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Monday, April 27, 2009

Appointment of New Hands of Cause of God


The Third Guardian of Baha’i Faith Joel Bray Marangella in his Ridvan Message (April-2009) introduced the new Hands of Cause of God.


1. Grace Behrens (Posthumously).

I take this opportunity to recognize belatedly and to name posthumously, dear Grace Behrens, a Hand of the Cause of God. She became renowned for the publication of letters submitted to the editor of the newspaper of Lancaster Pennsylvania, almost on a daily basis over a period of forty one years, totaling 846 letters according to her daughters report, in which she invariably mentioned the Baha’i Faith in some way, to the extent that the readers of the Lancaster newspaper would have all become well aware of the Faith by the time of her passing in 1998.

I also take this opportunity to elevate the following devoted Baha’is whose outstanding services, in various ways, in support of the true Faith and whose exemplary, steadfast and faithful support of my Guardianship over the years have deservedly entitled them to join the ranks of the Hands of the Cause who have been previously named during my ministry:

2. Joel Jani Marangella.

Whose assistance in initially designing, and subsequently establishing and maintaining my internet web page over the years since 1995 has been invaluable and whose expertise has been essential in the subsequent displaying and preserving in an attractive manner on that page of numerous articles, documents, historical photographs, past newspaper advertisements, as well as material from other sources, in support of the Guardianship, all of which has facilitated and contributed to the effective presentation to the Baha’i world via this unique instrumentality of incontrovertible evidence proving the continuation of the Guardianship.

3. James Meyer.

To whom we owe a particular debt of gratitude for the erection of and continued maintenance of a facility on the Meyers property for our use as the National Archives of the Orthodox Baha’i Faith wherein documents of historical value and particularly those covering the years of The Great Violation, among others, are preserved for safekeeping and can be made available for reference by future Baha’i scholars and historians.

4. Dr.A. Parikh.

Whose multiple, untiring and exemplary activities in support of the Guardianship in India have been exemplary and most praiseworthy.


5. Martin Lavalle.

Who has translated numerous long articles of mine into French which have then been posted in the French section of my web page and who has been very active in promoting the Orthodox Baha’i Faith in Eastern Canada.


With loving Ridvan greetings to all,

Joel Bray Marangella

Monday, April 20, 2009

GREETINGS OF RIDVAN

On the happy occasion of Ridvan, first of all I wish to extend my heartiest greetings to the beloved Third Guardian of the Baha’i Faith, Joel Bray Marangella and on behalf of the National (Orthodox) Baha’i Council of India extend greetings to all the Baha’i friends of the world, affiliated with any group, inviting their attention to the following very important quote from his writings:

“To be or not to be faithful to the Covenant, that is the question?”

I pray on this first day of the Baha'i Administrative Year that all of us may be included in the list of those: “Faithful to the Covenant.”

Secretary,
National (Orthodox) Baha’i Council of India.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Study on the Distortions of ITC


A document prepared in March 2006 by the International Teaching Center of the sans-guardian Bahá'ís in Haifa in the title of:A Study on the Guardianship & The Universal House of Justice

This study was prepared for the use of Auxiliary Board Members and has no doubt been used extensively for their justification of not including a living guardian in their administrative order, even though Bahá'í Holy Writ ensures a continuous line of living guardians enduring the entire span of the Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh, lasting at least 1,000 years.

Why a teaching center has to tell ABMs what to believe and discuss about the most basic of the foundational elements of the Faith. Is it that complicated? No, it is not.

In a paperback copy of a book, copyright 1980. Text under the heading:

“Bahá'í Covenant has been modified”. The next to last paragraph of the bogus UHJ version, page 129, in reading the next paragraph on that page, a major, modification provides erroneous information.The first half of the original paragraph, which discusses successive guardians, is no longer there.

They alter the meaning of passages in Baha’i books that were compiled prior to the death of the First Guardian.

Hand of Cause of God David Maxwell wrote a comprehensive Critique on the above study material. <Detail>