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Baha’i Centenary: 100th Anniversary of the Return of Jesus 8/22/1914-8/22/2014

Friday, August 22nd, 2014

Writings and Videos by and about the Return of Jesus to the world of man on the anniversary of his birth 100 years ago on this date, August 22, 1914.

 

http://entrybytroops.org

http://www.bupc.org/Most-Mighty-Document.pdf

http://www.bupc.org/Tablet-of-the-Dichotomy.pdf

 

`Abdu’l-Baha spoke of the coming of the establisher in Some Answered Questions in his commentary on the eleventh chapter of the Revelation of St. John. This was written in 1906:

“The seventh angel is a man qualified with heavenly attributes, who will arise with heavenly qualities and character. Voices will be raised, so that the appearance of the Divine Manifestation will be proclaimed and diffused. In the day of the manifestation of the Lord of Hosts, and at the epoch of the divine cycle of the Omnipotent which is promised and mentioned in all the books and writings of the Prophets – in that day of God, the Spiritual and Divine Kingdom will be established, and the world will be renewed; a new spirit will be breathed into the body of creation; the season of the divine spring will come; the clouds of mercy will rain; the sun of reality will shine; the life-giving breeze will blow; the world of humanity will wear a new garment; the surface of the earth will be a sublime paradise; mankind will be educated; wars, disputes, quarrels and malignity will disappear; and truthfulness, righteousness, peace and the worship of God will appear; union, love and brotherhood will surround the world; and God will rule for evermore – meaning that the Spiritual and Everlasting Kingdom will be established. Such is the day of God.” (Pages: 56-57)

The definition of the word ‘angel’ is a messenger, a harbinger. It is the job of the Seventh Angel to establish the Kingdom by re-establishing the Covenant. Abdu’l-Baha says that “the seventh angel is a man”, so he is speaking of a man that is going to come with a message. This is a prophecy for a man that “will arise” to establish the Kingdom of God on Earth. This man is Dr. Leland Jensen, Knight of Baha’u’llah, who is the Establisher of Baha’u’llah’s Revelation.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLKUV6WFQEE

 

Baha’i Month: Asma’ (Names) 1, 171 B.E. (8/20/2014)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2014

I shall restate here My theme, that perchance this may assist thee in recognizing thy Creator. Know thou that God—exalted and glorified be He—doth in no wise manifest His inmost Essence and Reality. From time immemorial He hath been veiled in the eternity of His Essence and concealed in the infinitude of His own Being. And when He purposed to manifest His beauty in the kingdom of names and to reveal His glory in the realm of attributes, He brought forth His Prophets from the invisible plane to the visible, that His name “the Manifest” might be distinguished from “the Hidden” and His name “the Last” might be discerned from “the First”, and that there may be fulfilled the words: “He is the First and the Last; the Seen and the Hidden; and He knoweth all things!” 5 Thus hath He revealed these most excellent names and most exalted words in the Manifestations of His Self and the Mirrors of His Being.

It is therefore established that all names and attributes return unto these sublime and sanctified Luminaries. Indeed, all names are to be found in their names, and all attributes can be seen in their attributes. Viewed in this light, if thou wert to call them by all the names of God, this would be true, as all these names are one and the same as their own Being. Comprehend then the intent of these words, and guard it within the tabernacle of thy heart, that thou mayest recognize the implications of thine inquiry, fulfil them according to that which God hath ordained for thee, and thus be numbered with those who have attained unto His purpose.

Baha’u’llah, Gems Of Divine Mysteries, Para. 46 & 47

Citation: 5. Qur’án 57:3.

Baha’i Sabbath: Kamal 15, 171 B.E. (8/15/2014)

Friday, August 15th, 2014

The First Basic Baha’i Principle is: “The Oneness of the World of Humanity.”

 

“Hands may be black, white, yellow or brown, but the hue of the heart is one.”

‘Abdu’l-Baha, The Servant, The BRANCH.

 

The first foundation stone is the Jasper; it is clear red, like the hue of the heart. In ancient times it was called the bloodstone.

Any historical ingenious theories of essential racial superiority, which many people still embrace, can not survive investigation nor the inquisitive examination of a sincere seeker. Foundations of racial superiority prove to be nothing more than expressions of national or racial conceit and pomposity, when considered without egoism or prejudice. There is simply no known fact of human anatomy or physiology which implies that the capacity for culture of civilization inheres in one race or another race of mankind.

The strength of a living society depends upon the unity of its millions of diversified individuals in a common ideology, which must be excellently suited to the needs and conditions of that society. The science of Anthropology has revealed to us our common ancestry. Beyond doubt it has proved totally and conclusively that the human race, though varying in color, size, and feature, is not made up of different kinds and species. Humanity is one, Homo Sapiens, MAN. We are one people from the same origin and with the same history.

“In every dispensation the light of divine guidance has been focused upon one central theme…. In this wondrous Revelation, this glorious center, the foundation of Faith of God and the distinguishing feature of His Law, is the consciousness of the oneness of mankind.”

‘Abdu’l-Baha, The servant, The BRANCH.

 

Long experience is at last convincing men of the truth of the prophetic teaching that selfish views and selfish actions inevitably bring social disaster, and that if humanity is not to perish ingloriously, each must look on the things of his neighbor as of equal importance with his own, and subordinate his own interests to those of humanity as a whole. In this way the interests of each and all will ultimately be best served.

“That which the lord hath ordained as the sovereign remedy and mightiest instrument for the healing of all the world is the union of all its people in one universal Cause, one common Faith. This can in no wise be achieved except through the power of a skilled, an all-powerful and inspired Physician. This, verily, is the truth, and all else naught but error.”

Baha’u’llah, The Return of Christ.

 

We are all fruits of one tree, the leaves of one branch, the flowers of one garden. This is most characteristic of Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings onto us. The unity of mankind and of all created beings by God is the main theme of his teachings. Every member of the human family, whether of the peoples or of the governments, cities or nations, have become increasingly interdependent. For none, is self sufficiency any longer possible, in as much as political ties unite all people and nations, and the bonds of trade and industry, of agriculture and education, are being strengthened every day. Therefore, the unity and oneness of all mankind can in this day be achieved.

The whole of mankind is groaning, yearning to be lead to unity and to terminate its age long martyrdom for oneness. It yet stubbornly refuses to embrace the light and acknowledge the sovereign authority of the one Power that can extricate it from its entanglements. Our human society is now close to approaching the stage which the unification of the whole of mankind can be realized. All of mankind is but of one origin, our Shepherd is the Loving God. Upon us are bestowed His Most Great mercies, for we are considered as one fold. The highest and most excelling grace bestowed upon men is the grace of ‘attaining unto the Presence of God’ and of His recognition, which has been promised unto all people. This is the utmost degree of grace vouchsafed unto man by the All-Bountiful, the Ancient of Days, and the fullness of His absolute bounty upon His Creation.

In human nature, there is a spiritual and intellectual potentiality for development of a higher and higher form of social order. This order itself may reach its ultimate-size and shape with the boundaries of the planet, which is in a world order, but development within that final commonwealth is unlimited. The very nature of things is in the realization of the inner potentialities of man himself towards spiritual evolvement and enlightenment.

Before us is unfolded a principle of oneness among mankind. From family life to tribal life, to city to state, to provinces, kingdoms, and nations, a veil has been lifted from our hearts, that we, all races of mankind, can come together as one, united together. No longer as races of men, but as a race of mankind united in oneness and in brother-hood.

“In that day, saith the lord of Hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.”

Zechariah 3:10

Ezekiel’s Temple Vision Fulfilled, Kamal 9, 171 B.E. (8/9/2014)

Sunday, August 10th, 2014

New-Jerusalem Tower Seven

 

THE ADVENT OF THE CITY OF GOD,
THE NEW JERUSALEM,
WITH THE STREET OF THE CITY
THAT WAS PURE GOLD [1]

THE prophecies for the establishment of the Holy City in America is as old as the hills. Isaiah tells us the way Jesus will come from the mountains in the Northwest:

Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee [Jesus], and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages [David’s lineage]; That thou mayest say to the prisoners [in the Montana State Prison], Go forth; to them that are in darkness [the Christians and the Covenant-breaking Baha’is], Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places…. And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. Behold, these shall come from far [America]: and, lo, these from the north and from the west [northwest]; and these from the land [Leland] of Sinim. (Isaiah 49:8, 9, 11, 12)

Montana is a northern state bordering on Canada. Deer Lodge is in the Rocky Mountains in the far west of Montana, fulfilling the prophecy of coming in the mountains of the north and west. There are numerable prophecies concerning Jesus coming in the west and in America and in Deer Lodge.

Two Mountains of Brass

The Mormons thought that Jesus would come to the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City in Utah. But George Williams, who was associated with the Mormons, prophesied and had visions that showed Jesus coming in the Deer Lodge Valley, Montana where the Temple of God, the City of the Great King, the New Jerusalem, is to be built. In Hebrew the word for copper and brass is the same. On either end of the Deer Lodge Valley (where the prison is located in the city of Deer Lodge) are the world’s two largest mountains of Copper: Lincoln and Butte, Montana.

AND I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. (Zechariah 6:1)

Butte is called the ‘Richest Hill on earth.’ In 1900 Butte produced about one-quarter of the United States’ copper output and one-seventh of the world’s! [2] Butte is also called the city a mile high and a mile deep. It is a mile high in the Rocky Mountains and a mile deep with copper mines. Likewise, it is known that Lincoln, Montana has even more copper than Butte, though it hasn’t been tapped yet.

It is between these two mountains of brass that the Old Montana Prison in Deer Lodge fulfills the prophecy for the seven-towered temple of Ezekiel’s Temple where Jesus II enters through the eastern gate of Tower #7 between the two pillars of Jachin and Boaz (Jesus and Baha’u’llah).

From the prison in Deer Lodge between these two mountains of brass (Lincoln and Butte), the chariots of God and His heavenly army, led by the return of Jesus, will gather to be sent out into the world proclaiming the good news of the establishment of the Kingdom of God:

In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses; and in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grizzled and bay horses. Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord? …These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. (Zechariah 6:2-5)

The Morrisites and George Williams

The MORRISITES get their name from Joseph Morris. He appeared on the scene at the height of the great Mormon reformation of 1856. [3] It was his mission, much like that of the great reformer Martin Luther, to separate a group of pure-hearted people from the mainstream Mormon church which by that time had deviated from its course. The MORRISITES consider the reformer Morris as only the martyr foreshadower, or forerunner, of their true prophet, George Williams. [4]

Ten years after the Mormons entered the Great Salt Lake area in Utah, in 1857, they had become very corrupt under the leadership of Brigham Young. The main corruption of the Mormons was polygamy. Federal Court ruled that this practice was started by Brigham Young, not by Joseph Smith [5] and wasn’t announced by Brigham Young as an official Mormon practice until 1852, eight years after Smith had died. The purpose of this was so Brigham Young could marry a lot of rich widows and get their money and land. He would send a young man who was married and had some rich possessions and land to a foreign country, and then marry his wife and appropriate his land and belongings to himself.

Joseph Morris rose up at this time against the corruption of Brigham Young. He was a relatively unknown Mormon like Martin Luther who, in his day, was just one simple monk against the great Pope. Like Luther, Morris had no intention of starting his own religion. He just wanted to reform the Mormon Church in Utah and get rid of all their corruption so they could continue on their true path. However, Brigham Young refused to reform, just like the Pope refused to reform to Martin Luther. Brigham Young decided that he had to get rid of Morris and rub him out. Martin Luther, when he made his declaration, found protection from the Pope under the eight German princes. As long as the U.S. government army remained in the Utah territory, Morris was safe. However, in 1862 with the outbreak of the Civil War, the U.S. army pulled out of Utah, and Brigham Young and his Mormon militia took over. They ruthlessly murdered Joseph Morris and several other MORRISITES, ranking the MORRISITES war right up there with the Mountain Meadows Massacre a few years earlier.

As the Brighamite Sheriff Burton, riding roughshod into the MORRISITES camp at Kingston Fort, tried to run Joseph Morris down with his horse, he said, “I want no more of your apostasy” [6] (clearly showing that the conflict was purely religious in nature), and then shot Morris dead.

 

THE MILITARY ESCORT OF THE MORRISITES
by Neal Chase

On June 15th, 1862, Joseph Morris was murdered under the direct orders of Brigham Young. At that time the United States Army had already withdrawn from the Utah territory in July of 1861 to fight the Civil War and the Mormon militia under the iron-fisted control of Brigham Young had taken over full power.

The legal writs, warrants and other government authorizations issued to empower the Mormon militia for the murder of Morris were all orchestrated and controlled by Brigham Young through the force of his three main agents: Sheriff Robert T. Burton, who did the actual killing; Judge John F. Kinney, who issued the writs; and Acting Governor Frank Fuller, who placed his seal of approval on the executive order to kill Joseph Morris.

Sheriff Burton was a known pawn and dirty-jobber for Brigham Young. Judge Kinney publicly stated that he was in Brigham’s pocket. And acting Governor Fuller was a devout Mormon and follower of Young’s.

The Morrisite slaughter was the final atrocity on top of previous abominations of the Mormons such as the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the murder of the Aiken party—another bloody episode—and other heinous crimes that moved the Lincoln Administration, despite the immediate concerns imposed by the Civil War, to re-occupy the Utah Territory and protect the remaining Morrisites from any harm and danger from the violent threats and acts of Brigham Young and his Mormon killers.

Immediately after the murder of Morris and the arraignment of the surviving Morrisites in the court of Judge Kinney, Acting Governor Fuller was relieved of duty on July 7th, 1862, with the arrival of newly appointed Governor Stephen S. Harding.

Harding was instantly revolted by the slaughter—an oppressive religious war within the territory orchestrated by Young—and immediately set out to get to the truth of the matter. This ended in Harding granting a full exoneration of all charges against the Morrisites as well as the issuance of a strong report back to Washington reaching Abraham Lincoln through the Secretary of State. Lincoln then ordered the Union soldiers back into the Utah territory, under the leadership of General Patrick Edward Connor, to protect the Morrisite people from further harm. These actions by Lincoln completely infuriated Brigham Young who lashed out at the President from the pulpit in a feverish tirade.

…and as for those whom Abraham Lincoln has sent here [Connor’s troops] if they meddle with our domestic affairs I will send them to hell across lots; and as for those apostates [the Morrisites] running around here, they will probably fall down and their bowels will gush out, or they will bleed somewhere else. (Holy Murder: The Story of Porter Rockwell by Kelly and Birney, pp. 219, 220)

Despite the loud threats, General Connor fulfilled his mission by personally overseeing that the Morrisite wagon trains safely left the Utah Territory on May 5th, 1863 with a full military escort! One wagon train went south to Carson City, Nevada, while the other train led by Connor moved north to Soda Springs, Idaho, where the Morrisites built a settlement that they named Morris Town.

It was at this time that George Williams came onto the scene with his visions of the return of Jesus to be in the Deer Lodge Valley in Montana.

George Williams was never a Morrisite. He always remained a Mormon. It was the MORRISITES, however, who listened to his prophecies and followed his instructions to move to Deer Lodge. Williams was a farmer living in Salt Lake City, but as Brigham Young was looking to do with him as he did with Joseph Morris, Williams moved from Utah back to his native England. [7]

 
The First Vision

On April 15th, 1862, while riding on his horse in the mountains of Utah, Williams was overcome by a majestic visitation from the north in the direction of Deer Lodge in which he saw the return of Jesus leading the armies of heaven, riding ‘a countless host of horses’ out from between two ‘massive pillars of light.’ These two massive pillars correspond to the two mountains of brass from which the four chariots of the armies of heaven are prophesied to come forth in Zechariah chapter 6. The two mountains of brass are Lincoln and Butte, Montana. Lincoln is on the north and Butte is on the south of the Deer Lodge Valley.

His first vision was first circulated in handwritten form and was later published by John Eardley in 1899 in a book containing Williams’ prophecies and visions entitled Gems of Inspiration. Williams writes:—

After leading a blameless life, and searching after the treasures of eternity, through the gospel of Christ, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, I was on the 15th day of April AD 1862, riding on my spirited mare by the slope of the western range of mountains, near Hacker’s Canyon, in Salt Lake Valley, Utah, when snow began to fall in a marvelous manner. A cloud appeared in the north and became agitated, and speedily formed an enormous archway, spanning the entire valley.

On each side of this arch were massive pillars of light, constructed with fine skill, and folding doors studded with golden bolts. Beholding this heavenly appearance, I alighted from my horse, and allowed it to escape. While meditating this scene, the eyes of my understanding were opened by the spirit of God, so as to understand the things of God as they were from eternity.

The folding doors were thrown back, and the highway to the eternal worlds was opened before me, and a voice strengthened me saying: “fear not, thou greatly beloved of the Lord, these are they that form a portion of the armies of heaven.” Beyond the folding doors I saw a countless host of horses, and they who sat upon them had on breast-plates of fire, and diamonds, and helmets of precious stones, and out of the nostrils of the horses came fire and smoke, and their riders had large swords, and their faces were lightened as the sun…. (cited from Joseph Morris and the Saga of the Morrisites by C. Leroy Anderson, pp. 174-5)

In the spring of 1863, corresponding exactly to the time of Baha’u’llah’s Proclamation in the Garden of Ridvan on April 21st, 1863, George Williams, following the direction of God, proclaimed himself to the Morrisite community and declared that Deer Lodge was the sacred spot foreordained in all the books of God to be the site for the Heavenly City, the “City, of the Great King” which is described in the Book of Revelation and the Bible as the “New Jerusalem.”

At once with joyful hearts and renewed vigor the seemingly beaten band of Morrisites were now set aglow with a new zeal, for they had been saved and redeemed just as Morris had promised they would be after the great Morrisite killings of 1862! Now with the true vision of the seer Williams, they triumphantly gathered their scant material possessions and moved to the Deer Lodge Valley, for them the home of the Promised Land! Some moved directly to Deer Lodge while others moved to Soda Springs, Idaho and Council Bluffs, Iowa, later to join the rest of them in Deer Lodge.

Here they built the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, and paved the streets with pure gold (Revelation 21:21), and the city was pure gold (Revelation 21:18). The city was built foursquare, its length, breadth and heighth are equal (Revelation 21:16). The city of Deer Lodge is one mile wide, one mile long and one mile high—a cube—that is, it is one mile above sea level. And they have a river of gold flowing a little way west of Deer Lodge called Gold Creek.

Most of the Morrisites upon arriving in the Deer Lodge Valley went to work in the placer gold mines, and they were paid in gold, which they used to pay for the building of the streets and the city. Thus the city and the streets were paid for with gold, or, in other words, they were paved with gold.

After hearing Williams’ great announcement, the first Morrisites moved to Montana in the spring of 1863, the same year that the Deer Lodge Town Company platted the city of Deer Lodge, Montana as a perfect square mile (640 acres).

By the 1870s the majority of the rest of the Morrisites joined their friends in Deer Lodge to await the return of Jesus in that city, “the City of the Great King.” Williams told the Morrisites to build a Temple in Deer Lodge with stones from the surrounding mountains, for Jesus would come and enter the Temple. He said that they should look for him at the temple on August the 9th. The Morrisites never built the Temple; instead they built a small wooden church, not in Deer Lodge, but about 5 miles south of Deer Lodge where they assembled every year in a great event on August 9th.

Whereas the State of Montana built the Temple for them from the rocks and stones from the surrounding mountains. The return of Jesus entered that Temple in the evening of August 8th, 1969, when he, Leland—the Land—entered the Montana State Prison, placed there by God, and he spent his first full day in that Temple on August 9th, 1969. At the same time the Morrisites were assembled at their wooden church, waiting there for Jesus. The prophecy of Williams was for them to look for him on August the 9th at the Temple built of stones from the surrounding mountains, not at a wooden church. Thus the Morrisites missed the return of Jesus because they were looking for him in the wrong place, in a wooden church south of Deer Lodge, whereas Jesus was prophesied to come in the Temple in the City of Gold of the Great King.

August 9th, 1969 was the last time the Morrisites met and looked for the return of Jesus.[8] However, he had already come, unbeknownst to them, in the Temple inside the City of Gold. If they had followed the instructions of Williams more carefully they would not have missed their hearts’ desire. They didn’t expect for him to come in prison although he was prophesied by both Williams and Jesus on his first coming that he would return in prison and he would separate the sheep from the goats.

Williams’ Other Visions

Williams was specifically clear that it would be the return of Jesus the High Priest after the Order of Melchizedec (see Hebrews, chapters 5, 6 and 7), and not the second coming of Christ (which is Baha’u’llah, the descendant of David), who would appear in Deer Lodge! Thus Williams’ prophecy of the return of Jesus in prison was specifically referring to the return of Jesus the High Priest, and he entitles his prophecy “the high priesthood returns.” Williams and the Morrisites were really into the return of Jesus being of the Order of Melchizedec (as the High Priest), and they held that Williams was the one representing him at their time. This clarifies that it was not Jesus Christ, but Jesus the High Priest after the Order of Melchizedec who Williams prophesies:

You also wish to know something of Melchizedec—the real Melchizedec [Jesus the High Priest], not one representing him [Williams]. Now mark the first time we hear of him, he declared to be the King of Salem or Peace. Here is brought out the bread and wine to Abraham, our faithful friend and brother. It is not written what was said at this interview; but I have not doubt it would be the same as said to the 12, at his last supper when he [9] takes the bread and also the cup saying: “Take, eat and drink, all of you, for this is my body broken, and my blood shed for you.” There he stood [Jesus the High Priest] without a scar. (George Williams’ letter to Erasmussen, December 27, 1881)

Williams gives the astounding fact that the return of Jesus the High Priest (after the Order of Melchizedec) will be from the royal line (genealogy) of the Kings of Denmark. Most of the Morrisites were Danes (of the tribe of Dan) that had migrated to Danmark. The Danes were different from the Christians and the Mormons in that they were not waiting for Jesus to descend from the sky, but would be born from the lineage of the Kings of Danmark, or Denmark. Dr. Leland Jensen is a full-blooded Dane on both his mother’s (Petersen) and his father’s (Jensen) side. His father’s line goes back to the royalty of Denmark, fulfilling Williams’ prophecy.

Williams gives the clearest picture of all! Unlike the ridiculous myths of the majority of Christians waiting for Jesus to come down out of the physical sky on a physical cloud, the Morrisites were awaiting the return of Jesus for over 100 years as a descendant of the Kings of Denmark, a real person, to be imprisoned in the city of Deer Lodge in a stone building that was both a prison and Ezekiel’s seven-towered Temple. He would be wearing a “dirty garment” as his charge, which the Bab and Baha’u’llah, though in prison, did not have. He would arrive on the day of August 9th of 1969. Williams said that he knew his new name (which we know is Leland: the Land, Ha Eretz; see Zechariah 3:9), but he says it was not for him to reveal. And that his mission as the High Priest after the Order of Melchizedec was to open the scroll of the Covenant and to go by the Law of the Book of the Covenant (Will and Testament) in order to establish his Father’s Kingdom.

As a capstone to this brief segment of Williams’ prophecies is a most remarkable vision of all, of special interest to Baha’is as well as all the people of the world. In an astounding vision in which Muhammad appeared to George Williams, he was instructed to send a messenger from Deer Lodge to Constantinople and rebuke the Sultan of the Turkish Empire, Abdu’l-Aziz, who is the one that imprisoned Baha’u’llah unjustly. Williams prophesies that the Ottoman Empire will be torn down for this evil deed and that the Sultan will lose his power, which he did. The most astounding feature of the vision of Muhammad is that at the end of it Williams hears a multitude of angels singing the most beautiful sound he had ever heard, “Allah’u’Abha! Allah’u’Abha!” over and over again:

Cainan [George Williams] bowed consent and then a pause. Muhammad said, “My time is expired. Farewell.” I heard now a loud rushing, it seemed of a thousand voices, the most distinctive sound was Allah Abbah. This proceeded from the same body of light that swept past taking my visitor which I watched till I could see no more. And the voices left their memory, the sweetest ever mortal heard. (George Williams’ Vision of Muhammad, 1867)

Thus in this vision Williams received the Most Great Name brought by Baha’u’llah and Baha’u’llah alone, showing that he had attained, as Baha’u’llah has written: the true station which every Baha’i can attain is that of an Old Testament prophet.

Like Jesus Christ and Baha’u’llah who had John the Baptist and the Bab, respectively, as their forerunners, Dr. Leland Jensen has George Williams and the Morrisites. The entire Deer Lodge Valley was pioneered and settled specifically for his coming so that all the people of the world could be absolutely assured through this proof that he is the authentic and bona fide establisher of the Baha’i Faith, authorized to re-establish what the Covenant-breaking “Hands” threw out—the genuine IBC/UHJ with the Davidic Kingship as the president and member for life of that body.

The purpose of these prophecies is to establish beyond any doubt whatsoever (through proofs) what the true and full station, mission and authority of Dr. Jensen is as the authentic establisher of the Baha’i faith. The fulfillment of prophecy is given by ‘Abdu’l-Baha in Some Answered Questions as the bona fide criteria for recognizing the authenticity of the Promised Ones.[10] When we see that they fulfill the prophecies from a number of established sources, like the Biblical proofs given for Jesus on his first coming and those for the coming of Baha’u’llah, then we can see they are authentic and we can believe in them, as authenticity is the criteria for believability. God has been very gracious in sending His Son back at this time of great trouble just before the great catastrophe, guiding those pure souls that had been hoodwinked and bamboozled into following false leaders such as the clergy of the various religions and the Covenant-breaking “Hands” of the Baha’i faith along with their created monster (without a head) Universal House of Justice.

The Return of Jesus is not a Manifestation

Consider thou the Day of Resurrection. Were God to pronounce the lowliest of creatures among the faithful to be the First One to believe in the Bayan, thou shouldst have no misgivings about it and must be of them that truly believe. In this station look not upon human limitations and names but rather upon that whereby the rank of the First One to believe is vindicated, which is faith in God, and recognition of His being and assurance in the fulfillment of His irresistible and binding command.

Consider thou the Revelation of the Point of the Bayan [the Bab]—exalted is His glory. He pronounced the First One to believe in Him [Mulla Husayn] to be Muhammad, the Messenger of God. [Yet Mulla Husayn was not a Manifestation! But a follower of the Manifestation!] Does it beseem a man to dispute with Him by saying that this man is from Persia, the Other from Arabia, or this one was called Husayn while the Other bore the name Muhammad? Nay, I swear by God’s holy Being, the Exalted, the Most Great. Surely no man of intelligence and insight would ever pay attention unto limitations or names, but rather unto that with which Muhammad was invested, which was none other than the Cause of God. Such a man of insight would likewise consider [Mulla] Husayn and the position he occupied in the Cause of God, the Omnipotent, the Exalted, the Knowing, the Wise.
(Tablets of Baha’u’llah, pp. 184, 185)

And since the First One to believe in God in the Dispensation of the Bayan was invested with command similar to that with which Muhammad, the Messenger of God, was invested, therefore the Bab pronounced him to be the latter, namely, his return and resurrection. This station [although Mulla Husayn was not a Manifestation] is sanctified from every limitation or name, and naught can be seen therein but God, the One, the Peerless, the All-Knowing.

The Bab was the Promised Manifestation of Islam, and therefore Mullah Husayn, the First One to fully believe and comprehend his Revelation, was invested with the station of being the return and resurrection of Muhammad, although Mullah Husayn was not himself a Manifestation of God like the Bab, but was, rather, his follower. The coming of Baha’u’llah is that of the second coming of Christ, the fulfillment of Christianity, and therefore, the First One in this Great Revelation, the establisher of the Baha’i Faith, holds the station of the return and resurrection of Jesus without being a Manifestation of God, the same as Mulla Husayn was not a Manifestation of God yet was the return of Muhammad.

 

ENDNOTES

1 Revelation 21:2, 21

2 Tom Stout, Montana, History and Biography (The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York: 1921) p. 836.

3 C. Leroy Anderson, For Christ Will Come Tomorrow: the Saga of the Morrisites (Logan Utah: Utah State University Press, 1980), p. 13

4 Anderson, pp. 149, 154

5 An eminent jurist, Federal Judge John E. Philips reviewed the evidence presented by the polygamous Utah Mormon Church [of Brigham Young], in legal proceedings wherein the origin of the doctrine and practice of polygamy was a vital issue, and held that Brigham Young, not Joseph Smith, was the author and instigator of that… doctrine (see ‘Reorganized Church vs. Church of Christ, et al, 60 fed. 937,’ cited in: Inez Smith Davis, The Story of the Church (Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House, 1959), p. 486). For more on this see Chapter Six, JOSEPH SMITH, subsections: ‘The vision of Joseph Smith’ and ‘The pure of heart.’

6 Joseph Morris, The Spirit Prevails (San Francisco: George S. Dove and Company, 1886) Introduction by G. Dove, p. 7

7 From Ezekiel’s Temple in Montana, by Neal Chase.

8 “The Church of Jesus Christ of the saints of the Most High [the Morrisites] officially disbanded in 1969 [on August 9th].” (MCLU) index book, Morrisites Collection: Marie-Eccles Caine Archive, Logan, Utah at the Utah State University.

9 Underlined by Williams to stress the identity of Jesus the High Priest after the Order of Melchizedec which is the one whom Williams foresaw in Deer Lodge—and not Christ, Baha’u’llah, the descendant of David.

10 See Some Answered Questions, chapter 10: “Traditional Proofs Exemplified from the book of Daniel,” p. 43.

Excerpted From; Over The Wall Of Oppression, Entry By Troops by J.T. Lamb

http://entrybytroops.org

Baha’i Month: Kamal/Perfection 1, 171 B.E. (8/1/2014)

Friday, August 1st, 2014

The various sects who consider themselves servants of the world of humanity are possessed of good intention, but they are inert, not active; captive, not free; silent, not eloquent; slow, not fast. They have sluggish movement and great intention. These two do not agree.

Many a good intention was there in the world of existence which left no trace, for it was not confirmed by the effective power. But the good intentions of the beloved of God and the merciful projects of the real friends are enforced by the power of the Word of God; therefore, it is effective and quick in action and the means of life to the world of humanity. Thank thou God that He hath provided such a means for thee that by divine aid, heavenly confirmation, merciful intention and heavenly power thou mayest arise to serve, so that thou mayest see wonderful signs and marvelous results.

Abdu’l-Baha’, Tablets, vol. III, pg. 702

BAHA’U’LLAH: THE POINT OF UNITY FOR JEWS, CHRISTIANS & MOSLEMS!

Wednesday, July 30th, 2014

MOSLEMS, CHRISTIANS AND JEWS MUST IMMEDIATELY CEASE ALL WARRING AND CONFLICT AND UNITE AROUND BAHA’U’LLAH UNDER HIS COVENANT!

THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO AVOID THERMONUCLEAR WAR!

BAHA’U’LLAH IS THE PROMISED ONE OF ALL PEOPLE, THEIR RELIGIONS AND TRADITIONS, AND THESE THREE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS IN PARTICULAR!

The entire Baha’i Faith and the controversy which has surrounded it since it’s beginnings in 1844-1863 revolve around the genealogy of Baha’u’llah being in a direct line from the Biblical King David. This has been suppressed in Persia (Iran) since then and has resulted in many assassinations worldwide, several of prominent individuals, by those who wish to keep this information from being widely investigated and broadcast. The “hands” in 1957 knew this and violated the Baha’i Covenant and without any authority whatsoever claimed “bada” and usurped the Cause of God in order to keep the world from knowing that Baha’u’llah was from this lineage, that He continued it through ‘Abdu’l-Baha and that it continued on from ‘Abdu’l-Baha through adoption.

Baha’u’llah’s lineage is from His father that of the Jewish Throne Line of King David and from His mother that of the Persian Sassanian Dynasty which ended with Yazdegird III.
The intertwining of this Throne Line of King David and the Throne Line of Zoroastrian Persia is referenced in one instance in Markham’s “A General Sketch of the History of Persia” published in 1874. The Genealogy is found on page 97 with the written account of the merging of these two royal houses found specifically on page 94. Here is the link to that account:

http://google.com/books?id=XWIVAAAAQAAJ

For a more complete genealogical depiction go to this link:

http://www.bupc.org/genealogy/genealogy-of-christ.html

Bostenay or as we transliterate the name; Bostanai was the “Prince of the Captivity” of the Jews at that time or as Ginsberg in his “Legends of the Jews” refers to the Davidic Kings during the time of their Babylonian/Persian captivity, the “Exilarchate”, the “Exilarchs” or the “Monarchs in exile”.

The Persians may know Bostanai in their history as “Baw” and his family as the “Bawandids” and there are written accounts of this very central point of Persian and Jewish history from both perspectives which dovetail perfectly. These histories were only “spoken of”, to quote a close Persian friend who is a Siyyid, “in very low tones and quiet whispers at certain cafe’s and private gymnasiums” as the Iranian government would cause one to disappear if they were found to be openly speaking of this part of Persian history. This oppression may be ongoing in present day Iran.

We, the Baha’is Under the Provisions of the Covenant, are going to break Baha’u’llah out of the Most Great Prison, the prison of oppression, marginalization and obscurity and bring about the Great Projection of His True Identity and the Identity of His True UHJ to all the people of the world. The goal of that Projection and the fruits of it are the establishment of universal human and civil rights, social and economic justice, the establishment of a bridled capitalism of the divine economy, and the lesser and greater peace founded upon the Most Great Justice.

It must also be noted that Baha’u’llah advised the Moslem leaders to send a representative to speak with His half brother Mirza Yahya so that they would have his confirmation of their genealogical roots. Mirza Yahya knew his family history as well as Baha’u’llah though Mirza Yahya also knew that it was not his own line of descent which continued the throne, but that it was in fact Baha’u’llah’s line which was chosen for this. This request by Baha’u’llah is recorded in His Epistle to the Son of the Wolf:

“In this day, this Wronged One requesteth thee and the other divines who
have drunk of the cup of the knowledge of God, and are illumined by the
shining words of the Day-Star of Justice, to appoint some person,
without informing any one, and despatch him to these regions, and
enable him to remain a while in the island of Cyprus, and associate
with Mirza Yahya, perchance he may become aware of the fundamentals of
this Faith and of the source of the Divine laws and commandments.
(Baha’u’llah: Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Pages: 120-121)

There are also key references in the Baha’i writings which confirm this Davidic Lineage and Baha’u’llah’s ancestry being firmly rooted therein.

In the year 817 A.D. the Reigning Davidic Monarch was actually converted to Islam by the Imam who was his contemporary when they met in the city of Mashad.

At one time when asked by what authority do the Imams rule the Imam stated “We rule by the authority of the House of David.”

This is the point of unity around which Moslem, Jew and Christian must unite! It is now time for this to come forth and bring the three most warring branches of the religion of God together in Universal Peace through Universal Justice!

In service to the Covenant,

In the Name of the King,

KPS59,

Knight of Baha’u’llah

 

“Thus saith the Lord to his anointed [Heb. Messiah], to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall be not shut;” (Is. 45:1 KJV)

As is shown here, in the Bible, Cyrus the Great, called Bahman ibn Isfandiyar in Persia is called Messiah or Christ, the “Anointed One” in the Bible. Why?

To understand this we must first understand the meaning of the word “anointed” or Christ.

The word Messiah is the Hebrew word for the Greek word Christ, which in English means anointed one, but anointed one of what? The full title is Messiah ben David, which means the anointed male sperm descendant of King David and was the term used only for the kings of the Jews of Israel who were anointed by the High Priest with oil in a ceremony to rule over the people of Israel. Thus David was anointed by Samuel and Solomon by the High Priest as well. The prophecies state that there will be “Two Messiahs” or “Two Christs” or “Two Anointed ones” that stand by the Lord of the whole earth (see Zech. Chap. 4 for more on this). These would be two different descendants of King David who would be anointed directly by God with the Holy Spirit and not with physical oil by a man in a ceremony. Yet the Bible declares Cyrus the Great to be God’s anointed, the Messiah or Christ though he is clearly not descended from King David. Why?

The answer is that from Cyrus the Great of Persia the second coming of Christ will appear through the female line, as the male line of David was to marry into the female line of Zoroaster and of Cyrus. Zoroaster in English literally means “seed of the woman”. Thus Cyrus is called “anointed” showing that through his lineage will come the “seed of the woman” or ovum through which the “loins of kings” will be loosed through marriage. From this union will come the return of Christ, whom both Christians and Muslims await, and who is the same personage as the Messiah seated upon the throne of David that the Jews are also awaiting. The very appearance of this personage will unite the people of the world as He is to be recognized as the Promised One of all. This was to be preserved and protected by Cyrus and his successors until the appointed hour. Beginning at 9/11/2001 that Prophetic Hour has been unfolding upon the world stage.

Thus Cyrus the Great was the One that God had appointed to both protect and continue this lineage from David (Christ), which is to last for ever (see Psalms 89).

Cyrus the Great did this in several ways. First, by returning Jesus’s ancestors who did not sit upon the throne of King David (God’s throne)—such as Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel (see Luke chapter 3)—back to the safety of Jerusalem; and 2) by bringing the throne of David into the safe haven of Persia where it was to be preserved for about 2300 years (Daniel chapter 8). Thus the Bible, in the Book of Daniel, ends with the throne of David being brought into Persia (see chapter 10 verses 1, 20; and ch. 11 verse 2, etc…). Then Daniel in Chapter 12 gives several prophetic dates such as 1260, 1290 and 1335 years to occur after the appearance of Mohammed, for the throne of David to re-emerge out of Persia and come to the West. This is prophesied to occur with a great social upheaval, thousands of believers martyred, the collapse of the Muslim dynasties and the resurgence of Western Powers over that of the East. As the dates of 1260, 1290 and 1335 on the Muslim calendar have already come and gone, behold how since that time of 1844 AD on the Christian solar calendar, these prophecies have all come to pass.

Thus Cyrus of Persia, a Zoroastrian, is called Messiah who will “loose the lions of kings [reproductive systems]” and “open before him the two leaved gates [“Bab” is gate in Persian and Arabic]. This is fulfilled in the TWIN HOLY LINEAGES of both Mohammed and King David preserved and protected in Persia. The daughters of Cyrus, of the last Sassanian Monarch Yazdigird III, Dara and Shar-Banu were married one to the exilarch, the exiled Davidic King, Bostanai, called Baw, Gawbara, or Badustan in Persian, and the other to Imam Husayn respectively. This marriage and double wedding ceremony was arranged by the Imam Ali and is preserved in the Legend of the 1001 Nights where Imam Husayn is symbolized by Shah Zaman (the Lord of the Age) who marries one sister and Bostanai is symbolized by his older brother, Shahriyar, (Shahriyar is a family name of Bostanai) who marries the other sister. Like Isaac and Ishmael were brothers, Bostanai and Imam Husayn, are not only brothers in marriage, but brothers from David and Muhammad, from Isaac and Ishmael. This is the story of the family of God. Thus the loins of Kings, both of David (Baw/Badustan Bostanai) and of Muhammad (Imam Husayn) were loosed by the lineage of Cyrus through these two women, the sisters and princesses of the Zoroastrian lineage. As already explained, Zoroaster, in English, literally means “seed of the woman.” ‘Zoro’ or ‘Zero’ is seed and ‘aster’ is the woman. The Bible gives Cyrus as “Messiah” “Christ” or “anointed one” because the Christ on his second coming that all the world waits for will be descended from him through the female line and from David upon the male line, for the Christ is the anointed son of David, and Jesus was not seated upon David’s throne, as this throne was moved into Persia.

Christians who were knowledgeable understood that the Magi from Persia were Zoroastrian Priests. Those Christian adepts were knowledgeable that King Solomon, when he had been exiled from his throne, met with Zoroaster in Shiz in Azerbaijan in the area of Solomaniyyiah and Solomon’s Throne. They understood that Zoroaster himself had visited King Solomon in Jerusalem and that all the kings of Persia mentioned in the Bible are Zoroastrians being of the same religion, same faith and same persuasion as the Jews and later the true Christians.

The symbol for the philosophers stone is the star of David and ancient European texts relate that this was to be found near Mount Damavand in Persia in the area of Mazindaran and Tabaristan, on the outskirts of the ancient city of Ray, near Teheran.

The writings on the Holy Grail explain that the Latin and French words where more fully “sangrail” or “sang-rail” and literally translates into English as blood-royal or the royal blood line of the true kingship blessed and chosen by God. “Sang” means blood; and “rail” means king. Thus in the Legends of Arthur, some knights visited into the east of Persia (Iran and Iraq) to the grail castle, and met the living descendant of King David ruling upon David’s throne at that time. This is recorded in the preserved books, which speak of these things.

“THE Most Great Law is come, and the Ancient Beauty ruleth upon the throne of David. Thus hath My Pen spoken that which the histories of bygone ages have related.”

The Proclamation of Baha’u’llah, pg. 89, The fulfillment of Psalm 89.

At the time of the fall of the Persian Empire all the lands were conquered by the Muslim hordes of Abu Bakr, Omar and Othman, accept for the strong hold of the mountains of the north in Mazindaran. In 613 AD when Chosroes captured Jerusalem, he did this with the help of Bostanai who was a general in his army and whom history variously calls Baw, Gil-Gawbara or Baduspan depending upon the sources.

Bostanai was promised to be able to rebuild Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem if he helped capture the City, but Chosroes changed his mind and captured the true cross for his Christian wife bringing this back to Persia. As a recompense Chosroes Parviz gave Bostanai the fiefdoms of the lands of his ancestors such as Azerbaijan and the north, where Solomon had wandered, Isfahan where Shushandukt was buried, Hamadan the place of Esther, and Istakar the place of Daniel and Cyrus, as well as the lands of Mazindaran in the precincts of the city of Rayy where Tobit and those dwelled, near where modern day Teheran is located. Thus Bostanai governed and collected the taxes over all the principalities as Shah (which included the territory of the Khazars and Russia as well along the shores of the Caspian sea) and then paid his tithes to Chosroes the Shahenshah, over all the empire. Ibn Isfandiyar tells us that it was then at that time that the northern mountain lands of Farthagwashgar were renamed Tabaristan from the word “Bustan” — beautiful scented garden — which is the name of the Davidic King Bostanai. Thus it was from this time forward that the north was called Tabaristan and the Dabuyids or Davidides of Baw (Bostanai) are reckoned as its first ancestral kings, from the days when the empire fell to the hands of the invading hordes of Omar and those who were against the Alids and family of Ali, Hasan and Husayn.

These two lineages — one female and the other male — (of Zoroaster and of David) are preserved from ancient times until the present. In the Bible we read of the great King Ahasuerus who married Queen Esther whom Firdawsi in the Shahnameh relates to the mother of Darius the Great, his father the great King of Persia and his mother the Queen from the family of David. Thus on the Behistun Monument, carved in Stone, located on the ancient roadway from Baghdad to Teheran, Darius proclaims that from these two great families (David and Hakamanush of Zoroaster and Cyrus) God has always vouchsafed kingship, and that it is from these “two families” that he himself is descended, David on the female side and that of Cyrus of the Persian on the male side. Thus these ancestors of ancient Persia could recount their lineages from either the male line or the female line, or sometimes from both, switching back and forth between certain family ancestors, depending upon how they wanted, for not only did Esther of the daughter’s of the house of David marry into the Persian royal family, but Shushandukt, the daughter of one of the Exilarchs married into the royal family of Sassan (a descendant of Cyrus) and her son was Bahman the Great.

In the Tarikh-i-Ruyan, you can therefore read where these pure natured ancestors thus recount their lineage from the time of Adam until the present day. From Adam to Pharez the son of Judah the son of Jacob son of Isaac, son of Abraham they give their genealogy in the male line. Then of Manuschir down through Cyrus the Great and the Sassaniyan kings they give their lineage of the female line. Then from Baw, Gawbara, or Gil, they give their lineage again through the male line. Thus these ancestors always showed that they were Jews, from Judah, in the male line. Jew means descended from Judah. And these Kings of the Mountains always reckoned their descent from Judah.

Pharez, the son of Judah was sometimes confused by scholars as referring to Fars, or the province of Fars in Persia. Thus in the poems and prophecies of Shalamagani, who stated that there was a future prophet who would not come from the house of Hashim but from the house of Kisra (Chosroes the Great, Anurshuvan (Adil) the Just), Mirza Abu Fazl clarified that by Pharez was meant the son of Judah and not the province of Fars.

Knowing the lineage of the Badustaniyan-Bawandids, Shalamagani clearly stated that this one would come from Pharez, that is Pharez the son of Judah, for from this line of Judah and Pharez comes King David whose descendant Bostanai from this House was both descended from Cyrus and Kisra in the female line as well as marrying the daughter of Yazdigird III making his son Shahriyar both the male heir of David’s throne on the male line (the throne of God), and the heir to the throne of Persia through both his mother, Dara, and his father Bostanai, as Yazdigird III had willed the throne of all Persia to Bostanai, before the fall of the empire at the hands of the bloodthirsty ones who killed Ali, Hasan and the beloved Imam Husayn on the plain of Karbila.

For making this prophecy, Shalamagani was put to death. Likewise since that time, many historians, philosophers and poets, such as al-Biruni, Firdawsi, Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and the like were all electrified and inspired when they had discovered the secret of the throne of David existing within the precincts of Persia, in the land of Tabaristan or Mazandaran. In consequence of obsessive jealousy, envy and hatred, these ones were forced to flee for their lives and take refuge at times with the dynasties of the Ispahbadiyyia of Mazandaran who were the heirs to David’s throne of the line of Baw and Baduspan. Firdawsi was to have his Shahnameh dedicated to Shahriyar Sharwin named in the Tarik-i-Tabraistan by Ibn Isfandiyar as he realized that he was the heir to the dual throne of David and of Persia alike. Firdawsi declares that the book should be dedicated to him as it pertains to his lineage and his family, as he is the heir of Yazdgird III of the lineage of Kisra and Cyrus the great. Thus many have been persecuted or killed if they published or taught of the inheritance of the throne of Persia being passed down from Baw or Baduspan in the direct male line from the time of Yazdigird to the present — let alone if they dared to mention the throne of David as the inheritance of the same person for in the Koran, Muhammad names David and his sons as God’s successors (khalif)—vice-regent—on earth, and of this term khalif in the Koran, he names no other (Koran 38:26; 17:55; 2:30, 251, etc…).

Thus these Badustaniyan chiefs had full rights of inheritance to govern both Persia and the East as well as claim successorship to the throne of God, David’s throne, the throne of the LORD (1 Chron. 29:23) that was preserved within their family since time immemorial and ancient of days—from the time of Adam, Abraham and David to the present era. In the Koran, Muhammad explained that His dispensation was to be a “middle nation” or a “middle kingdom” (Koran 2:143) which would rule after the time of Adam, David and Jesus, and before the time of the Kingdom at the close of the Adamic cycle of 6 days, or 6000 years, each day being 1000 years—4000 BC to 2001 AD—(Koran 7:54; 10:4; 32:5,6; 22:47).

All the various dynasties of the East from the Abbassid down to the Safavid had made their claims to Persia (Iran) by marrying into the female line of these Badustaniyan chiefs. Al-Mamun’s mother was of the clan of Dabuyid (Davidides) of the family of those of Baw/Gawbara (Bostanai) though not through the house of Shahriyar-Baduspan that inherited the throne, but through that of one of his brothers who did not inherit the throne. The Safvids likewise married into the house of Baduspan-Bawand through a daughter, and by this union of Ismael comes the great Abbas. All of these ones in the east that claimed rule, and took it by force, would thus claim the throne by right of marriage to a daughter of these great Ispahbuds. The throne of David however is a male line inheritance only. It passes on from father to son. No Queen ever sat upon the throne of David. Meanwhile, these Ispahbuds of Baduspan and Bawand would allow these others to rule empire by the will of God all along passing on both the throne of Persia and the throne of David as a father to son inheritance within their family.

All of these ones from the time that Bostanai met Ali, Hasan and Husayn at his double wedding to his wife Dara — and Husayn’s to her sister Shar-banu — the exilarchs of Bawand had been the followers and loyal supporters of the Imams and their Holy family. In 817 AD the Exilarch Isaac Iskoi ben Moses also called Karin in Persian declared his belief in the 8th Imam Ali ar-Rida publicly after having been fully converted and moved his family and 800 Jews who did likewise to their permanent home in Tabaristan. This victory was so great, as the conversion of the Davidic King had taken place by the 8th Imam himself in a conference arranged by al-Mamun, all three being related to the Sassanian and Persian Dynasties of Zoroaster and Cyrus through their respective mothers or great grandmothers that the event was inscribed in stone on the Kabba itself! This inscription remains there to this very day for all to see and read.

Karin or Isaac was known throughout Persia and the East as Abu-Muluk, the father of Kings, as the heir to David’s throne and head of all world Jewry was now a declared believer in Muhammad and Jesus and through the joint efforts of the Caliph Mamun and the Imam Rida. Entitled the great Ispahbud over the provinces of Kurasan and the like, Karin (Isaac) had joy turned into sorrow when the unity collapsed at the martyrdom of Imam Rida who had previously been named the successor to Mamun. Thus the East was plunged into a great day of turmoil and contention and books were again burned, and the Imam’s family, the Alids, and the Exilarchs all fled to Tabaristan or Mazindaran for protection once again.

O Mohammed! Such are but a few of the great events that have taken place in the wondrous country where God’s throne has been preserved aforetime! The country where the Twin Holy Lineages of the Prophet Muhammad and of King David have been preserved for over 1000 years. To recount all the great events would fill not just a book, but volume after volume after volume of history and illumination to the pages of known history today. Yet in this short treatise we should at least mention one other great and important event that unites the hearts of all the lovers of the true God throughout all the world no matter what land or clime to which God has driven them and in which today they may be found.

In his old age it was the wish of Bostanai to once again meet with his brother (in marriage) Husayn before he passed on into the next world. Likewise Dara wished to see her sister, Shar-banu, for they had not been reunited since the day of their wedding, for it was after that great day that horrible tragedy struck with the murder and holy martyrdom of Imam Ali, by the perfidious Muawia described in the Book of Revelation as the angel of the bottomless pit Abbaddon, for both Muawia and Abbadon in English means “the destroyer.” So it was that Bostanai (called Baw or Gawbara in the Persian chronicles) was about 80 years of age. In the Jewish Yeshivas and schools in the Area of Pure Lineage (where Baghdad is now located in Iraq) his sons by his Jewish wife who had passed on acted as the presidents of the schools of Pumbedita and Sura and maintained their ancestral residence in the town of Nehardea near the temple of Shaf ve Yativ. These sons are reckoned in the Jewish histories as “helper” and not exilarch, for their father only had them be his helpers while he was away in Tabaristan raising his other children with his wife Dara. To these sons by his Jewish wife he never gave the throne. The family prepared for the long journey back to Iraq Arabi where they would meet Husayn and his family for their family reunion. When asked by what authority the Imams ruled Husayn always replied: “We Imams rule by the authority of the throne of David, and if we lack anything the Holy Spirit sends it to us.”

The arrangements had all been made. Husayn had tentatively accepted the invitation by certain ones to come to Iraq and possibly make that area his permanent residence, and Bostanai had arranged with his other sons for a place to stay in Iraq as well. Through Dara and Shar-banu the two families were to meet at a third undisclosed location for their reunion as the threat of the Umayyad terror was still all throughout the land. Bostanai, under the guidance and protection of the Imams, had originally fled into Mazandaran for safety since the death of Ali. And the Umayyad successors had been warned by their founders never to again harm the Imams or any of their house. However the Umayyad leader disobeyed the instructions of his own father in this matter. When word of this reunion came to the ears of the Umayyed Caliph he felt he could wipe out both the house of David and that of the Imams in one swoop. On his way to see Bostanai for their reunion, Husayn and his party was fiercely attacked. Diverting the enemy toward the plain of Karbila, Husayn, Shahr-banu and their whole family and company was martyred. Like Muhammad, Ali, Hasan and even Ishmael and his mother Hagar before them, they all died and willingly gave their lives, so that the line of David should continue for ever unharmed and unmolested. This is the great sacrifice of Islam, to submit willingly and lovingly to the Will of God and to holy martyrdom, as did Jesus, who said pick up your cross and follow me, for the Cause of God to continue in guarding and protecting the throne and lineage of David which is to last for ever.

When Bostanai heard the news of the slaughter on the plain of Karbila, history recounts, the terrible news, so shocking, so horrible, hit him like a “brick in the head.” Thus unable to attain his dying wish to be reunited with Husayn in this life, he instantly winged his way into the next. This double tragedy of the death of both the exilarch Bostanai and the great Imam Husayn set off a terrible shock wave throughout the entire globe. Sadiq lay sick and dying in bed, and the evil sons of Bostanai, who had actually conspired with the Umayyads and betrayed the route, timetable and itinerary Husayn had chosen to take, captured Dara and her three sons who had survived their father’s death — one walking, one crawling and one still suckling — and had them thrown in prison to have them either put to death or sold as slaves.

These evils sons, his former “helpers” thus sought to usurp the throne of David from their younger brothers for themselves and sell out the throne of Persia of the East, they felt they could steel to the perfidious and murder some Umayyads themselves! Up until that time the Umayyads had been unable to capture Tabaristan and Northern Persia where many refugees had been consistently fleeing to for safety in the mountain refuges of that northern most land.

The righteous leaders of the Jewish schools were horrified at the perfidy and usurpation of the two brothers. They ruled that the sons of Bostanai by Dara were the appointed heirs to the throne of David, and that by the law of primogeniture and by the explicit appointment by their father Bostanai, their order was by age, first Shahriyar, than Mardanshah and than Gurganshah—Bostanai having declared Shahriyar his heir to the throne even as David several times proclaimed his appointment of Solomon. Thus these loyal leaders of the Jewish schools were either deposed and/or killed by the wicked brothers and the usurping parties who had the backing of the Umayyads. But God intervened! Before they could either kill or enslave Dara and her three sons permanently, her Uncle, the Marzabana, military general of Tabaristan, threatened war on the Jewish brothers with certain defeat if his niece and her sons were not returned to Tabaristan unharmed, which they then were by direct military escort. According to the wishes of Bostanai, the territory of Mazandaran or Tabaristan was divided up into three parcels amongst the three bothers, who each formed dynasties that ruled that area for more than a thousand years. Each son had a capital on a different mountain in his region, one on the East, one in the central area, and one in the West. At Shahriyar Kuh, and in the area of Amul and later Ruyan, Shahriyar hailed as the great Baduspan made his capital seat. In the country of Nur and Kujur in the area of Takur, the family maintained the ancestral estate and farm where Bostanai himself had lived with Dara and where her three sons had been born. Thus it was written that in the legendary city of Taq all the wealth and wisdom of the ancient Persian dynasties had been preserved, for in Taq or Takur, the lineage of Cyrus, Kisra and David was all preserved in that family in northern Iran protected, safe, and secure as the Imams made certain by their sacrifice. And so it would remain until the appointed hour!

Mohammed! Many have been killed and have willingly given their lives not to betray this ancient and wondrous secret, and the truth about the peoples and history of Persia. Thus it has been written even in the Holy Bible:

“Thus saith the Lord to his anointed [Heb. Messiah], to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall be not shut;” (Is. 45:1 KJV)

That from these two holy lineages, from these Twin Holy Trees, that of Ishmael and Isaac, that of Muhammad and that of David, would God Almighty conjoin with the seed of Cyrus, and in the end times “open before him the two leaved gates” in the Twin Holy Personages of the Qaim and the Qayyum.

Now all peoples and scholars on this all important and weighty topic cannot fail to recognize that by the appearance of Qaim, the “One who will Arise” is meant the Appearance of the promised Imam from the lineage of Husayn and Shahr-banu. Likewise by Qayyum is meant “the everlasting” and is sometimes translated into English as the “self-subsisting one” referring to the everlasting Covenant that God promised to King David and to his offspring and to his lineage that his line will last for ever and his throne for all generations. (see 1 Sam. 7:13 and Psalms 89). Thus from these Twin Holy Genealogies are to come TWO PROMISED ONES from Persia, simultaneously, the Qaim of the House of Muhammad and Cyrus; and the Qayyum of the House of David and Cyrus; both cousins and brothers through the twin double wedding of the daughters of Yazdigird III.

Anyone so inclined to read the book of Nabil’s Narrative, would see mightily and glaring upon those pages, the fact that both Shaykh Ahmad and Siyyid Kazim anticipated the twin appearances of the Qaim in the person of the 12th Imam returned from the lineage of the Imams; and the Qayyum in the person of the second coming of Christ to return from the lineage of David from the house of Badustan-Bawand. Thus Shaykh Ahmad while in Teheran inquired into the family of Mirza Buzurg the Vizier about his beloved son Husayn. Likewise did Siyyid Kazim guard this secret like a treasure concealed within a shell. And Mullah Husayn was dispatched by the Bab to deliver a message to the lineal heir who had inherited both the throne of David and the throne of Persia from his father before him.

From that time, Siyyid Ali Muhammad has been known as the Bab and Mirza Husayn -Ali as Baha’u’llah: for the Bab was the “gate” to Baha’u’llah, and Baha’u’llah explained that he was the return and resurrection of that same gate. Therefore from the lineage of Cyrus the Great comes the “two gates” that shall never be shut, for through the “One who has Arisen,” has come the “One who is Everlasting” (Qa’im and Qayyum), for the throne of David shall last for ever.

The people of Persia who claimed to be followers of the Bab were just as bad to Baha’u’llah in His day, as the people of the East who claimed to be followers of Muhammad were to Ali and Husayn. Be Fair! Who would judge the purity and sanctity of Muhammad and His Imams by the perfidious and awful behavior of Mu’awia and the like? Even the Sunni denounce Mu’awia and his successors, by dismissing them from the roster of the first four “righteous Caliphs” which includes Ali. Therefore no man with good conscience or upright spirit would ever denounce and decry either Baha’u’llah or the Bab by the veritable mountain of mischief kindled by the violators of the Covenant of the Bab that upset and imbalanced the nation of Persia during those dark days, illumined by the light of those twin suns from which the bats of hatred and jealousy sought to either flee or extinguish. No! God forbid! And to this day, no man knows the true history of the Baha’i Faith as the anti-Davidic King, Nakazeen, Covenant-breakers, have violated every single last provision of the Baha’i Covenant, the sacred Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha (see page 15, they have no executive branch), as they have separated themselves from the line and throne of David which God saw fit to preserve all down throughout the ages!

ON PAGE 15 of the Will it states that the legislative must reinforce the executive. Thus the line of David continues for ever in the Presidency and Executive branch of the Baha’i Faith of Baha’u’llah’s true Universal House of Justice. As these ones in Haifa have no Executive, they are in violation of page 15 of the charter of the Covenant. They are the Covenant-breakers.

“This House of Justice enacteth the laws and the government enforceth them. The legislative body must reinforce the executive, the executive must aid and assist the legislative body so that through the close union and harmony of these two forces, the foundation of fairness and justice may become firm and strong, that all the regions of the world may become even as Paradise itself.”
(Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, p. 15)

They have no Executive Branch. They are the Covenant-breakers. It has always been these Covenant-breakers (Nagazeen), especially that faction in Iran, who have tried to disrupt the government. They do this in opposition to the explicit instructions of Baha’u’llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha and have separated themselves from the Davidic Kingship of the great grandson of ‘Abdu’l-Baha who is alive in the world today.

When they, or anyone who claims to be “Baha’i” separates themselves from the Executive Branch (living Davidic King), they are in violation of the Covenant (see W&T, pp. 14, 15 and 11).

The most important work today is the establishment of the Divine Economy upheld by a spiritual world government, which shall be a universal democracy and republic of the nations of the worlds. This will unify all of mankind in the diversity of their respective cultures and allow all free thinking people to worship God in their own fashion according to what has been revealed in the Book. For both true science and true religion must correspond.

Baha’u’llah has explained:

“The fifteenth Glad-Tidings:

Although a republican form of government profiteth all the peoples of the world, yet the majesty of kingship is one of the signs of God. We do not wish that the countries of the world should remain deprived thereof. If the sagacious combine the two forms into one, great will be their reward in the presence of God.”
(Baha’u’llah, Tablets of Baha’u’llah, p.28)

Had the so-called “Babis” not violated the Covenant of the Bab, broken up into many dastardly sects, nor been mislead by the perfidious Mirza Yahya, the democracy that Baha’u’llah has foretold will happen would have been successful at the time of Bani Sadr. Had there been no violation of the Covenant of the Bab and Baha’u’llah by those who outwardly professed to be loyal followers but were inwardly corrupt and who committed disreputable acts in their name, reactionary religious fundamentalism, like some of the extreme clerics, would never have come to power. Now the climate is moderating toward democracy once again and this is in the best interests of all the people. Had the Covenant of the Bab not been broken, Iran would be a rejuvenated country to this day and the glory of its former days (like those days of Cyrus and Kisra) would be resplendent and re-established. The violation by the Babis of the Covenant of the Bab, and then the violation by the so-called “Baha’i’s” by the “Hands”, gave rise to the unrest and religious reactionalism not only in Iran but all over the world. The Violators of the Covenant of the Bab and Baha’u’llah are thus to blame for the rise and ascendancy of tyrants and dictators all throughout the world.

So fanatical have been the excesses of the clergy class, in every day and age, it is enough for pure hearted people of both the East and the West to prefer the apparent outward calm of not investigating the truth of these matters – saying ignorance is bliss. But this is not so! Ignorance is a subtle torment! And man was created to know and to love God.

Really since the disappearance of the 12th Imam Mahdhi in 260 AH, the people of the Shi’i of the family of the prophet have suffered hardship after hardship all down throughout the ages. Yet today, in the West people are plagued with fears of groups such as al-Qaida and ISIS/ISIL, which has been grouped amongst those of the Sunni extremist, whereas in the East people fear the Nuclear threat of the “War on Terror” lead by Bush, whose legacy continues to threaten to this day. Really the only way to safety security and salvation for all people of every race creed and color is the government that God has given for peace through justice on earth. We can no longer see ourselves as just Americans or Iranians or Iraqis or Israelis or Russians, etc… but as one people of one human family. Citizens of one world – world citizens, who love God first and foremost above all else having unity in diversity of our cultures, perspectives and diverse backgrounds, which come together as one even as separate rivers all unite in one great sea.

This unity is to be achieved through the medicine for this sick world that God gave: the throne of David as the Executive Branch of the world judicial and world legislative body. Extremist groups, militant religious fanatics of any denomination, sect, or persuasion are to be avoided completely. As the prophecies of the Tanak, Gospels and Koran, all point to the same appearance of the same Kingdom from the same God, preserved through the line of David, all will accept this Kingdom as the government for the people of the world. Clergy classes will be eliminated as thinking people will find that they need no intermediary between themselves and the Book, that is, all people are to be elevated through education to the position of educators and religious doctors. All will see the truth of God through their own eyes and not through the eyes of their neighbor. All will read. All will think for themselves. All will worship in gladness. All will be free. All will vote. All will elect their representatives. All will prosper. All will be happy. All will be well satisfied.

At the time of the Bab and Baha’u’llah, Muhammad Shah became extremely interested in the Shaykhi Teaching and in the Revelation of the Bab. When he died Nasr Din Shah became the ruler supreme. He had met the Bab in the trial in Azerbaijan, but was just a youth under the spell of clergy. Later he began to have interest in the Cause of God, even as some amongst the Jewish Leaders had taken interest in the Cause of Jesus immediately following his martyrdom. A man who was one of the servants of a Babi Master and was mentally unstable shot the Shah with a parlor gun. This fired a little pellet like a pea. When the Shah felt a sting on his cheek he touched it and saw a drop of blood on his finger. He fainted and fell off his horse. His guards thought he had been killed and jumped on the assailant and slew him. This was tragic, for had they arrested him alive they could have interrogated him and found out he was deranged and acted on his own. Nevertheless Baha’u’llah, when he heard the report, immediately set out for the capital to turn Himself in to the authorities to help straighten out the matter. For this he was exiled first to Iraq and then later to the Holy Land in Akka and Mt. Carmel. This exile fulfilled Bible prophecy and now the Cause of God has spread around the world. Yet the people of Persia do not understand the root and the Cause of the Baha’i Faith.

One of the main reasons for the banishment of Baha’u’llah was that the Qadjar dynasty was of a Turkoman stock and not of the hereditary heirs of Persian nobility and was fearful that Baha’u’llah or ‘Abdu’l-Baha would publish their genealogy and declare the truth that they were the heirs to the throne of Persia as well as the throne of David. This was a non-existent threat put forth and instigated by the clergy and ministers of the Shah to foster his paranoia and thereby his support and reliance upon them. These ministers kept the Qadjars in a state of constant insecurity by magnifying their origin as different than that hereditary long-standing tradition of Baha’u’llah. This similar negative condition in the current rulership in Iran today needs to be ameliorated. The people and clerics and politicians of Iran all must be educated to see that the throne of David, as well as the throne of Persia continues to this very day through the continuation of the genealogy of Baha’u’llah in the living person of the great grandson of ‘Abdu’l-Baha. They must be educated to see that this Revelation is only in the best interests of all the people. That this message of the Kingdom (Davidic) is the fulfillment of all their hopes and dreams and promises made to them by God throughout their long and prosperous history. When they all see this, all the world will come and honor the people of Persia, for it was within their glorious land, within their glorious history, that this throne and this lineage promised to Christians, Jews and Muslims alike was preserved and protected down through the ages. Iran will prosper because of this. And those who are in power now will be in power in both earth and in heaven on this day when all the people are educated to the truth of this message: that from the Northern Mountains surrounding Teheran, and in that Blessed City, the One who was born heir and king to both David’s throne and the throne of Persia came to unite all the people of the world and His name is Baha’u’llah!

Those few minority who are against the truth of the genealogy of Baha’u’llah being published in Iran, do this in order to retain their strangle hold on the political power, both inside the so-called “Baha’i” community in Iran and outside of it, at the present time, to the detriment of all. Baha’u’llah, for His part, tried to quell the fears of the Shah in many of His letters and epistles to him. In the Book of the Covenant, Baha’u’llah has explained that: “The governments of the earth have been vouchsafed to the kings and rulers of the world. But the Hearts of men God hath decreed unto Himself.” Thus Baha’u’llah had no ambition to rule either the Persian Empire or the nation of Iran. Neither ‘Abdu’l-Baha, Shoghi Effendi nor any of the current Presidents of the Baha’i faith have this worldly desire either. Today the great grandson of ‘Abdu’l-Baha has forsaken all worldly things and has arisen only for one single purpose, to promote the Cause of God, to guard His Law and to promulgate this message of the Kingdom of Universal peace to benefit all people and the common weal. His goal, and the goal of the true Baha’i Faith is to win over the hearts of men, including the hearts of the kings and the hearts of the rulers, to God. The Baha’i sacred writings promote self-determinism, democracy, bridled capitalism, the Divine Economy, and the elimination of absolute monarchy, prejudice of all kinds as well as tyranny and injustice. When the hearts of the kings and rulers have been won over to the God of our Fathers, then these rulers will be empowered to rule with justice, and all people shall be free. No king or queen in this day could rule with justice, accept that he or she promotes the democracy of the people to govern themselves, through the consultative assembly of a congress like that of the United States or a Parliament like that in the United Kingdom. The British system being preferable for within it the majesty of Kingship is preserved as one of the signs of God, yet the people govern themselves.

“O people of God! Give ear unto that which, if heeded, will ensure the freedom, well-being, tranquility, exaltation and advancement of all men. Certain laws and principles are necessary and indispensable for Persia. However, it is fitting that these measures should be adopted in conformity with the considered views of His Majesty – may God aid him through His grace – and of the learned divines and of the high-ranking rulers. Subject to their approval a place should be fixed where they would meet. There they should hold fast to the cord of consultation and adopt and enforce that which is conducive to the security, prosperity, wealth and tranquility of the people. For were any measure other than this to be adopted, it could not but result in chaos and commotion.
According to the fundamental laws which We have formerly revealed in the Kitab-i-Aqdas and other Tablets, all affairs are committed to the care of just kings and presidents and of the Trustees of the House of Justice [Parliament]. Having pondered on that which We have enunciated, every man of equity and discernment will readily perceive, with his inner and outer eyes, the splendours of the day-star of justice which radiate therefrom.
The system of government which the British people have adopted in London appeareth to be good, for it is adorned with the light of both kingship and of the consultation [democracy] of the people.
In formulating the principles and laws a part hath been devoted to penalties which form an effective instrument for the security and protection of men. However, dread of the penalties maketh people desist only outwardly from committing vile and contemptible deeds, while that which guardeth and restraineth man both outwardly and inwardly hath been and still is the fear of God. It is man’s true protector and his spiritual guardian. It behoveth him to cleave tenaciously unto that which will lead to the appearance of this supreme bounty. Well is it with him who giveth ear unto whatsoever My Pen of Glory hath proclaimed and observeth that whereunto he is bidden by the Ordainer, the Ancient of Days.”
(Baha’u’llah, Tablets of Baha’u’llah, pp. 92-93)

Thus Baha’u’llah explains that no man shall wish the mantle of kingship accept for the single purpose of promoting the Cause of God:

“One of the signs of the maturity of the world is that no one will accept to bear the weight of kingship. Kingship will remain with none willing to bear alone its weight. That day will be the day whereon wisdom will be manifested among mankind. Only in order to proclaim the Cause of God and spread abroad His Faith will anyone be willing to bear this grievous weight. Well is it with him who, for love of God and His Cause, and for the sake of God and for the purpose of proclaiming His Faith, will expose himself unto this great danger, and will accept this toil and trouble.”
(Baha’u’llah, cf. Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, p. 71)

And in the Kitab-i-Aqdas, Baha’u’llah foretells the day that the government of Persia will be established with justice and peace:

“Let nothing grieve thee, O Land of Ta, [Teheran, Iran] for God hath chosen thee to be the source of the joy of all mankind. He shall, if it be His Will, bless thy throne with one who will rule with justice, who will gather together the flock of God which the wolves have scattered. Such a ruler will, with joy and gladness, turn his face towards, and extend his favours unto, the people of Baha. He indeed is accounted in the sight of God as a jewel among men. Upon him rest forever the glory of God and the glory of all that dwell in the kingdom of His revelation.”
(Baha’u’llah: The Kitab-i-Aqdas, Page: 53)

In this way, has Persia been chosen to be “the source of the joy of all mankind.” From this country has been preserved the Twin Holy Trees of Muhammad and David’s lineage, united as one single family through marriage, fellowship, religion and kinship. From this arises the continued inheritance of the throne of King David and throne of Persia passed down father to son throughout the generations as an inheritance for the all the people of the world, a sign from God to recognize his kingdom established upon the earth as it is in heaven. In 1912, ‘Abdu’l-Baha, the son of Baha’u’llah traveled to the United States of America. Here the throne of David is now established today, therefore uniting the spiritual and material destinies of these two great nations and their great traditions into one single unity of East and West combined.

From the love of God and the knowledge of God of these two countries, and the purpose of God to win this war against terrorism by establishing His true religion to unite the hearts and minds of mankind into one single faith in His Blessed Beauty, has now come this day today, when all the people of the world are fed up with the mishandling of affairs both international and domestic by incompetent and misguided leaders, fanatical and irrational clergy, and the like.

Where has God written, prophesied, or declared that any of these so-called leaders are his viceroy or representative on earth? Nowhere! But in the Books of Old “God has exalted some of the prophets above the others, to David He gave the Psalms.” (Koran 17:55)

“I will sing of thy steadfast love, O Lord, for ever;
with my mouth I will proclaim thy faithfulness to all generations.

For thy steadfast love was established for ever, thy faithfulness is firm as the heavens.

Thou hast said, “I have made a Covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant;

‘I will establish your descendants for ever and build your throne for all generations.’” Selah (Psalms 89: 1-4, KJV)

“O David! Lo! We have set thee as a viceroy (khalif) in the earth; therefore judge aright between mankind, and follow not desire that it beguile thee from the way of Allah. Lo! Those who wander from the way of Allah have an awful doom, forasmuch as they forgot the Day of Reckoning.” (Koran 17:55, Surah of Sad, Picktall’s Translation)

MOSLEMS, CHRISTIANS AND JEWS MUST CEASE ALL WARRING AND CONFLICT IMMEDIATELY AND UNITE AROUND BAHA’U’LLAH UNDER HIS COVENANT!

THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO AVOID THERMONUCLEAR WAR!

BAHA’U’LLAH IS THE PROMISED ONE OF ALL PEOPLE, THEIR RELIGIONS AND TRADITIONS, AND THESE THREE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS IN PARTICULAR!

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Baha’i Sabbath: Kalimat 13, 171 B.E. (7/25/2014)

Friday, July 25th, 2014

Say: Naught is seen in My temple but the Temple of God, and in My beauty but His Beauty, and in My being but His Being, and in My self but His Self, and in My movement but His Movement, and in My acquiescence but His Acquiescence, and in My pen but His Pen, the Mighty, the All-Praised. There hath not been in My soul but the Truth, and in Myself naught could be seen but God.

Beware lest ye speak of duality in regard to My Self, for all the atoms of the earth proclaim that there is none other God but Him, the One, the Single, the Mighty, the Loving. From the beginning that hath no beginning I have proclaimed, from the realm of eternity, that I am God, none other God is there save Me, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting; and unto the end that hath no end I shall proclaim, amidst the kingdom of names, that I am God, none other God is there beside Me, the All-Glorious, the Best-Beloved. Say: Lordship is My Name, whereof I have created manifestations in the world of being, while We Ourself remain sanctified above them, would ye but ponder this truth. And Godhead is My Name, where of We have created exponents whose power shall encompass the people of the earth and make them true worshippers of God, could ye but recognize it. Thus should ye regard all Our Names, if ye be endued with insight.

O Fourth Letter of this Temple, betokening the attribute of Grace! We have made thee the manifestation of grace betwixt earth and heaven. From thee have We generated all grace in the contingent world, and unto thee shall We cause it to return. And from thee shall We manifest it again, through a word of Our command. Potent am I to accomplish whatsoever I desire through My word “Be”, and it is! Every grace that appeareth in the world of being hath originated from thee, and unto thee shall it return. This, verily, is what hath been ordained in a Tablet which We have preserved behind the veil of glory and concealed from mortal eyes. Well is it with them that deprive themselves not of this manifest and unfailing grace.

Say: In this day, the fertilizing winds of the grace of God have passed over all things. Every creature hath been endowed with all the potentialities it can carry. And yet the peoples of the world have denied this grace! Every tree hath been endowed with the choicest fruits, every ocean enriched with the most luminous gems. Man, himself, hath been invested with the gifts of understanding and knowledge. The whole creation hath been made the recipient of the revelation of the All-Merciful, and the earth the repository of things inscrutable to all except God, the Truth, the Knower of things unseen. The time is approaching when every created thing will have cast its burden. Glorified be God Who hath vouchsafed this grace that encompasseth all things, whether seen or unseen! Thus have We created the whole earth anew in this day, yet most of the people have failed to perceive it. Say: The grace of God can never be adequately understood; how much less can His own Self, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, be comprehended!

O Temple of the Cause! Grieve not if Thou findest none ready to receive Thy gifts. Thou wast created for My sake; occupy Thyself therefore with My praise amidst My servants. This is that which hath been ordained for Thee in the Preserved Tablet. Having found upon the earth many a soiled hand, We sanctified the hem of Thy garment from the profanity of their touch and placed it beyond the reach of the ungodly. Be patient in the Cause of Thy Lord, for erelong shall He raise up souls endowed with sanctified hearts and illumined eyes who shall flee from every quarter unto Thine all-encompassing and boundless grace.

O Temple of God! No sooner had the hosts of Divine Revelation been sent down by the Lord of all names and attributes bearing the banners of His signs, than the exponents of doubt and fancy were put to flight. They disbelieved in the clear tokens of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, and rose up against Him in enmity and opposition. Amongst them were those who claimed: “These are not clear verses from God, nor do they proceed from an innate and untaught nature.” Thus do the unbelievers seek to remedy the sickness of their hearts, utterly heedless that they thus render themselves accursed of all who dwell in heaven and on earth.

Say: The Holy Spirit Itself hath been generated through the agency of a single letter revealed by this Most Great Spirit, if ye be of them that comprehend. And that innate and untaught nature in its essence is called into being by the verses of God, the Help in Peril, the All-Glorious, the Best-Beloved. Say: This nature prideth itself in its relation to Our transcendent Truth, whilst We, for Our part, glory neither in it nor in aught else, for all beside Myself hath been created through the potency of My word, could ye but understand.

Say: We have revealed Our verses in nine different modes. Each one of them bespeaketh the sovereignty of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. A single one of them sufficeth for a proof unto all who are in the heavens and on the earth; yet the people, for the most part, persist in their heedlessness. Should it be Our wish, We would reveal them in countless other modes.

Say: O people! Fear ye God, and allow not your tongues to utter, in their deceitfulness, that which displeaseth Him. Stand abashed before the One Who, as ye well know, hath created you out of a drop of water (Qur’án 21:30; 24:45; 25:54). Say: We have created all that are in heaven and on earth in the nature made by God. Whosoever turneth unto this blessed Countenance shall manifest the potentialities of that inborn nature, and whosoever remaineth veiled therefrom shall be deprived of this invisible and all-encompassing grace. Verily, there is naught from which Our favour hath been withheld, inasmuch as We have dealt equitably in the fashioning of each and all, and by a word of Our mouth presented unto them the trust of Our love. They that have accepted it are indeed safe and secure, and are numbered among those who are immune from the terrors of this Day. Those, however, who have rejected it have, in truth, disbelieved in God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. Thus do We distinguish between the people and pronounce judgement upon them. We, of a certainty, have the power to discern.

Say: The Word of God can never be confounded with the words of His creatures. It is, in truth, the King of words, even as He is Himself the sovereign Lord of all, and His Cause transcendeth all that was and all that shall be. Enter, O people, the City of Certitude wherein the throne of your Lord, the All-Merciful, hath been established. Thus biddeth you the Pen of the All-Glorious, as a token of His unfailing grace. Haply ye may not make His Revelation a cause of dissension amongst you.

Baha’u’llah, Súriy-i-Haykal (Surih of the Temple), paragraphs 44-53

Baha’i Sabbath: Kalimat 6, 171 B.E. (7/18/2014)

Friday, July 18th, 2014

It is evident unto thee that the Birds of Heaven and Doves of Eternity speak a twofold language. One language, the outward language, is devoid of allusions, is unconcealed and unveiled; that it may be a guiding lamp and a beaconing light whereby wayfarers may attain the heights of holiness, and seekers may advance into the realm of eternal reunion. Such are the unveiled traditions and the evident verses already mentioned. The other language is veiled and concealed, so that whatever lieth hidden in the heart of the malevolent may be made manifest and their innermost being be disclosed. Thus hath Ṣádiq, son of Muḥammad, spoken: “God verily will test them and sift them.” This is the divine standard, this is the Touchstone of God, wherewith He proveth His servants. None apprehendeth the meaning of these utterances except them whose hearts are assured, whose souls have found favour with God, and whose minds are detached from all else but Him. In such utterances, the literal meaning, as generally understood by the people, is not what hath been intended. Thus it is recorded: “Every knowledge hath seventy meanings, of which one only is known amongst the people. And when the Qá’im shall arise, He shall reveal unto men all that which remaineth.” He also saith: “We speak one word, and by it we intend one and seventy meanings; each one of these meanings we can explain.”

Baha’u’llah, Kitab-I-Iqan, para. 285

Baha’i Month: Kalimat/Words 1, 171 B.E. (7/13/2014)

Sunday, July 13th, 2014

O thou spiritual leaf who art verdant and well-watered by the outpouring from the Kingdom of God!

Verily, I beseech His Presence, the Mighty and the majestic One, to enlighten the mind through the lights gleaming from the summit of the Kingdom, and by which thy tongue shall become eloquent with the remembrance of the Ever-living One to make thee a lamp shininng with the lights of knowledge in those far-distant horizons and vast countries.

Verily, I say unto thee, the Covenant of God and His Alliance is a Lamp diffusing lights from the Supreme Concourse unto the horizons of the earth and heaven. Whosoever hath this Divine Lamp before his face, his forehead shall glisten with manifest light and his speech shall take effect in all minds and spirits, and God shall assist him by the power which penetrateth the essences of things.

Abdu’l-Baha’, Tablets, pg. 672

Baha’i Sabbath: Rahmat 18, 171 B.E. (7/11/2014)

Friday, July 11th, 2014

O seeker of Truth!

If thou desirest that God may open thy eye, thou must supplicate unto God, pray to and commune with Him at midnight, saying:

“O Lord, I have turned my face unto thy Kingdom of Oneness and am drowned in the sea of Thy mercy! O Lord, enlighten my sight by beholding Thy lights in this dark night, and make me happy by the wine of Thy love in this wonderful age! O Lord, make me hear Thy call, and open before my face the doors of Thy heaven, so that I may see the light of Thy glory and become attracted to Thy beauty!

“Verily, thou art the Giver, the Generous, the Merciful, the Forgiving!”

At that time such signs will appear which will guide thee to the Kingdom of Thy Lord, the Merciful.

Abdu’l-Baha’, Tablets, pp. 676-677