POSTED ON BEHALF OF AND WRITTEN BY JOEL BRAY MARANGELLA

******* THE GUARDIAN OF THE BAHA'I FAITH *******



THE FORGOTTEN PROMISE FOUND IN ISAIAH 9
 


"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be
upon His shoulder."
 
All Baha'is believe that this quotation from the Book of Isaiah refers to
Baha'u'llah and that the promise that in this "Day of God" the government of
the world "will be upon His shoulder,"  shall be fulfilled when the World
Order of Baha'u'llah is ultimately established in all of its perfection and
glory.
 
This promise has been forgotten, following the passing of Shoghi Effendi,
when twenty-six of the twenty-seven Hands of the Cause, who, ignoring the
fact that Shoghi Effendi had been enjoined by the provisions of the Will and
Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha, to appoint his successor "in his own life-time,"
looked for a will and testament making this appointment, and upon not
finding such a conventional testamentary document, immediately and
tragically lost faith in the Covenant of Baha'u'llah and in the immortality
of the divinely-conceived and sacred "Child of the Covenant"-- the Will and
Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha -- that clearly provides for a succession of
Guardians as long as the Dispensation of Baha'u'llah endures. They then
erroneously concluded that the Guardianship of the Cause of God had come to
a premature end only thirty-six years after the inception of the Baha'i
Administrative Order and nefariously attempted to terminate the life of "the
Child of the Covenant" by declaring, in effect, that the major provisions of
the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha, pertaining to the highest
institutions of the Faith, had now become null and void. In view of the
respect and prestige they enjoyed with their fellow-believers, they were
able to easily convince the vast majority, as well, that the Guardianship of
the Faith had come to a premature end with the passing of Shoghi Effendi.
 
With the end of the Guardianship, as they believed, the Hands obviously had
also terminated their own institution, with the death of the last surviving
Hand (as only a living Guardian could appoint future Hands) and had, at the
same time, made it impossible to establish a future legitimate Universal
House of Justice (even in embryonic form) as the explicit terms of the Will
and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha, requires that that the Guardian of the Faith
preside as the indispensable permanent "sacred head for life" of that body.
In their ignominious decision to end the Guardianship and thereby abolish
all of the highest institutions of the Baha'i Administrative Order, as
delineated by 'Abdu'l-Baha, they now had reduced the Faith to which they
claimed adherence, to nothing more than a schismatic Baha'i sect.
 
For detailed irrefutable evidence that Shoghi Effendi clearly and faithfully
provided for the continuance of the Guardianship of the Faith, visit the
website: 

http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com
 
    Joel Bray Marangella
Guardian of the Baha'i Faith
 



       DOCUMENTS AND REFERENCES FOR STUDY



CAN THEY PREVAIL AGAINST "THEIR WILL"?
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/master.html
Joel Bray Marangella,
Guardian of the Baha'i Faith
November, 2007 


THE FLAGRANT AND INEXCUSABLE BETRAYAL OF SHOGHI EFFENDI
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/betrayal.html
"...they will therefore certainly conclude that the Hands had diabolically
corrupted the Baha'i Administrative Order in their replacement of the
divinely-conceived institutions of that Order with a grossly flawed system
of their own making, and thereby had become patently guilty of nothing less
than a shameless and nefarious betrayal of all that Shoghi Effendi had so
faithfully labored to achieve during his thirty-six year ministry."


AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE GUARDIAN
OF THE BAH$(D??(B¹$(D??(B FAITH.
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/announcement.html

MY ACCESSION TO THE GUARDIANSHIP
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/accession.html

A SUMMARY OF THE TRUE FACTS
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/summary.html
Not only misinformation, but a deplorable lack of information has been
posted on Bah$(D??(B'$(D??(B newsgroups, from time to time, questioning the validity of
my accession to the Guardianship of the Baha'i Faith.


". . . THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE . . . THE GREATEST EVENT. . ."
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/significant.html


SHOGHI EFFENDI, 9 January 1951
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/Proc9.Jan.html


"THE ERRING HANDS ON TRIAL"

A HYPOTHETICAL TRIAL HELD IN THE NEXT WORLD OF THE FORMER HANDS OF THE CAUSE
OF GOD WHO, UPON THE PASSING, OF SHOGHI EFFENDI IN 1957, DECLARED THE
GUARDIANSHIP FOREVER ENDED.

PLAYWRIGHT JEFFREY GOLDBERG
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/play.html


" WHY DID HE CALL IT "THE CENTRAL BODY"?
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/post.html
Shoghi Effendi had yet to appoint the first contingent of the Hands of the
Cause when he wrote his letter of 23 November 1951 in which he referred to
the International Bah$(D??(B¹$(D??(B Council as "the Central Body."


" IF YOU SAY "YES," I ACCEPT AS VALID THE FOLLOWING ACTS AND PRONOUNCEMENTS
OF SHOGHI EFFENDI THEN YOU ARE LEFT WITH ONE INESCAPABLE CONCLUSION.
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/pronouncement.html

Certainly, having become apprised for the first time of the decisions, acts
and historic messages of Shoghi Effendi cited above, these believers will
certainly say "yes,"

"DO THEY REALLY CARE"?
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/care.html

DO THESE BAHA'IS CARE THAT THEY, IN EFFECT, CONSIDER THAT THE MAJOR
PROVISIONS OF THE WILL AND TESTAMENT OF 'ABDU'L-BAHA ARE NOW NULL AND VOID,
DESPITE THE FACT THAT SHOGHI EFFENDI HAD  DECLARED THIS SACRED DOCUMENT
TO BE A PART OF THE IMMORTAL AND IMMUTABLE EXPLICIT HOLY TEXT?


IT HAS COME TO THIS!   They dare not disclose to the enquirer the very
existence of an integral part of the "explicit Holy Text"-- the
divinely-conceived, sacred and immortal Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha.
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/it-has.html


"LO, THE ALL POSSESSING HAS COME. EARTH AND HEAVEN, GLORY AND DOMINION ARE
GOD¹S . . ."
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/lo.html



AN ILLEGITMATE NONDESCRIPT ADMINISTRATIVE BODY PRETENDING TO BE THE
UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE OF THE BAHA'I FAITH and nothing more than a
headless caricature of the divinely-conceived and immortal institution
bequeathed to us by the "Center of the Covenant."

http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/nondescript.html


http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/satanic.html
THE SATANIC COLLUSION TO TERMINATE THE INSTITUTION OF THE GUARDIANSHIP

THE DIABOLICAL SUBVERSION OF THE BAHA'I ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER PERPETRATED
FOLLOWING THE PASSING OF SHOGHI EFFENDI

http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/diabolical.html

BAHA'U'LLAH PROMISES UNINTERUPTED GUIDANCE
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/iqan.html


THE WILL AND TESTAMENT AND TABLETS OF 'ABDU'L-BAHA
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/main.htm#abdul baha

ABDU'L-BAHA WRITES OFF THE AGHSAN IN PART THREE OF HIS WILL AND TESTAMENT
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/implication.html


'ABDU'L-BAHA'S UNIQUE PROMISE TO A BELIEVER
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/remey.html


THE DISPENSATION OF BAHA'U'ALLAH
Author ‹ Shoghi Effendi
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/15.html


SHOGHI EFFENDI INFORMS THE UNITED NATIONS OF HIS ROLE AS THE "APPOINTED
HEAD" OF THE FUTURE BAH$(D??(B'$(D??(B "WORLD COUNCIL" PRIOR TO ITS FORMATION IN 1951
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/u.n.shoghi.html


SHOGHI EFFENDI FORETELLS HIS PASSING AND IDENTIFIES HIS SUCCESSOR.
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/worldorder.html


THE PROCLAMATION OF SHOGHI EFFENDI
Dated 9 January, 1951
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/Proc9.Jan.html


THE PROCLAMATION OF MASON REMEY
Dated Ridv$(D??(Bn, 1960 
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/Mason.proc.html

THE PROCLAMATION OF JOEL BRAY MARANGELLA
Dated November 12, 1969
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/jbm.proc.html

EULOGY TO MASON REMEY
February 6, 1974 
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/eulogymason.html

THE THREE SECRETARIES OF THE INTERNATIONAL BAHA'I COUNCIL
WHO NEVER WROTE A SINGLE LETTER
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/secretaries.html

Although appointed by Shoghi Effendi and assigned a role that they were to
perform during the Ten Year Global Crusade.


9 JANUARY 1951 The date on which Shoghi Effendi issued the only Proclamation
of his ministry.
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/9jan.html


OPEN LETTERS TO THE BAHA'IS
Dated 9 July and 21 October 1960.
Author ‹ Joel B. Marangella
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/9july.html


A LETTER AND FIVE MESSAGES ACCLAIMING SHOGHI EFFENDI'S "EPOCH-MAKING"
DECISIONS, BOTH IGNORED AND FORGOTTEN AND THEIR IMPORT UNPERCEIVED.
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/five.html


THE ULTIMATE DELUSION
That a man-made, obviously fallible, sans-Guardian and hence an illegitimate
and illicitly formed Universal House of Justice would still delude
themselves into believing that they would be able to successfully establish
the World Order of Baha'u'allah -- the long-prayed for, long-awaited and
promised "Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven."
Author ‹ Joel B. Marangella
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/delusion.html


UNANSWERED LETTERS TO RUHIYYIH KHANUM
Author ‹ Joel B. Marangella
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/letters.html

CHART BASED ON THE PROCLAMATION OF SHOGHI EFFENDI
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/chart.pdf


ARTICLES APPEARING IN THE PUBLICATION: "HERALD OF THE COVENANT"
Author ‹ Joel B. Marangella

WINTER ‹ 73-74
"The Tree of the Covenant"
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/tree.html

WINTER ‹ 74-75 
"The Violation of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah at the World Center of the
Faith" 
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/violation.html

NOV. 1977
"What is the meaning of Loyalty to the Covenant of Bah$(D??(B'u'll$(D??(Bh and who are
the present-day Covenant-Breakers?"
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/loyalty.html


JAN. 1985
"COMMENTARY ON THE WILL AND TESTAMENT OF 'ABDU'L-BAHA"
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/commentary.html

ILLEGITIMATE REIGN OF THE CUSTODIANS.
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/custodians.html


LETTER TO THE ILLIGITIMATE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE.
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/directing.html


TABLET OF THE HOLY MARINER DOOMS THE BOGUS UHJ TO OBLIVION.
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/mariner.html

A CRITIQUE OF ADIB TAHERZADEH'S BOOK, "THE COVENANT OF BAHA'U'LLAH"
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/critique.html


SHOGHI EFFENDI DEFINES THE "AGHSAN"
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/myth.html


THE EMBRYO ‹ A Perfect and Complete Organism at Conception
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com/embryo.html


WORLD-WIDE NEWSPAPER APPEAL CAMPAIGN
http://www.bahai-guardian.com/ frame-02.htm


NATIONAL BAHA'I COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.rt66.com/~obfusa/council.htm