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I thought she became a Free Baha'i / Reform Baha'i:
Free Bahá'ís
Reform Bahá'ís "To be a Bahá'í simply means to love all the world; to love
humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal
brotherhood."
- Abdu'l-Baha
They claim to be the moderate, spiritual religion of Baha’u’llah and
Abdu’l-Baha
and clearly set a new course away from the fanatical and fundamentalist
Islamist
sect of the Haifans, based on their fraudulent will and testament, propagating
a
manipulative creed intended only to coerce the individual believer and subject
him or her to the tyranny of an illegitimate and mutilated organization. They
take their teachings from Ruth White, Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Julie Chanler, etc.
The books and publications of White, Sohrab, and Chanler have kept this vision
alive, while the Baha’i upheavals and conflicts of the last three decades have
led many thousands of Baha’is to experience for themselves the depth and degree
to which the Faith of Baha’u’llah has been traduced and desecrated by people
who
seek to use and exploit it for their own worldly benefit, power, glory, and
material gain. This group of Bahá'ís are led by Fredrick Glaysier.
Reform Baha’i Articles
The Divine Being has created a world of impermanence, evanescence, where
nothing
lasts forever, and all humanity is subjected to the vicissitudes of life, the
fragility of health and constitution, the limits of human existence that He
alone knows and sets. With an increasing sense of mortality, I feel it is
incumbent upon me to set down, in writing, my own testimony of what I believe
to
be the truth about the Bahá'í Faith, having now been a member for over thirty
years and having watched or participated in many struggles and debates and
studied or watched those of many other souls in their search for truth and
understanding.
Thinking of Martin Luther and John Wesley, I feel it especially as a duty and
obligation to leave a record of my views for the Reform Bahá'í Convocation,
which, God willing, one day, shall convene to restore and revive the moderate,
spiritual religion of Baha’u’llah and Abdu’l-Baha and clearly set a new course
away from the fanatical and fundamentalist Islamist sect of the Haifans, based
on their fraudulent will and testament, propagating a manipulative creed
intended only to coerce the individual believer and subject him or her to the
tyranny of an illegitimate and mutilated organization.
Article I
"The Revelation which, from time immemorial, hath been acclaimed as the Purpose
and Promise of all the Prophets of God, and the most cherished Desire of His
Messengers, hath now, by virtue of the pervasive Will of the Almighty and at
His
irresistible bidding, been revealed unto men. The advent of such a Revelation
hath been heralded in all the sacred Scriptures."
- Baha’u’llah.
Article II
Baha’u’llah’s appointed heir and interpreter is Abdu’l-Baha.
Article III
As scientifically judged by Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell, the purported will and
testament of Abdu’l-Baha is a fraudulent document: That is to say, the writing
does not agree with the hypothesis that it was all written by one person. "A
minute comparison of the authenticated writing with the writing on every page
of
the alleged will... has failed to detect in any part of the will the
characteristics of the writing of Abdu’l-Baha, as shown in the authenticated
specimens." Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell, Report on the Writing Shown on the
Photographs of the Alleged Will of Abdu'l-Baha, Library of Congress, 1930.
Article IV
The Baha’i organizations, based upon the fraudulent document, including the
writings of Shoghi Effendi, are inescapably defective and deficient: "There is
apparent contradiction between this section of the Will and his lifelong
teachings. "Abdu'l-Bahá had never in speech or writing given the slightest
indication that there would be a successor to himself. On the contrary, a
number
of addresses delivered by him on various occasions had made the opposite
impression"
- Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. The Will and Testament of Abdu'l-Bahá, An Analysis. New
York: Universal Publishing, 1944.
Article V
The results of the spurious document has reverberated down the generations and
decades, as Ruth White rightly perceived: “Whether the alleged will of
Abdu'l-Bahá is authentic or spurious, the results of the administration of
Shoghi Effendi and the National Spiritual Assembly of Baha'is stand as an
historical indictment against them. [Boldface in original] They no more
represent the Bahá'í Religion than the bigots of the dark ages of Christianity.
- Ruth White. Abdu'l-Bahá's Questioned Will and Testament. Beverly Hills:
White,
1946.
Article VI
"The Bahá'í Movement is not an organization. You cannot organize the Bahá'í
Movement.
- Abdu’l-Baha.
The mystery of that paradox calls all Bahá'ís to seek its meaning and return to
the universal, liberal Teachings of Baha’u’llah and Abdu’l-Baha and their
Writings.
Article VII
Far from creating a theocratic tyranny, the Founders of the Bahá'í Faith taught
a moderate, universal, global religion, grounded in a spiritual democracy,
teaching the separation of church and state, with science in its own respected
domain, each a profound differentiation of social duty and responsibility, as
in
Abdu’l-Baha’s "Sermon on the Art of Governance"
Article VIII
With every passing year, the Writings of Baha’u’llah are being restored to
humanity, from those who debased and lowered them to the level of a trademark
and copyright.
Article IX
Reform Bahá'ís choose to leave those who choose hatred, shunning, and
interminable recrimination over the fraudulent will and testament and over
stultifying legalisms, and look to the Spirit of brotherhood and love,
knowledge
and understanding, prayer and meditation, worship and community, service to
one’s country and the world of humanity.
With the assurance of Abdu’l-Baha that humanity has entered the stage of
maturity, wherein the individual can independently search for truth, Reform
Bahá'ís testify, in this universal, global age, that He reserves for Himself
the
"hearts of men," rendering to Caesar what is Caesar’s, as Baha'u'llah taught in
the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, accepting and embracing His multifaceted
vision, the mystery that surpasses understanding.
Reform Bahá'ís invite all Bahá'ís, all humanity, to a Convocation of
celebration, peace, love, and brotherhood, to seek humbly together His Will and
service, for the good of all people and nations of this spinning globe.
Reform Baha’is are found in Africa, Ethiopia, Australia,Austria,Canada, British
Columbia, Quebec, Cuba,France,Germany’New Zealand, Pakistan,Sweden, USA
,California, Los Angeles, San Diego
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> Ruth White and Mirza Ahmad Sohrab were declared CB. He gets his ideas from
> them.
Dear Stephen,
Yes, but this was longer after he had already left the Faith. And he
ignores the fact that Ruth White and Ahmad Sohrab did not agree with
each other. It was Ruth White who insisted that the Will and Testament
was a forgery. Ahmad Sohrab, who could read the original, knew this
wasn't the case. He just didn't want to obey the Guardian.
Ruth White, by the way, eventually became a follower of Meher Baba.
warmest, Susan
Those who believe that Will and Testament of Abdu'l-Bahá is a fraudent document
doctored by Shoghi Effendi Rabbani
Bahá'ís who believe that Bahá'í authority ended with the passing of
`Abdu'l-Bahá, and that the Covenant, as it has come to be known, is a doctrine
that was not conceived by `Abdu'l-Bahá, but rather by the author of a
fraudulent
document
"There are no officers in this Cause. I do not and have not 'Appointed' anyone
to perform any special service, but I encourage everyone to engage in the
service of the Kingdom. The foundation of this Cause is pure spiritual
democracy
and not a theocracy."
- Abdu'l-Bahá
A - ShaykAhmad-i-Asai and Siyyid Kazim-i-Rashti
B - The Bab:
C - Baha'u'llah:
D - Abdul-Baha:
E - Ruth White and Zimmer Hermann
Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh
The promised one of Bahá'u'lláh will appear after one thousand or thousands of
years. This is the Covenant which Bahá'u'lláh made...in case of differences,
Abdu'l-Bahá must be consulted.....After Abdu'l-Bahá whenever the Universal
House
of Justice is organised, it will ward of differences.
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