Charles Mason Remey Statement: The Hands Violated the Covenant

 

STATEMENT

BY

MASON REMEY

GUARDIAN

OF THE BAHA'I FAITH

            At the first Behje Conclave, the Hands of the Cause took over the management of the affairs of the Baha'i Faith.  This was followed by their repudiation of the Administration – Guardianship of the Faith.  This violation of the Guardianship, that is the heart of the Administration of the Baha'i Faith, is condemned by the Second Guardian of the Faith and all who follow this violation of the Baha'i Faith are pronounced by him to be violators of the Faith for thus by this action have they severed themselves from the Baha'i Religious Faith.

            One of the first actions of these violating Hands of the Cause in this first conclave was to decree that no recorded or written records be taken of things transpiring in their conclaves.  At the same time by a universally passed resolution, all were to hold in secrecy everything that transpired in those conclaves.

            The Second Guardian of the Faith, then in occultation, in the capacity of a Hand of the Cause and President of the Baha'i International Council, sat with the Hands in this conclave.  He knew at that time that this violation of the Guardianship was being perpetrated, but hoping to rectify this condition through friendly argument and pacific methods he agreed with the others, to keep in strict secret with them from the Baha'i world, all things that passed between the Hands of the Faith in their conclaves and conferences.  For he hoped to be able to show them their errors and thus save them from their violation of the Faith.

            Thus two and a half years or thereabouts of time passed, the while he was telling the Hands of their violation and begging them to reconsider their stand against the Guardianship - - but all to fail in the end in this endeavor.

            Through his forbearance, the Second Guardian of the Faith kept this pact of secrecy with the Hands of the Cause as long as it was possible to keep it, hoping that they would have a change of heart, cast aside their violations of the Faith and welcome the advent of the Second Guardian of the Faith.  But when He, the Second Guardian of the Faith, found that the violations of the Hands were at the point of causing irreparable damage to the Baha'i Faith – then he had to break with the Hands of the Faith.  It was then necessary for him to make the advent as Guardian of the Faith in order to save the Faith.

            Therefore when He announced to the Baha'i World, Ridvan 117 B.E., that The Beloved First Guardian of the Faith had during his lifetime appointed him, Mason Remey, the Second Guardian of the Faith, he – for the preservation of the Faith – broke all connections with the violating Hands of the Faith – broke all connections with the violating Hands of the Faith and now for the safety of the Faith, he is telling and explaining to the Baha'i world the things that the Hands of the Faith have been perpetrating against the Faith; namely their attempt to do away with the Administrative-Guardianship of the Faith, the foundation of which was given to the First Guardian of the Faith, and to the Baha'i world in the will and testament of Abdu’l-Baha upon which foundation Shoghi Effendi inaugurated the Administration that the Hands of the Cause are violating.

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