The Violation of the Bahá'í Covenant by Leland Jensen: Dismantling His Absurd Claims

 

                     

 

 Leland Jensen claimed to fulfill prophecy as the ‘establisher’ of the Bahá’í Faith.  In reality, he was a cult leader who followed the pattern of all cult leaders.  Jensen was a sexual predator who served time in prison for assaulting a juvenile patient in his chiropractic office.  Instead of accepting his conviction and punishment, he turned himself into the charismatic leader of his cult.  He claimed to have a spiritual experience in prison while reading Zechariah 3 in the Old Testament.  Jensen decided that ‘the stone with seven eyes’ mentioned in Zechariah 3 was the very prison in which he was confined, as a sex offender, because it had seven watchtowers.  Instead of seeking treatment to overcome his criminal sexual impulses, he elevated himself to increasingly exalted stations like ‘Jesus’, the ‘Seventh Angel’, the ‘High Priest After the Order of Melchizedek’.  He took it upon himself to create a kangaroo Bahá’í Administration with his mind controlled followers who he’d convinced were, “special”  “intellectual and spiritual giants” who would “gather the 144,000” He used fear tactics with the constant threat of an eminent nuclear war and natural disaster to keep his followers obedient. 

 

            When the second Guardian, Charles Mason Remey, finally made his proclamation as the appointed successor to Shoghi Effendi in 1960, Jensen supported him.  Mason Remey, however, did not support Leland Jensen’s claims to a special station.  When the appointed third Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith, Donald Harvey, rejected Jensen’s false claims, Jensen began to wage war on the Guardian and became a Covenant-breaker.  Just as Bahá’u’lláh fulfills the Greater Covenant as the Interpreter of the Logos, the institution of the Guardianship fulfills the Lesser Covenant as the appointed Interpreter of the Words left by the Manifestation. Bahá’ís who oppose the guardian are Covenant-breakers in violation of the Lesser Covenant.

 

            Jensen insisted that he supported and upheld the institution of the Guardianship and did so by spending decades harassing Joseph Pepe, trying to force him into the role of the guardian.  Joseph Pepe was the secretary and companion to Charles Mason Remey during the final years of his long life (1874-1974). Mason loved Pepe and adopted him as his son.  When independent thinkers inquired of Pepe about the Guardianship, he would put them in touch with Mason’s successor.  When Jensen and his followers harassed him, he would engage in their correspondence, ever complaining about the expensive postage and irritation they cost him.  Some of Jensen’s followers went so far as to pop up at Pepe’s home in Florence, Italy, uninvited and unexpected, forcing him to become a reluctant host. He welcomed loyal supporters of the guardianship to visit him for prearranged meetings.  Pepe had a low opinion of most Bahá’ís given their disobedience and egotism.  He loved and respected Charles Mason Remey, his successors, and the Teachings, but distanced himself from the Faith, to the best of his ability.  Pepe was not a practicing Bahá’í, let alone the guardian.

 

            It’s true that Jensen did not have a compound, like so many cult leaders.  He led a cult of personality eliciting cooperation with ‘end time’  fear, his incessant flattery and  ‘proofs’ he developed to ‘support’ his claim to special stations.  Jensen relied on the ignorance of his followers to maintain their allegiance. He was aware that Bahá’ís disobey the command to independently investigate the truth and study the Writings.  This failure to educate themselves is the reason the Hands successfully led the Bahá’í world into violation of the Covenant through the elimination of the institution of the Guardianship.  Jensen constantly praised the intelligence of his followers knowing that they believed his ‘truth’ and would not search for the truth. He and his cadre wrote lengthy ‘epistles’ and papers bending Scripture to fit Jensen’s fiction. 

Bahá’u’lláh established His Covenant when He set up the throne of His Kingdom to be occupied by His successors, the appointed Interpreters of His Word: the line of Guardians. The Guardian ‘symbolizes the hereditary principle’ according to Shoghi Effendi[1].  Charles Gaines explains this concept in His  Covenant Trilogy, found in Charles Mason Remey’s Proclamation to the Government of Israel[2], as follows:

 “Consider!  What does it mean to symbolize?  It is well known that the symbol is not the literal thing.  The symbol represents, stands for, something.  When we speak of a thing as being symbolized, it means that one thing stands for, represents, another thing, but it is not that thing represented.

“The hereditary principle is continuous succession.  Therefore, when the guardian is spoken of as “symbolizing the hereditary principle”, it means that the continuity of the guardianship represents, stands for, the principle that things – in this case authority – are handed down in orderly continuous succession from generation to generation.  It represents hereditary succession.

            “Now this does not mean that the guardianship does not and cannot descend according to the strict law of hereditary succession, but it does mean that adherence to the strict law of hereditary succession along physical lines is not absolutely essential.”

            Jensen agreed with Charles Gaines, but instead of showing obedience to the appointed interpreter, the guardian, he began to interpret the Holy Scripture himself.  Despite Jensen’s death in 1996, belief in his claims persist with his cult forming splinter groups each with false claimants to the guardianship.  Some of these unfortunates have devoted decades to Jensen’s heresy and show no sign of recognizing that they were duped. “Firmness in the Covenant means obedience so that no one may say this is my opinion.  Nay, rather, he must obey that which proceeds from the pen and tongue of the Covenant.”[3] 

 

"The Baha'is can and must anticipate tests in the form of pressure exerted through public opinion, tests in the form of psychic experience claiming to be spiritual guidance, and tests which would sway us emotionally away from the continuity of plan and effort provided by the Guardian."[4]  "In this world individuals who are able to distinguish between sincere intentions and false words are as rare as the philosopher's stone."[5]  "Falsehood has an attracting power but the truth is most powerful."[6] 

We will use Bahá’í Text to dismantle the lies of Leland Jensen with the goal of freeing these hapless wanderers from their prison of false belief and directing them to the road of obedience to the Covenant and Testament and preventing future seekers from falling into the trap of his cult.  Rather than face his inner defects, Jensen created a fantasy world populated by sychophants who made him their Bahá’í clergy, despite Bahá’u’lláh’s ban on ecclesiastics.  Jensen was the architect of an imaginary life he tried to sell to anyone who would listen.

            Jensen lied about his life before he was ever conceived.  He enjoyed telling people that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá visited his parent’s home and prophesied his birth; a child who would be ‘a special personage of distinction’.  Jensen was born in Racine, Wisconsin, a city ‘Abdu’l-Bahá never entered.  The only private home He is documented to have visited in the area is the Goodale home in neighboring Kenosha, over 20 miles away.  It is interesting that Jensen is a native of this region which was seriously affected by the Covenant-breaking of Kheirella who, like Jensen, injected his invented teachings into the Bahá’í Faith while seeking an illegitimate leadership position.  "The worst of qualities and most odious of attributes, which is the foundation of all evil, is lying...it is the foundation of all evils."[7] 

 

Jensen pretended that, like the Manifestations of God, he fulfilled prophecy by name, date, address, and mission.  He claimed that his name, address and mission were to be found in Zechariah 3.  We know that this is a false claim because Zechariah 3 was fulfilled in Adrianople by Baha'u'llah in 1866.[8]  If these prophecies were fulfilled by Bahá’u’lláh, they cannot also be fulfilled by Jensen.  Jensen lied.

 

            Regarding the supposed ‘date’ of Jensen’s imaginary prophecy fulfillment, he gave the date of 1963 based on a passage from Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era where ‘Abdu’l-Bahá is quoted interpreting a passage from Daniel. Jensen taught directly from the Bible using the interpretation from Esslemont’s great work. It is impossible to know whether or not Jensen was aware of the following change; regardless, the interpretation of Daniel given by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá as recorded in Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era was changed to 1963 from the original date of 1957.  1957 is the year Charles Mason Remey became the second Guardian. The following is the passage in question: 

"This Century is the Century of the Sun of Truth. This Century is the Century of the establishment of the Kingdom of God upon the earth."4—Star of the West, vol. ix, P. 7. In the last two verses of the Book of Daniel occur the cryptic words:— "Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days. But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days." Many have been the attempts of learned students to solve the problem of the significance of these words. In a table-talk at which the writer was present, 'Abdu’l- Bahá said that these 1,335 days mean 1,335 solar years from the Hijrat. (Flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, marking the beginning of the Muhammad era.) As the Hijrat occurred in 622 A.D. the date referred to is, therefore, 1957 (i.e 622 + 1,335) A.D.”[9]

 

Jensen garnered followers with his fabricated ‘proofs’ based on name, date, address and mission.  All four elements have been disproven.  There are, however, additional passages in the Sacred Text which refute his claims.  Jensen stated that he opened the ‘seven seals’ described in Revelation in the New Testament. Revelation 5:5 “Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”” "Baha'u'llah unsealed the holy books and revealed laws."[10]   He also asserted that he was the rider of the ‘white horse’ in the same book:  Revelation 6:2 “I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.”   Jensen wore no crown, but Bahá’u’lláh is the Promised King of kings, the ‘Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David’. Jensen claimed to fulfill the prophecy for blasting the trumpet in Revelation, but we find the following description of Bahá’u’lláh’s Epistles to the Sovereigns: “The stunning trumpet blast.”[11]

‘Abdu’l-Bahá explains that the prophecies have all been fulfilled, “The prophecies of all the prophets have become manifest and are fulfilled in this holy and blessed age and this great day of Bahá’u’lláh.”[12]   Any claim to fulfillment of prophecy by Jensen, or anyone else, is automatically false.  “This Day all signs have appeared.”[13] “All the signs have been revealed; every prophetic allusion hath been manifested.  Whatever hath been enshrined in all the Scriptures of the past hath been made evident.”[14] “Every proof and prophecy, every manner of evidence, whether based on reason or on the text of the scriptures and traditions, are to be regarded as centered in the persons of Bahá’u’lláh and the Báb.  In them is to be found their complete fulfillment.”[15]

            Jensen declared himself to be the omnipotent return of Jesus: “Jesus Christ returned in the glory of the Father.”[16]  He claimed to be the ‘establisher’ of the Bahá’í Faith: “‘Abdu’l-Bahá as the center of the Covenant the Interpreter and the Establisher of the sacred Law.”[17]  “The administrative machinery of an Order, foreshadowed by the Báb, enunciated by Bahá’u’lláh, and established by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.”[18]  “The one whom Bahá’u’lláh had left endowed with His power to accomplish and establish the Kingdom.”[19]  “Bahá’u’lláh established His Kingdom upon this earth.”[20] “’Abdu’l-Bahá is that of the explainer, the establisher.”[21]  “Proclaim the Kingdom established.”[22]

 

            A further false claim was that he was the ‘Lamb’ from the Bible and, as such, must have a marriage supper.[23]  In celebration of his anniversary with his long-suffering bride, Opal, Jensen held a special little party which he called ‘The marriage supper of the Lamb’ in 1987.  "The mystic and wondrous Bride, hidden ere this beneath the veiling of utterance, hath now, by the grace of God and His divine favor, been made manifest even as the resplendent light shed by the beauty of the Beloved. I bear witness, O friends! that the favor is complete, the argument fulfilled, the proof manifest and the evidence established. Let it now be seen what your endeavors in the path of detachment will reveal. In this wise hath the divine favor been fully vouchsafed unto you and unto them that are in heaven and on earth. All praise to God, the Lord of all Worlds."[24]  The Kitab-i-Aqdas is the "New Jerusalem coming down from God...the Bride."[25]  “The bride of Zion has appeared.”[26]  Previously, we proved how all prophecies were fulfilled before Jensen was born, but these passages refute this specific false claim.

 

            Because Jensen claimed to fulfill prophecy as Jesus, and stated that he was infallible, he felt led to attribute to the Bahá’í Faith his own, false, teachings that are foreign to the Faith.  He made himself the Interpreter and gave an interpretation of the complete Revelation of St. John, making himself the star of that Book in the Bible. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá interpreted a small section of the book of Revelation in Some Answered Questions; no appointed Interpreter, His successors­–the guardians, have chosen to interpret the remaining chapters. 

 

Jensen inserted a teaching about the Great Pyramid of Giza into the Faith while absurdly stating that he is prophesied, through Mathematics, via encoding in its stones. "At various times in the past certain persons have tried to exploit their own ideas upon particular subjects through the Baha'i Teachings; therefore, they will understand and realize some of the dangers to which the Cause has been subjected.  For instance, one man had some extraordinary ideas upon evolution, another some upon astrology, upon the Great Pyramid...which at times were advanced as "Baha'i Teachings", all of which caused trouble and the eventual spiritual downfall of these people as exponents of the Baha'i Revelation."[27]  “He taught the Faith after becoming a Bahá'í but incorporated his personal ideas which were not related to the Faith, such as symbolism of the Egyptian pyramids.”[28]  “We must adhere to the literal meaning of what is written in the Tablets, and must not deviate from even a hair’s breadth.”[29] Bahá’u’lláh does not mention the pyramids in His Writings, the subject is not Bahá’í.

 

            “One of the enemies of the Cause,” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá warned, “is he who endeavors to interpret the Words of Bahá’u’lláh and thereby colors the meaning according to his capacity, and collects around him a following, forming a different sect, promoting his own station and making a division in the Cause.”[30]  Jensen definitely endeavored to interpret the Words of Bahá’u’lláh, and anything else he thought would bolster his claim, he collected a following, and formed a different sect to promote his own station.  “If even a breath of egotism is found in us, we shall perish at once. The friends must be alert. Everyone who expresses a word not from the texts sows discord among the believers.”[31]  Jensen definitely had an oversized ego; he claimed infallibility and omnipotence, that he was Jesus, that he was the main character of the Book of Revelations, and a host of outrageous assertions.

 

            “The Master spoke this evening on the importance of the friends striving to detach themselves from earthly passions and worldly desires and to remain aloof from the doubts of selfish persons who outwardly appear faithful but who are inwardly the cause of confusion to others.  He gave a lengthy discourse on firmness in the Covenant of God, obedience to the Center of His Covenant, the unity of the believers, the afflictions and tribulations of the Abhá Beauty and the martyrdom of the Manifestations in order that unity and harmony might be brought to the nations of the world.”[32] Jensen “appeared faithful” but was most definitely “the cause of confusion to others”.  “They should in no wise allow their fancy to obscure their judgment, neither should they regard their own imaginings as the voice of the Eternal.”[33] Jensen’s fancy ran wild with his inflated self importance.  He excelled at handing out titles and special posts to secure the loyalty of his followers. He made some of his contemporaries ‘elders’ from the book of Revelation.

 

“The souls may not become agitated and perturbed, may not every day set up for themselves an idol and establish a new centre of authority, and seditious men may not agitate.”[34]  Jensen and his supporters definitely established a new center of authority around his false claims of fulfilling prophecy, by publishing his false teachings, creating an illegitimate ‘international Bahá’í council’, assigning special titles to his followers, etc.      “Whoso while reading the sacred scriptures, is tempted to choose therefrom whatever may suit him with which to challenge the authority of the Representative of God among men, is indeed, as one dead.”[35]  Jensen undoubtedly challenged the authority of the Representative of God, Bahá’u’lláh.  We’ve proven that he claimed titles and prophecies belonging to Bahá’u’lláh.  The guardian is described as “the sign of God on earth” in the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.  Jensen slandered and libeled the third Guardian, Donald Harvey and wrote terrible things about Charles Mason Remey and his family, inventing fantastic stories about them.

 

“Neither overreach the clear explanation of this Servant nor the unambiguous interpretation of this Slave. If anyone overreaches, he follows his own superstitions…and no one is allowed to interpret other than this.”[36] Jensen, instead of taking his cue from the Center of the Covenant, the Exemplar of Bahá’u’lláh’s Teachings, with the recognition that we are all servants of God, he incrementally made progressively outrageous claims about his station while seeking to increase his following and create a false administration around himself.  Instead of facing reality, Jensen and his followers attempt to bend reality to Jensen’s fiction. 

 

An offshoot group of the Mormons, the Morrisites, determined that Deer Lodge Montana, the site of Jensen’s incarceration, was the ‘promised land’ and the site of the ‘Second Coming of Christ’.  Jensen latched onto this and turned it into ‘proof’ for his false claims.  He asserted that the prison where he served his sentence after the sex crime conviction was ‘Ezekial’s temple’ described in the Bible; if the prison resembled the  temple of Ezekial, it is irrelevant.  Mormonism is a Luciferian religion.  Like Lucifer, their ultimate goal is to become ‘gods’.  Nothing they teach or believe is a part of God’s teaching except for fragments of basic truths mixed with their many lies. Jensen uses the same tactic.  He wraps his lies in a cloak of Bahá’í truth causing confusion in the minds of his followers. 

 

            Jensen’s personal conduct, as a cult leader, was reprehensible.  Despite being married, he could not keep his hands off of women and he discussed inappropriate topics at meetings.  To explore this subject here would be distasteful except to say that his behavior, if reported to police, would have returned him to prison.  He caused severe emotional, spiritual, and psychological damage to his victims.  He used foul language, yelled and cursed at people which is nothing like the example set by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.  His attention-seeking antics, as a convicted sex offender, brought disgrace to the Faith. Ultimately, he was a disturbed pervert who caused harm to the Faith by creating multiple splinter groups. 

 

            Charles Mason Remey was the chairman of the Committee of Investigation during the violation of the Covenant in Chicago.  World War One was in progress which meant that American Bahá’ís were cut off from the Center of the Covenant.  When a group from Chicago made a scene at the national Bahá’í Convention by sending a separate delegation from the assembly established by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the Bahá’ís understood that there was violation afoot and that it must be handled without the guidance of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá who was in the Holy Land.  Mason refers to this situation as ‘the Kirchner affair’ in his 11 Treatises of 1960, which include his four volumes of Daily Observations of the Bahá’í Faith in the Holy Land.  The committee researched the situation surrounding a group that met at a Bahá’í reading room run by Mrs. Kirchner and which had taken it upon themselves to become delegates to the convention without following Bahá’í procedure. It was determined that they were in violation of the Covenant because they were attributing non-Bahá’í teachings to the Bahá’í Faith.  Not only was Jensen guilty of this exact thing, but he was in defiance of the appointed Guardians, and attempted to establish his own administration without the authority to do so.  He claimed to fulfill prophecy which is a proven lie based on Bahá’í Text.  One of his believers stated that there were ‘too many coincidences’ surrounding Jensen as their reason for supporting him for decades up to the present day.  Coincidence is not a criteria for belief.  What will it take to awaken his followers from their sleep?

 

            In the Charles Mason Remey papers placed in the Library of Congress, Mason describes a situation where a Bahá’í violated the Covenant and began to associate with one of the groups in opposition to Shoghi Effendi’s Guardianship.  This person experienced poor mental health as a result, and, ultimately, committed suicide.  According to Mason, this perfectly sane and happy person was driven to insanity because of their association with Covenant-breakers.  He states that this is one of the results of associating with violators.  This goes a long way to explain the conduct of several of Jensen’s supporters and their need for psychiatric hospitalization.  The Law of the Will and Testament strictly prohibits association with Covenant-breakers because they carry a deadly disease that spreads from one person to another.  Approximately 75% of the Will and Testament is on the subject of Covenant-breaking, and, avoiding violators; they will “utterly destroy the Cause of God, exterminate His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past”.[37]  We are to avoid the followers of the false ‘universal house of justice’ and any other group who fails to acknowledge the line of appointed Interpreters, the Guardians, the ‘sign of God on earth’.  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá issues the following warning, “Bahá’u’lláh, in all the Tablets and Epistles, forbade the true and firm friends from associating and meeting the violators of the Covenant of His Holiness the Báb, saying that no one should go near them because their breath is like the poison of the snake that kills instantly…“Protect yourselves with utmost vigilance, lest you be entrapped in the snare of deception and fraud.” This is the advice of the Pen of Destiny. In another address, He says: “Therefore, to avoid these people will be the nearest path by which to attain the divine good pleasure; because their breath is infectious, like unto poison.”… ‘Abdu’l-Bahá is extremely kind, but when the disease is leprosy, what am I to do? Just as in bodily diseases we must prevent intermingling and infection and put into effect sanitary laws – because the infectious physical diseases uproot the foundation of humanity; likewise 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. In the early days, after the Ascension, of the Blessed Beauty, the centre of violation was alone; little by little the infection spread; and this was due to companionship and association.”[38]  Those who associate with Covenant-breakers incorporate nasty, hostile, argumentative, irrational, inane, non-Bahá’í traits into their personality and carry them to the community of the faithful believers. This is counterproductive to the unity for which they pretend to strive.  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá warns in His Will and Testament that unity is the excuse Covenant-breakers use to violate the Covenant, as we witnessed with the violation of the Hands in 1957. 

 

It is impossible to sail on two ships at once.  One either chooses to be firm in the Covenant and support the appointed Interpreter, the guardian, or associate with Covenant-breakers who deny the line of guardians. Leland Jensen violated the Covenant by inventing his own teachings, his false stations and by disobeying the guardian and Bahá’í Law; just like the Hands, the false ‘universal house of justice’, and their followers who refuse to study and think for themselves to ascertain the truth.  More importantly, violators refuse to serve God in obedience to His Law. When will the stain of Jensen’s violation be erased?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1]  Shoghi Effendi (1938).  The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, p.153.

[2] https://proofsforguardian.blogspot.com/2024/03/bahai-proclamation-to-government-of.html

[3] ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.  Star of the West, Vol. VIII, p. 218.

[4] The Baha'i World, Vol. 8, p. 155.

[5] ‘Abdu'l-Bahá, The Secret of Divine Civilization, p. 107.

[6] ‘Abdu'l-Bahá.  Folio #46/100 Library of Congress, CMR papers p. 136.

[7] ‘Abdu'l-Bahá.  The Baha'i World, Vol. 5, p. 163.

[8] Star of the West, Vol. 10, No. 18, p. 324.

[9] Dr. Esslemont, (1937). Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era, p. 303 (chapter XIV)

[10] Abdu'l-Baha on Divine Philosophy, p. 8.

[11] ‘Abdu’l-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi.  The Promised Day Is Come, p. 47.

[12] ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.  Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Vol. 3, p.723

[13] Bahá’u’lláh. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 145.

[14] ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.  The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 111.

[15] ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.  The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh,  pp. 127-128.

[16] Shoghi Effendi. God Passes By, p. 151.

[17] Thornton Chase.  Star of the West, Vol. 5, No. 17, p. 263.

[18] Shoghi Effendi.  Messages to America 1932-1946, p. 49; The Bahá’í World, Vol. 9, p. 322.

[19] Charles Mason Remey. Break of Day, p. 103.

[20] Lua Getsinger; Velda Piff Metelmann.  Lua Getsinger: Herald of the Covenant.

[21] Charles Mason Remey (1912).  The Bahá’í Movement: A series of Nineteen Papers, p. 26

[22] Charles Mason Remey.  Star of the West,  Vol. 2, Letter dated April 19, 1910.

[23]  Revelation 19:6-9

[24] Epilogue to The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’llah.

[25] Shoghi Effendi.  God Passes By.

[26] ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.  Star of the West, Vol. 3, No. 10, p. 7.

[27] Charles Mason Remey.  Library of Congress folio #46/100, p.62.

[28] Bahaipedia.org/percy-woodcock.

[29] ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.  Mahmúd’s Diary, p. 31.

[30] ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.  The Bahá’í World, Vol. 10.

[31] ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Mahmúd’s Diary, p. 161.

[32] ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.  Mahmúd’s Diary, p. 390.

[33] Bahá’u’lláh.  Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 337.

 

[34] The Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh (A Compilation), 1950, p. 50.

[35] Bahá’u’lláh (1982).  Gleaning From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh LXXXIX, p. 175.

[36] ‘Abdu’l-Baha.  Letter to Charles Mason Remey from Nina Evaline Woods, June 6, 1918.

 

[37] Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.

[38] ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.  The Master’s Last Tablet to America, Star of the West, XIII. p. 1.