July 26. On this date in 1960, the Hands of the Cause of God sent a cable to all the National Spiritual Assemblies announcing "Mason Remey (a) Covenant-breaker expelled (from the) Faith."
To All National Spiritual Assemblies, C/O BAHA'I WILMETTE JULY 26, 1960
ENTIRE BODY HANDS OBEDIENT PROVISIONS WILL TESTAMENT CENTRE COVENANT COMMUNICATIONS BELOVED GUARDIAN ENJOINING THEM PROTECT HOLY CAUSE ATTACKS ENEMIES WITHIN WITHOUT ANNOUNCE BAHA'I WORLD MASON REMEY COVENANT BREAKER EXPELLED FAITH STOP ACTION FOLLOWS LONG PERIOD PATIENCE FORBEARANCE OPPORTUNITY GIVEN HIM WITHDRAW SHAMEFUL PRETENSION SACRED STATION GUARDIANSHIP CONSTITUTING HERETICAL CLAIM CONTRARY EXPLICIT PROVISIONS WILL MASTER STOP DESPITE UNIVERSAL REPUDIATION DENUNCIATION BY ALL HANDS INTERNATIONAL BAHA'I COUNCIL ALL NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES REMEY CONTINUING AGITATE UNFOUNDED CLAIM ACTIVELY SEEKING CREATE DIVISION RANKS FAITHFUL SOW SEEDS DOUBT HEARTS BELIEVERS UNDERMINE ACTIVITIES INSTITUTION HANDS CHIEF STEWARDS DEDICATED FULFILMENT BELOVED GUARDIAN'S TEN YEAR PLAN STOP ACCORDANCE INJUNCTION WILL TESTAMENT 'Abdu'l-Bahá, CALL UPON FRIENDS EVERYWHERE SHUN REMEY AND ANYONE ASSOCIATING WITH HIM OR ACTIVELY SUPPORTING HIS CLAIMS STOP CONFIDENT COMMUNITY MOST GREAT NAME UNITED WHOLEHEARTED CONDEMNATION THIS LATEST ILL-FATED ATTEMPT DISRUPT GOD's HOLY CAUSE WILL EMERGE TRIUMPHANT STRENGTHENED GALVANIZED ISSUE FORTH WIN REMAINING GOALS GLORIOUS WORLD ENCIRCLING CRUSADE STOP CABLE MESSAGE ALL NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES. >[CABLE]
Charles Mason Remey
was an early and active Bahá'í who, along with Howard C. Struven,
became the first Bahá'ís to make a complete circuit of the world. He was
the architect for the Bahá'í Houses of Worship in Uganda and Australia,
and Shoghi Effendi approved his design of the unbuilt House of Worship
in Haifa, Israel. Mason Remey would later become a Hand of the Cause,
the president of the International Bahá'í Council, and after Shoghi
Effendi's death, a claimant to the office of Guardian.
Mason
Remey based his claim to be the second Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith the
idea that by appointing him as President of the International Bahá'í
Council, the embryonic form of the Universal House of Justice which
would be led by the Guardian, Shoghi Effendi had in fact implicitly
named him as the second Guardian. Mason Remey's claim was largely
rejected with several notable exceptions, including five members of the
National Spiritual Assembly of France led by Joel Marangella. The
remaining 26 Hands of the Cause unanimously declared Remey and whoever
followed him Covenant-breakers.
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