Rejection of the Guardianship leads to spiritual death

Before Charles Mason Remey announced to the Bahá'í world that he had been appointed by Shoghi Effendi to be the second Guardian, he made a number of private appeals to the Custodian Hands to patiently explain to them how and why their scheme to elect a Universal House of Justice without the Guardian as its sacred head was a violation of the Master's Will and Testament and to urge them to accept his authority as the President of the International Bahá'í Council, an office that was synonymous with being the second Guardian. Those appeals, which are partially quoted below, can be found here: http://www.bahai-guardian.com/appeals.

First, Mason Remey points out that the life of the Faith results from the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and spiritual death results from being cut off from this Spirit released in this Day by Bahá'u'lláh:

"In the teachings of the Bahá’í Faith we are constantly reminded that it is only through the operation of THE HOLY SPIRIT that the divine blessings of the Abhá Kingdom can give mankind spiritual life, In other words that the spiritual life of the Faith depends upon the out-pouring of The Holy Spirit as does the growth and the spread of the Faith. In other words, the very spiritual functioning of the religion of God in all of its appearances here upon earth down through the history of the many divine Dispensations of the past and as it always shall be throughout all those of time to come is through the intermediary of The Holy Spirit. This is the channel or the method of Almighty God through which His greatest blessing, that of the Life Eternal, works for the divinely spiritual uplift and will-being of mankind and woe be to those who cut themselves off from the flow of The Holy Spirit for to be cut off from its flow means spiritual death."

Mr. Remey then goes on to state that after Baha'u'llah ascended to the Abhá Kingdom, the channel through which the Holy Spirit appeared, flowing from Baha'u'llah, was ‘Abdu'l-Bahá:

"After Baha’u’llah, His Beloved Son, the Center of His Covenant ‘Abdu'l-Bahá, became the channel through which The Holy Spirit, coming through from Bahá'u'lláh, was diffused to those who turned to Him (‘Abdu'l-Bahá) while those who turned against Him cut themselves off from the Abhá Holy Spirit to find themselves indeed in darkness."

Upon ‘Abdu'l-Bahá's death, the Holy Spirit flows through the office of the Guardianship, the Center of the Cause, according to the provisions of His Will and Testament:

"In The Will and Testament of the Blessed Master Abdu’l-Bahá, He explicitly establishes the Guardianship as the Center upon this earth about which all should revolve, the Center of Guidance through and from which those of the Bahá’í Faith would be vouchsafed infallible guidance and the source and the only source to the world of Divine Guidance.

"In other words, 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 Bahá'í 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.

"But now??? In this interregnum between the first and a second Guardian of the Faith, the source of the light of the Faith is in eclipse and the Cause is without infallible direction. The Will and Testament of the Master with the Institution of the Guardianship being transgressed, or in other words, violated so with this conditions The Holy Spirit no longer can reach the Hands of the Faith who for the moment thus lead the Faith blindly the world around and in darkness. In our present state of confusion and dilemma of this departure from the Administration of The Will and Testament, they the Hands of the Faith, have set up a form of Bahá'í government quite different and foreign to anything in The Will and Testament, deceiving themselves and now they are frantically attempting to justify their actions in following this violation by promising to the Bahá’ís at large that they will form a Universal House of Justice in 1963 that will give them infallibility and thus replace any need for the function of the Guardianship, thus they are attempting the impossible and this attempt can only bring added confusion to that which we of the Faith are already suffering."

Our second Guardian was very clear and explicit about this matter. To reject the Guardianship was to reject the Holy Spirit, "...the one unforgivable sin, the blasphemy; against The Holy Ghost, of which Christ taught that was not forgiven in this world nor in the worlds to come through all eternity!"

If you suddenly awaken from your spiritual slumber and realize that you are on the wrong side here, that your sans-Guardian organization is missing the flow of divine guidance that only comes from the Holy Spirit, which in this Day flows from Bahá'u'lláh to the living Guardian of the Cause, then it is not at all too late to retrace your steps. Your first duty is to recognize the validity of the second Guardian so that you can then follow his command to recognize and to obey the third Guardian, the living Guardian, Joel B. Marangella.

The authority of Mason Remey was never complicated, so it just needs to be faced and understood.  Nobody else had authority after the passing of Shoghi Effendi, except for Mason Remey:

"Now since the departure from this world of Shoghi Effendi, the responsibilities of the International Council and everything connected with it are my responsibility – a responsibility such as no other Bahá'í carries or possesses. Mine is now the sole and the exclusive right to handle the affairs of the International Council. Such is the responsibility and call conferred upon me by our Beloved Guardian that went into effect at his death in November 1957.... Therefore I hold that nothing be done by any one or by any ones other than I, myself, toward anything at all that concerns the Bahá'í International Council, and this means the Hands of the Faith are at all times to be under the direction and command of the Guardian of the Faith, and my authority to direct the affairs of the International Council, to direct them of myself, independent of and free from all authority, was conferred upon me by the Beloved Guardian; thus these powers became mine automatically at the death of the first Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith."

The Hands arbitraily rejected the authority of Mason Remey and the International Baha'i Council, and arbitrarily asserted their own authority, and to this day the sans-Guardian organization is cut off from the power of the Holy Spirit and will remain so unless and until the Bahá'ís turn to the Guardian and accept his authority.

The living third Guardian's web site:
http://www.bahai-guardian.com/

Jeffrey