PERSONAL BAHA'I ARCHIVES PART 1

This is a photograph of cat hair caught on a rug. I don't know if it belongs to MrDonut or to Pocket Cat. Knowing would require further investigation and we aren't going to. We know of a certainty that the traveling exhibit of genuine Baha'i artifacts might include a hair, or a lock of hair, from the head of Baha'u'llah Himself. We have seen a hair from the head of Baha'u'llah. It was being passed around the West Chester PA Baha'i community many years ago. It looked like a long, black hair. We did not ask how they knew it was from Baha'u'llah. Either it was, and it possessed a mighty provenance, or it belonged to somebody else, and it was here because someone's faith was greater than their virtue. There was no note attached. IIt looked clean, but we wondered when He had washed it last.



This is Betty J. Eadie's book "Embraced by the Light." It is a travelogue of her after-life experiences. One of her final stops was at a council of nine men, who seemed to have the final dibs on advice. When MrDonut read it he asked if these nine men were maybe the spirits of the Universal House of Justice. "Were they eating pancakes?" we asked. "It doesn't say," said MrDonut. "Did she say they were Baha'is?" "No," said MrDonut. "Then I have no idea." If the traveling exhibit of genuine Baha'i artifacts includes a pancake, or a portion of a pancake, we will take this investigation to its next level.




This is a monkey with a lamp coming out of his head. He is reading a Book of Laws. Our archivists have determined that it is a very, very disrespectful image of a Baha'i reading the Kitab-i-Aqdas. Sometimes when you are exhibiting artifacts you have to show the bad with the good.



This is a chair that was made before Baha'u'llah was born. It is included here to give the observer a feel for how long ago Baha'u'llah lived. You can get a feel for how long He waited for someone to invent the telephone by noting the plastic outlet behind the chair.



In his nine years in the stone cell in Acca, did Baha'u'llah dream of these flowers rising up from blue sky? Was each stitch counted for a teardrop? Did the artist's heart have to break to release the image?



This is figure 1 of 2. It shows a bunch of loops sewn tightly together and bending in an arc. Is this the Arc of Salvation? Are you kidding? It is a rug! Do you see the center? No!



Figure 2. Here is the center. Isn't it beautiful! It is a braided tweed wool rug. It is a symbol of unity, since all the circles circle around the central point. Some people think of unity as spokes in a wheel that meet at the hub. That is fascisti. We like to see the motion and diversity and similarities and solid binding of all those circles. Isn't it more life-like? Real Baha'i unity is life-like, alive.




This is MrDonut. He makes kind of a circle, too. His is the Circle of The Nap. He is the only one in the circle. All of him revolves around his tummy. Animals live in perfect unity of self. Mess with MrDonut's unity of self and you might walk away with a band-aid on your face. This is how it should be with all of us. We must enjoy, preserve and protect the unity within.



So you can study it again, MrDonut has given permission to repeat his photograph. Think rest.



This is a paperweight from a military school that was founded in 1874. You do not have to know what the Latin says. This was one year after Baha'u'llah wrote the Kitab-i-Aqdas. We believe it is possible that the school's founders were inspired by the law-order-and-love message in that Book. The school lasted for about 100 years. The Kitab-i-Aqdas was released in English in 1993. If you can find one person who can obey it all, MrDonut will give you his can of Fancy Feast.



This is something Baha'u'llah might have dreamed of. It is a Microsoft Trackball Optical Mouse. It is terrific for people with tremors, like Baha'u'llah had. It rests in your hand like a clam with a big pearl on its side. You never have to pick it up. If your are having problems with anything, ask Baha'u'llah to inspire someone to come up with a solution. If this is what He could do in His sleep, what can He do now that He is super-alive?



This is something Baha'u'llah might have wanted when He was in the dungeon. It is a lamp with a special bulb that gives off sunlight. Not only does it make things look nice, as if they were out on the table on a sunny day. It helps the brain to keep producing the chemical that keeps our moods level and wards off depression. On second thought, maybe Baha'u'llah preferred not to see what was crawling all over Him.



This is a ceramic fish. Do you see it crying? When Baha'u'llah was young His father dreamed He was swimming in the ocean. Fish were holding on to every strand of His long black hair, but He swam easily. Someone told His father this meant that all the nations would come to Him for safety, but He would not be injured. I don't know where he got that story, since Baha'u'llah suffered many injuries. Anyway, that is why the fish is crying, for Baha'u'llah. Note: the other side of the fish doesn't have any tears. Interpretation belongs to the reader.




This is a collection of George Price cartoons. George Price worked for the New Yorker in the 'thirties and 'forties. His work is unforgettable to generations. Here is one: A man is flying through the air toward an archery target. His coach says: "Frankly, Mr.Harding, you'll never get anywhere until you learn to release the arrow." Most of the cartoons are quite dated. We know that Baha'u'llah possessed a droll wit. We know that at the gates of Acca, the Holy Family in chains, 'Abdu'l-Baha sang lively songs to cheer them through. Much of their humor would probably be by now out of date and difficult to follow, but it is certain that laughter was the secret ingredient that restored their minds.



This is the mouthpiece end of a didgeridoo, a wind instrument played from ancient times to the present by the aboriginal Australians.



This is the middle section of the didgeridoo.



This is the horn end of the didgeridoo. If you wanted to learn how to play the didgeridoo by studying these three pictures, you would never make it. A didgeridoo, a quilt, a shoelace, a flannel shirt, a colorful pillow, a sofa. What do you do with the shoelace? Do you hold it with the flannel shirt? Do you rest the horn on the colorful pillow? It is five feet long! Do you lay it on the sofa to play it? Is the quilt for polishing it afterward? This may be like Baha'u'llah's Revelation. There it is. There are skeen-teen other things around it. Some are practical, some are pretty, and how do they connect with Baha'u'llah? They don't! The Revelation is yours! It is in your hands. The didgeridoo should be in your hands, and your mouth should be over the mouthpiece, and you should be blowing into it, every day, until you can play it like a bass flute. Play the Revelation!



Here is the didgeridoo again. It has turned into Pocket Cat! See the flannel shirt, the quilt, the string? It's a miracle! Isn't that what Baha'u'llah does, miracles? What would Baha'u'llah think if he saw you falling for that one!

PERSONAL BAHA'I ARCHIVES PART 2

This is a lovely wood floor. Wood was something close to Baha'u'llah's heart. He loved the trees and forests. As a boy he learned to ride well, and enjoyed the countryside. On the exile Baha''u'llah travelled through a lot of places that had no trees or meadows. In Acca, He could see no trees at all. When the restrictions on His imprisonment lifted, He was happy to go to the beautiful houses surrounded with trees and greenery that 'Abdu'l-Baha had arranged for Him.



Pocket Cat is walking on the top edge of the sofa. Even though she is a cat she looks down at her feet from time to time. There is no excuse for a healthy cat to fall off the sofa all by herself. Baha'u'llah walked something more narrow than the top of a sofa. He walked a tightrope! And for what we know, He couldn't look down! He had to trust in God. So do we.



This is a thermostat. It is in MrDonut's living room. Baha'u'llah never had a thermostat. All those years He was in Acca, with a stone window with no cover, and the sea wind blowing in....we like to think that one dark and stormy night His cell was so %#@?$# cold He dreamed about inventing a thermostat. This might be the one He was thinking of.



This is a beautiful scene from a painting. MrDonut found it in a thrift shop. There is a Psalm about trees growing tall beside streams. These trees are immensely tall because they are growing beside water. Baha'u'llah said we can nourish our souls by partaking of His Word, for His Word is the water of life. Do you think He sometimes thought about beautiful places He had enjoyed when He was younger?



Little Pocket Cat peeps around the side of the chair. She is looking for mice. There are no mice in her house. There were lots of mice in the places Baha'u'llah had to stay.



Little Pocket Cat peeps up at us. She is begging for a snack. She is not getting one. Many times on the road Baha'u'llah and his family had nothing to eat. Now we have tidbits for our pets. There were few snacks on the road or in prison for the Holy Family.


If the Holy Family had had any amount of food, like fresh meat, they might have enjoyed cooking it in this nice microwave oven. We believe this is another invention inspired by Baha'u'llah's life or or maybe His dreams. Somebody caught the idea and there it is. Someday people will catch the idea of love. Then, there it will be. What is "there?" Keep catching the idea.



Two potatos. Big baking potatoes. Like brothers! They would feed one grown man at Chili's. They would have given half a dozen people a nice meal.



Popcorn. Did Baha'u'llah have popcorn? We don't know, but he didn't have a microwave to cook it in.



Do you think the Holy Family thought about these much?



This is what an idea might have looked like, on the sub-atomic level. Such an idea may have inspired revelation, or prompted a look at the family finances.



This is MrDonut, with whom many are familiar. He is taking a cat nap. Is he dreaming about Baha'u'llah? Did Baha'u'llah dream of him?



This is a rug. It shows a beautiful tree overshadowing homes. MrDonut thinks the design came to the artist by inspiration, from the world ahead. Baha'u'llah used the image of trees quite a bit. He always described them as good safe things. He never wrote about a tornado sending a tree through grandmother's attic. Baha'u'llah generally kept things happy.



These are pieces of a puzzle. Pocket Cat loves to flip them out of the box and chase them over the floor and put them in her mouth. They did not have picture puzzles in Baha'u'llah's time, that we know of, but to a lot of people then and now life was just a big box of pieces of a puzzle. Nobody had the energy or destiny to assemble them. Baha'u'llah put those pieces together. Some people want to break the puzzle up and flip the pieces around in intellectual gatherings, and put them in your mouth.



This is MrDonut's tuna dish. He gets half a can of Fancy Feast twice a day. In between he nibbles Purina. Notice how much tuna MrDonut leaves in his dish. It may be that MrDonut was taught not to lick his plate, or maybe his mother was of the school that teaches you always leave a little there. Either way, we know that the Holy Family did not have a lot to eat, and not a whole lot to share with others when visitors were allowed in. How many meals could you make out of MrDonut?

THE BAHA'I SCHOOL OF WRITING

Future, Past, Fertile Field for Baha'i Writers

Ever since Madame Blavatsky, or Mr.Hatcher, or someone at that jet-set of the Faith, the Baha'i International Community, coined the phrase, "Writing" has taken on new dimensions in the Baha'i world. They are claiming that the Baha'is are "writing the future"! Again! weeps MrDonut.

"In the old days," explained MrDonut, "The Bab and Baha'u'llah wrote, but they just wrote. After that 'Abdu'l-Baha and some of his friends, like 'Abu'l-Fadl, wrote. They wrote primarily trying to explain the things nobody understood in The Bab and Baha'u'llah's writings. When 'Abdu'l-Baha passed away, there was a great stir behind the scenes to come up with a convincing and authoritative Will to direct and guide the flow of money from believers in far-flung states such as Iran, Iraq, Russia, the U.S. and Canada to Bahiyyih Khanum's male relative and sole means of support, Shoghi Effendi. Bahiyyih was the first Baha'i to actually "write the future." Lucky for her Shoghi Effendi, who was no fool, got the Will validated by the Palestinian authorities before too many Baha'is could examine it.

Shoghi Effendi translated said Will into English for distribution to the Baha'is in the West. This made Shoghi Effendi the first Baha'i to write both the future and the past! It is not for nothing that Shoghi Effendi is noted even today for his skill in translating Farsi to English, and giving himself more leeway in his use of words than the Red Queen.

Shoghi Effendi passed away without leaving a Will, even though his mentor, 'Abdu'l-Baha instructed him to. Even so, he had been clearly and openly preparing the Hands of the Cause for the International Baha'i Council, precursor of the Universal House of Justice, and preparing them also for the leadership of this body by appointing Mason Remey its president. Shoghi Effendi favored Mason in many, many other acts and Mason always came through for the Guardian. Shoghi Effendi even went so far as to affectionately refer to Mason as his "son." He did not say this of any other Hand. It is not too far off the track to adjudge that Shoghi Effendi died in complete confidence that Mason would guide the Hands and all would follow what he had written for the future.

Ruhiyyih Khanum, his widow, persuaded by tooth and nail her associates of high rank ignore 'Abdu'l-Baha's stated instructions in His Will and toss Mr.Remey out. She was writing the past and the future, just like her husband had! Instead of supporting her dead husband's wishes, she frantically opposed development of the International Baha'i Council which Mason would have headed and castigated Mason for not going along with her. Today every seeker and convert to the Baha'i Faith is carefully taught to hate and fear Mason Remey. What a pity.

Ever since these salad days, the job of re-writing the past has fallen mainly to Baha'i Institutions. The National Spiritual Assemblies have done outstanding work here in suppressing most of the information you have just read. The rallying cry of the Baha'is is no longer "Ya Baha'u'l-'Abha!" but "Hunky-Dory!" Other Baha'i institutions have followed suit in not only re-writing the past but also in writing the future. In their oversight of individual Baha'i behavior, any institutional representative can answer any question with a blank stare and very, very quietly declare excommunication upon any Baha'i who doesn't like it.

Recently the British Baha'is held a huge wing-ding with the theme, "We are Writing the Future!" All MrDonut can say is, 1. Pray they will be writing it in English, unless the twisted trend towards "Unity" writes that everyone must learn Welsh and 2. Look out.

'CASUAL DAY' COMES TO MT.CARMEL

HOUSE OF PANCAKES NOTED FOR LEADERSHIP IN WORLD SARTORIAL DIVERSITY

Your reporter has learned that the Universal House of Pancakes has adopted the Western custom of raiment* days for its work week, as well as the week ends. The UHP believes that adding variety to what you have to look at across the table 24/7 will fuel alertness. This is important so the House will be able to respond quickly to calls for pancakes anywhere on the globe.

BFNS needed to know:Wasn't the "House" once the Supreme Institution, a locus of need for a world weary of war? "As we have told the press," said a spokesman, "after decades of research and fruitless projects and programs, the House learned without a doubt that people do not want peace. They want breakfast! The Universal House of Pancakes shall give them their breakfast!"

Here is the rundown:

Monday is "Free" or "Wear What You Want" Day. Anyone not wearing a suit will be sent home to get one.

Tuesdays the House meets buck naked.

Wednesdays mark Casual Day. Men wear Dockers and Ralph Laurens and no socks.

Thursday is Third World Day. Odd assortments of old running shorts, tank tops bearing logos of the industrialized world, and flip-flops are suitable attire.

Friday on MtCarmel, as everywhere else, is Ladies' Day. Everyone dresses up in his mothers' clothes, or adopt the choudra.

Saturday is Costume Day. Everyone wears their suit, because people may want to take pictures.

Sunday is Funny Hat day. An assortment of funny hats accidentally left by tourists are available on ground level, or, members may bring their own amusing chapeux. The standard House of Pancakes' Pancake Servers' Cap is not funny.The sacred "Golden Dome" hat is worn only on Baha'i holy days.

We wish the Universal House of Pancakes all the best in its ceaseless search for ways to please itself.


*Raiment. Look carefully at this word. Now pronounce it correctly.

Baha'u'llah

Baha'u'llah, the "Glory of God"

Passport Photo

Thanks to "Baha'i Faith Religious Freedom of Conscience"

http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Baha'u'llah's%20Passport%20Photo.htm

The Man all this fuss is about.

CONCLAVE AT SOUTH FORK

MISS ELLIE DISCOVERS WHAT BOOTS ARE FOR

It must have been hard for her. It felt like she had known them both all her life.

They were so much alike. Devoted. Brilliant. Tireless. Of noble lineage. For decades residents of the stratosphere of service and command. Although one was of average height and build, and the other tall and athletic, their faces were remarkably similar. Now one, her husband, was gone. And the other, of proven loyalty, capable, ready to assume leadership of the Council his True Brother had appointed him to guide.

Oh, the anguish of the chaste and lonely widow! as she fought the temptation to look into his eyes and see Shoghi there! They were so much alike! She prayed God to keep her eyes away. She prayed the others wouldn't notice. Suddenly she was struck by the realization that for the rest of their lives, he would be president of the Council, the highest appointed post in all the land, and she would continue as a hand at that Council. They would be together day in and day out. All would be expected to show him the deference and obedience they had given her husband. All. Including her. He was a widower - would he ask for her hand to make the office complete? She was a widow - no one could ever hope to approach her husband's place in her heart. Yet there he stood - placed by the hand of her husband and the Will of God straight in the path of the rest of her life.

He would have ideas. Ideas of his own. He'd been her husband's favorite there at South Fork, and had earned the merit through his devotion to the Idea. There had always been an undercurrent of jealousy among the other hands. A blue-blood American, an architect, tireless traveler and executive for her husband's plan of global conquest, hand-picked to design the earth's first church, to head the great Council, to be a true friend to the True Brother of South Fork. That left her as...as a widower. Somebody's wife suddenly out of the loop.

At night she tried to see her husband's face before her, but his friend's face kept coming in and out, until she could not see a difference. It was a spiritual battle and she was not winning it.

Next morning she awoke with the answer in front of her. She called some friends over for tea and after an appropriate period of condolence and small talk she let drop that although it wasn't certain or even for sure, it appeared that he was already making plans to take over the spread. And, heavens! Was anyone receiving the impression he was trying to....woo her?

And you know how rumors fly.

Part VI of a series Let's Make 'Em Real from Help Me I Can't Breathe Around These People!

BLOWING SHOGHI EFFENDI

MrDonut came upon his daughter Doozie crying in the living room. Copies of books by Ruhiyyih Khanum were all over the sofa. "Stop it! Stop it right now!" he said.

"Dad!" she sobbed. "Oh, Daddy!"

"Stop it!" MrDonut said more soothingly.

"Oh, Dad," sobbed Doozie. "He was so blown!"

"Blown? Who?" Sometimes trying to communicate with his daughter made MrDonut want to go to the refrigerator and get a beer.

"Shoghi Effendi!" she moaned, and then cried quietly. "Ruhiyyih Khanum says that even before he named himself Guardian, Shoghi Effendi suffered blows from all directions!"

"Like where, sweetie?"

"Oh, Dad! From just about anyone who looked at him sideways! And I'm not talking about his enemies! Daddy, Shoghi Effendi had more enemies than those guys that smash the heads of baby seals! "

"True, my well-read daughter," said MrDonut. "

"Dad, would you look over the quiz I've made up for the Youth class? "

"Of course, Doozie. While I'm doing that get me a beer."

"Yes, Daddy."

DOOZIE'S QUIZ TO YOUTH

How does the life of Shoghi Effendi resemble that of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Gnostic Gospels?
Answer: When little Jesus got the evil eye from anyone, he would close his eyes real tight and the person who gave him the evil eye would immediately drop dead. He performed miracles for his parents and got them a car and a wide-screen TV. When young Shoghi Effendi was young he had well-choreographed prophetic dreams, and people had gushy arse-licking prophetic dreams about him. The hearsay evidence of his magnificent destiny is a cloying litany of tales told, interestingly enough, in the style of his wife. Young Houssein Ali never had so may people trying to kiss up to him.

Our True Brother said that people followed him around trying to beat him up ,spiritually, because they knew he was going to be the Guardian someday, but he just closed his eyes real tight and kept them that way. He went to Oxford for a little while and got out according to his wife with not one class in English or in architecture. That was a miracle, because everybody gave Shoghi Effendi gold stickers for his mastery of English and architecture. Once he was settled into the Guardianship, he was finally allowed to stomp, publicly and with complete freedom, upon anyone he wished. Some Baha'is today say that is okay, because he was the Guardian. What a religion!

Three helpers were named in Priceless Pearl that helped Shoghi Effendi get the buildings on Mt.Carmel up. What one prominent Baha'i architect's name was not mentioned?
Answer: Charles Mason Remey. This was pretty snooty of Ruhiyyih Khanum, because Mr.Remey ably and faithfully carried a tremendous portion of the Guardian's self-assigned burden. Leaving it out makes her look small, and it exposes the principle that a man is a Baha'i until the Guardian's wife kicks him out. That did not happen until 1957(?). Small? Petty? Vindictive? Remey designed the house of worship that is to be raised someday on the site of the obelisk on Mt.Carmel. Shoghi Effendi himself said so.* Why aren't the Baha'is listening to Shoghi Effendi now?

Who were Shoghi Effendi and Ruhiyyih Khanum's worst enemies?
Answer: Each other.

What was the origin of Shoghi Effendi's constant need to go off somewhere away from it all and "recover" from "blows?"
Answer: Guilt. His own, beginning with the fabrication of his "Guardianship" from the time 'Abdu'l-Baha died and His sister wrote a patchwork "Will" to save her side of the family from destitution. Many Baha'is glorify the mad, freewheeling life of Tahirih, but there are many also who have to give it to Bahiyyih Khanum for thinking on her feet, and thinking fast. She and Shoghi Effendi in fact collaborated in the creation of the Guardianship.

The Guardianship gave Shoghi Effendi more power than the Pope, J.Edgar Hoover, and God, and unquestionably more than Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha ever had. If Baha'u'llah had had the powers of the Guardian, the whole world would be speaking Farsi and peace would reign from pole to pole. He didn't. Shoghi Effendi got it, and look at the mess the world is in today. If you were responsible for that, wouldn't you take off for Paris, or Switzerland, or London? Friend, when the royal couple traveled, do you think they stayed in a tent? Guilt, guilt, guilt. Pow, pow, pow.

What was the wisdom of Shoghi Effendi not accompanying 'Abdu'l-Baha to America?
Answer: There are many. One is, so he could blame this Dr.Fareed, who diagnosed the youth as having an eye disease. Nobody was allowed to travel with an eye disease then. Think of Ellis Island! Shoghi Effendi later said that Dr.Fareed hated him! He said Dr.Fareed hated the Covenant. That was the end of Dr.Fareed, as a Baha'i.

We do not know if the party wanted him to go along to America anyway. He was fussy. He was never happy following the instructions of his teachers. They put him into three different schools before Oxford because he was a Mama's Boy. His English wasn't that great anyway, then. Look at his photo. He is a troublemaker.

Why did Shoghi Effendi have so little good to say about America?
Because by then he had the American Baha'i Community under his thumb, a place the Central Figures never gave it. He gave a new angle to Baha'i life by adding an insurmountable problem of racism. He gave this problem more attention, and ordered the American Baha'i Community to give it more attention, than the Daily Obligatory Prayer.

Have any of Shoghi Effendi's instructions brought about any change in race relations? Didn't Dr.King do a lot more, and he wasn't a Baha'i. Maybe Dr.King was working on inspiration, a quality Shoghi Effendi seemed to kill with his will to hunt enemies.

Oh, for the hand of God! We should rejoice that Shoghi Effendi never made it to our shores. Years later, he got even by culling the American Baha'i community of those who called for proof of the Will, for removing the incorporation of the Word or God, and other actions demanded by a free people in a just nation.

"Well, what do you think?" asked Doozie.

MrDonut fairly glowed with pride. "Excellent! Doozie, you've rent the veil. I believe you've made a man out of him."

"It was Doozie's turn to glow. "Thanks, Dad. Can we all go out for tuna tonight?"


*Since the Guardian's passing a special committee meets on Mondays to brainstorm ways to get around Shoghi Effendi's decision. So far they have been unsuccessful, but the members say they're serving the Faith, it's a living, and the pizza is excellent.

SAD NEWS FROM WORLD CENTRE

(IN THE STYLE OF SHOGHI EFFENDI)

MONTH OF "HONOR" (DECEMBER 31) CANCELLED AROUND WORLD

AFTER EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH UNIVERSAL HOUSE PANCAKES ANNOUNCE HONOR LOST. NOBODY KNOWS WHERE FIND MORE.


"WE CALLED MRDONUT TO COME TO HAIFA AND TAKE A LOOK UNDER SOME OF OUR BUILDINGS," SAID MEMBER. "HE DID, AND REPORTED THAT ALL MICE DENIED ANY KNOWLEDGE OF HONOR THERE. 'DOES IT TASTE LIKE CHEESE?' THEY ASKED."


OUTSIDE UNIVERSAL HOUSE PANCAKES, GARDENER SUGGEST SEARCH HONOR OUTSIDE FAITH. "WE GOT A-PLENTY WHERE MY PAPA COME FROM!" ASSURED.


"WE ARE NOT GOING TO BORROW ANY FROM THE FRENCH," SAID SPOKESMAN INTERNATIONAL PLUMBERS CENTRE. "BAHA'IS EXPECTING HONOR AT THE DECEMBER 31 FEAST WILL BE DISAPPOINTED."


"MRDONUT OBSERVES CALENDAR KNOWN ONLY SELF, REMINDS ALL:

1.MOST OF WORLD DOES NOT OBSERVE BAHA'I CALENDAR ANYWAY

2. BAB'S CALENDAR NICE BUT BREAKING BUTT TO OBSERVE IT

A. CULT STUFF

B.,ADMINISTRATION WAY OF CUTTING OFF GOOD SENSE MAMA GAVE.

C. ALIENATES PEOPLE SENSE.

3. GOD CARES?

4. BAB SUFFER SO YOU OBSERVE FUNNY CALENDAR? BE HONORABLE ANYWAY?

5. WHAT HONOR? LOOK UP. POSSESS. PARENTS PROBABLY HAD LOT. ASK HOW. MIGHT RESPECT.

FEEDING THE HUNGRY HOUSE

There is news, where you want to find it, of persecutions of religious minorities everywhere. Mr.Donut is perplexed that those purporting to be spokespeople for the Baha'i Faith can do nothing but whine and complain to various agencies about Baha'i persecution overseas but not here in the U.S. Christians are being martyred everywhere these days. It seldom makes the news, and if it does, will a Baha'i raise his voice against the injustice? Let a Baha'i set himself to be martyred in Iran, and suddenly it is Iran's fault! Let a hundred Iranian Baha'i youth be canned from college, and the Haifans ignore the fact that their parents, who know the score in Iran, set them up for it. It is almost as if they are seeking approval from the Nine, approval for desperate acts that inspire and goad the Iranian Moslems into reminding the Baha'is who is in charge. In Egypt is a similar state of affairs. The Nine gaze down from Mt.Carmel upon the sufferings of the Egyptian Baha'is, who they have painted into a corner where they must submit to the government, or die!

We believe the Universal House of Pancakes, which it deserves to be called, has little more to do in international affairs than persuade the Baha'is that they must not employ the peaceful teachings of Baha'u'llah and the Master to handle these matters. No! The UHP regards the rank and file of the Third World as expendable meat on which its adorers may feed. The common man cannot be trusted to be a Baha'i in any way but to sacrifice his life and his family's lives to feed the insatiable appetite of the God of Carmel.

The ultimate goal is, of course, rule of the planet by the Baha'i Institutions. If you think this is absurd, see the official site of the Baha'i Distribution Service in the U.S., http://www.bahaibookstore.com/ . Study the ratio of books by Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha, to the number of books by everyone else. The Founder and His appointed one have been all but forgotten; the texts in some cases have been altered and key passages that would crush the oppression to Mt.Carmel deleted. But books by academic Baha'is and Baha'is related to Baha'i institution members abound! The arrogance which shows itself everywhere else in Baha'i organization is here as well. There are few books of the sacred text, packaged attractively to endear them to the reader. There is a superabundance of books telling the middle-class reader how to, and a plethora of books for the academics and intellectuals.

The presence of the Baha'i Faith at the U.N. presents a telling story. Last heard, and this was a few years back, the Baha'i seat on the NGO was filled with a lady in her early twenties and complete with pleasing looks and a rich daddy who sent her over to some island in the Pacific to prepare her, we assume, for foreign service. MrDonut knows a fellow who worked in the foreign service and he wouldn't have gotten a smidgen of the attention we are sure this young lady receives from her co-workers at the U.N. What were the Baha'i administrators thinking, to put a young, immature and unlearned woman in such a demanding and high-profile office? What indeed! What do we hear about too many of the U.N. workers - they are there for the money and for the sex. Was she wearing a choudra?

On the local level, the little Baha'i media officers present innocuous articles about Mom and Pop Baha'i and their Baha'i Prayer Bowler team. The generation and insertion of these blurbs is important work for the local Baha'is. It provides the little people with the feeling that they are "serving the Cause," and it dulls their faculty of sincerity, since they know on some level that it is not really what Baha'u'llah told them to do. One reinforces the other, each time the activities of the common Baha'i gives the UHJ something to show when the question arises, "What are the Baha'is up to?" In answer to such a question, the UHJ ignores the rank and file in the West and brings out its Third-World Martyrs, who, without freedom or liberty, cannot know they are but being used by their "Supreme Institution."

In America, men and women in government and academe are enjoying the company of Baha'is who nuzzle in with their doctrines of world peace, universal language, equality of men and women, etc. These men and women must remember they are hobnobbing with men and women whose intent and purpose it is to assume the governance of the world. They must remember they are interfacing not with a philosophy or a movement but a religion - the deadliest form of human organization known. The original Baha'i writings teach that the world will not be changed through more organization. It will advance this time through the power of His Spirit.

The UHJ is fighting against the day when the governments of the Western world begin to detect the odor of genuine hatred from its organization. Soon the governments of the West, where the freedom to speak and investigate reality still exists, will begin to connect the dots between radical Islam and the radical Baha'i governors that sit on Mt.Carmel. They will read the writings of Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha for themselves, and wonder how on earth a handful of men managed to cage this "nightingale of paradise" for so long.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

BAHA'IS ADVISED TO BEG FORGIVENESS, HEALING, FROM INSTITUTIONS OF THE FAITH -
FOR READING THEIR OWN HISTORY!

THE EVIDENCE WAS IN FRONT OF ME FOR DECADES. I saw administration tread good Baha'is like perpetrators of crimes so vile they could not be named. I saw them advance bad Baha'is up the ladder of every institution. It took 30 years for God to get through to me that He has nothing to do with these people. Thirty years!

From the beginning it was instilled into me that They (non-Baha'is) are wrong, bad, repulsive, and in desperate need of our teaching. I was taught that Baha'is are everything. I learned to control my disgust when one more Baha'i said of another Baha'i, "Oooooh, he/she's a beeeooooootiful Baha'i " but saying it seemed to get you points.

Persian food must be wonderful. It has fed an old, old nation for a very long time. It generally shows up on the tables of Baha'i potluck dinners. A lot of people eat it. Invariably it made me feel like a grenade was going off in my stomach. Eventually I stopped putting it on my plate. Then Baha'is would question me. "Why no Persian food? Oh, so-and-so's mother made it! Oh, try just a little!" Then, with deep concern: "Why not?" It was as if my loyalty to the teaching of the oneness of mankind was being challenged, indeed as if I had stepped beyond the Tree Beyond Which There is No Passing. But do you know what? I never questioned. I never challenged the offensiveness of their questioning. But I never put another fork full of Persian Potluck into my mouth again. God must have seen something in me worth saving.

From the moment I laid eyes on the words of Baha'u'llah in a Hidden Word, I was in love. I never stopped loving that Word. I love it today. That Word is what I allowed myself to subordinate to the words of the Fear- and Power-Mongers in Baha'i Administration, to the "friends" who were probably more or less as insensitive to the urgency and creativity of the Word as I.

I think that no one who has fallen in love with the Word of God can ever be separated from that Heaven. I have, as the Bible states, been cleansed. I am free of the past and free of sin. Now I can live for Him instead of living for an amalgamation of paper-pushers and power brokers called The Baha'i Faith. Now the Word is all around me, and within me. Nothing can ever separate me from that Word.

In this month of Questions, I have studied the words of people in Baha'i history. I have considered why some of the Will and Testament does not fit with other parts of it. I reflect that Bahiyyih Khanum was there when her Brother died, and wonder why it took her months to get a typewritten translation of His Will to a few select Baha'is outside the Holy Land.. A lightbulb went off in my brain when I read that it was translated by none other than Shoghi Effendi. What a plum! I wondered why the Will was not treated like a legal will by the Palestinian government, and how much the family had to pay to keep it that way. I am intrigued that Britain's foremost forensic scientist examined photostats of the handwriting and pronounced that several witnessed signatures just did not match the handwriting on 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will. I wondered why Shoghi Effendi, who lived and died by everything British, discounted the expert's report.

I followed the money trail: who stood to profit by Shoghi Effendi's inheritance of the mantle of the Faith, and who would lose? Why did Shoghi Effendi respond with a tight fist against any attempt to make public the document for further examination? And why were 'Abdu'l-Baha's three Muslim brothers cut off? Who fabricated the monstrous acts that they supposedly committed against anyone whose behind they refused to kiss? Questions.

I have learned that Baha'is are not permitted to learn these things or ask these questions. They are taught that questions open the questioner to a mysterious "spiritual illness" which he can only heal by coming to Baha'i administration, admitting his action, and begging for forgiveness. In other words, questioning, exercising one's intellect and reason, are seen as shameful acts, almost in the manner that the Catholic Church once condemned self-pleasure. Begging forgiveness for asking a question! This is the state of the Baha'i Faith and has been for nearly a century.

Years ago on the Baha'i Library Forum, some brave soul asked the Baha'i teaching on masturbation. Consequently two letters were produced, to John Cornell from the Guardian. They were known as the Cornell letters. Mr.Cornell had asked Shoghi Effendi the same thing. Shoghi Effendi replied, somewhat evasively, that that was why God invented marriage. (Presumably, so one could cease self-pleasure and share it instead.) That information must have been craved by tens of thousands of Baha'i youth and singles who really didn't know where they stood and respectfully wanted the Guardian's word on it. Guess what. In not too long a time, the Cornell Letters disappeared off Baha'i Library. Maybe I just got rusty in my search skills, but I could find them no more. Was it yet another case of silencing the questioner?

Begging forgiveness for asking a question! Fearing Divine wrath for reading! Seeking wisdom and not being able to find it! This, in the religion that peoples its upper administrative strata with Ph.Ds, M.D.s, professors, educators, lawyers, judges....men and women of considerable learning. But it is not the "learning" that the holy books always teach. That "stranglehold on the minds of men" attributed to the clergy belongs to Baha'i administrators. There's just no question about it.

God bless America!

THANK YOU ALL!

I COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU

I really have to thank all the Baha'is that turned on their own religion in their effort to turn me out of it. It all boils down to things the Baha'is are afraid to read about, afraid to examine in the writings of their own faith. I was never afraid of religion. I always knew life went on. Life comes with eternal life; there's no difference. I knew the Baha'i religion was something very, very alien to Baha'i organization. Many passages in the Writings declare unequivocally that the Faith cannot be "organized," and that the most obvious symptom of schism is the ever-increasing demand of administration that Baha'is subordinate their consciences to an Institution of the Faith or a representative thereof. Submission of one's will is an ordinary element of religion, but submission of one's mind and heart to elected and appointed representatives is the ideal of the tyrant.

And how is this submission accomplished? By fragmenting the Teachings, as in the lauded Ruhi program; by entrusting "Assistants" of no proven ability, maturity, or knowledge, to officiate in complex matters of administration that even their "Auxiliary Board" refuses to study, and destroying the reputations of good Baha'is in the process. The Baha'i Faith is no longer in the hearts or hands of the Baha'is but in the living sacrifices of men and women of all faiths and no faiths who are doing the work Baha'u'llah told His followers to do. The heart of the Faith is in people who have never heard of the name Baha'i. It is in lovers of the Word of God who have seen it delivered into the hands of men bent only on money and power. Those friends of God have put their fate in God's hands, because it is not safe in the hands of Baha'i Administration.

Most Baha'is will have been trained by their Administration to ridicule my position, because they cannot bear to employ their own conscience. The slurs and images of a Baha'i no longer having rights or membership are so scathingly humiliating it is a brave heart that dares to think for himself and risk the consequences. Baha'is have been told for so many years that conscience, questioning, rational thought, are dangerous. Any thinking that needs to be done will be done by Administration. All the Baha'is have to do is keep making money and sending it up the line. The House of Worship in Wilmette was recently given a work-over because it would not have lasted a full hundred years without it. The Terraces on Mt Carmel, opened just a few years ago, are already requiring repairs. Baha'i Administrators keep hopping from meeting to conference. The flood of intellectualizations of God's Word keep pouring into the Baha'i Bookstore, and these are books that decry the human spirit and the divine one, and continue to drum into the mind of every reader that he cannot trust himself; he must turn to his Institutions for only they can give him the guidance he needs. All others he might turn to, his Administration has branded Antichrists of Baha'u'llah's revelation. It is not hard to imagine that if Baha'u'llah were to appear on earth today, the House of Justice itself would reject Him and declare Him and outlaw.

As long as the only face Baha'i Administration presents to the upper class and politically influential people it wishes to impress are its own wealthy and influential administrators, while the rank and file embrace servitude to their masters, so their administrators have a flock to show their friends. Baha'i Administration might be likened to a kind of Vatican City of papal servants minus a Pope. It is every man for himself. Since the people cannot read, not because they are illiterate but because they are afraid to, the administrators enjoy unchallenged freedom to accumulate as much power and wealth as their satanic skills allow.

There is hope . A far-stretching sky of hope awaits anyone who can trust his God and step out into Reality. Ultimately man hates to be dominated, he hates playing the slave. He must be free. One taste of freedom and the bugbears and threats of the Auxiliary Board, the Local and National Spiritual Assemblies, the Baha'i intelligentsia, and yes, the Universal House of Justice, will disappear like fog under a rising sun. There is life after Baha'i membership. Good. Clean. Happy. Free. Life. You can see the sun again.

So for any Baha'is who are ready to think for themselves - and Baha'u'llah said thinking for yourself was just fine! - you are welcome to meet me for ice cream at Friendly's. You might get expelled if you're seen with me. God doesn't care. Trust in God, I say. He'll never let you down.

BAHA'I ADMINISTRATION SHRINKS FROM PATRIOTISM

WHERE IS "SANE AND HEALTHY PATRIOTISM" OF AMERICAN BAHA'IS?

Shortly after 9/11, The American Baha'i * published a call from Uncle Sam for Arabic- and Farsi-speakers to enlist in the language side of the war on terror. Uncle Sam helped a lot of those Iranian Baha'i emigres to make it to freedom's shores, and his bank of Arabic and Farsi speakers was sorely lacking in manpower. At the end of the article, the National Spiritual Assembly added a warning: Baha'is who enrolled with the government in this program should prayerfully consider that they might be asked to perform actions against Baha'i law. In other words, to volunteer for service to their new country was, under the terms of the NSA, illegal and would be punished (see below).

What were these prohibited actions? The NSA has for years struggled to erode the healthy patriotism of the American Baha'i. No threat to America's shores has ever before come from an area of the planet where few Americans know the language or could do a thing about the situation, but many, many American Baha'is do. In our experience the NSA would like nothing more than to have its rank and file cleave to the belief that their true government is their National Spiritual Assembly.

Why did the NSA refuse to state the actions that would be "against Baha'i law?" Could it be because there were none? Could it be that the Iranian-Americans might discover in their service to America a real democracy relying on real freedom and due process, instead of a badly Americanized version of the Islam they thought they left behind? Perhaps the NSA simply wanted to maintain its control over the lives of a people that lent the Faith a glamour, a mystery, and a very wealthy and generous community.

This is not the first nor the last time the NSA has warned the believers to refrain from some charitable, patriotic, or innocent association under the pretence that it possesses esoteric knowledge the Baha'is can't be trusted with. The warnings are couched in the form of threats, for every Baha'i know the result of disobedience to the NSA: public humiliation in the pages of American Baha'i or in a mass-mailing to every believer in the United States. Accompanying these punishments is the refusal to inform the punished one of the gory details. Even the offender is not permitted to work his salvation, since he is not permitted to learn the charges levied against him. This is the pattern of their New World Order?

Years ago its Guardian observed :

Stupendous as is the struggle which His words foreshadow, they also testify to the complete victory which the upholders of the Greatest Name are destined eventually to achieve. Peoples, nations, adherents of divers faiths, will jointly and successively arise to shatter its unity, to sap its force, and to degrade its holy name. They will assail not only the spirit which it inculcates, but the administration which is the channel, the instrument, the embodiment of that spirit. For as the authority with which Bahá'u'lláh has invested the future Bahá'í Commonwealth becomes more and more apparent, the fiercer shall be the challenge which from every quarter will be thrown at the verities it enshrines.
(Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Baha'u'llah, p. 17)

The NSA still argues that its enemies are without. We argue that many sit plainly and openly on the Institutions of the Baha'i Faith. We believe they have become giddy with the contemplation of themselves as the officers of that "future Baha'i Commonwealth." We are sure that Baha'u'llah's authority is a spiritual one, and that Spirit wields ultimate supremacy over His servants. We believe the U.S. government might listen a little more closely to the noise coming out of Baha'i administration, remove the rose-colored glasses bestowed upon it by Baha'i dignitaries, and read what Baha'i administration is preaching to the rank and file.

*The American Baha'i is published for Baha'is only by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States.

CHICKEN JUSTICE - A Case Study in Excommunication

Protector - Kahunas Still Refuse to Disclose Contents of Secret Report

Why does the Auxiliary Board Member for Protection for ____ County refuse to make available to Ms.W the report on her that was fabricated and disseminated through Baha'i Administration? but never to her? Because:

1. The content was gathered illegally.

2. The content was solicited by pressure from the AB.

3. The content was created by assumptions of fact from gossip and backbiting.

4. The content was at least partially the result of the lust of some of the Baha'i men, who desired to control Ms.W since they could not have her.

5. The content was a crazy quilt of bits and pieces of personal and confidential items that Ms.W had once shared with the Local Spiritual Assembly.

6. The content was mischief stirred up by Assistants to the ABM in an effort to hide their incompetence.

7. Were the report given to her, she might be able to sue. The slander that this "investigation" provoked went outside the Baha'i Community and affected her publicly.

8. The report no longer exists. The AB saw prudent to destroy it.

9. The report exists, but would be presented to Ms.W in altered form. This action would underscore the AB's classification of a person so dangerous to the community that she could not be trusted to see it. It also attests to the insanity of the ABM in hiding the report at all, as well as their insanity in trying to get away with it in the first place.

10. The AB knows the report was gathered under false pretenses and the information within it is spurious. Were this fact to be leaked, the Assistant and the Members and other officers involved would (hopefully) suffer the removal of their rights. Evidently the House of Justice believes these men are infallible.

12.As long as the Institutions of the Faith continue to grant these men outrageous license to destroy the reputation of an innocent woman, so long is the entire structure of Baha'i Administration poised to shatter.

13. Ms. W unwittingly caused a prominent Baha'i to believe that she had something on him. In his post as Auxiliary Board Member, he was loathe to admit whatever the shortcoming was, and considered Ms.W's knowledge dangerous enough to excommunicate her immediately.

If the report is true, there is no reason not to reveal it. But it has been kept secret, and we have no doubt whatsoever that it is false. But the Baha'i community has been trained to regard secrecy as administration's sole perrogative. Questions are not asked, because questioning is followed by excommunication.

We are beginning to survey the camp of ex-Baha'is who attest to the corruption within Baha'i Administration, and the air over there is fresh and clean. The facts speak for themselves. The "infallible" Universal House of Justice, as it calls itself, has created a system that allows corruption to rise to the top and purity to be trampled beneath.

It seems that he closer one's heart is to its administration, the greater the risk to be expelled. E.g., Mason Remey put all his money on the Guardian. Fate removed Shoghi Effendi before he could set up the safeguards around Remey to succeed him. The highest ranking Baha'is revised Shoghi Effendi's written statements and expelled him - but not before waging a vicious smear campaign against him that set the Baha'i community back a hundred years.

The immense, creaking man-made structure of today's Baha'i administration is built on that most dishonorable deed. In Christian terms, it is built on sinking sand.

WHAT WAS THE SECRET THE AUXILIARY BOARD MEMBER WAS HIDING?
PROTECTION OF THE FAITH - TASTES LIKE CHICKEN!

THE UN-AMERICAN BAHA'I

(Fantasy takes a Holiday)

Our First Amendment grants the Baha'i Faith the right to exist and the freedom to exercise itself as a religion. American Baha'is should be jumping for joy that they live in the United States, where these freedoms are so old they are often taken for granted. But no! They rally against other governments for the right of their brethren to enjoy First Amendment rights. Might it not be wiser to promote the freedoms permitted them here, under the Bill of Rights?

The Baha'i Faith in America refuses to swallow the entire First Amendment. It prohibits its followers freedom of speech, even though its Writings declare that freedom of expression is the bedrock of the foundation of their faith. But the movement of the pen of one ranking Baha'i administrator can and does cut that freedom off and remove the rights of the person who has dared to speak.

Prohibited speech seldom expresses hatred of the Faith or its laws or its institutions. Rather it is most often the expression of a Baha'i who has thoughtfully considered a problem, or researched the Writings on a specific topic. When his findings differ from the administrator's, when they suggest a new way to solve an old and persistent problem, or when the Baha'i dares to report the violation of Baha'i law to his Administration, that Baha'i will have his rights removed. On the word and opinion of just one administrator, gossip and slander can be pumped into Baha'i administration until that Baha'i is welcome nowhere.

How can such a religion, unsurpassed in its beauty and strength, timely in its love of justice and providing for a system of administration to last a thousand years, allow its enemies to flourish within its fold?

One explanation is this: The Baha'i Faith in the United States is in the United States. Baha'i authoritative texts state that, for all its preciousness and nearness to the heart of God, it is yet a land steeped in materialism. Baha'is are warned again and again to learn to recognize materialism and to avoid it. Here is where the Baha'i administration and its adherents part company with their text.

To a generation of Baha'is raised and surrounded with a material wealth previously unknown in the history of the world, those Baha'is who demonstrate and possess material superiority to the rest are the ones who hold authority over the others by reason of their election and appointment to powerful administrative positions. Somehow this group of Baha'is looked upon the outer shell of themselves and determined that what Baha'u'llah meant by inner wealth was really outer wealth. The Baha'i officials do emanate a pretence of spirituality: their clothes are spotless and well-tailored; they are photogenic; their names and addresses and relatives meet the material standards of money and blood. Examine their decisions and rulings, see who's rights are removed and how, learn how Baha'i law and due process are trampled to achieve a personal victory for the administrator.

The Administrators of the Baha'i Faith in America today severely abridge the freedom of speech of the rank and file. As opposed to Baha'i authoritative texts, believers offensive to an administratior are forbidden access to Baha'i community life activities and institutions. And there i