Friday, November 30, 2007
How Shoghi Effendi was betrayed?
Only the Guardian permanently presides as the “sacred head” of the Universal House of Justice under the terms of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, why had Shoghi Effendi not assumed the Presidency himself of its embryonic entity—the International Bahá’í Council—but, in appointing its membership and designating its officers, had appointed as its President, Hand of the Cause, Mason Remey, who, if the Council were to immediately become an actively functioning administrative body, he would then have to either depose Mason Remey and assume the Presidency himself or otherwise have to abdicate the Guardianship. Shoghi Effendi had therefore, of necessity, retained the International Council, as an inactively functioning body during the remaining years of his ministry, as confirmed by Mason Remey, who has stated that Shoghi Effendi never instructed him to activate the Council. For this same reason, Shoghi Effendi had appointed Rúhiyyíh Khánum, in his message of 8 March 1952, as the “chosen liaison” between himself and the Council, which would preclude any semblance of assuming direction of the Council himself. In this way Shoghi Effendi carefully retained the Council as an inactive body during the remaining years of his ministry, and only assigned tasks, from time to time, to individual members. As further evidence of its inactive status, is the fact that the members whom he had appointed as Secretary-General, Hand of the Cause, Leroy Ioas, and his two Assistant Secretaries, for the East and West respectively (Lotfullah Hakim and Ethel Revell), never wrote a single letter in these secretarial capacities, at the direction of Mason Remey, as President of the Council, during the ministry of Shoghi Effendi.>>>>detail
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