As a new person interested in Maitreya's
revelation, I composed a letter to the Bahais in the form of an
argument which I share with you. It was written to suggest that
anew prophet might be around. I felt this wasa good way to
begin a dialogue. I hope it is ok. I hope it will begin to make Bahais think. The letter follows below.
Your point about the hands having been in haste
is a good one. If God had changed hismind about the
Guardian, then even the thousand year interval between
Bahaullah and the next manifestation could be changed as
well as everything else. He could have meant that the Bahai
Faith was abrogated due to His own reasons or the betrayal
of the Faith by its own people.
Another Bahai mentioned
something interesting. He said, " In the communication from
the Hands after their meetings they stated that the
Custodians were assuming' all such functions, rights and
powers in SUCCESSION to the Guardian of The Bahai Faith---.'
The obvious implication is that if they were successors of
the guardian, then they had the obligation to appoint a new
guardian. After all, as successors, were they not also
assuming the vestment of infallibility and the appointive
authority? They dismantled the Council and installed one of
their own. In their own logic, therefore, would not the head
of their own appointed council be the guardian?"
The point is that if one
assumes an interpretive and controlling role in this case,
it stands to reason that the responsibilities also are part
of being the Guardians successors. Of course it could be
argued that this could also be used against the Orthodox
position. However, either they had all the powers and
responsibilities of the Guardian or they had none of them.
Either way, the problem remains.To say also that a future
House of Justice would rule on such a question as the
appointment of a new guardian is not logical since the
previous council was disbanded and the president of the
Custodian council was not recognized as anyone of
significant power in the administration of the Faith.
The stages needing to
happen before the authentic House could be elected had not
been completed and the change of councils from one appointed
by the Guardian to one manufactured by the Hands made
thesituation even worse. The status of Remey as Guardian
was never seriously addressed openly.The House elected in
1963 could not rule retroactively on a non existing, in
their eyes, Guardianship. The argument, therefore, that the
Hands developed over the years and adhered to until the
present time and supported by the House is false and
insupportable. The overwhelming evidence from the Writings,
Pilgrim Notes, and logic itself, as well as the statements
of the Guardian strongly points to false and very fallible
conclusions by the Hands of The Cause in 1957 and the House
of Justice in 1963.
The fruits of the present Bahai system of Administration show that it has failed the
test, and the Bahais in general have failed, at least until
now, to investigate this issue individually and
independently. Abdul Baha did suggest that the House be
elected immediately due to the threats against him, but it
is obvious that the Master had already appointed the
Guardian at this time secretly. Again the arguments of the
present Bahai institutions fail. They are left with only the
fact that they were called the Custodians, a designation not
intended to appoint them ascollective guardians but onlyto
describe their role in supporting the work of the Guardian.
Either, then, there is a
guardian now or not. If there is one, he must be identified,
if not, then we can expect a new manifestation well before
1000 years have passed. After all, the guardianship is BADA,
andtherefore so is the 1000 year interval For surely God,
in his Mercy would send a corrective manifestation as soon
as the Bahais failed.The corruption of Christianity is one
reason,after all, why the IslamicDispensation cameso
quickly as JesusHimselfwarned when he said, "Behold, I
come quickly," and Bahaullah saved therevelationof the
Bab.The plan of God cannot be stopped by an erroneous
decision on the part of current Bahai leadership and their
failure. Events themselves suggest something is wrong. The
Guardians warning about the Plan of God possiblyinterfering
with the Bahai plan may have indeed been prophetic, and it
must, if so, had been a sad realization for the Guardian
himself.
It is time indeed to
either accept change in the current situation in the Bahai
world or begin to search for a new prophet. And the Guardian
himself foresaw the internet as wenow know, where ideas can
spread without truly being censored or blocked, at least
completely or for long. Another Guardian or a new prophet
would surely use the internet to communicate with the
planet, as in the case of theThird Guardian. Or is there a
new prophetteaching andcommunicating to uson line this
time? As Raymond Massey said in the closing lines of the
great film Things To Come ( 1936 ) after his character
frustrated those who would rob the human race of its future,
" Which is it to be, which is it to be---?"
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