Hands of the Bahá'í Faith

That was like raising a red flag

In this video, Hand of the Cause Marilyn Meyer speaks about the time when, in 1960, Rúhíyyih Khánum visited and spoke out against Mason Remey, warning the friends not to read anything he has written. 

There are three choices

There are three choices for every Bahá'í who hears these words of 'Abdu'l-Bahá:

"The mighty stronghold shall remain impregnable and safe through obedience to him who is the guardian of the Cause of God."

And two of those choices are bad ones.

1.  A  Bahá'í can reject those infallible Words of the beloved Master, thereby turning her/his back to the Center of the Bahá'í Covenant.

2.  A  Bahá'í can attempt to embrace and to apply the heterodox teaching that the Guardianship of the Bahá'í Faith is now the written manuscripts left behind by Shoghi Effendi when he passed into the next world.

3. A  Bahá'í can accept the reality that 'Abdu'l-Bahá was writing about living Guardians of the Bahá'í Faith and seek to share in keeping the "stronghold" "mighty".

The first option requires no further comment.

For a Bahá'í  to insist that "obedience to him who is the guardian of the Cause of God" means to obey what Shoghi Effendi wrote is in reality the same option as option # 3.  In his Spiritual Testament, The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh,  Shoghi Effendi wrote repeatedly about the continuing Guardianship of the Bahá'í Faith and the relationships between the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice which he spoke of as "twin pillars" of the Administration of the New world Order.

To reject or to neglect the continuing Guardianship of our Faith means rejecting much of the writing of Shoghi Effendi, which rejection is the opposite of obedience.  Such rejection is denial and disobedience. Denial and disobedience does not contribute to the "impregnable and safe" condition of the "mighty stronghold".  It works to undermine it.

The third option is the only logical and Scripturally supported choice for faithful Bahá'ís,  namely, to accept the guardianship of the living guardian, who is, at this time, Joel B. Marangella, the third Guardian of the  Bahá'í Faith.

The third Guardian's website:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com

By Hand of the Cause Ross Campbell

Most Baha'is are in error

Hand of the Cause David Maxwell here explains why most Baha'is are in error about Abdu'l-Baha's successor.  It wasn't that Shoghi Effendi was His successor, but rather it was the Guardianship.  Shoghi Effendi was the first Guardian, but he was only one person intended to hold that office.

Most Baha'is Would Never Even Have Dreamed of Contradicting Shoghi Effendi

While Shoghi Effendi was alive on Earth, most Bahá'ís would have been horrified at the very thought of contradicting him.  How very strange, even astonishing, that today most women and men claiming to be Bahá'ís routinely contradict very many of Shoghi Effendi's teachings and evidently feel no qualms while doing so.

Consider the following quotes from the official teaching of Shoghi Effendi, for example, in which he clearly states that future generations will, without doubt, "define with accuracy and minuteness the features and to analyze exhaustively the nature of the relationships which, on the one hand, bind together..." the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice.

"No doubt",  he officially wrote, in his Spiritual Testament, the Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh, and yet most Bahá'ís today not only contradict the first Guardian's expression by their support of the entity on Mt. Carmel which by its teaching ventures far beyond denying the validity of Shoghi Effendi's expression "no doubt", even to the extent of teaching that there does not even exist that relationship between the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice concerning which Shoghi Effendi officially made the "no doubt" statement.

Simultaneously, most who claim to be Bahá'ís, therefore are contradicting/ denying all of these teachings of Shoghi Effendi on that theme by which he taught that future generations will:

"define with accuracy and minuteness the features"

"analyze exhaustively the nature of the relationships"

"which...bind together these two fundamental organs of the Will of 'Abdu¹l-Bahá "

"and connect, on the other, each of them to the Author of the Faith and the Center of His Covenant"

In stark contradiction of Shoghi Effendi, the entity on Mt. Carmel at  the time of this writing is teaching that there does not exist such relationships as those of which he wrote such that those relationships could be defined, either accurately or inaccurately,  or which could be analyzed either exhaustively or superficially.

In stark contradiction to his writing, that same administrative entity currently on Mt. Carmel opposes Shoghi Effendi by teaching that there do not even exist any such "two fundamental organs of the Will of 'Abdu¹l-Bahá" of which the first Guardian officially wrote.

In stark contradiction of the teaching of Shoghi Effendi, quoted below, the administrative entity dwelling on Mt. Carmel teaches that there does not even exist such an Institution  as the Guardianship which could be connected "to the Author  of the Faith and the Center of His Covenant."

Here follows the official teaching of the first Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, Shoghi Effendi, whose teachings all true Bahá'ís believe, honor and never contradict:

"An attempt, I feel, should at the present juncture be made to explain the character and functions of the twin pillars that support this mighty Administrative Structure ­the institutions of the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice. . . .  To define with accuracy and minuteness the features and to analyze exhaustively the nature of the relationships which, on the one hand, bind together these two fundamental organs of the Will of 'Abdu¹l-Bahá and connect, on the other, each of them to the Author of the Faith and the Center of His Covenant is a task which future generations will no doubt adequately fulfill."

"It should be stated, at the very outset, in clear and unambiguous language, that these twin institutions of the Administrative Order of Bahá¹u¹lláh should be regarded as divine in origin, essential in their functions and complimentary in their aim and purpose . . . Acting in conjunction with each other these two inseparable institutions administer its affairs, coordinate its activities, promote its interests, execute its laws and defend its subsidiary institutions.  Severally, each operates within a clearly defined sphere of jurisdiction...."

The website of the living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com

By Hand of Cause Ross Campbell

Cling to the Hands? I Don't Think So!

In the first online video for the Orthodox Baha'i Faith, Hand of the Cause Marilyn K. Meyer, explains her reaction (and of faithful believer Louise Vorndam), to the letter sent by Rúhíyyih Khánum announcing the death of Shoghi Effendi in which she admonishes the believers to "Cling to the Hands."

Who are the wolves of paragraph 24 of the Hidden Words from the Persian?

"O YE THAT ARE FOOLISH , YET HAVE A NAME TO BE WISE! Wherefore do ye wear the guise of shepherds, when inwardly ye have become wolves, intent upon My flock? Ye are even as the star, which riseth ere the dawn, and which, though it seem radiant and luminous, leadeth the wayfarers of my city astray into the paths of perdition."

I have no authoritative ability to interpret/explain Bahá'í Holy Writ because I am not a Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith.  Nevertheless, I am strongly suspicious that the wolves referred to in the above quote are dwelling behind the marble columns on Mt. Carmel.

His Holiness the Christ chased the money changers out of God's Temple during His Ministry,  saying to them:  "Is it not written, My house shall be called of all the nations the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves."  (Mark chapter 11, verse 17)

The thieves are certainly back in the Temple again, stealing the Huququ'llah, despite the third Guardian's clear explanations of their error having been published openly for all to examine for many years.

Are those thieves who are stealing the Huququ'llah, the Right of God, the same "wolves" referred to in the Hidden Words quoted above?

His Holiness the Christ said, prophetically, "I am... the bright morning star." (Revelation chapter 22, verse 16)  He is not a material star, or sun, of course.  He was using a metaphor to identify His spiritual Light, and when he used that metaphor He was prophesying about the establishment of God's Kingdom on Earth, so He was speaking about the One Who accomplishes that Mission, namely Bahá'u'lláh'.

And Bahá'u'lláh' promised that His Light would continue to shine during His Holy Dispensation, promising: "This is the Day which will not be followed by night." Shoghi Effendi informed us that His Light would continue to flow on to humankind "...through...the Guardians."

Thus, the Light from the true Bright Morning Star, Bahá'u'lláh', continues shining to humankind through the living Guardians of the Bahá'í Faith. That is the true Light of the Bahá'í Faith.

Therefore, when we see a headless entity on Mt. Carmel making its dwelling behind the marble pillars and claiming to be spiritually "radiant and luminous" for all humankind and for all Bahá'ís, in fact, claiming to be the highest/greatest source spiritual light on Earth at this time, all the same while that all true and faithful Bahá'ís are very well informed by the living Guardian and  aware that that bogus, headless UHJ on Mt. Carmel "leadeth the wayfarers of my city astray into the paths of perdition", it seems to me that we have accurately identified the very same wolves spoken of by our Lord in His Holy Hidden Words.

The website of the living Guardian of the Bahá'í  Faith:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com

By Hand of the Cause Ross Campbell

A Message for True Seekers

His Holiness the Christ, as a Holy Manifestation of God, offered an opportunity of service to His followers, which service provided them a share in the fulfillment of God's Plan, a specific task related to God's Purpose. Those women an men who failed to become believers in Him, died without seizing that opportunity.

The Dispensation of the Lord Christ was a prophetic Dispensation,  and sharing the Gospel of God's coming Kingdom was the task assigned to His followers, and He taught them to pray:  "Let Your Kingdom come. Let Your will take place...upon Earth"

Now a different opportunity is offered to true seekers, who wish to know and accomplish God's will for this Day.  It is the opportunity to share in the actual establishment of the same Kingdom which the Lord Christ prophesied to come so that God's will would take place  "upon Earth"

The Lord of this Age provided a feature in His Revelation which was not present in the Dispensation of the Lord Christ, namely a Center of His Covenant "round Whom all names revolve".  The Center of His Covenant is 'Abdu'l-Bahá.   'Abdu'l-Bahá carried that Station with Him into the next world and remains the Center of the Bahá'í Covenant.

Those women and men who wish to know and to do God's will during this Holy dispensation must recognize the One who is the Center of the Covenant of the Lord of this Age, and they must know and understand that the tasks which specifically share in the accomplishment of God's will have been transmitted by that same One Who is the Center of the Covenant of the Holy Manifestation of God for this Age.

He transmitted those duties and tasks to humankind by means of His sacred and immutable Will and Testament.  That Holy Document, which the first of our Guardians, Shoghi Effendi,  identified as "The Child of the Covenant" and "The Charter of the New World Order",  transmits not only the will of the One who penned it, but also the will of the Author of the Bahá'í Faith, Bahá'u'lláh. Shoghi Effendi referred the the Will and Testament, officially in writing, as "their Will".  He clearly explained that it was inspired by Bahá'u'lláh, and therefore transmits to humankind His will also.

Shoghi Effendi:

"The creative energies released by the Law of Bahá'u'lláh, permeating and evolving within the mind of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, have, by their very impact and close interaction, given birth to an Instrument which may be viewed as the Charter of the New World Order which is at once the glory and the promise of this most great Dispensation."

He wrote that  Bahá'u'lláh was the One "...Who supplied the original and motivating impulse" for the Master''s Will and Testament. Therefore it transmits His will also.  Thus it transmits simultaneously God's will.

We can enjoy full confidence, therefore, that just as His Holiness the Christ prophesied that God's Kingdom would come so that God's Will would become accomplished on Earth, the sacred and immutable Document which expresses God's will can and should be obeyed in its entirety by all women and men, all true seekers, who wish to share specifically in the accomplishment of God's will for this age.  Those who fail to believe in this Era will die without a specific share in fulfilling God's Plan in the same manner that those who failed to become believers in the Lord Christ died without recording a share in accomplishing the specific tasks which He
assigned to His followers.

Those women and men who permit other women and/or men to abrogate portions of the Holy and immutable Will and Testament of  'Abdu'l-Bahá, who permit others to persuade them that parts of His sacred Will are now irrelevant, or not applicable anymore, or flawed, or who permit others to persuade them that some other authority has the right to replace the sacred Institutions delineated by the Master in His Will with something else, some other institution/s, are depriving themselves of the true Source through which God's will is made known to humankind during this Age.

Shoghi Effendi identified the Master's Will and Testament as "the greatest emanation of His mind." That means that His Will and Testament is reliable, in its entirety.

"every clause"

In fact, the first of our Guardians, Shoghi Effendi, the Center of the Cause of God on Earth, when writing the requirements for an individual to be recognized as a true Bahá'í believer, included this requirement:  "...loyal and steadfast adherence to every clause of our Beloved's sacred Will."

"every clause"

The website of the living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com

Hand of the Cause Ross Campbell

Identifying the true route where divine guidance flows

Divine guidance is spiritual, thus its path cannot be discerned in the same manner as following the route of a stream or river. And even in the case of a stream, if 100 students in a classroom were handed a topographical map showing a glacial lake high on a mountain and the contours of the mountainside and the valleys and hills below, and then told to attempt to draw in the route of a stream flowing out of the lake, down the mountainside and into a lake or the sea, dozens of different routes would be drawn by those students, and there would be many surprises when the map showing the actual route of the stream were later presented to them.

There will be many surprises when history reveals the actual route of divine guidance during this Bahá'í Era.

And it is because divine guidance has a divine Source, not a secular source, and also because the route of divine guidance is directed through the hereditary principle of the Bahá'í  Faith, not through democratic elections or the uninspired choices of women and/or men, that the path of the flow of that divine guidance must be spiritually discerned.

Many dozens of Christian church members in the hundreds of different churches which I have visited gushed about their Pastors, Ministers and Priests, telling me how "wonderful" their Pastor is and that I should "speak with him".  It was very evident that those Christian church members are confident that divine guidance for this Age is flowing to them through their Pastors, Priests and Ministers.

Some women and men believe that divine guidance continued to flow through the pen of Charles Mason Remey until his death, and that his signature in questions related to the Bahá'í Faith were binding in the Faith until his death.

Other women and men perceive that the hereditary principle of the Bahá'í Faith directed the flow of divine guidance in a separate direction from the pen of Mason Remey at the time when, upon Mason Remey's divinely guided instruction, the embryonic Universal House of Justice was activated, causing the true heir of divine guidance, the "sacred head" of the embryonic Universal House of Justice, Joel B. Marangella, to accede to the Guardianship of the  Bahá'í Faith due to the reality that `Abdu'l-Bahá immutably instructed in His sacred Will and Testament that the "sacred head" of a legitimate Universal House of Justice and the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith are the same man.

The writings of the third Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, Joel B. Marangella, testify clearly that Orthodox Bahá'ís have correctly discerned the true path where divine guidance is flowing at this time in this Bahá'í Era.

All sincere women and men, all true seekers are invited to examine his writings, interpretations and explanations which are abundant in the website of the living Guardian of the Bahá'í  Faith.

Don't do as Christians are doing, waiting for history to reveal the true path where divine guidance flows, the true route which divine guidance has taken.

The living Guardian's website:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com

By Hand of the Cause Ross Campbell