi'ah Islam (see 1 Cor. 15:24). The coming of the Glory of the Father--Baha'u'llah--came at the date given by Daniel--1290--(Dan. 12:11). The Bab and Baha'u'llah are the Promised twin Christs (Anointed) that were prophesied to come in Zech. 4:14. The Advent of Joshua fulfills the prophecies for the return of Jesus, the archangel, the Lamb, the son of man on the cloud of heaven, the man on the white horse. He is not a Manifestation of God bringing a new religion, but he establishes what all of the past Manifestations of God came for, the Kingdom of God, that was brought by Baha'u'llah. He came at the date that Daniel gave for his coming--1335 + 628 A.D. = 1963 A.D.--the year that Satan (Rex King) resisted and accused him.

The Books of God were sealed up until the time of the end, until the Promised Lamb came to break the seven seals. What Jesus had to say to the peoples of the world today are sealed up in the Book of Revelation in allegory, symbolism and parableism (Mark 4:11). 'Abdu'l-Baha explained in detail the 11th and 12th chapters and part of the 21st chapter of the Book of Revelation in the Book, Some Answered Questions. This was His perogative to do so, for these chapters dealt mainly with the Advent of Islam and the Advent of the Bab and Baha'u'llah. The rest of the chapters He left untouched. Therefore the rest of the Book has remained sealed. For instance, nobody knew who The Beast was until the Promised Joshua wrote the article of The Beast, with "The Stone With Seven Eyes before him". He wrote this in a hurry to use in his teaching work, for he was busy writing the Book of Life of the Lamb.

In this Book of Life, among other things, he explains what Jesus had to say in the rest of the chapters of Revelation that are not now explained anywhere else in any of the Baha'i writings, and are erroneously explained by some apostate sects of Christendom. Thus, Jesus who died comes to life in the Lamb's Book of Life (Rev. 5:6). Therefore, the explanations and commentaries of the

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Promised Joshua is the Promised return of Jesus. Thus, he will resurrect the dead in Christ, who are the pure of heart of apostate Christendom.

The Lamb--Joshua--takes the scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals from the right hand of him who is seated on the throne--the Guardian--and breaks the seven seals in his Book of Life (Rev. 5:1 and Rev. 5:6). The little Book written within and on the back is the Covenant of Baha'u'llah and the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha. It is in the right hand of the Guardian for by this Book he is seated upon the Throne. But he is in suspended animation and can't get anyone to see this for it is sealed with seven seals and he cannot break the seven seals of the religions that came before the Baha'i Faith: The Sabaean, the Jewish, the Hindu, the Zoroastrian, the Buddhists, the Christian, and the Islam. The seals of these Books of these religions are broken in the Lamb's Book of Life.

My husband, besides explaining the prophecies of these religions that are in allegory, parableism and symbolism, so that all of the peoples of the world will come into the Kingdom of God, under the guardian of the Cause of God, but he also proves them all for the first time by conquering The Great Pyramid.

The Great Pyramid is a chronological time scale in measurable inches giving the "road map" or pathway of God from the inception at the time of Adam to the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth. The Great Pyramid is referred to in the Bible in a number of places as a witness to the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth. Isaiah said: "In that day there shall be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign (a monument or prophecy in stone) and a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall send them a savior and a great one, and he shall deliver them" (Isaiah 19:19, 20).

"In that day" refers to this day, the day of the establishing of the Kingdom of God on earth. "An altar" refers to the Great Step, or altar in the Great Pyramid, which represents the Advent of the Bab, the Door of the Kingdom. The great Pyramid is "in the midst of Egypt," and is a pillar "of stone at the border thereof." It was built at the border of upper and lower Egypt, which were separate kingdoms in predynastic Egypt, but now is in the midst of Egypt. It is "a witness--road--to the Lord of Hosts in the land of Egypt," for it gives the chronological dates of the Advents of all the Manifestations of God and Promised Ones in the Great Plan of God to Spiritualize the peoples of this planet. The dates of their Advents are given in measurable distances all the way from Adam

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to the establishing of the Kingdom of God on earth: Adam, Cain are the start of civilization, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Krishna, Zoroaster, Buddha, Baptism of Jesus, the crucifixion, Muhammad, the Advent of the Bab or start of the Baha'i calendar, the year nine of the Baha'i era, April 21, 1863 or the Proclamation of Baha'u'llah, the Al-Kitab Al-Aqdas, the Kitabi Ahd, the date of Joshua or April 21, 1963 and the Date for the Proclamation of Joshua or April 29, 1971 and the date of the capstone as well as the date for the establishing of the Lessor Peace. This is within one thousandth of an inch of accuracy, which is but a matter of hours.

When this book is published the dead in Christ will resurrect and rush into the Kingdom. When this happens the Guardian's fund will be bountifully supplied. Then he will be able to do all of the things for the Faith that will need to be done. What I send to him is not a token donation, but to try to really help him in the interim. I would gladly send him more, but I have the entire weight of supporting the Faith here, as my husband has not as yet received his clean garment, and he is yet deprived of making a living; and the most part of those that have come into the Faith under the Guardian here are prisoners, making but 10 cents a day, and those that have left the prison have a very difficult time making a go of it.

Those that come into the Faith here in Montana do so by hearing his lectures. In his talks he reveals to them what he has written in his Book. There have been over 100 come into the Cause of God through his explanations. These are either now in the prison, or have left it. He is just getting his teaching work started outside of the stone with seven eyes, and they from the outside are now starting to enter the Cause of God. He has two Firesides here at home a week and one at the prison, but a deepening class is being planned at the prison, which should start next week. When he gets his printshop set up they will start entering the Cause in troops.

He is now getting the printing equipment together to print his Book and other Baha'i Books. He cannot have his Book published by a publishing house, for he would then lose control of the copyright and they then would be able to shelve his work. He knows the printing work well though, for he worked his way through college in the world's largest printshop.

At present he is writing a second edition of "The Beast Is About to be Dead". He wrote the first edition in a hurry so that it wouldn't take too much of his time from writing his Book. He made it small and compact so that it could be read in a hurry, to the detriment of thoroughness. This he used in his teaching work

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inside the prison. The second edition will be five or six times longer and will be most explicit. This will be used in the teaching work that is now started on the outside of the stone with seven eyes. It will open the eyes of the blind that read it, so that they may get a glimpse of the Perfections of the Blessed Beauty. It will open the ears of the deaf that hear it, so that they may hear the sweet refrains of the Nightingale of Paradise as he singeth upon the branches of the tree of eternity with holy and sweet melodies. It will resurrect the dead and they will rush forward toward God, calling on Him in His Greatest Name, with their face bent toward orient of His Cause and the Dawning Point of its Horizon.

Enclosed please find several pictures that were just taken behind the stone with seven eyes. Under separate cover I am sending you additional pictures. We have from 35 to 50 people attending those Sunday afternoon Firesides at the prison. This is from a total population inside the walls of 150. About 1/3 of that population are believers. It is the biggest thing going there.

My husband joins me in sending you our kindest regards, and we are praying in the Guardian's and your behalf. This letter is very short and in order to begin to understand it, it will be necessary to look up the references in the Bible. He is hoping to run off the second edition of The Beast in a month or two. I will send you a copy as soon as it comes off the press. Then you will be able to get a much better insight into this whole subject.

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THE THERMO-NUCLEAR MISSLE

"Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll! And he said to me, 'What do you see?' I answered, 'I see a flying scroll [missle];' its length is twenty cubits [41 2/3 feet], and its breadth [in circumference] ten cubits [20 and 4/5 feet, or about 7 feet in diameter].' Then he said to me, 'this is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land [earth]; for every one who steals [the Revelations--Sects and Denominations] shall be cut off henceforth according to it, and every one who swears falsely [clergy, hands, theologians] shall be cut off henceforth according to it. I will send it forth, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house [Churches, Temples, Mosques, Synagogues, etc.] of the thief, and the house of him [clergy, hands, theologians] who swear falsely by my name [of the Manifestations--Jesus, Baha'u'llah, etc.]; and it shall abide [explode] in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.'"

*(the ancient cubit is 25 inches) (Zechariah 5:1-4).

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Dear Guardian:

It has not been my pleasure to meet you yet. But in 1963 I wrote the second Guardian, Mason Remey, your father, stating my desire and asking his permission to withdraw from the Baha'i Faith. I gave as my reason that my life had become oppressive and frustrated and I wanted to seek a way to reach and help my people. The second Guardian gave me his permission to withdraw from the Faith.

What I told no one at that time was the agony of my soul at watching the same thing happen to the Baha'i Faith that had happened to the Cause of God from time immemorial. I believed then that the Baha'i Revelation was the answer to man's prayers and the solution to his problems, but also that men were surely corrupting it. I could see then that what was already in existence and what was coming into existence was not what Bahau'llah had meant. Even so, I resisted what I thought to be definite signs and indications that my Lord had in mind to drive me from His Cause. But the pressures increased, the oppression of my spirit mounted, and finally, I acquiesced and with trepidation and reluctance withdrew from the Cause.

When I was twelve years old, I vowed publicly to seek the truth of God and follow it wherever it led and whatever it cost me. At that time I started my preparation for the priesthood. But my Lord took me literally at my word and He began moving me along arduous and torturous paths into and out of the various expressions of religion. Each time I realized that men had perverted the teachings of God, and had no choice but to leave in search of the truth. In 1957 I became a Baha'i. Because of my training and discipline in preparation for the priesthood and my education in

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biblical languages in preparation for the ministry I could recognize that the Bab and Baha'u'llah fulfilled the prophecies of the scriptures. But then in late 1957 Shoghi Effendi died and the whole Baha'i world believed they had been left without a Guardian. Then in 1960 Mason Remey issued his proclamation to the Baha'i World that he was, indeed the appointed second Guardian. Then I was a very popular and well known Baha'i teacher throughout the eastern part of the U.S. and I received Mason's Proclamation and set about to disprove it and the more I searched to disprove the more evidence I found to prove it. Finally, after much agony and soul searching I wrote a Trilogy in Defense of Mason Remey's Guardianship, at the time I wrote that defense I didn't know there was another Baha'i in the world who believed it. I had great fear that by writing such a paper I would be disrupting the Faith of God and breaking the Covenant. But after much intense prayer and meditation I realized that by writing such a paper I would be keeping the Covenant, so I wrote.

Dear Guardian it is important that I state that I did not support Mason Remey's claim to the Guardianship on faith or for personal reasons. At that time I had never heard of Mason, but when I read his proclamation and studied the Holy Writings, Mason met all the criteria and satisfied the proofs and this is the only real basis for accepting anyone to be who they claim to be.

In 1963, when my Lord drove me from the Baha'i Faith, I thought He had abandoned me. Now I know that He had a work for me to do and was both protecting me and preparing me for that work. For 14 years I have been separated and isolated from the Baha'is and all news about what was going on in the Faith. During all that time my faithful "companions were the tears I shed," and my comforters were the "the groans I uttered," and my daily food, "the fragments of my broken heart." But my Lord never left me, although I didn't realize it. All that time He guided me, relentlessly and implacably. He pounded my spirit with the pestle of trials in the crucible of this world and hammered out my mettle on the anvil of tribulation.

On February 19, 1971 I had the first of a series of spiritual awakenings, and I started writing my thoughts and inspirations in a little green book. I felt quite strongly that there was time for a great teacher to come. I didn't know who he would be or where he would come from--I even thought he could possibly come from outer space--but I knew it was time for him to come and that when he came he would teach me and all men. I wrote:

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"Last night I tried to reach the universal mind that will be my contact and tutor. For I am convinced that if I am not insane, there is a Universal mind, a human reality who is New Man in another world, who will be my contact with other new men and a sort of tutor."

I had no success reaching "New Man" but the awareness that he had to be here grew more intense. In March I wrote:

"There is a need, desperate and imperative for someone who can direct the energies of the majority of the young people who are genuinely concerned about the establishment of justice, the abolition of war, and the welfare of their fellowman; who can interdict the efforts, counter the influence and expose the motives of those whose air is sheer destruction and whose dream is to see something far worse than that which now exists dominant over the world; who can challenge with authority and shake from their torpor and blind unthinking allegiance those vast anonymous millions who, because of their childish faith, their unquestioning allegiance and fanatic dedication to anything purported to be the "Will of God" have allowed themselves to be used as instruments in the establishment of injustice, the waging of war, the initiation, perpetuation and defense of the most fiendish and perfidious concept of race and of human rights to ever plague the earth; who can begin the care and feeding of the embryo of new man, to come into this world with power and force.

...These are unprecedented times, plagued by unprecedented crises and to help these times there must be unprecedented solutions, applied by unprecedented men with unprecedented power."

On February 19, 1975, I had another siege of spiritual awareness, this time more intense than before. I knew there was a Teacher here. I would get in my car and drive the cities' streets, the highways, going into bars, picking up hitchhikers, trying to find him. I knew from history that you couldn't tell where you might find him. I just believed I had to go out and look, for I couldn't expect him to just walk up and knock on my door. On February 16, just passed, I was compelled to get out my little green book and as I read I knew that on February 19th I would have the answers to my questions. And on February 18th Leland Jensen knocked on my door--I hadn't seen him since we served

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on the Assembly in 1963--he came in and before the night was over he had supplied me with all the evidence I needed to know that he was the Great One promised, He was Joshua, the return of Jesus. The rest of that evening and the next day, the 19th, I and my daughter listened while Leland explained and interpreted the Book of Revelation and the other prophecies and broke the seals of all books and the Pyramid, and I knew that only one person could do that, and that he is who he says he is.

In Isaiah 19:19, 20 it is recorded, "In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of Hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a Saviour, and a Great One, and he shall deliver them."

Leland Jensen gives the proofs, he meets the criteria, it is not faith that leads me to this but the intellectual awareness that Leland is the only man in all history that meets all the tests, HE IS JOSHUA, THE RETURN OF JESUS, THE GREAT ONE and of that there can be no doubt and no question.

I also know that you are, in truth, the third Guardian of the Cause of God. And inasmuch as I wrote the second Guardian, Mason Remey, about my withdraw from the Faith, I now write you, the third Guardian about my return and place myself at your service.

Allah-u-Abha!

Yours in His service,

Charles H. Gaines

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Day of the Great Dividing

THE HANDS OF THE FAITH have no authority to pass upon the one the Guardian chooses for his successor:

"The statement in the Will of 'Abdu'l-Baha does not imply that the Hands of the Cause of God have been given the authority to overrule the Guardian. 'Abdu'l-Baha could not have provided for a conflict of authority in the Faith. This is obvious, in view of His own words, which you will find on page 13 (p. 11 of 1944 U.S. edition) of the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha. 'The mighty stronghold shall remain impregnable and safe through obedience to him who is the guardian of the Cause of God...It is incumbent upon...the Hands of the Cause of God to show their obedience, submissiveness and subordination unto the guardian of the Cause of God, to turn unto him and be lowly before him. He that opposeth him hath opposed the True One,' etc.

Shoghi

(Letter to an American believer from the Guardian through his secretary, June 6, 1954, published in Baha'i News, February, 1955.)

THE HANDS OF THE FAITH have no authority to decide upon who is or is not a Covenant-breaker. Only the Guardian can do that. If there is no guardian, there can be no Covenant-breakers!

Expulsion and Reinstatement of Covenant-Breakers

"The Guardian, like the Master before him, has not considered it advisable to as yet permit any person or Assembly to put another person out of the Cause of God. There is a sharp distinction between depriving a believer of his voting rights, which is a severe disciplinary measure and not a spiritual sanction, and pronouncing a former believer to be a truly spiritually diseased soul, a soul in the condition the Master referred to when, in His last cable to America before His ascension, He said, 'He who sitteth with a leper catcheth leprosy'. The Guardian has, within the last few years, considered the National Assemblies strong enough to wield the instrument of sanction in the sense of depriving a Baha'i of his voting rights. But no one but himself can pronounce a person to

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be in that diseased condition we call 'Covenant-breaking', and no one but he can reinstate a Covenant-breaker. No National Assembly has been given this right and cannot, therefore, review the question or reinstate anyone. All any National Assembly can do is to report to the Guardian if they are approached by a Covenant-breaker, and then the Guardian will take action. It is a pity that some of the Western friends, with remarkable naivete, do not grasp the fact that there is absolutely nothing keeping those who have broken the Covenant, whether Baha'u'llah's or the Master's, out of the Cause of God except their own inner spiritually sick condition. If they were sound, instead of diseased, and wanted to enter the service of the Faith, they would apply direct to the Guardian and he would be able to adjudge of their sincerity and, if sincere, would welcome them into the ranks of the faithful as he did with Sydney Sprague. Unfortunately, a man who is ill is not made well just by asserting there is nothing wrong with him! Fact, actual states, are what count. Probably no group of people in the world have softer tongues, or proclaim more loudly their innocence, than those who in their heart of hearts, and by every act, are enemies of the Center of the Covenant. The Master well knew this and that is why He said we must shun their company, but pray for them. If you put a leper in a room with healthy people, he cannot catch their health; on the contrary they are very likely to catch his horrible ailment."

Shoghi

Baha'i News, No. 220 (June, 1949), p. 2

THE HANDS OF THE FAITH have no authority to decide the question as to whether the guardianship had come to an end. Each individual must decide this for himself by himself--Independent Investigation of the Truth.

THE HANDS OF THE FAITH (without a guardian) have no authority to decide anything in the Faith, for without a guardian they are not constituted. They are appointed and under the direct supervision of the Guardian. Without a guardian they do not exist:

"O friends! The Hands of the Cause of God must be nominated and appointed by the guardian of the Cause of God. All must be under his shadow and obey his command. Should any, within or without the company of the Hands of the Cause of God disobey and seek division, the wrath of God and His vengeance will be upon him, for he will have caused a breach in the true Faith of God...This body of the Hands of the Cause of God is under the direction of the guardian of the Cause of God..."

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"The Hands of the Faith can only function as protectors of the Faith when they are serving under the direction following the commands of the infallible Guardian of the Faith. They have no authority vested in themselves as Hands of the Faith to act in their own capacity nor in any other capacity, save under the direction of the living Guardian of the Faith."

Mason Remey, Guardian (p. C - Proclamation)

SHOGHI EFFENDI APPOINTED HIS SUCCESSOR TO THE GUARDIANSHIP when he appointed Mason Remey, the son of 'Abdu'l-Baha, to be the President [Head] of his International Baha'i Council, which is the Head of the Universal House of Justice, and the Head of the Universal House of Justice (Supreme Tribunal) is the Guardian of the Cause of God. Shoghi announced this appointment in two cablegrams. These are recorded in "Messages of the Guardian."

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SHOGHI EFFENDI HAD INDICATED that his International Baha'i Council would develop into officially recognized International Baha'i Court--the Supreme Tribunal, that its Body would be elected and Mason Remey would remain its Head in its evolution. But the Supreme Tribunal would be just the intermediate stage in its efflorescence into Universal House of Justice. This would signalize the establishment of the Lessor Peace of Baha'u'llah in the world.

Peace cannot be established until after the Thermo-nuclear holocaust, for the 'Beast' goes into the fire and becomes utterly destroyed (Rev. 17:8--19:20). The present United Nations is the BEAST that is about to be dead, for it is a political union of nations--not a spiritual union. After the holocaust the nations that formed the Beast will become the 'four living creatures' (Baha'i States). The lion, England--the ox, Russia (its ancient symbol)--face of a man (De Gaulle), France--eagle, America (Rev. 4:6, 7 Revised Standard Version).

'Abdu'l-Baha wrote how this intermediate stage of Baha'u'llah's Supreme Tribunal would be elected and instituted by Baha'i Nations:

"For example, the question of Universal Peace, about which His Holiness Baha'u'llah says that the Supreme Tribunal must be established: although the League of Nations has been brought into existence, yet it is incapable of establishing Universal Peace. But the Supreme Tribunal which His Holiness Baha'u'llah has described will fulfill this sacred task with the utmost might and power. And His plan is this: that the national assemblies of each country and nation--that is to say parliaments--should elect two or three persons who are the choicest men of that nation, and are well informed concerning international laws and the relations between governments and aware of the essential needs of the world of humanity in this day. The number of these representatives should be in proportion to the number of inhabitants of that country. The election of these souls who are chosen by the national assembly, that is, the parliament, must be confirmed by the upper house, the congress and the cabinet and also by the president or monarch so these persons may be the elected ones of all the nation and the government. From among these people the members of the Supreme Tribunal will be elected, and all mankind will thus have a share there in, for every one of these delegates is fully representative of his nation. When the Supreme Tribunal gives a ruling on any international question, either unanimously or by majority-rule, there will no longer be

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any pretext for the plaintiff or ground of objection for the defendant. In case any of the governments or nations, in the execution of the irrefutable decision of the Supreme Tribunal, be negligent or dilatory, the rest of the nation will rise up against it, because all the governments and nations of the world are the supporters of this Supreme Tribunal. Consider what a firm foundation this is! But by a limited and restricted League the purpose will not be realized as it ought and should. This is the truth about the situation, which has been stated."

Bahai World Faith, pp. 291-292

THE SUPREME TRIBUNAL, which is the intermediary link in the formation of the Universal House of Justice, will be elected by Baha'i nations in the Ridvan period of 1987 A.D. It cannot be established until the Beast of Revelation (Chapter 13 and 17, Daniel 7:4-6) that now rules the world (the United Nations) is dead (Lion, England--Bear, Russia--Leopard, France--Eagle, United States).* The thermo-nuclear holocaust will be over in one hour, and will occur in the Ridvan period of 1980. One third of the. people of the world, mostly in Europe and America, will be dead (Rev. 9:13-19; 18:10, 17, 19). Amid the confusion in a seven year tribulation period (Ezekiel 39:9) of starvation and disease and the pillage and carnage, in which another one third of the peoples of the world will be killed (Zechariah 13:8), mass conversion will take place of the peoples that are left of the countries that now form the Beast (Revelation 7:9-14). These four nations then become the four living creatures, taking on the Spirit (Rev. 5:8-14 RSV). They will then elect the Supreme Tribunal which will establish peace in the world. Other nations will join the Supreme Tribunal at this time. This will be followed by the earth's shifting crust (Revelation 6:12-17). This conversion will take place by the Baha'is Under the Provision of the Covenant (Israel under its new name). These are the promised 144,000 of Revelation 7 and 14, or God's heavenly army on white horses which follow the Lamb where ever he goes (Rev. 14:5).

*See "The Beast is about to be dead"

THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE will be elected in the year 2000, following the earth's shifting crust in the early '90s. Mass conversion of the peoples of the other countries who have not yet joined the Supreme Tribunal will then take place, also in a seven year period. The ordeal of this great global catastrophe will cause the rest of the people to turn to God. For instance, China will move into the Arctic circle and get the deep freeze as did Siberia in the last crustal shift wherein millions of mammoths underwent the deep

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freeze. The Supreme Tribunal with the guardian at its head will lay down its constitution in accordance with the laws and teachings of Baha'u'llah. Then they will institute secondary houses of justice in all of the nations and these secondary houses of justice will elect the Universal House of Justice. The Supreme Tribunal and the Universal House of Justice cannot exist at the same time, as they both do the same thing: "Should differences rise they shall be amicably and conclusively settled by the Supreme Tribunal, that shall include members from all the governments and peoples of the world" (Will and Testament, p. 13). "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 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 distinguished member for life of that body" (Will and Testament, p. 14). These two bodies are but different phases of the same body. A head cannot exist without a body, and a body cannot exist without a head. A head cannot create its body and the body its head. In the embryo and the fetus, both the body and the head exists together. Therefore Shoghi Effendi's International Baha'i Council could not be the embryonic Universal House of Justice. It didn't exist at the time that the guardianship came into existence (at the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha), and it was created by Shoghi Effendi. Shoghi had every right, however, to appoint its head, as he must appoint his successor during his lifetime. By Shoghi appointing Mason Head of an embryonic House of Justice, he was thus appointed to be the Head of the embryonic House of Justice that was in existence at the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha. The Lamb (7th angel), having his root in prophecy, has the authority to establish the Branch (the Provisions of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament) in the world. As prophecy gives him infallibility in his work, he therefore also derives this authority in the Will and Testament by being the embryonic Universal House of Justice. He was alive and in the world at the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha. Thus the embryonic head and body existed together in the embryo. He was referred to in a number of prophecies of 'Abdu'l-Baha. He will be replaced by the elected Body (the Supreme Tribunal).

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After 'Leland' was born on August 22, 1914 A.D. 'Abdu'l-Baha made this prophecy of one who was yet to come and who is already born and in the world. This is in reference to Daniel's prophecy of "Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days" (April 21, 1963, Dan. 12:12). This also is in reference to 'Abdu'l-Baha's explanation of the 7th Angel that was yet to come and establish the Kingdom on page 66 of 'Some Answered Questions'.

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

'Abdu'l-Baha--from the Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Baha,

Vol. II, p. 484

Later on 'Abdu'l-Baha in commenting on this person that was already in the world, that was prophesied to come in past Holy Scriptures, states to a believer:

"O thou dear friend!--Know 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 nobel Personage, the Radiant Star, the Distinguished one, will manifest with virtues which will eventually amaze the peoples, for he is in spiritual virtues and divine perfections loftier than all the Individuals; nay, rather, He is the Source of Divine Benediction and the Center of the Radiant Circle. He is certainly comprehensive. There is no doubt that He will reveal Himself to such a degree as to bring all under his overshadowing shelter.

Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Baha,

Vol. III, p. 541

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THE GUARDIAN OF THE BAHA'I FAITH, Mason Remey, has designated the former Hands as being in that spiritually sick condition of Covenant-breaker. Those that sat with these sick souls have caught their leprosy and have become as sick as they were. Thus they have gone from one sick violation of the Master's Sacred Will to another, until the list of their violations has become long and glaring:

1. Refused to become submissive to the living Guardian of the Baha'i Faith. They acted on their own, rather than under the direct direction of the Guardian. Thus, they were not submissive to God (W & T p. 11).

2. Killed Shoghi Effendi's International Baha'i Council in embryo and replaced it with a plan of their own. Thus, they have opposed the True One, and have made a breach in the Cause of God.

3. Eliminated the intermediary part of Supreme Tribunal--"Officially recognized International Baha'i Court." Thus, they have rebelled against God.

4. Replaced Baha'u'llah's Universal House of Justice with their own brand. Thus, they have contended with God.

5. Had their creation elected by N.S.A.s instead of Secondary Houses of Justice. Thus, they have disputed with God.

6. Took over the function of the Guardian. Thus, they have denied God.

7. They devised a "ploy" to divert the believers from the Guardianship, by naming the Guardian--Mason Remey--Covenant-breaker, so the Baha'i World would avoid him and not investigate the matter for themselves. Thus, they have disbelieved in God.

8. They named anyone who held to the Provisions of the Covenant and continued with the Guardianship as Covenantbreakers, causing their followers to become more sick, avoiding all contact with the Baha'i Faith under the Provisions of the Covenant. Thus, they have separated themselves from God.

9. Their illegitimate U.H.J. has taken over many of the functions of the Guardianship. Thus, they have turned aside from God. May the wrath of God rest upon them.

10. Took over the Huquq (money offering to be paid directly to the Guardian), having it paid to their bogus U.H.J. Thus, they have subverted His word.

11. Set up Continental Board of Counselors to replace the institution of the Hands of the Cause of God. Thus, they have become a manifestation of the Center of Sedition.

These are just a few, but the more glaring, of their Covenant-breaking violations.

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THE SEVEN HEADS OF THE BEAST are the seven alive revealed religions of the world. The Sabian is no longer an alive religion, neither is the Babi. The Sabians were converted into the other religions and the Babis became Baha'is. The same thing has happened to the Baha'i Faith that had happened to the other religions. It has been taken over by a dynasty of usurpers. The Guardian, when he cleansed the Baha'i Faith of its defilement, cut it out root and branch as you would a cancer. He did this by removing forever the Administration of Shoghi Effendi. He was able to do this as it formed no part of the Sacred Holy Text. Thus the apostate Baha'i Faith, under the dynasty of the Covenant-breaking Hands, has become the seventh head of the Beast (Rev. 17: 10). It goes with the Beast into the lake of fire, the thermo-nuclear holocaust, and becomes completely and thoroughly destroyed (Rev. 17:8, 19:20). Those that are associated with this seventh head that have a pure heart and haven't caught that horrible spiritual disease called leprosy, will come out of this violation and join God's heavenly army, the 144,000, under the direction of the Lamb and Guardianship, and thus avoid the flames of the fire.

THE SEVENTH HEAD OF THE BEAST has no message for the world. It is just a Covenant-breaking sect--another organized religion--that has joined the other six Heads in opposition to the Kingdom (the re-established Davidic Kingship) of God on earth as it is in heaven. "In the Day of the Great Dividing" those pure-hearted souls that have not caught that dreadful disease 'Leprosy', and that "have stood fast and firm in the (Provisions of the) Covenant" (W & T page 1), will leave the 7th Head of the Beast and come under the Davidic Kingship and assist the Lamb in establishing the Kingdom. But those severely diseased souls in that "Day" (from April 21, 1979 to April 21, 1980) that remain in that Covenant-breaking Sect of the 7th Head will go with the Beast and its other six Heads into the FIRE and go to perdition. In this state they will descend to the lowest ABYSS and suffer the eternal, dismal gloom, for they are the lovers of darkness (the unforgivable sin). When they cry out in their suffering there will be no one to hear them and no one to rescue them, for they are the eternal enemies of God and His Prophets.

DOES YOUR RELIGION (sect or denomination) tell you the "Day and the Hour" for the oncoming thermo-nuclear holocaust in which a third of mankind are to be killed, so that you can be

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100 miles from a thermo-nuclear blast (Rev. 14:20)? If it doesn't it lacks Divine Guidance to save you. Are you of the opinion that being in a sect or denomination that you are thus believing in Jesus and saved (up in the sky when this occurs)? Or, will those in their Covenant-breaking sect get any credit (brownie points) for their works?

JESUS SAID:

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom (Davidic) of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that DAY many will say to me 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do mighty works in your name? And I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you evil doers" (Matt. 7:21-23).

ARE YOU OF THE OPINION that no one will know the Day or the Hour? JESUS SAID:

"For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would be saved; but for the sake of the elect the days will be shortened...But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only" (Matt. 24:21, 22, 36).

BUT, THE 'SON OF MAN' has come in the 'Glory of the FATHER' as promised (Mark 8:38). In order to understand this you need to read this book of the 'The Lamb,' "The Most Mighty Document," 'the Lamb' who took The Most Mighty Document out of the hand of him who was seated upon the Throne and broke the "seven seals" (Rev. Chap. 5). Until the Lamb broke the seven seals no one on earth knew the Day or the Hour. DO YOU? The Day and the Hour is recorded in the 9th chapter of the Book of Revelation, but no one knows what this means without the Lamb's explanation.

"Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God saying, 'Release the four angels (angels of the winds of destruction) who are bound at the great river Euphrates.' So the

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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. 9:13, 14, 15)."

'Abdu'l-Baha explained that the fifth angel was Ali that promoted the Law of Muhammad and occurred in the days of the First Woe (the days of Muhammad). The sixth angel is that of Janabi Quddus, the promoter of the morn of guidance of the second woe of the Bab (SAQ p. 64). From the time (August 12. 1844) when Quddus recognized and became a follower of the Bab until the dropping of the Bombs, there is a month, a year, a day and then the hour. The month is a Baha'i month of 19 days. Each of these days is one year. There were exactly 19 years, one Vahid, from the Advent of the sixth angel Quddus to the Advent of the "Glory of the Father"--Baha'u'llah--when He made His Proclamation on April 21, 1863. The year is the hundred "Golden Jubilee year" of Baha'u'llah's Proclamation, April 21, 1963. This is the Advent of the seventh angel--the Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes, the Son of Man--that wrote this book and broke the seven seals.

THIS IS THE DAY THAT THE 7TH ANGEL sounds his trumpet, which is one year from April 21, 1979 when "The Most Mighty Document" is published, and comes to an end April 21, 1980 with the Hour when one third of mankind will be killed. This is the Day in which the guilt of Joshua (the land) will be removed in one day (Zech 3:9). This is the Day in which the 'sheep' will be separated from the 'goats' and the 'grain' from the 'weeds.' The weeds and the goats go into the fire and are destroyed in an Hour, the Day of Judgement; the Day of Resurrection, in which those dead in Christ (Christians) come out of their graves (churches) and support the Kingdom, those that are left alive in the Baha'i Faith will join them, and the Elders will help guide them. These are the voices that are raised in the heaven of the Revelation of Baha'u'llah in support of the Kingdom (the Davidic Kingship).

"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." And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshipped God, saying, "We give thanks to thee, Lord God Almighty, who are and who wast, that thou

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hast taken thy great power and begun to reign. The nations raged, but thy wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, for rewarding thy servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear thy name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth." Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, loud noises, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail" (Rev. 11:15-19).

The lightning is the missles spewing their propulsive force from their tails across the midnight sky at a rate of speed almost as fast as lightning, lighting it up from one side to another. The loud noises and peals of thunder is the explosion of the bombs as they reach their targets with its deafening percussion. The earthquake is the earth's shifting crust.

This is the sign that Jesus gave so that you would be able to recognize him on his return--the missles coming from Russia to America:

"...then will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then all of the tribes of the earth will mourn...For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will the coming of the Son of man be" (Matt. 24:27, 30).

THE DATE FOR THE HOUR is very accurately established by graphic and measurable prophetic time in the Great Pyramid, and it doesn't allow for any doubt.

SOME OF THE CHRISTIANS believe they will be up in the sky when this happens--the rapture--but this is a mythology created by the mythologians. It is not Biblical. No place in the Bible does it say that Jesus will come out of the sky, or that the Christians will meet him in the sky. It said that he went up into heaven and that he would return from heaven. On his first coming he said that he came from heaven, but he didn't descend from the sky. They build their theology on the following verses in Thesselonians:

"For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with the cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then those that are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air;..." (I Thess. 4:16, 17).

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See! No place does it say that they would meet him in the sky! There is no air up in the sky. Its a vast void of air, water, and food, besides being 250° below zero. Some Christians say that they are not going up in the sky that high (above 10 miles), but that is where the nuclear bombs are going to explode. If they are not destroyed by the extreme cold and the lack of air, they will be destroyed by the bombs. What it does say is that the Lord (the Kingdom of God) will descend to earth by the archangel's trumpet sound. That is, the Kingdom will be established by the archangel's (7th angel's) trumpet sound which is "The Mighty Document," and they will meet the Lord in the air, not up in the sky where there isn't any air. The clouds of heaven are the mythologies of the theologians, of the seven heads of the Beast, that prevents their followers from seeing the truth.

SOME CHRISTIANS ARE OF THE OPINION (Billy Graham in "World Aflame") that God is going to burn up the world while the Christians are up in the sky and then he is going to form a new world out of the ashes. But in the Bible where it tells us that one third of the people will be destroyed in One Hour, it tells us how they are to be destroyed. Here it describes the ballistic missle with its thermo-nuclear warhead:

"And this is how I saw the horses [missles] in my visions: the riders [war heads] wore breastplates the color of fire [red] and of sapphire [hyacinth, in minerology, a gem formerly thought to be the sapphire of brown orange or redish color] and of sulphur [yellow--the colors of the mushroom explosion] and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire, smoke and sulphur issued from their mouths. By these three plagues a third a mankind was killed [1 1/2 billion], by fire, smoke and sulphur issuing from their mouths. For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound" (Rev 9:17, 18, 19).

Here he said the horses are like snakes. A snake propels itself by its tail and by its head it wounds. By the three plagues that issue from the mouth, fire, smoke and sulphur, a third of mankind is killed. There are three things that come from the nuclear explosion that kills instantly: radiation, heat and percussion. For instance, if you were sitting on your porch when a nuclear bomb exploded the first thing that would hit you is the radiation. If you received over a thousand rems you would die instantly by it immediately destroying your nervous system. The

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next thing that would hit you would be the heat, and this would burn you immediately to a cinder. Then comes the percussion and it would blow you apart and off the porch.

It doesn't make any difference who or what you believe: "that you are going to be up in the sky," or if you "no longer believe in the guardianship (Davidic Kingship)," or "that there isn't going to be any thermo-nuclear war;" if you are not at least one hundred miles from the epi-center of a nuclear explosion and in an adequate fallout shelter during Ridvan (April 21, to May 2, 1980), you will either be destroyed or severely chastised by fire. You must believe in Jesus to be saved; He made the above prophecies and has returned as the Lamb to explain what they mean.

THE KNIGHTS OF THE LORD, because of the publication of "The Mighty Document," will be severely attacked by the Christians, who believe in the corporal resurrection of Jesus and His return from the sky instead of heaven; by the Jews who believe in the re-establishment of the brick and stone Temple on Mount Moriah instead of the one that has come down from heaven (Rev. 21:2, 3) in the Bab (Sanctuary) and Baha'u'llah (Holy of Holies) that occurs at the end of the chronological time scale in the Great Pyramid; by the Baha'is that have broken the Covenant and no longer believe in the re-establishment of the Davidic Kingship (Guardianship) in the world; and by the other heads of the Beast that hold to their mythologies. During the confusion of this period the pure of heart will come forth out of these religions and support the Kingdom (the Davidic Kingship). These will comprise God's heavenly army seated on white horses (Rev. 19 :14), the elect (Matt. 24:22), and the 144,000 (rev. Chap. 7 & 14).

Baha'u'llah has stated that if the Persian Baha'is failed to establish the Kingdom (Davidic Kingship), he would raise up another people. The Persian Baha'is have always been in opposition to the Center of the Cause. In another place he has stated:

"There lay concealed within the Holy Veil and prepared for the service of God, a company of His chosen ones who shall be afraid of no one, though the entire human race rise up and war against them. These are the ones who, before the gaze of the dwellers on earth and the denizens of heaven, shall arise and, shouting aloud, acclaim the name of the Almighty, and summon the children of men to the path of God, the All-Glorious, the All-Praised" (Gleanings, p. 280).

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BAHA'U'LLAH ALSO STATED:

"The world is in travail, and its agitation waxeth day by day. Its face is turned toward waywardness and unbelief. Such shall be its plight, that to disclose it now would not be meet and seemly. Its perversity will long continue" (Gleanings p. 118).

This perversity, as well as what its plight will be, is now being revealed by the knights of the Lord.

"AND WHEN THE APPOINTED HOUR is come, there shall suddenly appear [the thermo-nuclear holocaust] that which shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then, and only then will the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the Nightingale of Paradise warble its melody" (Gleanings p. 119).

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SHOGHI EFFENDI IN 1953-54 KNIGHTED about 150 believers from about eight to ten million Baha'is as "Knights of Baha'u'llah" (Messages to Baha'i World, 1950-57, p. 49-52). Among those that were knighted, only two remained in the Baha'i Faith, Drs. Opal and Leland Jensen. All the rest cast themselves out when they went a whoring after "the Hands of the Faith" and were separated from the Faith when the guardian eliminated Shoghi Effendi's Administration.

THE KNIGHTS OF THE LORD

'ABDU'L-BAHA "UTTERED THESE PROPHETIC and ominous words:"

"How great, how very great is the Cause! How very fierce the onslaught of all the peoples and kindreds of the earth. Ere long shall the clamor of the multitude throughout Africa, throughout America, the cry of the European and of the Turk, the groaning of India and China, be heard from far and near. One and all, they shall arise with all their power to resist His Cause. Then shall the knights of the Lord, assisted by His grace from on high, strengthened by faith, aided by the power of understanding, and reinforced by the legions of the Covenant, arise and make manifest the truth of the verse: 'Behold the confusion that hath befallen the tribes of the defeated!'" (The World Order of Baha'u'llah p. 17).

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JOSHUA

"And if you be unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this DAY whom you will serve, whether the gods of your fathers [clergy] served in the region beyond the River [of the water of life], or the gods of the Amorites [the nation] in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

(Joshua 24:15)

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