On January 16th, 1922, The Greatest Holy Leaf, the sister of 'Abdu'l-
Bah=E1, sent a cable for the Bah=E1'=ED world which included these words:
"In Will Shoghi Effendi appointed Guardian of Cause and Head of House
of Justice."
Would any true Bah=E1'=ED believe that those words of the Greatest Holy
Leaf were erroneous or that they could remain unfulfilled?
How do Heterodox Bah=E1'=EDs explain their fulfillment?
Logically, nobody could believe that those words meant that Shoghi
Effendi would continue as Head of the Universal House of Justice for
the remainderof the 1000 years of this Holy Dispensation. The
hereditary principle of the Bah=E1'=ED Faith provides for a succession of
Heads of the Universal House of Justice.
It is noteworthy, however, that those words of the Greatest Holy Leaf
were not personally fulfilled by Shoghi Effendi, who never was Head of
the Universal House of Justice. Even during its initial embryonic
form, that sacred administrative body had a Head other than Shoghi
Effendi, namely its President, Charles Mason Remey.
In the Heterodox Bah=E1'=ED organization, those words of the Greatest Holy
Leaf have never found their fulfillment, and never will.
The living Guardian of the Bah=E1'=ED Faith, through the hereditory
principle of the Bah=E1'=ED Faith, holds the station of Head of the
Universal House of Justice, currently in embryonic form, in
fulfillment of the words of the Greatest Holy Leaf, which she derived
from the Master's sacred and immutable Will and Testament.
The website of the living Guardian of the Bah=E1'=ED Faith:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com
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