THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH

 "On this day in 1844 His Holiness the Báb was sent forth heralding and proclaiming the Kingdom of God." – 'Abdu'l-Bahá.  – World Order Magazine, Volume X, no. 6, p. 186, September 1944.

 "Let your actions and utterances be a witness that you are of the Kingdom of Bahá'u'lláh." 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Glad Tidings of Bahá'u'lláh p. 50 - from The Promulgation of Universal Peace.

  “The ‘Lesser Covenant,’ of obedience to the appointed head of the divinely established Faith.”    George Townshend. The Covenant of Baha’u’llah (A Compilation) (1950), p. xix.

  "Any soul who violates the Covenant and Testament in the lest degree is immediately cut off. Even in this material world he will become afflicted with remorse and regret." 'Abdu'l-Bahá. Report of the Bahá'í Committee of Investigation 1917-1918

 "O People!  The doors of the Kingdom are opened; The Sun of Truth is shining upon the world; the fountains of life are flowing; the day spring of mercy have appeared; the greatest the most glorious light is now manifest to illuminate the souls of men.  Wake up and hear the voice of God calling from all parts of the supreme world – – "Come unto Me O ye children of men; Come unto Me all ye who are thirsty and drink from this sweet water which is descending in torrents upon all parts of the globe."  – 'Abdu'l-Bahá. The Charles Mason Remey Papers, Library of Congress, Volume 52.

  "Exert with your soul; seek no rest in body; supplicate and beseech with your heart and search for Divine Assistance and favor; in order that ye may make this world the Paradise of Abha and this terrestrial globe the Arena of the supreme Kingdom." – 'Abdu'l-Bahá. The Charles Mason Remey Papers placed in the Library of Congress, Volume 52.

 "Evidence of increasing hostility without, persistent machinations within, foreshadowing dire contests destined to range the Army of Light against the forces of darkness, both secular and religious, predicted in unequivocal language by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, necessitates in this crucial hour closer association of the Hands of the five continents and the bodies of the elected representatives of the national Bahá'í communities the world over for joint investigation of the nefarious activies of internal enemies and the adoption of wise, effective measures to counteract their treacherous schemes, protect the mass of the believers, and arrest the spread of their evil influence. "Call upon Hands and National Assemblies, each continent separately to establish henceforth direct conact and deliberate, whenever feasible, as frequently as possible, to exchange reports to be submitted by their respective Auxiliary Boards and national committees, to exercise unrelaxing vigilance and c...

 "I affirm," is 'Abdu'l-Bahá's own written comment on the Tablet of the Branch, "that the true meaning, the real significance, the inner most secret of these verses, of these very words, is my own servitude to the sacred Threshold of the Abha Beauty, my complete self effacement, my utter nothingness before Him. This is my resplendent crown, my most precious adorning.  On this I pride myself in the Kingdom of earth and heaven. Therein I glory among the company of the well-favored." "No one is permitted," He warns us in the passage which immediately follows, "to give these verses any other interpretation." "I am," He, in this same connection, affirms, "according to the explicit texts of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and the Kitáb-i-'Ahd the manifest Interpreter of the Word ofGod...Whoso deviates from my interpretation is a victim of his own fancy." –Shoghi Effendi.  The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 138.

  "" The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh" by Shoghi Effendi, on the nature of the new social pattern revealed by Bahá'u'lláh for the attainment of divine justice in civilization." –– World Order magazine, November 1945.

 "Bahá'u'lláh was in reality no prisoner, but a King of Kings." 'Abdu'l-Bahá quoted in Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era (1937), p. 47.

  ..The brothers of His Holiness Christ came to Him and it was said, “These are your brothers.”   He answered that His brothers were those who believed in God, and refused to associate with His own brothers… His Holiness Christ did not exercise despotism in the case of Judas Iscariot and His own brothers, but they separated themselves.   In short, the point is this: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá is extremely kind, but when the disease is leprosy, what am I to do? …One must protect and safeguard the blessed souls from the breaths and fatal spiritual diseases, otherwise violation, like the plague, will become a contagion and all will perish.                                                         ...

"Be a vigilant guard for the impregnable fort of God, and protect it against the intrusion of the ignorant." – 'Abdu'l-Bahá Report of The Baha'i Committee of Investigation 1917-1918 "The Kirchner Affair"

 "Treacherous Ruhi Afnan, not content with previous disobedience, correspondence with Ahmad Sohrab, contact with old Covenant-breakers, sale, in conjunction with other members of family, of sacred property purchased by Founder of Faith, and allowing his siter to marry son of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's enemy, is now openly lecturing on Bahá'í movement, claiming to be its exponent and is misrepresenting the teachings and deliberately causing to be its exponent and is misrepresenting the teachings and deliberately causing confusion in minds of authorities and the local population.  Inform National Assemblies."  ––SHOGHI  [Cablegram, May 17, 1953] Why does the current, apostate Bahá'í Faith endorse the 'Ruhi Institute'?  Poor Shoghi Effendi's work is destroyed through  the rampant violation of the Faith for which he sacrificed 36 years of his life.  In His final cable to the United States, 'Abdu'l-Bahá explicitly states, "HE WHO SITS WITH LEPER CA...

“ I refused to sign my name as still being in the service of Shoghi Effendi.”                           –Charles Mason Remey, A Last Appeal to the Hands of the Faith.     “The Institution of the Guardianship is the channel and the only channel through which The Holy Spirit can reach the world throughout the centuries to come of this Baha'i Dispensation.   The working out of this Divine Guidance was demonstrated with great clarity in the mission of the first Guardian of the Faith, Shoghi Effendi.   Of that the Hands of the Faith are amply aware.“   “Unity, Unity, has ever been the cry of the violators, when this unity that they cry out for is the very worst thing for the Faith for under these conditions separating the faithful from the violators provides the only safety for the Faith.”   “Unity, Unity has been the cry of the violator...

  “…praying that you will become aware of the evils into which your present program for 1963 is plunging the cause before it be too late:”   “For the honor of the cause, the Hands of the Faith must always maintain the confidence of the Baha'i people of America, the Cradle of the Administration that is in reality the Guardianship. ”   “They in America still hope for a Guardian.  In plain words, they are deceived as to the real intent of the majority of the Hands of the Faith which is that the Hands intend that the Guardianship be forever closed!”    – Charles Mason Remey, An Appeal to the Hands of the Faith.

        In order to protect our Faith I, the Guardian of the Cause, order the believers to have nothing whatsoever to do with those who are violating the Administration of the Baha'i Faith.  The faithful believers should do what they can to explain this to those who waveringly follow these violators thus to bring them back into the Faith that they are violating, but if people persist in their violation the faithful believers should leave them to themselves – not associate nor fraternize with them.  Nor should they in any way give cooperation or support of any description to these violators – this means no cooperation at all with them – the faithful friends should not contribute any money to the activities of these violators nor in any other way countenance any of the activities of this violation       At this present time Ruhiyyih Khanum is traveling throughout the Baha'i centers i...

  “First international and incomparably holy enterprise synchronizing with the birth of the International Bahá’í Council at the very heart and center of a world-encircling Faith… newly-formed Council [International Bahá’í Council], now established at its very heart, is designed to foster, which will gather momentum, with the emergence in the course of time of a properly recognized and independently functioning Bahá’í Court , which will attain its consummation in the institution of the Universal House of Justice and the emergence of the auxiliary administrative Agencies, revolving around this Highest Legislative Body, and which will reveal the plenitude of its potentialities with the sailing of the Divine Ark as promised in the Tablet of Carmel ."  Shoghi Effendi.   The Bahá’í World, Vol. 12, p. 349.

  “Once the mind and heart have grasped the fact that God guides men through a Mouthpiece, a human being, a Prophet, infallible and unerring, it is only a logical projection of this acceptance to also accept the station of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and the Guardians.   The Guardians are the evidence of the maturity of mankind in the sense that at long last men have progressed to the point of having one world, and of needing one world management for human affairs.   In the spiritual realm they have also reached the point where God could leave, in human hands (i.e. the Guardians) guided directly by the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh as the Master states in His Will, the affairs of His Faith for this Dispensation.   This is what is meant by this is the day which will not be followed by night!   In this Dispensation divine guidance flows onto us in this world after the Prophets ascension, through first the Master, and then the Guardians.   If a person can accept Bahá’...

  THE PROTECTION OF THE CAUSE OF GOD               During the past few years, it has been my portion of the Abha experience to have traveled quite extensively among the Bahai assemblies in various countries, and to have witnessed under varying conditions the working of the Cause, and upon occasions to have observed at first hand certain phases of violation of the Cause of Baha’o’llah, in some instances to a considerable extent in the large assemblies, and in other instances here and there among individuals and small groups of our people, but always being destructive and detrimental to the vitality of the Spirit of The Covenant.             It is only recently that the real gravity of these various forms of violation have been dawning upon me.   At one time the actual spoken denial of Abdul Baha as The Center of the Covenant of Baha’o’llah ...