The Return of Christ came and brought a Covenant that mankind must follow in order to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. To do this mankind must properly establish the House of the Lord (now called the Universal House of Justice).

  Once upon a time not so long ago, a group of people went against Shoghi Effendi in a very offensive way. This was for their own aggrandizement and empowerment. To go against Shoghi Effendi is strictly forbidden by God, as written by ‘Abdu’l-Baha in the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha on page 11. To disobey him [Shoghi Effendi] is to disobey God.
 

Whoso rebelleth against him [Shoghi Effendi] …hath rebelled against God; whoso opposeth him [Shoghi Effendi] hath opposed God… whoso disputeth with him [Shoghi Effendi] hath disputed with God; whoso denieth him [Shoghi Effendi] hath denied God; whoso disbelieveth in him [Shoghi Effendi] hath disbelieved in God; whoso deviateth, separateth himself and turneth aside from him hath in truth deviated, separated himself and turned aside from God. May the wrath, the fierce indignation, the vengeance of God rest upon him! The mighty stronghold shall remain impregnable and safe through obedience to him [Shoghi Effendi] who is the Guardian of the Cause of God. It is incumbent upon the members of the House of Justice, upon all the Aghsan, the Afnan, the Hands of the Cause of God to show their obedience, submissiveness and subordination unto the Guardian of the Cause of God [Shoghi Effendi], to turn unto him [Shoghi Effendi] and be lowly before him [Shoghi Effendi]. He that opposeth him [Shoghi Effendi] hath opposed the True One, will make a breach [a division or split] in the Cause of God, will subvert His word and will become a manifestation of the Center of Sedition.[i]
 

Shoghi Effendi, not having a biological son to succeed him, set up a successorship in a council in embryonic form, which everyone was to turn to upon his passing. This council was an embryonic Universal House of Justice, called the first International Baha’i Council. It consisted of two parts, the executive head, and the legislative body, which conforms with ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s Will and Testament, the charter[ii] for the World Order of Baha’u’llah. Anything else is not Baha’u’llah’s Universal House of Justice. Shoghi Effendi placed ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s adopted son to be its president, setting up the executive branch. Shoghi Effendi, also forming the body, appointed all nine of its members. This council was to go through four stages to become the Universal House of Justice. It was to become a world court on Mount Carmel in 1963. Later, its body (not the head) was to be elected to form the International Tribunal that was to bring peace to the world. Then it would effloresce into the Universal House of Justice.
 

Shoghi Effendi knew he could not set up a Universal House of Justice during his lifetime, as according to the Will and Testament, it is to be elected by the believers of all nations. ‘Abdu’l-Baha, during his lifetime, contemplated setting up the Universal House of Justice, as it was becoming possible then, as in Russia there was a large Baha’i community. In fact, the first Baha’i temple was built in Iscabad, Russia. However, after the passing of ‘Abdu’l-Baha in 1921, Russia became communist and atheistic. All religions were banned. The Baha’i temple was confiscated and taken over by the government. The temple was then secularized by being turned into a library or museum, and later it was destroyed altogether. It was thus impossible for Shoghi Effendi to set up a Universal House of Justice in accordance with the provisions of the Will and Testament, which is the charter for the Universal House of Justice, as there were no longer any active Baha’is, nor a Baha’i administration, in Russia. Therefore, no one could set up a Universal House of Justice according to the provisions of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s Will and Testament prior to the fall of communism in Russia.
 

And now, concerning the House of Justice which God hath ordained as the source of all good and freed from all error, it must be elected by universal suffrage, that is, by the believers. Its members must be manifestations of the fear of God and daysprings of knowledge and understanding, must be steadfast in God’s faith and the well-wishers of all mankind. By this House is meant the Universal House of Justice, that is, in all countries a secondary House of Justice must be instituted, and these secondary Houses of Justice must elect the members of the Universal one.[iii]
 

No place in Baha’i scriptures or in any of Shoghi Effendi’s writings or discourses are the “Hands” designated to be Shoghi Effendi’s successor or to take over after his passing. In fact, the “Hands” ceased to be Hands with the last breath of Shoghi Effendi. They are to function only under the direction of a living guardian, that is, under the direction of Shoghi Effendi. They claimed the authority, saying it was they who were to carry out Shoghi Effendi’s plan. Then the defunct “Hands” went against Shoghi Effendi. They took over and prevented the Baha’is from turning to Shoghi Effendi’s successor, the first International Baha’i Council. They then set up an administration of their own that is strange to the Baha’i faith, going against each and every one of Shoghi Effendi’s writings for the establishment of the Universal House of Justice. Not one thing was spared. It was a complete violation of everything Shoghi Effendi stood for.
 

The first thing they did was bypass the first International Baha’i Council, the successor to Shoghi Effendi, and scrap the executive branch, which is an integral part of the Universal House of Justice. There are two parts to the Universal House of Justice, the executive head and the legislative body.
 

The legislative body must reinforce the executive, the executive must aid and assist the legislative, 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.[iv]
 

The executive is the “sacred head and the distinguished member for life of that body.”[v]
 

Now the members of the House of Justice have not, individually, essential sinlessness [infallibility]; but the body [of which the head is part] of the House of Justice is under the protection of God: this is called conferred infallibility.[vi]
 

Without these two parts, the executive and legislative, there could be no infallibility, and without infallibility there could be no justice, and without justice there could be no Baha’i Universal House of Justice. The first International Baha’i Council, which was the successor to Shoghi Effendi and was appointed by him, consisted of these two parts, the appointed hereditary head, and the other appointed members of the body.
 

Two years after Shoghi Effendi’s passing, in 1959, when the so-called “Hands” were firmly established in their violation, they dismantled the International Baha’i Council altogether, thus doing away completely with everything Shoghi Effendi had set up for the establishment of the Universal House of Justice. Not only did they go against Shoghi Effendi and God, they were in strict violation of the provisions of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, which is part of the Covenant of Baha’u’llah, making them Covenant-breakers of the worst sort.
 

They did away with Shoghi Effendi’s plan entirely, which he had laid out in his Ten Year World Crusade, a plan that included this first International Baha’i Council, which he set up by appointing both the executive head, which is hereditary, and the legislative body, which was to become elected during Ridvan in 1963, after it had become a world court on Mount Carmel. Instead, they set up some weird monster, a counterfeit body without a head. The whole Baha’i world should have recognized that this violation was going against Shoghi Effendi, which was going against God, and also that it was going against the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, which was Covenant-breaking.
 

They had the gall to call this Headless Monster the Universal House of Justice. No way could this Headless Monster be the Baha’i Universal House of Justice, not only for the above reasons, but because Russia was still atheistic with no Baha’i representation. This is the same reason Shoghi Effendi could not set up a Universal House of Justice in its final stage. Therefore, he set up the first International Baha’i Council, which was the Universal House of Justice in embryo. You see, Shoghi Effendi was infallible, which is why no one was to go against him, whereas the Hands were not infallible, and were full of iniquities, becoming the world’s greatest enemies of the Cause of God.
 

Yes, these mischief-makers went directly against Shoghi Effendi right down the line, and thus are the enemies of God. They split the faith, causing a division. They deflected scrutiny and detection of their gross violation by the believers, by using a switcheroo, labeling as Covenant-breakers those that did not go along with their split, and their violation against Shoghi Effendi. This caused those who went along with their rot, to shun the true Baha’is that were very firm in the Covenant and loyal to all of Shoghi Effendi’s plans and writings. This was a stroke of satanic genius by these “Hands.” They reversed the meaning of the Will and Testament, and had the mainstream Baha’is shun the true believers who are firm in the Covenant, and embrace those who were in opposition to Shoghi Effendi. Then to keep the believers from detecting their violating scheme, they shut the believers out from knowledge of what they were doing by passing a resolution in their secret conclave[vii] to forbid the Baha’is from discussing the matter amongst themselves, also forbidding them from having any contact at all with those dear souls who were awake and firm in the Covenant.
 

The reason for this resolution is obvious. It was to keep the rank and file believers ignorant of what was going on by using threats of excommunication to keep them from asking questions. Thus, they were successful in keeping the believers from becoming cognizant of this terrible violation by the “Hands.” The Hands did this to cover up their own violation, and to erect a very strong and impenetrable wall around their violation, to keep their foolish followers that are called the mainstream Baha’is, from ever learning the truth of the matter. This was carried out with an air of piety, devotion, and fidelity (wolves in sheep’s clothing). I am not breaking down this solid wall. I can’t. But I am going over the wall. It is said the true Joseph is like a vine that goes over the wall (Genesis 49:22). A small minority of the violators, the prophesied 144,000, will turn to the Lamb.[viii]
 

And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on Mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s [Baha’u’llah’s] name written in their foreheads [which means they use their intellect to investigate the truth of the matter for themselves].[ix]
 

Of course these Covenant-breakers could not point to one single thing that we who are under the provisions of the Covenant are doing that could in any way be construed as Covenant-breaking, so they came up with the ridiculous scenario that we were Covenant-breakers because we did not go along with their split, and were thus the cause of disunity. They were using disunity as an excuse to persuade the mainstream Baha’is to shun us. They wanted the entire Baha’i world to be united under their violation of the Covenant, and to be in opposition to Shoghi Effendi. Thus, their clarion cry is that we who are firm in the Covenant and obedient to Shoghi Effendi were causing disunity. Didn’t ‘Abdu’l-Baha warn us about this in his Will and Testament?
 

Beware, beware, lest the days after the ascension (of Baha’u’llah) be repeated, when the Center of Sedition waxed haughty and rebellious and with Divine Unity for his excuse deprived himself and perturbed and poisoned others. No doubt every vainglorious one that purposeth dissension and discord will not openly declare his evil purposes, nay rather, even as impure gold, would he seize upon divers measures and various pretexts that he may separate [split] the gathering of the people of Baha.[x]
 

There is only one way to have unity in the Baha’i faith, and that is by the Covenant. Not only is the Covenant of Baha’u’llah, as delineated by ‘Abdu’l-Baha in his Will and Testament, the basis of unity in the Baha’i faith, it is the basis of Shoghi Effendi’s administration. It is the only basis for unity throughout the entire world. What the “Hands” were establishing was a unity in opposition to Shoghi Effendi and the Covenant. Thus, they were in opposition to both Shoghi Effendi and the Covenant.
 

Most people don’t go by proofs or by what is right, but instead go with the mainstream of anything, figuring so many people couldn’t be wrong. That way they don’t have to think for themselves or to think at all, but this is proven to be the worst way. Jesus said:
 

Enter by the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few. Beware of false prophets [or leaders] who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.[xi]
 

Look, when Jesus came, all the people turned against Him. Even His apostles left Him when He was arrested. The only one that believed in Him when He was hanging on the cross was the robber next to Him. Look, the mass of the Muslims went against their Promised One, the Bab, causing ten thousand of His followers to be martyred along with Him. Baha’u’llah is the Promised One for all the religions, yet the people go with the crowd. If they would just investigate, they would all become believers. It is the failure to investigate that keeps the people and the religions of the world divided, and will cause the great catastrophe.
 

Christ
 

Another subject that is of utmost importance is the meaning of the word Christ. Most of the Christians believe it means savior, or God, or son of God, or maybe it’s the last name of Jesus (like Joseph Christ or Mary Christ), or some other imagination. This has led almost all the Christians astray. Some know that it means anointed, but anointed of what? In reality, it means an anointed male sperm descendant of King David. The very first line of the New Testament states, “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David….” In verse 16, it shows that Joseph was Jesus’ father. But the deluded Christians claim that God was Jesus’ literal father. If this is so then Jesus could not be the Christ, as God is not a descendant of King David. Paul tells us:
 

Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord which was made of the seed [sperma, Greek] of David according to the flesh; And [only] declared to be the Son of God according to the spirit….[xii]
 

Mary had an ovum and Joseph had the sperm of David. The point of this is that the Baha’is believe that Baha’u’llah is the second coming, or the return of Christ. But here, too, Baha’u’llah would have to be a male sperm descendant of King David. If you ask a Baha’i who Baha’u’llah is descended from, they will answer, “Zoroaster.” But Zoroaster only had daughters, with one marrying the king who was the first person to believe in Zoroaster. Baha’u’llah’s lineage from Zoroaster was from the female line (the word Zoroaster means “the seed of the woman”). Baha’u’llah’s lineage from the male line was from King David. If either Jesus or Baha’u’llah were not the descendants of King David, they would be impostors.
 

According to Luke, Jesus was descended from David’s son Nathan, the brother of Solomon, the King (Luke 3:31). The difference between the lineage of Jesus and Baha’u’llah is that Baha’u’llah is descended from David’s son Solomon. Therefore, none of Jesus’ ancestors sat upon the throne of David, whereas all of Baha’u’llah’s ancestors were descendants from David, and seated on the throne of David. Baha’u’llah’s father was seated upon the throne of David, as well as His grandfather, and great grandfather, in an unbroken chain all the way back to King David. If Baha’u’llah wasn’t, He would be an impostor. Baha’u’llah said in His proclamation (in The Proclamation of Baha’u’llah on page 89) that He, the “Ancient Beauty, ruleth upon the throne of David.” Psalm 89 tells us there will always be a man seated upon David’s throne.
 

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations…. His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven…. My covenant I will not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness [God’s] that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.[xiii]
 

For thus says the Lord: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.…[xiv]
As Jesus had no son, this lineage of David through his son Nathan, came to an end. The only lineage from David that is to last forever is the lineage of the one seated on the throne of David, Baha’u’llah, and His successors who also sit upon the throne. This lineage of David is to last forever. But the Covenant-breaking Hands say, “Hell no! God doesn’t know what He is talking about. Since Shoghi Effendi didn’t have a biological son, this Davidic lineage came to an end” (My paraphrase of what they said).
 

Baha’u’llah’s Kingdom is a Democratic Monarchy with His descendants sitting as the presidents, or kings, at the head of His Universal House of Justice. Shoghi Effendi provided for this by placing ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s son in the position of being president of Shoghi Effendi’s successor, the first International Baha’i Council, which was to go through four stages: Council, World Court, International Tribunal, and then effloresce into the Universal House of Justice with ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s son or one of his successors seated as president, or head, of that Universal House of Justice.
 

Baha’u’llah, being the second Christ seated on the throne of David, passed this lineage from David to His son ‘Abdu’l-Baha, the Most Great Branch, and appointed him to be His successor, conferring infallibility upon him. Baha’u’llah also designated another son, Muhammad Ali, to be the Lesser Branch, and to succeed ‘Abdu’l-Baha. Muhammad Ali then violated the Covenant and thus was removed. ‘Abdu’l-Baha then designated his grandson Shoghi Effendi to be the one that everybody should turn to and obey, giving him the infallibility that would have gone to Muhammad Ali.
 

Shoghi Effendi was not a male-line descendant of King David, as his descent was through his mother who was ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s daughter. The kingship is not passed down through the female line, so Shoghi Effendi could not, nor could his son (if he had one) sit upon the throne of David. So it was imperative that Shoghi Effendi wound up not having a biological son. Does that mean David’s lineage came to an end? Heavens no! When ‘Abdu’l-Baha appointed Shoghi Effendi to be the Guardian and Center of the Cause, he also adopted a son legally, who inherited the Davidic lineage. An adopted son has all the rights and privileges of a natural son, including the kingship. Therefore, when Shoghi Effendi set up the first International Baha’i Council, he placed ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s adopted son to be the president, for only a descendant of King David can fill that position. However, the president does not inherit the infallibility. The conferred infallibility was passed to Shoghi Effendi’s non-biological son, the first International Baha’i Council. The ignorant and unfaithful “Hands” who went against Shoghi Effendi, messed it all up, leading the entire Baha’i community astray. They should not have gone against Shoghi Effendi and disobeyed him.
 

For he [Shoghi Effendi] is, after ‘Abdu’l-Baha, the Guardian of the Cause of God, the Afnan, the Hands (pillars) of the Cause of God and the beloved of the Lord must obey him and turn unto him. He that obeyeth him not, hath not obeyed God; he that turneth away from him, hath turned away from God and he that denieth him, hath denied the True One. Beware lest anyone falsely interpret these words, and like unto them that have broken the Covenant after the Day of Ascension (of Baha’u’llah) advance a pretext, raise the standard of revolt, wax stubborn and open wide the door of false interpretation. To none is given the right to put forth his own opinion or express his particular convictions. All must seek guidance and turn unto the Center of the Cause [Shoghi Effendi] and the House of Justice [in any of its four stages]. And he that turneth unto whatsoever else is indeed in grievous error.[xv]
 

I have shown that the entire Baha’i community was in grievous error when they turned to something else (the “Hands”). Instead of turning to the successor to Shoghi Effendi, the first International Baha’i Council set up by Shoghi Effendi, which was the Universal House of Justice in its first stage, they turned to the “Hands,” who led them astray. The Covenant-breaking “Hands” have not only violated Shoghi Effendi by going against everything that he had set up for establishing the Universal House of Justice in its four stages, but the “Hands” also went against the House of Justice itself by going against, and not being submissive to the first International Baha’i Council that was to succeed Shoghi Effendi. What sin could be greater than that of the Hands, who were appointed by Shoghi Effendi to protect the guardian, Shoghi Effendi, but then became the prime movers in opposition to him?
 

This was supposed to happen, as it was a test plotted by God to see if the Baha’is in general would for any reason go against the Covenant, thus revealing the frailties of their beliefs. They were like the trainman who was asleep at the switch, causing a horrible train wreck. They were asleep at the switch, so-to-speak, putting them in jeopardy of suffering immensely in the oncoming of a horrible catastrophe. Every unrepented one will be paid for what he has done.[xvi] None of them will escape.
 

Those who are followers of this violation need to stop being in opposition to Shoghi Effendi and come back under the provisions of the Covenant before it is too late.
 

The Red Alert
 

When a believer in Baha’u’llah, whether he was in the faith at the time of Shoghi Effendi or is a recent adherent, finds that a person or a group of people have taken over the command of the faith in opposition to an authoritative figure or institution such as the International Baha’i Council set up by Shoghi Effendi, the red flare should shoot up. Or if they should find a person or a group of people going against any of the provisions of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, or going against Shoghi Effendi, or going against any of Shoghi Effendi’s plans such as those found in his plan for a World Crusade, or his plan for setting up the Universal House of Justice in four stages, the red flare should shoot up. Or if anyone finds a so-called Universal House of Justice that doesn’t have the executive branch, which is an integral part of the Universal House of Justice, as its head, then the red flare should shoot up. Or if a so-called Universal House of Justice is elected by National Spiritual Assemblies and not by Secondary Houses of Justice from all nations including Russia, then the red flare should shoot up. Or if you find that all of these violations are present, then there should be a red flame of fire bursting a mile high into the air to jar you out of your lethargy, awakening you to the gravity of this most malignant cancer infecting the body of believers.
 

This malignant spiritual cancer is deadly. It resembles a cancer in the body of a person. It starts out like a little bump or sore. If detected early it can be eradicated and treated, thus saving the person’s life. But if it is not detected or treated properly, it will metastasize and spread throughout the entire body of believers, which is fatal.
 

These spiritually sick Covenant-breakers do not have a message for the world, for who in their right senses would ever accept their headless so-called “House of Justice” as anything but a Headless Monster? However, everyone will accept the Universal House of Justice with the lineage of David as its president because it fulfills Biblical prophecies, and is in accordance with the sacred Will and Testament, and it was set up by Shoghi Effendi.
[i] Will and Testament, 11.
 

[ii] Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Baha’u’llah (Wilmette, IL; Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1974), 144.
 

[iii] Will and Testament, 14.
 

[iv] ibid., 15.
 

[v] The Will and Testament is an integral part of the Covenant of Baha’u’llah.
 

[vi] Laura Clifford Barney, Some Answered Questions, Collected and Translated from the Persian of ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Wilmette, IL: Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1964), 199.
 

[vii] An unauthorized body not appointed by Shoghi Effendi nor found in any of the Baha’i Writings.
 

[viii] The Lamb will be fully explained in Part II.
 

[ix] Revelation 14:1 KJV
 

[x] Will and Testament, 12.
 

[xi] Matthew 7:13-15
 

[xii] Romans 1:3 KJV
 

[xiii] Psalm 89:4, 29, 34-37 KJV
 

[xiv] Jeremiah 33:17
 

[xv] Will and Testament, 25, 26.
 

[xvi] Revelation 22:12  

  New Criteria
 

Every time a Promised One of God comes, He is rejected by the people He comes to, or in the case of Moses, He was rejected by the Pharaoh of Egypt. Moses gave the Pharaoh ten proofs, which consisted of ten plagues. When Jesus came, the Jews were waiting for the coming of a Messiah that would free them from the Roman yoke of oppression, and set them up in ascendancy over the whole world.
 

When Jesus Christ came, He fulfilled none of their expectations, which led to His crucifixion. The first thing He established was new criteria for the recognition of a Promised One, which was different from the criteria used by Moses. To show that He was the promised anointed Christ, He presented His lineage back to King David. This is recorded by Luke in the New Testament (Luke 3:23-38). Then He showed that He was prophesied by name, address, date, and mission.
 

Name
 

He was prophesied to come in the name “Emmanuel” in the Hebrew language, which is the same as the name “Jesus” in the Greek language.
 

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name EMMANUEL.[x]
 

 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.…[xi]
 

 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he [Joseph] called his name JESUS.[xii]
 

This shows that Jesus’ name was prophesied by Isaiah.
 

Address
 

Jesus also showed that He came in Bethlehem, the prophesied address for the coming of the Messiah.
 

And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, art not the least among the princes of Judah: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people, Israel.[xiii]
 

 The prophecy that Jesus would come in Bethlehem was given by Micah.
 

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from old, from everlasting.[xiv]
 

 The fulfillment of Micah’s prophecy was explained by Matthew.
 

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea.…”[xv]
 

This shows that Jesus fulfilled prophecy when He came from Bethlehem. This is where the wise men found Him.
 

Date
 

For date of the Advent of Jesus Christ, the prophet Daniel said there would be seventy weeks between the time of the order of Artaxerxes on March 21, 457 BC, until the Messiah (Jesus Christ) is cut off. In seventy weeks, there are 490 days. According to the Holy text, each day is as a year (Numbers 14:34). There were four hundred and ninety years from the order of Artaxerxes in 457 BC, to the crucifixion of Christ, that is, until Jesus was crucified at the age of 33 in 34 AD.[xvi]
 

In the twenty-fifth verse of the ninth chapter of the Book of Daniel, these seventy weeks are expressed in another manner, as seven weeks, sixty-two weeks, and one week, which is the week of the Covenant. It took seven weeks or 49 years after the going forth of the order to rebuild Jerusalem (issued on March 21st, 457 BC), for the city to be rebuilt. Seventy years later in 408 BC the city was rebuilt, including the walls and the moat. Then there was an interim period of sixty-two weeks, or four hundred and thirty-four (434) days/years, between the rebuilding of the city and the last week. That brings us to March 21, 27 AD, when John the Baptist began his ministry. This was the beginning of the week of the Covenant. Three and a half (3-1/2) years later, John the Baptist baptized Jesus on September 21, 30 AD (Luke 3:21-23).
 

Then the Spirit of God descended on Jesus saying, Today I have begotten[xvii] thee to be my Son (Luke 3:21-23, footnote “k,” RSV).
 

And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being… begotten of Joseph as the son of Joseph… which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David.
 

Then three and a half (3-1/2) years after that, on March 21, 34 AD Jesus was crucified. Jesus, at the age of 33, in 34 AD, was martyred.
 

These 490 years from the Order of Artaxerxes in 457 BC, until the crucifixion of Jesus in 34 AD, are shown on the following scale.
 

Profession or Mission
 

‘Abdu’l-Baha tells us there were seven Universal Divine Manifestations. Four of them came before the time of Adam, but there are no traces of them left. They were wiped out in great world upheavals. The three Universal Manifestations in the Adamic cycle are Adam (Seidec), Jesus, and Baha’u’llah.
 

The other six Manifestations were local, that is, they were not Universal Manifestations because their Revelations were for specific people. For example, Moses came with a Revelation for the Israelites.
 

Jesus, being a Universal Manifestation, had a message for the entire world. He told His apostles and disciples to go out and teach the nations. He left no administration. His mission in general, being that His Revelation was in the potency of the Son, was to spiritualize the nations, that is, to free them from sin by having them stop sinning and await the coming of the Revelation in the potency of the Father brought by Baha’u’llah. He said:
 

For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man [a man] be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father [Baha’u’llah].”[xviii]
 

Baha’u’llah would bring the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. That is, Jesus was the herald to the nations for the coming of the Kingdom of God. His death on the cross did not free men of their sins, but His message, which He gave His life for, would free them from sin. Thus Jesus’ mission was to free men of their sins.
 

Therefore he [Jesus] is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant [of Moses]. For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will takes effect only at death, for it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. Hence the first covenant was not ratified without blood.[xix]
 

…But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, and after that comes judgment, so Christ [Jesus], having been offered once to bear sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.[xx]
 

Jesus freed those that accepted Him from having to follow the Laws of Moses, that is, they wouldn’t be sinning by not following Moses’ Laws. In this way, He freed them from sin.
 

Here Jesus has established criteria to show His authenticity, showing that He was prophesied to come in the name, address, date, and mission. Now there may have been other people that were named Jesus, or EMMANUEL, and some of them might have come from Bethlehem. But there was only one person in this entire world Who was prophesied to come in the name of EMMANUEL, or Jesus; Who had a forerunner that came in 27 AD and baptized Him when He was about 30 years of age in 30 AD, and Who was crucified at 33 years of age in 34 AD. Only one person fulfilled the prophesied mission of the suffering Messiah (a descendant of King David) depicted in Isaiah chapter 53. Only one person in this world could have possibly fulfilled these criteria.
 

Now we need to put this to the test to see if one is to come who is prophesied by Name, Address, Date and Mission, thus fulfilling the criteria for the coming of a Promised One according to the Greater Covenant of God.


 Criteria Fulfilled


 Baha’u’llah in His Proclamation said that He, “the Ancient Beauty ruleth upon the throne of David.” Baha’u’llah’s genealogy, which is found in history books, shows that His genealogy is in an unbroken chain of father-to-son descendants of King David seated upon the throne of David. This throne is a real throne with seven steps. The difference between Baha’u’llah’s genealogy and Jesus’ genealogy is that none of Jesus’ ancestors sat upon the throne of David except David himself.
 

When Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem, he brought King Jehoiachin and the throne of David that he sat upon, into Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar put Jehoiachin in prison where he remained for 37 years. Then another king seated on the throne of Babylon, named Evil-merodach, took Jehoiachin (or Jeconiah) out of prison, dressed him back into his royal robes, and placed him back on his throne of King David, even though he was still in captivity in Babylon (2 Kings 25:27-30).
 

Jehoiachin’s son Shenazzar moved from the city of Babylon to an area inside Babylon called the area of pure lineage, where he built a temple using some of the material from the temple that was destroyed. Shenazzar succeeded his father on the throne of David in Babylon. Jehoiachin, Shenazzar, and his descendants remained in the country of Babylon and were called exilarchs, meaning exiled monarchs, or King David’s lineage in exile. They survived well throughout the time of the Zoroastrian empire, then throughout the time of the Greek empire, then throughout the time of the Parthian empire, then under the Sassanian Dynasty. Many of the Parthians converted to Judaism.
 

Then at the start of the Muslim empire, the Davidic King named Bostanai married Princess Dara, the daughter of Yazdegird III (the last king of the Sassanian Dynasty), due to the matchmaking of Ali, the successor of Muhammad (the first of twelve Imams).  Baha’u’llah’s lineage back to King David is through Bostanai, and His lineage from Zoroaster is through Dara
 

 In 817 AD the Exilarch[xxi] Isaac Iskoi Ben Moses was converted to Islam by Imam Ali al-Rida.[xxii] Then, for protection, they moved from the area of pure lineage to Mazandaran, and the lineage continued on to Baha’u’llah Who was born in 1817 to Mirza Buzurg, the Grand Vizier of the Shah of Persia.
 

When Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon, being a Zoroastrian believing in the One True Invisible God, he made an edict allowing some Jews to go back to the site of their temple in Jerusalem that was destroyed, and rebuild their temple. He didn’t let any of the exilarchs or the throne of David go back to Jerusalem. He chose Zerubbabel as his subject to be the governor of Jerusalem. Zerubbabel was a descendant from David but not of the lineage of David seated on the throne (See this genealogy starting with Jesus in Luke 3:23, and going to Zerubbabel in Luke 3:27, and then on to Nathan, a son of David, in Luke 3:31. Nathan was not seated on the throne of David). Nathan was the brother of King Solomon, who was the reigning son of David. Therefore, Jesus said His kingdom was not of this world.
 

Name
 

Baha’u’llah is prophesied by name so many times throughout the Bible that to give them all would be too much. I will just give the ones that are the most known and used. This occurs in the 43rd chapter of Ezekiel. Here I will use the Aramaic word that the English word was translated from:
 

Afterward he brought me to the gate [Bab], the gate [Bab] facing east. And behold, the glory of the God [Baha’u’llah] of Israel came from the east; and the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters [multitudes, many nations peoples and tongues]: and the earth shone with his glory [Baha].[xxiii]
 

As the glory of the Lord [Baha’u’llah] entered the temple [His mission] by the gate [the Bab] facing east [the Bab on the west side of the Euphrates], the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord [Baha’u’llah] filled the temple [the great Revelation of the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven].[xxiv]
 

While the man was standing beside me, I heard one speaking to me out of the temple; and he said to me, “Son of man [a man], this is the place of my throne [the throne of David] and the place of the soles of my feet [literally meaning this man “Baha’u’llah” has feet], where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel [those that strive with God] for ever….[xxv]
 

Address


 Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate facing east. And behold, the glory of the God [Baha’u’llah] of Israel came from the east.…[xxvi]
 

Baha’u’llah came from the East near the city of Tehran, Iran, in the province of Mazandaran, the site of the throne of King David that Baha’u’llah’s father sat upon. Whereas the Bab appeared west of Mazandaran. Thus, Baha’u’llah came from the East to Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel.
 

The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the Majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord [Baha’u’llah], the majesty of our God.[xxvii]
 

The valley of Sharon is the land between the foot of Mount Carmel and the Mediterranean Sea. Baha’u’llah established that Mount Carmel would be the site of His new world order. He indicated that the site of the true House of Justice would be built on top of Mount Carmel. At present, the top of Mount Carmel is not Baha’i property. Therefore, the Covenant-breakers don’t have their phony House of Justice on the site indicated by both Baha’u’llah and prophecy.[xxviii] The Covenant-breakers have their Headless Monster House of Justice on Golem Street where it belongs. The meaning of the word “Golem” is “an evil, man-made monster without a soul, deformed, no head.” God would not allow the Covenant-breaking Hands to corrupt the top of Mount Carmel with their evil, mad, Headless Monster.
 

The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain [Mount Carmel] of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains. and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.[xxix]


 Date
 

Daniel gave four dates for the coming of Jesus Christ. The first one, as we have already shown, applied only to Jesus of Nazareth. The disciples of Jesus Christ wanted to know when He would return.
 

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will this be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “Take heed that no one leads you astray.…”[xxx]
 

Then Jesus told them to turn to Daniel the prophet for the dates.
 

So when you see the desolating sacrilege spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand).[xxxi]
 

Daniel gives three dates for the return of Jesus Christ. Jesus said that He was the Door (Bab) of the sheep.
 

So Jesus said again to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door [Bab] of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not heed them. I am the door [Bab]; if any one enters by me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.[xxxii]
 

Jesus didn’t speak English, therefore He didn’t say “Door,” but the Aramaic word “BAB.” Daniel gave the date for the return of Jesus as The BAB. Daniel said there would be 2300 days, and then the sanctuary would be cleansed.
 

“For how long is the vision concerning the continual burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled under foot?” And he said to him, “For two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.”[xxxiii]
 

‘Abdu’l-Baha tells us this is figured from the order to restore Jerusalem in 457 BC. It was figured from this date, as this was the same date given by Ezra for the rebuilding of Jerusalem. The temple had already been built, but they did not cleanse the sanctuary. Thus the sanctuary was never cleansed. Jesus said His blood cleansed the sanctuary in heaven. He didn’t cleanse the sanctuary here on earth. To cleanse the sanctuary, it would take a sacrifice as great as the one Jesus made. ‘Abdu’l-Baha said the 2300 days are 2300 years. From the order of Artaxerxes in 457 BC, there are 456 years until the birth of Christ. From the birth of Christ until the Manifestation of the Bab, there are 1844 years. When you add 456 years to 1844, you get 2300 years. The fulfillment of Daniel’s vision took place on March 21, 1844. This is the date the Baha’i calendar began. The return of the Manifestation of Jesus, the Bab, made His Proclamation on May 23, 1844. The sanctuary can only be cleansed with blood. The sanctuary was cleansed with the blood of the Bab and 10,000 of His followers, in martyrdom. In the temple of Moses, the sanctuary is the Antechamber to the chamber of the Holy of Holies. The sanctuary is symbolic. It pertains to the Revelation of the Bab. The Holy of Holies pertains to the Revelation of Baha’u’llah. Later on there will be graphics that explain this very well.
 

Daniel gives the date for the return of Jesus as the Christ in the twelfth chapter.
 

At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time; but at that time your people shall be delivered, every one whose name shall be found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever. But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.[xxxiv]
 

The meaning of the word “Michael” is “Who is like God.”[xxxv] The ones Who are like God are the Divine Manifestations, Who are the intermediaries between God and man. This “Michael” refers to Baha’u’llah, the “great prince,” for He was to succeed His father that sat upon the throne of David. Baha’u’llah fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah chapter nine.
 

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and for evermore. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will do this.[xxxvi]
 

Christians think this applies to Jesus Christ, as they believe in the trinity (a pagan concept), and they believe Jesus is God, meaning God became incarnate in Jesus, and that Jesus’ physical body resurrected, went up into the sky, and will literally return on a cloud. Therefore, they believe all the prophecies for future Promised Ones were already fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth. The Muslims likewise believe that there is not going to be another Promised One after Muhammad, as Muhammad said He was the seal of the Prophets. Therefore, like the Christians, they believe Jesus will descend bodily from the sky. Thus, this way of thinking prevents the people with these beliefs from recognizing the Ones sent to them by God as prophesied in Holy Scriptures, such as the Bab, Baha’u’llah, and today, the return of Jesus after the order of Melchizedek. Their prejudices prevent them from even considering the possibility.
 

To begin with, only the first two statements in Isaiah 9:6-7 could apply to Jesus: He was born and He was a son, but this applies to all men. None of the rest of the prophecy could apply to Jesus. He did not have the government upon His shoulders. The only thing on His shoulders was carpentry. The only thing He said about government was to give unto Caesar the things that are of Caesar’s. Jesus claimed to be the Son, not the Father. Also, He did not claim to be the Prince of Peace. He said He did not come to bring peace, but a sword.[xxxvii] Had He claimed to be the Prince of Peace, He would have been the biggest failure of all time, as we have had nothing but wars in the world, ever since His coming. He also did not sit upon the throne of David, as the throne of David remained in Babylon. While Jesus was hanging on the cross at Jerusalem, in Babylon, an exilarch─a descendant of King David─was seated on the throne of David. This shows how stereotyped and erroneous people are in their thinking and beliefs.
 

There has never been such a time of trouble as we have today. The Bible says at this time, every one whose name is found written in the book will be delivered. This means every one that is prophesied by name will be delivered (delivered─to be freed from restraint, evil, danger, etc.). That is, they will be recognized by the people who are awake, those who are not indoctrinated and are looking for the truth. Those who are asleep in the dust of the earth (materialism) will awake (become knowledgeable), some to everlasting life and others to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise (who use their intellect and independently search for the truth) will shine like the brightness of the firmament, like the stars forever and ever. Daniel was told to seal the book until the time of the end, meaning no one would be able to understand the meaning of the prophecies until the one comes at the end, who fulfills the prophecy. Therefore, the Covenant-breaking, mainstream Baha’is don’t understand the prophecies for the return of Jesus the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, or Jesus the Lamb with 7 horns and 7 eyes who is to come at the end of the six-thousand-year cycle that began with the Prophet Adam in 4000 BC. We are now at the end of this cycle, and the return of Jesus has explained the meaning of all of these prophecies. It is today that people are running to and fro, with all the rapid transit, and knowledge has increased 10,000 fold since 1844. We have gone from the horse and buggy to putting a man on the moon.
 

Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.[xxxviii]
 

The wicked are those who refuse to use the intellect that God gave them, and refuse to go by the principle of Independent Investigation of Truth that Baha’u’llah gave them, making them Covenant-breakers. This is about the worst thing that could possibly happen to anyone. Therefore, they remain ignorant unto death. They are bound under the restraints of the violators. The wise are those that use their intellects that God gave them, and independently investigate the matter for themselves, unrestrained. Jesus said “seek ye the truth and the truth will make you free.” They become free from the oppression of the Covenant-breakers.
 

And from the time that the burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.[xxxix]
 

Jesus continued the burnt offering in the Eucharist. It was Muhammad who did away with the burnt offering (the Eucharist), and all ritual of sacrifice. ‘Abdu’l-Baha tells us that these 1290 days are 1290 lunar years. There are 1290 lunar years from the Proclamation of Muhammad to the Proclamation of Baha’u’llah. Baha’u’llah made His Proclamation in 1280 AH (After the Hegira─the start of the Muslim calendar). Muhammad made His Proclamation ten lunar years prior to the Hegira (the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina). When you add these ten lunar years to 1280 lunar years, you have 1290 lunar years. Thus, Baha’u’llah came at the prophesied date for His Advent, which in the Christian calendar is April 21, 1863.
 

The Mission of Baha’u’llah
 

Being the Prince of Peace, Baha’u’llah is to establish peace in the world. In order to have peace there must be justice. The world never really did have justice. Each Manifestation accentuates a certain quality of God. Moses = obedience to the law; Krishna = detachment; Zoroaster = purity; Buddha = meditation; Jesus = love; Muhammad = submission; and Baha’u’llah = justice. In order to have justice, Baha’u’llah gave us the Universal House of Justice. In order for the Universal House of Justice to be just, it had to be infallible. In order for it to be infallible, it had to be erected so it includes all the ingredients put forth in ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s Will and Testament, that is, to have both the executive branch, which is a descendant of King David, and a legislative branch, the membership of which was initially appointed by Shoghi Effendi. It was supposed to go through four stages: (1) International Baha’i Council; (2) a World Court; and when its body became elected by a number of Baha’i nations it would become (3) the International Baha’i Tribunal; and when all nations became Baha’I, it would then be elected by all the nations, and would be (4) the Universal House of Justice. Throughout all these four stages it would be infallible, for the perfections of the adult are in the embryo. Shoghi Effendi, on January 9, 1951, set up an infallible embryonic Universal House of Justice, which he named the first embryonic International Baha’i Council. This was dismantled by the Covenant-breaking Hands and then it was brought to America by the executive branch. On January 9, 1991, exactly forty years later to the day, it was reassembled by the return of Jesus the Lamb, as the second International Baha’i Council. After New York City, the City of the Covenant, is nuked, the way will have been paved for the formation of an officially recognized World Court, which is an “essential prelude” to the Universal House of Justice.
 

The International Bahá’í Council… must pave the way for the formation of a Bahá’í International Court and the eventual emergence of the Universal House of Justice.…[xl] …the transformation of the International Bahá’í Council into an international Bahá’í court.…[xli]

 
…the formation of the International Bahá’í Council designed to …pave the way for the formation of the Bahá’í Court, essential prelude to the institution of the Universal House of Justice.[xlii]
 

To these will be added further functions in course of evolution of this first embryonic International Institution, marking its development into officially recognized Bahá’í Court, its transformation into duly elected body, its efflorescence into Universal House of Justice.[xliii]
 

Baha’u’llah, in the Tablet of the Holy Mariner, tells us that the Covenant-breaking Baha’is will be driven off Mount Carmel by a burning meteor. They had determined to establish Divine Unity by going against the Arabian Youth, Shoghi Effendi.
 

They have desired to ascend unto that state which the Lord hath ordained to be above their stations. Whereupon the burning meteor cast them out from them that abide in the Kingdom [Davidic] of His Presence. And they heard the Voice of Grandeur raised from behind the unseen pavilion upon the Height of Glory [Baha]: ‘O guardian angels! Return them to their abodes in the world below [hell].’[xliv]
 

This meteor is prophesied throughout Holy Scriptures. One of the places is in the Book of Revelation.
 

And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood.[xlv]
 

An asteroid is a large chunk of stuff, sometimes as big as a great mountain. When it enters the atmosphere of the earth it becomes red hot from the friction, and then it is called a burning meteor. Some of the seers predict that this meteor will hit in the Mediterranean Sea somewhere near the Aegean Sea, that is, somewhere near Greece and Turkey. It will cause a tidal wave possibly a mile high. It will then wipe those bozos off Mount Carmel, meeting on Golem Street, who think they can thumb their nose at Shoghi Effendi, and thus God, and not suffer severe retribution, in both this life and the next. This meteor will cause the great earthquake that is also prophesied in the Book of Revelation. It will hit with such speed, velocity, large size, and weight, that it will go right down to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea and so jar the earth that it will be felt all over the earth, causing tremendous destruction.
 

And the seventh angel [Jesus II] poured out his vial into the air [TV and the internet]; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne [Davidic], saying, “It is done!” And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city [Jerusalem] was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell….[xlvi]
 

‘Abdu’l-Baha explained the seventh angel in Some Answered Questions, p. 66. He said the seventh angel was a man who would come [in the future], and he would establish in this world the Divine Manifestation of Baha’u’llah and His Kingdom, since the Covenant-breakers did away with the Kings of the Kingdom, and thus the Kingdom. He said:
 

The seventh angel is a man qualified with heavenly attributes, who will arise [will come into being] with heavenly qualities and character. Voices will be raised [by his followers], so that the appearance of the Divine Manifestation [Baha’u’llah] will be proclaimed and diffused…. In that day of God, the Spiritual and Divine Kingdom [Davidic] will be established.[xlvii]


 Name, Address, Date and Mission
 

Baha’u’llah came in the prophesied name, “Baha’u’llah.” He didn’t choose that name. He was born Hussein Ali, but the Bab renamed Him “Baha’u’llah,” and this was before Baha’u’llah knew that He was the Promised One. His cognizance came later when He was in the Black Pit (Siyah Chal) of Tehran, and the angel came to Him and told Him that He was the One.
 

He fulfilled the prophecies given in Holy Scriptures for the address where He would appear. He came from the East to Akka (also spelled Akko, Achor, and Acre) and Mount Carmel. He didn’t come there of His own volition but as a prisoner, against His will.
 

He fulfilled the prophecy of Daniel for the date for the second coming of Christ on April 21, 1863, when He made His Historic Proclamation in the Rose Garden across the Euphrates from Baghdad, Iraq.
 

He gave the laws, ordinances, and teachings for the Kingdom of God on earth, fulfilling the prophecies for His mission as the Prince of Peace. His Revelation is based upon Justice. Any peace without justice is tyranny. His House of Justice has the Davidic lineage as its president. This fulfills the Covenant that God made with David, that his lineage seated upon his throne would last forever. This is important, for it distinguishes Baha’u’llah’s House of Justice from man-made ones. Anything that does not have a descendant of David as its head, is bogus.
 

There were four Czars of Russia who were sympathizers, or friends, of the Babi faith and the Baha’i faith. Czar Nicholas I was instrumental in having Baha’u’llah released from the Siyah Chal (the Black Pit), where Baha’u’llah was a prisoner in chains.
 

While in Akka Baha’u’llah wrote to Czar Alexander II of Russia, who is famous for implementing Baha’u’llah’s reforms at the beginning of his reign, such as immediately ending the Crimean War, lifting the censorship of the press, establishing educational reform at the universities, lifting restrictions on travel, and most significantly, abolishing serfdom in his first Edict of Emancipation on March 3, 1863. All of this won for him the popular title “the Czar Liberator.” Czar Alexander II also corresponded with Abraham Lincoln, stating that if Lincoln freed the slaves, he would free the serfs. Of course, Lincoln established the Emancipation Proclamation, which was similar to the edict of the Czar. All of this has its origin in Baha’u’llah. Czar Alexander II was unable to implement the World Court himself, as he was assassinated for freeing the serfs. This job was passed to his grandson, Nicholas II, who called the nations together at The Hague, thus revealing Baha’u’llah’s plan for a World Court to settle disputes instead of going to war. Czar Nicholas II was so eulogized for coming up with such a brilliant idea that it went to his head, and he took the credit himself. Therefore, he failed to proclaim Baha’u’llah. Thus, without a Davidic King seated at its head, the World Court failed and led us to World War I.
 

President Wilson’s daughter embraced the Baha’i faith. It was due to her influence that her father set up the League of Nations. Wilson died a broken man in spirit, as he was unable to get the United States to join the League of Nations, and thus he didn’t proclaim Baha’u’llah. Because it did not have a Davidic King as its president, it failed, and we had World War II.
 

President Franklin Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor had embraced the Baha’i faith but didn’t declare it, as it wasn’t a politically sound idea to do so. Roosevelt’s plan was to set up the United Nations, and as the atom bomb was nearing completion, his plan was to call the heads of nations to the Nevada proving grounds, explode an atomic device for them to see its total destructive power, and then proclaim Baha’u’llah. He was then going to put the atomic bomb under the control of the United Nations, and have all the nations simultaneously disarm. But he died just before the bomb was completed, and President Truman didn’t go along with President Roosevelt’s plan. Truman said, “We’ve got the bomb. Now the world can dance to our tune.” As a result, there was no simultaneous disarmament, and most importantly, there is no descendant of Baha’u’llah (a descendant of King David) seated as the president in the United Nations. As a result, we will have World War III.
 

God was gracious. He gave us another chance for peace. God had Shoghi Effendi make a plan to set up a World Court on Mount Camel in 1963, with a descendant of David seated at its head. Shoghi Effendi did this when he set up the first International Baha’i Council with Baha’u’llah’s grandson (‘Abdu’l-Baha’s son) as president. As this is a hereditary position, ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s son would be the Davidic president of that World Court. Then when the body became elected, this Davidic descendant would still be the president of the International Tribunal that was to bring peace to the world. Then all the nations would join, and it would effloresce into the Universal House of Justice. We would have the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. But those Covenant-breaking Hands did away with all this. Now you and all your family and friends will witness all the horrible destruction that wayward mankind will have to suffer in World War III.
 

I have shown that Baha’u’llah has fulfilled the criteria given by Jesus Christ of name, address, date, and mission. It proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Baha’u’llah, and no one else, is the second coming, or the second Christ, as prophesied in scriptures, as well as showing that the criteria given by Jesus is sound and accurate.
 

There may have been other people who assumed the title of Baha’u’llah. Some of them may have gone to Mount Carmel to make their claim. But there was only one person in this world Who was named Baha’u’llah; Who went to the address, Mount Carmel, as a prisoner in chains against His will; Who made His Proclamation on the date given by Daniel for the second coming or the second Christ; and Who fulfilled the prophecies for the mission of the second Christ, as He was a descendant of David seated on the throne of David. Baha’u’llah continued this lineage that is to last forever in His Covenant by appointing His son, ‘Abdu’l-Baha, to succeed Him on the throne, who continued that lineage by adopting a son. Baha’u’llah’s House of Justice was delineated by ‘Abdu’l-Baha in his Will and Testament as the Universal House of Justice. ‘Abdu’l-Baha appointed Shoghi Effendi to carry out ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s Divine Plan to set up the Universal House of Justice, which he did by setting it up, due to necessity, in four stages. This four-stage plan was to bring peace to the world. But the Covenant-breaking Hands did away with Shoghi Effendi’s plan. Because of this, the world will go through the prophesied four winds of destruction, which will come in four great waves, each following the other. The first wave is upon us.
 

This shows that the criteria given by Jesus of name, address, date, and mission is indeed the criteria to recognize the One sent by God. These criteria are sometimes called the business or calling card of a professional. That is, people use the same method to determine the identity of a professional or business person, as God uses to determine the Ones He sends. A business card gives the name of the person, the business or profession that he is in, the address where he will be found, and the date or time that he will be there. For instance, John Brown (his name) is a lawyer (his profession). He has his office (address) at 310 Main Street in Racine, Wisconsin, and the office hours (or date) when he will be in his office. With these four things on his business card─name, address, date, and profession─anyone in this country could take a bus, a train, a plane, a car, or walk to John Brown’s office and find him there. There may be a million people named John Brown in this country, but there is only one person in this entire world named John Brown, who could be found at that address, at that date, and in that profession. Isn’t it clever that people use the same method to identify themselves, as God uses to identify His Promised Ones?
 

Anyone who claims to be a Promised One from God, who isn’t named in the Lesser Covenant, or is not prophesied by name, address, date, and mission, is a lying impostor. God uses this foolproof method to protect the people from following false and dangerous leaders. Anyone claiming to be a Manifestation from God ere the passing of a full thousand years is a lying impostor. However, ‘Abdu’l-Baha tells us that Jesus with his twelve apostles will return, and he doesn’t mean that he will come out of the sky. Therefore, he would have to fulfill the criteria of coming in the prophesied name, address, date, and mission, or he would be a lying impostor. As I have mentioned earlier, Jesus has returned and he has fulfilled these criteria.
 

[i] II Thessalonians 2:10-12 KJV
 

[ii] Matthew 24:5
 

[iii] Hebrews 6:20
 

[iv] Matthew 24:4,5 KJV
 

[v] Revelation 21:10, 11, 14 KJV
 

[vi] Ibid., 1:1 and 4:1.
 

[vii] Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, translated by Marzieh Gail (Baha’i World Centre, Haifa, Israel, 1978) 166.
 

[viii] Daniel 7:3-6
 

[ix] Zechariah 13:7-9 KJV
 

Chapter Three
 

[x] Isaiah 7:14 KJV
 

[xi] Matthew 1:23 KJV
 

[xii] Matthew 1:25 KJV
 

[xiii] Matthew 2:5, 6 KJV
 

[xiv] Micah 5:2 KJV
 

[xv] Matthew 2:2 KJV
 

[xvi] For a fuller explanation refer to ‘Abdu’l-Baha in Some Answered Questions, 48, 49.
 

[xvii] Luke 3:21-23, footnote “k”, RSV. Notice here Jesus was baptized by John when he was about 30 years old, showing that God was not his physical father as the Christians believe: “God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son.” This refers to when he was baptized by John: “The heavens opened and the spirit of God descended on Jesus saying, “This is my only begotten Son,” which is the revelation in the potency of the Son that God gave Jesus. The Word was the begotten Son, not Jesus. He was called the Son because he gave the Word, or revelation.
 

[xviii] Mark 8:38
 

[xix] Hebrews 9:15-18
 

[xx] Hebrews 9:26-28
 

[xxi] Exilarchs were the Monarchs, or the descendants of King David, in exile.
 

[xxii] ‘Abdu’l-Baha, The Secret of Divine Civilization (Wilmette, IL: Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1983) 36.
 

[xxiii] Ezekiel 43:1, 2
 

[xxiv] Ibid., 4, 5
 

[xxv] Ibid., 6, 7
 

[xxvi] Ibid., 1, 2
 

[xxvii] Isaiah 35: 1, 2
 

[xxviii] Isaiah 2:2
 

[xxix] Isaiah 2:1,2
 

[xxx] Matthew 24:3-5
 

[xxxi] Mathew 25:15
 

[xxxii] John 10:7-9
 

[xxxiii] Daniel 8:13,14
 

[xxxiv] Daniel 12:1-4
 

[xxxv] The dictionary definition of the name “Michael” is “Who is like God” [Hebrew] (Masculine Name, Great Encyclopedia Dictionary, Readers Digest.
 

[xxxvi] Isaiah 9:6, 7
 

[xxxvii] Matthew 10:24
 

[xxxviii] Daniel 12:10
 

[xxxix] Daniel 12:11
 

[xl] Shoghi Effendi, Messages to the Baha’i World: 1950-1957, 149.
 

[xli] Ibid., 152
 

[xlii] Shoghi Effendi, Cablegram, April 25, 1951; Messages to the Baha’i World: 1950-1957, 13.
 

[xliii] Shoghi Effendi, Messages to the Baha’i World: 1950-1957, 7, 8.
 

[xliv] Baha’i Prayers, “Tablet of the Holy Mariner,” 223, 224.
 

[xlv] Revelation 8:8; 16:3 KJV
 

[xlvi] Revelation 16:17-19
 

[xlvii] ‘Abdu’l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, 66.

  Joseph Smith
 

What is the True Status or Station of Joseph Smith?
 

Shoghi Effendi rightly explains Joseph Smith as a SEER and not a PROPHET! He is not an independent Prophet─a Manifestation who reveals a book─nor even a minor prophet of God like Daniel or Ezekiel who were firm in the Covenant of God under the Manifestation of their day. Smith is only a seer! “Seer” means that he can “see” certain things that are true, but not that he is some sort of infallible guide, or even that he is part of the religion of God! Shoghi Effendi makes this distinction absolutely clear and it cannot be ignored!
 

Joseph Smith was a seer, NOT A PROPHET OF GOD, NEITHER MAJOR NOR MINOR PROPHET.[xxi]
 

What this means is that Smith could see visions and glimpses of the future, but he did not speak or write on behalf of God, and he is not a prophet of God. The Bible is full of seers who were not prophets of God, such as Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar. Pharaoh saw the true dream and vision of the seven fat cows and the seven thin cows, etc. Therefore, he was a seer because he saw this. But he did not know the meaning of it. It was Joseph,[xxii] the prophet of God, who interpreted the dream and gave the correct meaning of it. Likewise, Nebuchadnezzar was into astrology, and he was a seer. He saw the dream of the giant statue (representing the powers of the world until the coming of the Kingdom of God). But he both forgot the dream and didn’t know its meaning. Therefore Daniel, the prophet of God, told him the vision of the dream and its meaning.
 

The reason God uses people like Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, or Joseph Smith is that they are popular and well known. Through them the fame and renown of the message of their vision spreads to all parts of the world, and all people hear about it. Because of Smith, all people should know the prophecy of the return of Jesus in America. Clearly, Baha’u’llah was never in America or the United States at all! If God gave these visions and prophecies to people who were unknown, then these visions would be ignored by everyone. So instead, God lets someone famous have the vision, someone who is a seer. But then, God has one who is from God come, to give the meaning. Thus the vision of the seer, through the explanation of someone like Daniel or Joseph, becomes the cause of the people accepting the true religion of God.
 

Now, just because Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, and Smith were seers with true visions, such as those recorded in the Bible, it does not mean we should convert to their corrupted forms of religion and/or paganism! No! God forbid! This is so that through the visions given to famous people such as Joseph Smith, Jeanne Dixon, Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh, etc, all people hear about it. Then when the true explanation is given by an authoritative one speaking on behalf of God, the people can turn to the religion of God and not to something else.
 

As to the events surrounding The Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith, consider the following.
 

When Smith was 14 years old, he had a vision of the two Christs. He saw the Father and the Son as two separate people, Baha’u’llah and Jesus. Later Smith saw that the return of Jesus would be in America in the temple described by Ezekiel in the Bible, which would be located in the Rocky Mountains. Thus, up until the time he died in 1844, Smith directed his people to go to the Rocky Mountains “to prepare the way” for the return of Jesus.
 

However, being only 14 years of age, no one would listen to him, so he needed a way to get the people’s attention. He took some of his own ideas and visions, along with passages of scripture, and some say he took portions of a novel written by Solomon Spaulding, said to have been stolen years earlier, and he included all these things in The Book of Mormon.
 

Solomon Spaulding was born in 1761. He studied religion at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and was ordained as a minister. Later, he left the ministry and lived in New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, until his death in 1816. In his later years, he wrote a novel that he never published. However, he had submitted his novel to R & J Patterson’s print shop. Before Spaulding died in 1816, Patterson, the owner of the print shop, told Spaulding that his novel named Manuscript Found, had been lost. Much later, in 1884, someone by the name of L.L. Rice found the manuscript amongst some papers he had purchased. He turned the novel over to Oberlin College in Ohio.
 

Spaulding’s manuscript incorporated one of the popular ideas of his day, which claimed that Native American Indians descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel. His manuscript tells a story about a group of Romans that was blown off-course on a journey to Britain, and instead, they arrived in America. In the novel, one of the Romans is telling a story about the history and culture of the Native American tribes found there, and how they went to war with one another.
 

Spaulding’s brother points out an uncanny likeness between The Book of Mormon and Spaulding’s manuscript:
 

He [Solomon] then told me he was writing a book…. It was an historical romance of the first settlers of America, endeavoring to show that the American Indians are the descendants of the Jews, or the lost tribes. It gave a detailed account of their journey from Jerusalem, by land and sea, till they arrived in America, under the command of Nephi and Lehi. They afterwards had quarrels and contentions and separated into two distinct nations, one of which he denominated Nephites, and the other Lamanites. Cruel and bloody wars ensued, in which great multitudes were slain. They buried their dead in large heaps, which caused the mounds so common in this country. Their arts, sciences, and civilization were brought into view in order to account for all the curious antiquities found in various parts of North and South America. I have recently read The Book of Mormon and to my great surprise I find nearly the same historical matter, names, etc., as they were in my brother’s writings. I well remember he wrote in the old style, and commenced about every sentence with ‘And it came to pass,’ or ‘Now it came to pass,’ the same as The Book of Mormon, and according to the best of my recollection and belief, it is the same as my brother Solomon wrote, with the exception of the religious part.[xxiii]
 

The story in The Book of Mormon may have been the same story that the Roman storyteller related in Spaulding’s novel. One of the employees at R & J Patterson’s print shop named J.H. Lambdin, said prior to Spaulding’s death, he had told several people that he knew for a fact that Sidney Rigdon had stolen his manuscript. One of the people Spaulding told this to was Dr. Cephas Dodd, who was Spaulding’s attending physician during his last illness. Dr. Cephas Dodd testifies:
 

This work [The Book of Mormon], I am convinced by facts related to me by my deceased patient, Solomon Spaulding, has been made from the writings of Spaulding, probably by Sidney Rigdon, who was suspicioned by Spaulding with purloining his manuscript from the publishing-house to which he had taken it; and I am prepared to testify that Spaulding told me that his work was entitled, “The Manuscript Found in the Wilds of Mormon; or Unearthed Records of the Nephites.” From his description of the contents, I fully believe that this Book of Mormon is mainly and wickedly copied from it.[xxiv]
 

There are those, including many Spaulding theorists, who consider this statement from Dr. Cephas Dodd to be a forgery. If there was an original copy of this statement, it does not exist anymore. There is, however, an authentic letter written by Dodd, in which he says that he knows almost nothing of Spaulding’s writing.
 

Rev. Snowden reciting the “further testimony that Solomon Spaulding had written a manuscript entitled ‘The Manuscript Found in the Wilds of Mormon, or Unearthed Records of the Nephites,’” is problematic. This assertion was originally published in 1914 by Charles A. Shook – who, in turn, evidently received the unsubstantiated claim from Rev. R.B. Neal. The original source – a purported Cephas Dodd statement of June 5, 1831 – has been documented as a forgery, and there is no reliable evidence for Solomon Spalding ever having made use of this strange title.[xxv]
 

Later, when The Book of Mormon was published, all of Spaulding’s friends and family immediately claimed to recognize that the story, the names, and the places were from Spaulding’s stolen manuscript.
 

It certainly appears that Joseph Smith merged his own visions and religious beliefs with Spaulding’s story of the ancient happenings of America, as well as parts of the Bible, into one book. Where the actual truth lies is difficult to discern given the varying opinions.
 

As to the gold plates, they were symbolic. Joseph Smith used them as a way to attract attention to his message. The very first edition of The Book of Mormon did not say the book was a “translation of gold plates.” It said that Smith did in fact write the book himself. The first edition also included a statement from eight witnesses who declared that Joseph Smith, Jr. was “author and proprietor of the work.” Martin Harris and David Whitmer, two of the eight witnesses, said they saw the plates with their “spiritual eyes” only.
 

Regardless of the details and circumstances, Joseph Smith believed he was called to prepare the people of America for the time of the return of Jesus. This was the most important aspect of his work. No matter how The Book of Mormon came to be written, it is not “revealed scripture,” nor can it ever be considered as being equal with the writings of the Bible and the writings of Baha’u’llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha. According to Shoghi Effendi:
 

Joseph Smith was a Seer, not a Prophet; neither major nor minor. He had a high standard, but the Baha’is have a higher standard coupled with God’s power that comes direct from God for this age.[xxvi]
 

The Book of Mormon is a collection of ideas, visions, and prophecies of the seer Joseph Smith. Some portions are copied from the King James Bible, and other portions may have been copied from Solomon Spaulding’s manuscript.
 

Smith Saw Jesus Would Return in the Rockies
 

Joseph Smith believed he was the one who was to prepare the people in America for the second advent of Jesus Christ. During Smith’s time, the Great Awakening was taking place in America and Europe, meaning people had great expectations about the return of Christ. Smith was convinced his work was preparation for the coming of Christ. He equated himself to the spirit of Elijah. He believed that only after all things were ready, would the Messiah appear in His temple. Smith attempted to build a temple on three different occasions, twice in Kirtland, Ohio (he tried twice because the first temple had been burned), and once in Nauvoo, Illinois.
 

Joseph Smith saw a vision of a great river, and Jesus was on the west side of the river. Prior to his murder in 1844, Smith prepared to leave and go west across the river. However, he returned saying that he was not to go, and shortly thereafter was murdered in the Carthage Jail.
 

Joseph Smith believed Jesus would return in the Rocky Mountains, west of the river. In what has become known as the “White Horse Prophecy,” or Rocky Mountain Prophecy, allegedly given in 1843, Smith wrote:
 

You will go to the Rocky Mountains and you will be a great and mighty people established there, which I will call the White Horse of peace and safety…. Peace will be taken from the earth and there will be peace only in the Rocky Mountains.[xxvii]
 

After Joseph Smith’s death, Brigham Young set out to find a place for his followers. Since most governors in the eastern states had refused to grant asylum to the Mormons to protect them from persecution, and because Joseph Smith had said they should go to the Rocky Mountains, most Mormons left Nauvoo in February of 1846, and headed for the Rocky Mountains.
 

Joseph Smith was Right
 

Joseph Smith was right. Jesus did return to his temple in the Rocky Mountains. Although he was somewhat of a scoundrel with many iniquities, the greatness of Joseph Smith is that he was the only man who directed his followers to go to the Rocky Mountains where Jesus would return. Thus, he was a true seer.
 

One of the main visions of Joseph Smith was:
 

You will see the Constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang by a thread, as it were, and that thread as fine as the finest silk fiber…. A terrible revolution will take place in the land of America, such as has never been seen before, for the land will be left without a supreme government, and every species of wickedness will be rampant. It will be so terrible that father will be against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother. The most terrible scenes of murder and bloodshed and rapine that have ever been looked upon will take place…. Peace will be taken from the earth, there will be no place of safety except in the Rocky Mountains. This will cause many hundreds and thousands of the honest in heart to gather there; not because they would be Saints, but for safety and because they would not take the sword against their neighbor.
 

 The prophet Joseph Smith was shown the doings of Negroes in America at this time, and the scene was so terrible that he could not bear to look upon it any longer, and he asked the Lord to close this scene from his vision. The race rioting was too horrible to view.[xxviii]
 

Baha’u’llah said many things similar to this. We are into the “Day of Judgment,” where everyone will be paid for what they have done.
 

Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay every one for what he has done.[xxix]
 

The Perversity of All Religion
 

Each of the approximately 22,000 sects of Christianity point to the other sects, saying they are perverse. As the Baha’is were supposed to be the ones that led the people out of their religious marasmus, they are more perverse than the rest. They were given a clear and distinct Covenant for the unity of the faith, which they have grievously violated.
 

The world is in travail, and its agitation waxeth day by day. Its face is turned toward waywardness and unbelief. Such shall be its plight, that to disclose it now would not be meet and seemly. Its perversity will long continue. And when the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly appear that which cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then, and only then, will the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the Nightingale of Paradise warble its melody.[xxx]
 

The prophecies of the destruction of America are not unique to the Mormon faith. George Washington was given a similar vision. In his vision he saw the United States involved in three great wars, the third being the worst, but rose from the ashes. The fact that George Washington had this vision was common knowledge among the founding fathers of this country.
 

Because the founding fathers believed they knew the future of this country, they put the PHOENIX bird as the original symbol on the Great Seal of the United States. The legend of the Phoenix bird is that it lives for centuries, and is finally consumed in a fire of its own making. Then, it rises in youthful freshness from its own ashes. Later, since the Phoenix bird was actually a legendary bird, they chose the eagle to represent the Phoenix bird. The founding fathers knew the fate of this country, that by its own act it will cause a nuclear war where the United States will be the most destroyed country in the world. This is in the works now. The United States, by its own actions, causes New York City, the seat of the beast, to be nuked.
 

And the fifth angel[xxxi] poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast [the UN building in New York City].[xxxii]
 

The United States will be burned to a cinder. Out of its ashes will arise a new Phoenix bird, which will be spiritual, established by the teachings of the return of Jesus. These four beasts (that is, what is left of them) will become the first Baha’i States.
 

[i] Revelation 5:6,7
 

[ii] Ibid., 8-10
 

[iii] Revelation 6:1,2
 

 “And God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth’” (Genesis 9:12,13).
 

[iv] Revelation 19:11-16
 

[v] Ibid.
 

[vi] J.E. Esslemont, Baha’u’llah and the New Era (Wilmette, IL: Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1970 ed.) 249, 250.
 

[vii] Zechariah 3:1-9 KJV
 

[viii] Zechariah 3:9, other Bibles translate this as “the land.”
 

[ix] Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, Readers Digest.
 

[x] Le-land\’le-land\ [fr. A surname] Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.
 

[xi] Revelation 19:11, 12 KJV
 

[xii] The stone wall is considered as one stone that surrounds the prison in Deer Lodge, Montana.
 

[xiii] Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.
 

[xiv] Zechariah 3:7 KJV
 

[xv] John 8:58
 

[xvi] Leland was the only Promised One who entered prison on August 8 and spent his first full day in prison on August 9, 1969, the date given by the prophet George Williams. Williams prophesied that Jesus, a descendant of the King of Denmark, would come to a temple built of stone from the surrounding mountains in Deer Lodge, Montana on August 9, 1969. This was the very day that Dr. Leland Jensen spent his first full day with the “stone with seven eyes” before him.
 

[xvii] I Corinthians 15:24-28 KJV
 

[xviii] The injustices inflicted upon Dr. Leland Jensen by a very corrupt society of this day.
 

[xix] Zechariah 3:9 KJV
 

[xx] Zechariah 3:10 KJV
 

Chapter Five
 

[xxi] R. A. Brown, Memories of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 117.
 

[xxii]  Joseph, who was the youngest son of Jacob.
 

[xxiii]  Spencer, Have You Witnessed to a Mormon Lately? 207.
 

[xxiv]  Wayne L. Cowdrey, Howard A. David, Arthur Vanick, Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? The Spalding Enigma (St. Louis, MO: Concordia, 2005) 74.
 

[xxv] Charles A.  Shook, The True Origin of Mormon Polygamy (Cincinnati, OH: The Standard Publishing Company, 1910). It was also cited by Dr. W. L. Dodd, Early History of Amity, Pa. 1770-1870 (Private publication, 1940).
 

[xxvi] Pilgrim notes of Ramona Browne, in Memories of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 117.
 

[xxvii] Wing Anderson, Prophetic Years 1947-1953 (Los Angeles, CA: The Kosmon Press, 1946) 34.
 

[xxviii] Normon C. Pierce, The Three-and-One-Half Years 14, 15.
 

[xxix] Revelation 22:12
 

[xxx] Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah (Wilmette, IL: The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the US, 1952) 118, 119.
 

[xxxi] This pertains to Islam.
 

[xxxii] Revelation 16:10 KJV

  The Danish Connection
 

The concept of the return of Jesus and the City of Gold which is to be in America wasn’t first visualized by Joseph Smith, but goes all the way back in history.
 

The Voyage of St. Brendan
 

One of the most popular books in Europe prior to and at the time of Columbus was called The Voyage of St. Brendan. In that book, Irish monks have a vision of a maiden who describes the United States to them as a great land across the Western Sea, divided in half by a mighty river (the Mississippi). She then gives the prophecy that the second coming of Jesus is to be in the US.[xviii]
 

This book was very popular, and its graphic imagery and prophecy prompted both Columbus and the Danish Vikings before him (who were in search of Valhalla) to travel to America. The Voyage of St. Brendan was written around 600 AD! In his book, St. Brendan describes his voyage, giving very specific details about sea-lanes and routes. By reading this book, Columbus had all the necessary information on how to get to America.
 

For Instance, Christopher Columbus from information based upon known and provable facts drew conclusions which led him unerringly across the vast ocean to the unknown continent of America.[xix]
 

Columbus and His Book of Prophecy
 

Columbus came to America looking for the return of Jesus which he knew, according to prophecy, had to be in America. Columbus was a very religious man and he believed that he was fulfilling prophecy by coming to America. Columbus wrote his Book of Prophecy, which he gave to the Queen and King of Spain in order to get money for his voyage. Upon entering the Gulf of Pariah and seeing the fresh water there, he proclaimed that he had discovered the paradise of Adam and Eve, where he believed he would find Jesus and the heavenly temple and the City of Gold (New Jerusalem), and usher in the 1000 years of peace.
 

Before Columbus, the Vikings came to America looking for about the same thing. Where did this information come from, which St. Brendan, the Vikings, and Columbus used to come to America?
 

The Dans
 

The name Dan, in Hebrew, means Judge. When Jacob blessed his sons, he blessed Dan to be the judge and to be the intellectual.
 

Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way….”[xx]
 

The serpent is the symbol of the intellect. As such, the Dans had a very important role to play in the plan of God. In 721 BC, Shalmaneser V, King of Assyria [who conquered the ten tribes of Israel], did carry away Israel into Assyria and put them in Halah and in Habor and the cities of the Medes,[xxi] which are modern-day Iraq and Iran. The Dans, who were the intellectuals, were too smart to remain in captivity and be absorbed into the culture of their pagan captors.
 

After leaving Assyrian captivity, they inhabited for some time the land just west of the Black Sea. Then we find the rivers “Dn iester, and the Don.” Then, in either ancient or later geography, we find these way marks. Dn-aau, the Dann-inn, the Dan-aster, the Dan-dari, the Dan-ez, and the Don, the Dan and the U-don; the Eri-don, down to the Danes. “Danmark” means “Dan’s Mark.”
 

 In Genesis 49:17 Jacob, foretelling what should befall each of the tribes, says: “Dan shall be a serpent by the way.” Another translation of the original Hebrew is “Dan shall be a serpent’s trail.” It is a significant fact that the tribe of Dan named every place they went after their father, Dan.[xxii]
 

This was like a serpent’s trail. The Dans left Assyria and went westward and northward into Europe. On their way, they left their name “Dan” all the way along. That is, they migrated up the Dan-ube.
 

The Dans were Great Civilizers
 

When the Dans arrived in that peninsula in the North Sea now called Denmark (Dan’s mark), they brought their civilization and religion with them. They civilized the peoples around them and ruled over them for a long time. All civilizations are the result of the Revelations of God brought by the various Manifestations.
 

When Shalmaneser V conquered the ten tribes of Israel in 721 BC and brought the northern tribe of Dan to Assyria, the northern tribe of Dan was in the most northern part of Israel, bordering on Syria. The southern tribe of Dan was in the southern part of Israel, bordering on Judah. This southern tribe of Dan was living on the seacoast of the Mediterranean. They took to their boats and sailed away, ending up in Ireland.
 

When Assyria captured Israel, these Danites struck out in their ships and sailed west through the Mediterranean and north to Ireland. Just before his death, Moses prophesied of Dan: “Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan” (Deut. 33:22). Along the shores of the Mediterranean they left their trail in “Den,” “Don,” and “Din.”
 

Irish annals and history show that the new settlers of Ireland, at just this time, were the “Tuatha de Danaans,” which means, translated, “Tribe of Dan.” Sometimes the same appears simply as “Tuathe de,” meaning the “people of God.” And in Ireland we find they left these “way marks:” Dans-Laugh, Dan-Sower, Dun-dalk, Dun-drum, Don-egal Bay, Don-egal City, Dun-gloe, Din-gle, Dunsmor (meaning “more Dans”). Moreover, the name Dunn in the Irish language means the same as Dan in the Hebrew: judge.[xxiii]
 

The symbol for the tribe of Dan is the serpent and it represents the intellect.
 

…the crowned serpent, has been adopted as a magical symbol of wisdom, for the true wisdom requires that man should have insight into the spiritual world.[xxiv]
 

The Dans brought their religion and civilization to the Irish. When they arrived, they found a mixture of beliefs among the Irish. They found that the religion of primitive Ireland was nature worship, and after a time it included the religion of some of the Mediterranean civilizations. For example, the Phoenicians, near Tyre and Sidon, brought the religion of Enoch, or Adam. Enoch was the establisher of Adam’s religion.
 

Adam was a Universal Manifestation of God (the other two Universal Manifestations were Jesus and Baha’u’llah).[xxv] Enoch brought Adam’s teachings around the world. Enoch was the architect for the Great Pyramid of Giza, and for the pyramids in Central America. The Hopis are waiting for the return of Enoch, who they say will have the cornerstone of the Fire Clan tablet. The main teaching of Adam was the One True Invisible God. This was corrupted by Nimrod and Semiramis who corrupted Adam’s Revelation with the trinity that crept into many of the world’s religions, such as Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. It caused the ten tribes to separate from Judah after the corruption of Solomon, who bowed down to Ashtoreth (Semiramis) and Milcom (Nimrod).[xxvi] The religion of Adam was not only monotheistic, it contributed to the development of agriculture, animal husbandry, language, and astronomy. The Arthurian legends and Stonehenge are rooted in Enoch’s religion.
 

However, not long after the corruption of Enoch’s, or Adam’s, religion─a corruption that had been spread by the Phoenicians who were trinitarians─the Irish also became corrupted by the trinity. This corruption was not at all like the monotheistic religion of Enoch. It was a religion with a pantheon of gods rooted in a trinity, with the head being Dagon the fish god. The attire Dagon wore is the same as the Pope wears today. After the Dans arrived in Ireland, they fought and taught against this crap of the trinity.
 

Later when St. Patrick, a Roman Catholic, came to Ireland wearing the garb of Satan, or Dagon, he showed how the three-leaf clover had three parts but was one leaf. Thus, he reintroduced the pagan trinitarian religion that had crept into Christianity. He drove the snakes out of Ireland when he drove the Dans (who were given the intellect that was symbolized by the snake) out of Ireland. They moved to Scotland and then finally to England where they civilized the English. This left the Irish without using their intellects, and they became Roman Catholic, with the exception of a few of them. Therefore, St. Brendan (Bran-Dan), an Irish monk, while studying the history of Ireland and the Dans, came to the knowledge of the City of Gold across the Western Sea, divided in half by a mighty river (the Mississippi). He had a vision of a maiden who gave him the prophecy of the second coming of Jesus in America. Columbus then made a voyage to America to search for the City of Gold, expecting to find the return of Jesus there, as St. Brendan had written in his book.
 

Columbus and His Book of Prophecy
 

Columbus read the book of St. Brendan, and it had maps, graphics, and directions to come to America, so when he sailed from Spain he knew exactly where he was going. Thus, Columbus came to America looking for the return of Jesus and the City of Gold. He knew according to prophecy it had to be in America. Columbus was a very religious man and he believed he was fulfilling prophecy by coming to America. Columbus wrote his Book of Prophecy and gave it to the Queen and King of Spain in order to get money for his third voyage. The Queen was very interested in the City of Gold and wanted Columbus to dig up the streets of gold, and bring the gold back to Spain. Spain at that time was in dire straits for money. They needed the money to build an armada to protect Spain from the English, who were becoming the masters of the sea. Upon entering the Gulf of Pariah, when he saw the fresh water there, Columbus proclaimed that he had discovered the Paradise of Adam and Eve, where he believed he would find Jesus and the heavenly temple and the City of Gold, New Jerusalem, and usher in 1000 years of Peace. But neither St. Brendan nor Columbus were able to find the City of Gold or the return of Jesus, due to their pagan beliefs in the trinity, with Jesus being God incarnate.
 

The Vikings
 

The Vikings, being of the Dans and the originators of the prophecies of the New World across the Sea, were privy to this information, as they were knowledgeable in the Revelation of Moses. The civilization of Moses was a microcosm of the macrocosm. That is, Moses’ microcosm was for a specific people, the twelve tribes of Israel, whereas Baha’u’llah’s system is for the entire world. They, the Vikings, rejected Christianity because of the trinity─God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit─as they believed in the One God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. When Solomon and the tribe of Judah bowed down to idols (Ashtoreth and Milcom), the ten tribes separated from Rehoboam, Solomon’s son and successor, because of this trinitarian paganism that Solomon bowed down to. But their (the tribe of Dan’s) religion was full of all kinds of promises, such as a new world coming. Therefore, the Vikings made a number of trips across the sea to find the fulfillment of their promise.
 

Most of the images we have about the Vikings are misconceptions written by pagan Christians, painting the Vikings as pagan, marauding, raiding Norsemen, worshiping many gods. Nothing could be further from the truth. Their so-called gods such as Odin, were not gods at all, but the history of their ancestors of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, Jeroboam, etc. Their great god Odin was none other than Adam. The legends of the Scandinavians were not myths, but prophecies of what is now taking place in this century, having their origin in a pure Revelation from God. Also among them were those who, like Daniel, Isaiah, and other minor prophets, were able to go behind the veil and perceive the plan of God. Thus, they were able to name the players in the scenario of the Baha’i faith.
 

Valhalla is Baha’u’llah. The ‘V’ and the ‘B’ are interchangeable. Asgard is the world of the gods in Norse legends, but it is also a symbol of New Jerusalem spoken of in the Book of Revelation, “…and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name [Baha’u’llah].”[xxvii] Balder is Shoghi Effendi. Thor, who is redheaded with a red beard, and carries a hammer, is King David, whose lineage is to exist forever. The two Christs, Jesus and Baha’u’llah, are descended from King David. The lineage of the first Christ came to an end with the passing of Jesus, as He didn’t marry and have a son. However, the lineage of David seated on the throne of David is the one that is to last forever (Psalm 89). That is, all of Baha’u’llah’s ancestors all the way back to King David were seated on the throne of David in exile. They were called exilarchs, which means exiled monarchs. This lineage is of this world. Baha’u’llah continued this lineage in His Covenant, where He passed it on to ‘Abdu’l-Baha, who then passed it on to his son Mason Remey. Then Mason Remey passed it on to his son, Joseph Pepe Remey, who passed it on to his son, and then on and on forever. Shoghi Effendi placed ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s son at the head, as president, of the first International Baha’i Council, whose constitution would last for half a million years with this genealogy of King David being its presidents. This Council was to go through four stages and become the Universal House of Justice. This plan of God was derailed by the Covenant-breaking Hands when they went against Shoghi Effendi and his plan, establishing in its stead a bogus House of Justice, minus its head (a Headless Monster), doing away with the Davidic lineage that is to last forever. This Davidic lineage is the executive branch, which is an integral[xxviii] part of the Universal House of Justice. This Headless Monster of the “Hands” cannot live any more than you can live without your head.
 

Hammer, Belt and Gauntlets
 

Thor and his hammer (gavel) sits at the head of the Universal House of Justice. Thor or Thouros is another form of Zero, which means the seed. When the term seed is used it is referring to the seed of David as the executive, or head, of the Universal House of Justice (a legislative body revealed in the Revelation of Baha’u’llah), which will preside as a democratic monarchy over the entire world when the Kingdom of God on earth is established. Thor, just as Odin, does not represent any one individual in particular, but rather a position a person holds.
 

In addition to the hammer or gavel that Thor uses to keep the assembly in order, he has a Belt. The Belt is a symbol of the complete body of the Universal House of Justice. The succeeding executives after Shoghi Effendi are not infallible in their decisions. Only when the entire Universal House of Justice with the Davidic lineage as its president makes a decision, does it reflect the Will of God. The entire assembly as stipulated in the provisions of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha is what gives the president seated on David’s throne his strength, just as the belt of Thor gives him the strength needed to wield his mighty hammer.
 

The gauntlets Thor wears in order to throw and retrieve his hammer are significant as well. They symbolize of the Hands of the Cause of God. The Davidic King can appoint Hands in order to assist him in spreading the faith around the world. These Hands are to be absolutely submissive to the executive branch, and the executive branch needs the Hands to protect the faith and assist him. ‘Abdu’l-Baha outlines the duties of the Hands of the Cause of God in his Will and Testament.
 

My object is to show that the Hands of the Cause of God must be ever watchful and so soon as they find anyone beginning to oppose and protest the Guardian of the Cause of God, cast him out from the congregation of the people of Baha and in no wise accept any excuse from him.[xxix]
 

The Hands of Shoghi Effendi, after his passing, were the greatest opponents of Shoghi Effendi. They took over and prevented the Baha’is from turning to Shoghi Effendi’s successor, the first International Baha’i Council, which was the Universal House of Justice in embryo, to which all must turn. They then dismantled it entirely and substituted a freak in the place of Shoghi Effendi’s successor, which is to be abhorred because it eliminated the executive branch of Baha’u’llah’s Universal House of Justice. In addition, it did away with the lineage of David that was to last forever, and was to succeed Baha’u’llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha, and which Shoghi Effendi had placed as the president, which is a hereditary position. ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s son was to function as the head of the embryonic International Baha’i Council that was to go through four stages and become the Universal House of Justice with ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s son, or his son’s son, and so on, as its president.
 

O friends! The Hands of the Cause of God must be nominated and appointed by the Guardian of the Cause of God. All must be under his shadow and obey his command. Should any, within or without the company of the Hands of the Cause of God disobey and seek division, the wrath of God and His vengeance will be upon him, for he will have caused a breach in the true Faith of God.…
 

This body of the Hands of the Cause of God is under the direction of the Guardian of the Cause of God.[xxx]
 

 Loki and His Children
 

LOKI is the troublemaker. Historical Loki was Nimrod, who was the son of Cush, who was the son of the cursed son of Noah named Ham. Noah had three sons with him on the Ark: Shem, the beloved son, who was given the robe of Adam (that is, he was to continue in authority the line of Adam); Japheth; and Ham, the cursed son. Upon leaving the Ark, Ham stole the robe and ran with it. This robe was then given to Ham’s son Cush, who gave it to his son Nimrod. Noah divided the Middle East into three parts. The northern part was given to Japheth, which was Siberia, stretching west to Russia. The southern portion was given to Ham, which consisted of the land south of the Mediterranean. Shem had all the land in between, that is, the Middle East all the way to the Straits of Gibraltar, including all of Europe, but not Russia.
 

After the flood, the animals were increasing in number faster than man was. They had sharp teeth and sharp claws, and they could run faster than man could. They caught men, tore them apart, and ate them, until it looked like man would cease to exist. Nimrod was a giant, maybe eight or nine feet tall. In a cartouche, he is pictured tearing the horns off a bull and putting them on his own head. Then he is shown tearing a lion apart with his bare hands. He is the centaur of mythology, that is, he was the first man to ride the horse. He did two great things. He started decimating the animals that were harmful, and he gathered the people into cities. His wife Semiramis, who was from a family of masons, built walls around the cities and built towers so they could look out over the walls to see if it was safe to go out and forage for food. Nimrod tamed the leopard to accompany him on his hunts for animals, just as people today use dogs for this purpose today. This is how Nimrod got his name. The Babylonian name for leopard was “nimr.” “Rod” means “to subdue.” Nimrod also trained other men into hunting parties, and they built cities all over the Middle East, all the way to the Straits of Gibraltar.
 

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
 

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
 

Out of that land went forth Ashur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah: the same is a great city.[xxxi]
 

Thus, Nimrod was a great benefactor to the people. Also, Nimrod was a very great teacher of the religion of Adam, having the people obey the laws of Adam. Thus, a great new spiritual civilization was established, replacing the civilization of the Adamites who were drowned in the flood for becoming corrupt. Nimrod had taken over the territories of Japheth and Shem, bringing them all into his empire.
 

The people of Nimrod’s empire loved and eulogized Nimrod as the greatest person ever, to the point of worship, but they had some problems. They said, “Nimrod, we love you dearly but we have several concerns,” one being that the Laws of Adam were strict, and they wanted more freedom. In addition, it was very difficult for them to worship an Invisible God that they had never seen. Nimrod obliged them by doing away with the religion of Adam and His Laws, returning them back to their paganism, the worship of the the sun, moon, and stars. Nimrod proclaimed that he was Saturn and his father Cush was Jupiter. This is where we get the word Satan, from “Saturn.”
 

The prophet Isaiah refers to Nimrod as Lucifer.
 

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.[xxxii]
 

Thus, Loki was Nimrod of history. However, the so-called legends of the Vikings were not legends but prophecies that are now being fulfilled. First, Rex King was declared to be Satan by ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s son, for going against him. Rex thought he could set himself up above Baha’u’llah and make his throne in the hereafter, above that of Baha’u’llah’s.
 

Next was Balyuzi in conjunction with the female god, known in Norse prophecies as Hel. She is the queen of the ninth religion, Baha’i.
 

Loki had three children from an ogress from Jotunheim called Angrbode. that were even more terrible than himself. [The first monstrous son was Baha’u’llah’s brother Mirza Yahya who was an opponent of Baha’u’llah. The second monstrous son was Muhammad Ali who was the opponent of ‘Abdu’l-Baha.] Yet a third time Angrbode gave birth, on this occasion to a female child whom Odin cast down into the Underworld to become queen of Hel. She was given the name of Hel and made absolute ruler over many peoples of the nine worlds [the Baha’i faith] who came into her power.[xxxiii]
 

The Third Child of Loki: “Hel”
 

Just how did the “Hands” get control of the Baha’i faith? You know it just didn’t happen by itself! No way, no how! According to reason, and according to the Holy writings, the Hands were not to become reactivated and take control after they had ceased to be Hands. When your spirit leaves your body, your physical hands cease to be active, and they don’t become reactivated. They die along with the rest of the body. The same was true for the Hands of Shoghi Effendi after he passed away.
 

When you die, your hands also cease to be active. They no longer do things for you after you’re dead. The very same thing is true in the Baha’i faith. The Hands are appointed by, and under the direction of, a living guardian only.
 

O friends! The Hands of the Cause of God must be nominated and appointed by the Guardian of the Cause of God. All must be under his shadow and obey his command…. This body of the Hands is under the direction of the [living] Guardian of the Cause of God….[xxxiv]
 

When the guardian dies and is no longer the living guardian, he can no longer continually activate and control his Hands, just like when you die, you will not be able to activate and control your hands. Just like your hands, on your death, cease to function, so do the Hands of the guardian cease to function as Hands.[xxxv]
 

Shoghi Effendi appointed the Hands, and in his last letter he called the Hands the chief stewards, and indeed they were the chief stewards during his lifetime, but when he died those that had been Shoghi’s Hands, ceased to be Hands, and thus ceased to be chief stewards. That is, the Hands were only “chief stewards” during the lifetime of Shoghi Effendi. Nothing that Shoghi Effendi wrote or instituted could in any way be construed to mean that the chief stewards were to succeed Shoghi Effendi, for that would be in violation of the Will and Testament, and certainly Shoghi in no way could be in violation of the Will.
 

So then, just how did the Hands come to life and take control? The Baha’i world should have been cognizant of what was going on, however, they were asleep. Thus, an evil force came and did all of this. This force didn’t come to save the faith as they put forth, but to continue their positions as Hands in the faith.
 

This evil force had to be very astute and subtle. It had to be in a position to orchestrate with cunning a scheme using deceit, artifice, and stratagem. Nefarious violations such as the one stated above have always occurred at the very top. With Jesus, it was Judas, the most zealous apostle. With Baha’u’llah, it was His own brother Mirza Yahya. With ‘Abdu’l-Baha, it was also his brother, Muhammad Ali. Just who could this person be that put the Hands in authority? Certainly, it couldn’t be Ruhiyyih Khanum! Wasn’t she the wife of the Beloved Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, and didn’t he give her the spiritual name “Ruhiyyih Khanum,” which means “spirit-like lady?” She was so highly revered and eulogized that to even suggest she could be that evil force would be sacrilegious. If you thought for even a minute that I was in the least way inferring that she would do such a thing, you would immediately tear up this book and refuse to hear anything more that I have to say. Therefore, it is out of the question to even consider her but, since she was in a very strategic position, we must peruse this possibility if we are to identify the real culprit. She was the only one present at the passing of Shoghi Effendi. She was a Hand, and she was Shoghi Effendi’s liaison officer to the first International Baha’i Council, which was both the Universal House of Justice in its first stage, and the successor to Shoghi Effendi. Ruhiyyih was very well aware that this was Shoghi Effendi’s successor.
 

After she found Shoghi Effendi dead in his room while they were in London, she, as his liaison officer, sent a cable to Leroy Ioas, the secretary of the IBC in Haifa, stating that Shoghi Effendi was sick with the Asiatic flu. She requested that Leroy send cablegrams to all National Spiritual Assemblies asking for prayers from the believers for Shoghi Effendi’s recovery. As Shoghi Effendi’s liaison officer, it was assumed that Shoghi was having her request this for him. That is why she said he was only sick, because she was no longer Shoghi’s liaison officer, as he was dead. She was also no longer a Hand, as Shoghi was already dead. She then had a rendezvous with the Persian Hand Balyuzi, who was living in London. It was he who had all the other Persian Hands declare “Bada” in a secret conclave. Bada means God has broken His Covenant. After talking with Balyuzi, Ruhiyyih sent another message to the secretary of the IBC/UHJ, stating that Shoghi was dead, and requesting that the IBC (the authoritative successor to Shoghi Effendi) send cablegrams to all National Spiritual Assemblies, requesting them to inform all Local Spiritual Assemblies of his death, and to direct the believers to turn to the “Hands” (“cling institution Hands”).[xxxvi] She did this as the liaison officer, continuing her status in that position although it was now known that Shoghi was dead. The reason she sent this message to the secretary of the IBC/UHJ is that she knew that the IBC, being the embryonic UHJ, was the authoritative body that was to succeed Shoghi Effendi, to which all the Baha’is should turn after his passing. As the IBC was the authoritative body, by having the cablegram state that the Baha’i World should turn to the Hands (a non-authoritative body) instead of the IBC (the authoritative body), through use of this artifice and stratagem, she was having the IBC relinquish its authority and give it to the Hands, which is in violation of the Covenant and the Will and Testament. The IBC is the infallible Universal House of Justice in its first stage. The Hands are only servants of the guardian, and they have no authority of their own. Without a guardian they don’t even exist, much less act as an authoritative figure.
 

The next day Ruhiyyih Khanum sent another cablegram from London, but this time it was not to the secretary of the IBC. By-passing the IBC, she sent it directly from herself to all the National Spiritual Assemblies, to inform the mass of the Baha’is that the “Hands” would assemble and decide what to do next (“meeting Hands shortly Haifa will make announcement to Baha’i world regarding future plans”). Here she was setting up the “Hands”─a non-authoritative body that ceased to exist and function as Hands after the passing of Shoghi Effendi─to become an authoritative body in place of the genuine authoritative body, the IBC/UHJ.
 

This brought 18 of the 27 “Hands” to London. Mason, coming from America, arrived last. After burying Shoghi Effendi in London, they went to Haifa. There she had the “Hands” make a thorough search of Shoghi’s things to see if he had left a will. This was in order to have the “Hands,” as well as all the Baha’is, believe that this was the method in which a guardian was supposed to appoint his successor, although the Will and Testament states that the guardian must appoint his successor during his lifetime─not in a will, as this is only read after his passing. This was to derail the believers from looking for someone to be his successor, which Shoghi had already appointed, which he did in 1951 when he set up the first International Baha’i Council and sent out a cablegram announcing its formation. He appointed ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s adopted son to be the president, putting the Davidic lineage, seated on the throne of David that is to last forever, as the executive branch of the IBC/UHJ. Because the executive branch (guardianship) is a hereditary, not an elected position, the president/guardian of the IBC remains the president/guardian when it becomes the UHJ, as the guardian is the head, or president, of the UHJ for life, and then he is succeeded by his son.
 

Shoghi Effendi was to be succeeded by his son that was not a biological son, which was the IBC/UHJ. Shoghi Effendi was appointed Guardian of the Cause of God by ‘Abdu’l-Baha, to replace the Covenant-breaker Muhammad Ali, who was a male descendant of King David who was supposed to sit upon the throne of King David, succeeding ‘Abdu’l-Baha who was seated on the throne of David. However, Shoghi Effendi was not a male descendant of King David. He descended from David through his mother who was ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s daughter. The Davidic Kingship is passed down through the male line. Because Shoghi Effendi was a descendant through the female line, through his mother, he could not, nor could his son if he had one, be seated as the president of the Universal House of Justice. Therefore, when he set up his successor, the IBC/UHJ, he appointed ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s son Mason Remey to be the head of that body. As the guardian is the head of the Universal House of Justice, therefore the head of the House of Justice is the guardian.
 

And now, concerning the House of Justice which God hath ordained as the source of all good and freed from all error…. By this body all the difficult problems are to be resolved and the Guardian of the Cause of God is its sacred head and the distinguished member for life of that body.[xxxvii]
 

When the so-called “Hands” finished their search and found no will, Ruhiyyih Khanum informed them that he also had no son. The idea was to convince them that the guardianship had ended. In order for her scheme to work, it was imperative for her to get rid of the guardianship. Had she brought her plan to the authoritative body, the IBC, which was set up by Shoghi to succeed him, no way, no how, would the IBC go along with this, mainly because the president of that body was ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s son, the Guardian of the Cause of God, and he certainly would not allow someone to do away with the guardianship. Therefore, she bypassed what was the authoritative body and Shoghi Effendi’s successor, and went to the “Hands”─a non-authoritative group that ceased to exist as Hands with the passing of Shoghi─having them become the decisive authority in the Baha’i faith in place of the God-given IBC/UHJ. Their first decision was to get rid of the hereditary guardianship, which was the executive branch. The executive branch is an integral part of the IBC/UHJ. Without the integral part of the executive branch, there is no Universal House of Justice. What the Covenant-breaking Hands established on Mount Carmel is a Headless Monster
 

Ruhiyyih Khanum was the Arch Covenant-breaker in this scenario but she would not have been able to accomplish this by herself. She had a partner in this crime. Right after she discovered that Shoghi Effendi was dead, she had a rendezvous with the Persian “Hand” Balyuzi, who was living in London. It was he who had all the other Persian “Hands” go along with her scheme to take over the control of the faith, as she did not speak Persian or Arabic, the languages of nearly half the other “Hands” who did not speak English. The two of them were instrumental in getting the “Hands” to meet in a secret conclave to take up the matter of the guardianship. After the first meeting, the other “Hands” were concerned about the guardianship, and they dispersed to pray and meditate. That night the Persian “Hands” and the Western “Hands” were separated, with the Persian “Hands” staying the night at Bahji and the Western “Hands” leaving for the Western pilgrim house in Haifa. The next day when the “Hands” met again in secret conclave, Hasan Balyuzi, native to Persia, had it all set up for the Persian “Hands” to declare the guardianship ended. Right after the prayers were said, Balyuzi arose and said “Bada,” meaning, “God has broken His Covenant” (making God a Covenant-breaker). Since God didn’t give Shoghi Effendi a son, the guardianship had come to an end. He said no more, then sat down, at which point the next Persian “Hand” sitting alongside him arose, and recited the same formula. This followed with each of the Persian “Hands” reciting “Bada.” After they had finished, Ruhiyyih Khanum was the next in line, and she said she was certain Shoghi Effendi did not have a son, so Bada, the guardianship had come to an end. This was followed by the Western “Hands” all reciting the same formula.
 

Thus, Ruhiyyih Khanum perfectly fulfilled the role of the third child of Loki─a female who was named Hel─with Balyuzi fulfilling the role of Loki. Ruhiyyih Khanum, also known as Ruhiyyih Rabbani, didn’t just take advantage of the situation of her husband’s death, she created it. That is, she didn’t make up a plan as she went along. It was very well worked out before Shoghi Effendi died. According to prophecy, he just didn’t die, but was killed.
 

Odin and Frigg’s second son was Balder, a person of very good report indeed. He stood out even among the AEsir. He was the fairest of the Gods [unique],[xxxviii] so fair-haired and pale-skinned that a power of light beamed from him. Everyone loved Balder and he himself loved all things, small and large, beautiful and ugly. He lived in Breidablik, the broad gleaming Palace with his wife Nanna.[xxxix]
 

Balder represents Shoghi Effendi, the unique and first Guardian of the Baha’i faith. The light beaming from him is his spirituality and infallibility in setting up his administration and carrying out ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s Divine Plan. He was called “The Beloved Guardian.”
 

Even though Balder (Shoghi Effendi) was so loving and full of light, Odin knew he would be killed. Odin also knew this was to be the first in a series of events that would lead to Ragnarok, or the doom of the gods, which is the great global catastrophe spoken of in all the world’s religions.
 

There are a lot of mysteries surrounding the death of Shoghi Effendi that have never been brought to light. First of all, Ruhiyyih Khanum lied when she sent out a message saying Shoghi Effendi was sick with the Asiatic flu, when he was actually already dead. She said she found him dead, but she possibly could have killed him. She didn’t call in his doctor to sign the death certificate, because he would have had a coroner’s inquest to determine the cause of death, as Shoghi Effendi was not that sick. She had Dr. Adelbert Muhlschlegel sign the death certificate, because he didn’t know the condition of Shoghi Effendi, as he was not the attending physician. Besides, he was a Baha’i and he accepted Ruhiyyih Khanum’s story without checking it out, which is extremely bad practice. As a result, we don’t know how she may have killed him, whether by poisoning his medicine or food, or suffocating him with a pillow, etc. All we know is that according to this prophecy, he was killed, and she was the one around, and she was the only one who had a motive. She was like Jezebel, the wife of King Ahab, who led the ten tribes of Israel astray. They went and served Baal and worshiped him,[xl] whereas Ruhiyyih has the Covenant-breaking Baha’is worship a Headless Monster. Also, Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord.[xli]
 

After she possibly could have killed Shoghi Effendi, she went on a killing spree. She hated Shoghi Effendi because he was the guardian. Ruhiyyih was a spoiled brat, being an only child with well-to-do parents. She lived in luxury, but when she married Shoghi Effendi, everything changed. Shoghi was very frugal. Being the administrator of the guardian’s fund that Shoghi knew came from people’s donations, some of whom were poor, he was very careful not to spend money carelessly or wrongly. As a result, Ruhiyyih found herself in a lifestyle not to her liking. She saw Shoghi as a tightwad, or miser. She hated being deprived of the lifestyle she was bought up in. She knew Shoghi was not really like that, but he was like that because he was the guardian, and he was a responsible person. Therefore, it wasn’t really Shoghi Effendi that she killed, but the guardian, and she decided to go on a killing spree to wipe out the guardianship. The first thing she did was, she had the “Hands” set up a conclave of “Hands” to have the guardianship ended. In the conclave, the harebrained excuse they used to do away with the guardianship was “Bada,” that God had changed his mind. God didn’t give Shoghi a son, so the guardianship had come to an end. Ruhiyyih knew that the first International Baha’i Council was the successor to Shoghi Effendi, as she sent out her first announcements that Shoghi was sick, and then the one saying he was dead, through the council by asking the secretary of the IBC, Leroy Ioas, to inform the National Spiritual Assemblies to tell the Baha’i world that Shoghi was sick and later, that he had died. After that, she bypassed Shoghi’s son (the first International Baha’i Council), and went to a non-authoritative and unauthorized body of “Hands” (not found anywhere in the Baha’i Writings), to make a decision to have the guardianship ended. Therefore, because they were an unauthentic body of “Hands,” their decisions must be ignored and, by all means, must not to be followed. Nevertheless, their decisions were followed. Therefore, she attemped to murder thousands of succeeding guardians for the next half a million years.
 

She had another problem. There was a guardian who was the president of the first International Baha’i Council that was to become a World Court in 1963, and later would become a Universal House of Justice with the guardian at its head. She couldn’t let this happen, so she had the “Hands” dismantle the first International Baha’i Council that Shoghi Effendi had set up by appointing the members including the head, and which was to become a World Court in 1963. In place of the true one that Shoghi Effendi had appointed, she had them set up a bogus Universal House of Justice without its head. Thus, going against Shoghi Effendi, she chopped off the head, as if she had a chopping block or guillotine. Then she was happy as she lived on in a lifestyle of affluence like the one she had before she married Shoghi Effendi. (When I was a boy, I saved my pennies so that when we visited the temple in Wilmette, I could donate money to the Baha’i fund. I went without in order to do this.)
 

Death of Balyuzi
 

All those who break the Covenant suffer terrible deaths. ‘Abdu’l-Baha writes in the Will and Testament:
 

Were he to incline a hair’s breadth to the right or to the left, his deviation would be established and his utter nothingness made manifest. And now ye are witnessing how the wrath of God hath from all sides afflicted him and how he is speeding towards destruction. Ere long will ye behold him and his associates, outwardly and inwardly, condemned to utter ruin.[xlii]
 

Hasan Balyuzi suffered terrible guilt and remorse for his violation and his part in instigating the Persian Hands to declare Bada, that God had broken His Covenant. Below, as seen by the eyes of his son, is the terrible demise that he sank into prior to his death in 1980. Tormented by guilt and self-incrimination, he was “punished” (as his son put it) “by illness of the body and near mental breakdown” until his gruesome end.
 

I can still recall vividly that day of November 1957 when, as a child of thirteen, I stood on the graveside as Shoghi Effendi’s coffin was lowered into the ground. In that charged moment I can remember looking up at my father [Hasan Balyuzi] and marking how rigid and motionless he stood, his face almost devoid of expression. When he came to speak the final prayer, the one of Baha’u’llah’s which begins “Glory be to Thee, O God, for Thy manifestation of love to Mankind!” he did so almost in monotone, his voice sounding to me drained of emotion. I could not properly understand then, but believe now, in the knowledge of all that happened after, that at that moment his heart was broken. The depth of his grieving was such that he was in a state of profound shock in which his feelings were numbed so that emotion could find little outlet.
 

For six years after that he kept going, borne along by the force of events during a time of great crisis and momentous decisions, when the duties imposed upon him by his station as a Hand of the Cause had to be met. But after the culminating events of this period, the election of the first Universal House of Justice and the Baha’i World Congress in London in 1963, the increasingly fragile prop of physical health finally collapsed and he [Balyuzi] plunged into a dark and despairing retreat punished by illness of the body and near mental breakdown.
 

In her memorial article Mrs. Hoffman has written of how his mind was filled with the “foreboding of guilt for his wasted days and abdication of his responsibilities as a Hand.”[xliii]
 

Balyuzi must have felt like Judas after he betrayed Christ for thirty pieces of silver, but unlike Judas, who hung himself in despair, Balyuzi feared death. He was afraid that when he closed his eyes for the last time to this world, and opened them to the next world, he would realize the great punishment that awaited him, for he had committed the most great sin which is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit─he knew the truth and went against it─which is not forgiven in this world or the next. Christ on the cross said, “Father, please forgive them for they know not what they do.” He didn’t include Judas in this, for Judas knew what he did.
 

Note from what Balyuzi’s son said above, after “the election of the first Universal House of Justice… the increasingly fragile prop of physical health finally collapsed and he [Balyuzi] plunged into a dark and despairing retreat punished by illness of the body and near mental breakdown.” Balyuzi knew that House of Justice was not the Baha’i House of Justice, but a Headless Monster that he and Ruhiyyih had created.
 

This conspiracy of Ruhiyyih and Hasan M. Balyuzi resulted in the “Hands” becoming the deciding body of the faith in place of the IBC/UHJ after the passing of Shoghi Effendi. This resulted in the guardianship being declared ended and the Baha’is becoming oppressed, with the threat of expulsion for even discussing the matter among themselves, much less  searching independently for the truth. What is wrong with all of this? On the very last page of the Will and Testament, ‘Abdu’l-Baha states:
 

To none is given the right to put forth his own opinion or express his particular convictions. All must seek guidance and turn unto the Center of the Cause [Shoghi Effendi] and the House of Justice [IBC/UHJ]. And he that turneth unto whatsoever else is indeed in grievous error.[xliv]
 

What Ruhiyyih did was to have the whole Baha’i world turn to “something else” other than the IBC/UHJ that Shoghi Effendi had set up to be his successor, thus she was in “grievous error.” She is the only one who could possibly do this because during Shoghi Effendi’s lifetime she was, after him, the highest one on the totem pole, so-to-speak, and she was eulogized to such a degree as to make her free from suspicion. No one else could do this and get away with it. Ruhiyyih was not a simple person, nor was she an ignoramus. She was not to be suspect. She was the only one in such a position, and so respected, and she was knowledgeable and very precise. She knew exactly what she was doing. She knew that the IBC/UHJ was the successor to her husband, and she knew why Mason was part of the Holy Family. She sat on one side of Shoghi at the dinner table, and Mason sat in the seat of honor on his other side. She knew that Mason was the president (head) of the IBC/UHJ and the succeeding guardian. She knew she had the skill to pull off the coup of the century, and she knew she could get away with it, for she knew she was beyond suspicion, and thus the only one that could pull this off. Therefore, she, being HEL of the Scandinavian prophecies, became the Arch covenant-breaker, leading the entire Baha’i community into HELL.
[i] Isaiah 49:8, 9, 11, 12 KJV
 

[ii] Zechariah 6:1 KJV
 

[iii] Tom Stout, Montana, History and Biography, Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society, 1921, 836.
 

[iv]  Zechariah 6:2-5 KJV
 

[v]  William A. Linn, The Story of the Mormons: From the Date of their Origin to the Year 1901 (New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1902) 430.
 

[vi]  Ibid., 276
 

[vii]  Ibid., 285, 286
 

[viii]  See ‘Reorganized Church vs. Church of Christ, et al, 60 fed.937,’ cited in: Inez Smith Davis, The Story of the Church (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1959) 486.
 

[ix]  Linn, The story of the Mormons, 444.
 

[x]  Charles Kelly, Hoffman Birney, Holy Murder: The Story of Porter Rockwell (New York, NY: Milton, Balch and Company, 1934) 219, 220.
 

[xi]  C. Leroy Anderson, For Christ Will Come Tomorrow: The Saga Of The Morrisites (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1981) 174, 175.
 

[xii]  Revelation 21:21, 18, 16
 

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

[xiv] George Williams letter to Erasmussen, December 27, 1881, from notes and letters in the special collections division of Utah State University, Logan, UT.
 

[xv] George Williams, Vision of Muhammad.
 

[xvi]  Laura Clifford Barney, Some Answered Questions, Collected and Translated from the Persian of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, Chapter 10: “The Traditional Proofs Exemplified from the book of Daniel” (Wilmette, IL: Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1964).
 

[xvii]
 

Chapter Seven
 

[xviii] David H. Greene, editor, The Voyage of Bran, An Anthology of Irish Literature.
 

[xix] Baha’i World Faith: Selected Writings of Baha’u’llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Wilmette, IL: National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States, 1976) 260.
 

[xx] Genesis 49:16, 17 KJV
 

[xxi] II Kings 18:11
 

[xxii] Herbert Armstrong, The United States and Britain in Prophecy (Pasadena, CA: Worldwide Church of God, 1980) 99, 96.
 

[xxiii] Ibid., 97
 

[xxiv] Frederich Goodman, Magic Symbols (London: Brian Trodd Publishing House Ltd, 1987) 6, 7.
 

[xxv] The other Manifestations were for specific people, like Moses for the Israelites and Muhammad for the Arabs.
 

[xxvi] I Kings, chapters 11 and 12.
 

[xxvii] Revelation 3:12
 

[xxviii] 1. Being an indispensable part of a whole; essential, constituent. 2. Formed of parts that together constitute a unity; an integral whole. 3. Whole, entire, complete.
 

[xxix] Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 12.
 

[xxx] Ibid, 12, 13
 

[xxxi] Genesis 10:8-12 KJV
 

[xxxii] Isaiah 14:12-14 KJV
 

[xxxiii] Brian Branston, Gods and Heroes from Viking Mythology (Private printing) 48.
 

[xxxiv] Will and Testament, 12, 13.
 

[xxxv] ‘Abdu’l-Baha reiterated that the Hands cease to function as Hands at the death of the Guardian when he explained that the Hands are “heirs” to nothing’ meaning (as an heir inherits only after the death), those who were “Hands” are not heirs to the title “Hands” or to anything else at the passing of the Guardian, and therefore cease to be Hands altogether when the Guardian dies. ‘Abdu’l-Baha said. “…The Hands of the Cause in this dispensation are NOT heirs of any name or title [i.e., they cease to be Hands at the passing of the Guardian].” (‘Abdu’l-Baha, Lights of Guidance, 3rd ed., 1979) 322.
 

[xxxvi] Cablegram, The Baha’i World, Vol. 13.
 

[xxxvii] Will and Testament, 14.
 

[xxxviii] Ibid. 3
 

[xxxix] Branston, 41, 42.
 

[xl] I Kings 16:31
 

[xli] I Kings 18:13
 

[xlii] Will and Testament, 6.
 

[xliii] H. M. Balyuzi, Eminent Baha’is in the Time of Baha’u’llah, xii, xiii.
 

[xliv] Will and Testament, 26.

Heimdall & The Rainbow Bridge
 

 The Rainbow is the sign of the Covenant as depicted in Genesis 9:11-15. The Rainbow Bridge is a bridge that links the world of man with the world of God. This Rainbow Bridge, the Covenant, is the Covenant of Baha’u’llah that links Midgard, the world of man, to Asgard, the world of the gods. The gods of Norse legends refer to the Divine Manifestations and other Promised Ones of God. There are two types of Covenants, the Greater and the Lesser Covenant. The Greater Covenant is God’s promise that He will always send Manifestations to guide mankind. Prophecies for the name, date, address, and mission of God’s Prophets are part of the Greater Covenant. The Lesser Covenant is what each Manifestation leaves behind to guide the people after His passing.
 

Baha’u’llah was prophesied in the Greater Covenant. Baha’u’llah’s Covenant is His Lesser Covenant. It sets forth His House of Justice and names His successors for the establishment of His House of Justice. However, Hel and the “Hands” broke Baha’u’llah’s Covenant. Heimdall is the one prophesied in all the Holy Books, that is, through the Greater Covenant, to establish Asgard, the New Jerusalem, spoken of in the Book of Revelation.
 

Heimdall
 

Living in Asgard and counted as one of the AEsir was Heimdall. Men on earth called him the white god and considered him a mighty and holy god but it is not clear where he came from. He was not a son of Odin and it is said that nine women, all sisters, mysteriously gave birth to him. He is sometimes called Gullintanni or Golden Teeth, for his teeth were made of living gold; his horse was called Gold-Topping from its mane of fine gold wires. Heimdall had his stronghold, a palace that was more like a barbican [fortress] than a house, at the very edge of Asgard, close to Bifrost [Rainbow] bridge. There he stood sentinel, watching out for the giants’ assault on the bridge. He could sleep like a bird with one eye open and it was said that his ears could detect the noises made by blades of grass as they grew or the hair getting longer on a sheep’s back. Slung from a baldrick over his shoulder Heimdall carried at the ready a mighty bugle, Giallarhorn, the alarm horn, whose blasts reached every nook and cranny of all the nine worlds, from highest to lowest. When the giants [the Covenant-breakers] cross Bifrost [Rainbow Bridge] and Ragnarok begins, Heimdall will blow on Giallarhorn to call the gods and everyone who is on their side to fight against the powers of evil.[iv]
 

 The giants are the strong ones who are not gods, and they don’t live in Asgard. They take over a religion and corrupt it for their own aggrandizement and empowerment, like the papacy that took over the Christian faith, the Sunnis that took over the Islamic faith, and the “Hands” that took over the Baha’i faith, having no authority to do so. The “Hands” became the giants as the five million or so worldwide Baha’is became the followers of Hel, who went against Shoghi Effendi and the Covenant. Thus, these Covenant-breakers became the giants. They have crossed Bifrost, the Rainbow Bridge, into Asgard, the place of the authentic ones of God, and now Ragnarok begins, meaning that the great calamity that is to befall humanity is caused by these damn Covenant-breakers. That is, this message of the Kingdom supported by Heimdall will become broadcast to all the nine worlds (the followers of the Nine Great Manifestations) when Heimdall blows his Giallarhorn. That is, this message will get front-page coverage right after New York City is nuked. Then there will be 144,000 who come out of the tribes of Israel under its new name Baha’i. The rest are for the fire. They will suffer immensely. Some will die instantly in their sins. Others will be badly burned and if they don’t repent, they will follow Hel into Hell. The 144,000 will take the side of Heimdall to join God’s Heavenly army to fight against the powers of evil. The god Heimdall is referring to the establisher of the Baha’i faith. The following is taken from Brian Mueller’s book that everyone should read, “Keys to the Kingdom In Scandinavian Legends.”
 

Heimdall
 

 A god named Heimdall lived by the Rainbow Bridge, watching over it constantly.
 

Living in Asgard and counted as one of the AEsir was Heimdall. Men on earth called him the white god and considered him a mighty and holy god but it is not clear where he came from. He was not a son of Odin and it is said that nine women, all sisters, mysteriously gave birth to him. He is sometimes called Gullintanni or Golden Teeth, for his teeth were made of living gold; his horse was called Gold-Topping from its mane of fine gold wires. Heimdall had his stronghold, a palace that was more like a barbican [fortress] than a house, at the very edge of Asgard, close to Bifrost [Rainbow] bridge. There he stood sentinel, watching out for the giants’ assault on the bridge. He could sleep like a bird with one eye open and it was said that his ears could detect the noises made by blades of grass as they grew or the hair getting longer on a sheep’s back. Slung from a baldrick over his shoulder Heimdall carried at the ready a mighty bugle, Giallarhorn, the alarm horn, whose blasts reached every nook and cranny of all the nine worlds, from highest to lowest. When the giants [the Covenant-breakers] cross Bifrost [Rainbow Bridge] and Ragnarok begins, Heimdall will blow on Giallarhorn to call the gods and everyone who is on their side to fight against the powers of evil (Gods and Heroes from Viking Mythology by Brian Branston, p 42).
 

The god Heimdall is referring to the establisher of the Baha’i faith, Dr. Leland Jensen. All religions have had establishers, or people who establish the teachings of the Manifestations after the Manifestations have passed away, i.e., Paul was the establisher of Christianity, and Ali established the Islamic faith. The establisher of Baha’u’llah is not a Manifestation, just as none of the former establishers have been Manifestations. Dr. Leland Jensen is someone who is prophesied to establish a religion, but does not have a new Revelation direct from God. This is why Heimdall’s birth is a mystery, for even though Leland is a Promised One who fulfills the prophesied criteria just as the Manifestations do, he is not descended from the divine lineage of David and has no right to the guardianship.
 

Dr. Leland Jensen is of Danish descent, by both his mother and father, and therefore he descended from the tribe of Dan, from which the Norse legends originate. (His mother’s maiden name was Daisy Petersen [Danish], and his father’s name was Christ Jensen [Danish]). This explains the detailed prophecies concerning Heimdall and his place in the legends. Dr. Leland Jensen fulfills the prophecies in the Bible for Joshua (Jesus) the High Priest spoken of in the book of Zechariah, chapter 3. He is also the return of Jesus the Lamb and the knight on the white horse in Revelation. As Leland is descended from the tribe of Dan, he is not the return of Jesus the Christ, for he is not a descendant of King David, and he is not of the tribe of Judah. This fact of his Danish lineage actually fulfills the prophecy that the return of Jesus the High Priest would be from the tribe of Dan, or a Dane. In the book of Genesis chapter 49, Jacob gathers his sons together to give them blessings. While addressing Judah he says:
 

Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? (Genesis 49:9).
 

This prophecy is for the two Messiahs or Christs that would be descended from Judah: Jesus and Baha’u’llah. Jesus is the lion’s whelp by being the Son, the first of the two Christs, and Baha’u’llah is the old lion, the second Christ that returns as the Father. Further on Jacob says:
 

Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel (Genesis 49:16).
 

This blessing makes referenc­e to Jesus the High Priest on his return having power to judge the courts as a descendant from the tribe of Dan. In the book of Zechariah it states:
 

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; if thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by (Zechariah 3:7).
 

The way it is proven that the return of Jesus the High Priest is from Dan and not from Judah, is by the words of Moses when he is blessing the tribes of Israel.
 

And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death…. And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp… (Deuteronomy 33:1-22).
 

 In the Bible we see that Jesus the Christ is descended from King David who is of the tribe of Judah, which fulfills the blessing of Jacob that Judah would be a lion’s whelp. A whelp is a young lion. When Jesus returns, this time as the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek and not a Christ, he is from the tribe of Dan. Thus Moses called Dan a lion’s whelp as well, and Jacob said Dan would be a judge. This is confirmed in Zechariah when God said that Jesus the High Priest, who is a descendant of Dan, would judge His house.
 

A High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek
 

The Bible states that Jesus Christ was a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek. When Christ returns, the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek must return as well. This is accepted as fact by authorities on the coming Kingdom of God.
 

Much is to be said in the Talmudic literature about the high priest in the Messianic Age. He is called “the Righteous Priest” (Kohen-Zedek)─an appellation apparently identical with Melchizedek. Here we have a significant point of contact between the Talmud and Paul’s epistle to the Hebrews in the New Testament. But the Talmud also has many pages militating against the conclusion that Melchizedek and the Messiah are identical. In the saying of Patriarch Rabban Simeon Ben Gamaliel II (post-Hadrianic) on Zeidec he writes:
 

These are two anointed ones. This means the Righteous Priest and the Messiah. And I do not know which of them is more beloved. But since it says (Psalm 110:4), “The Lord hath sworn and will not repent: ‘Thou art a priest forever,’” we know that the King-Messiah is more beloved than the Righteous Priest.
 

The high priest in the age to come, Melchizedek, who plays such an important role in the Epistle to the Hebrews, is here less beloved of God than the Messiah. But the existence of the high priest in the Messianic age is mentioned as something to be taken for granted by common consent (The Messianic Idea in Israel, by Joseph Klausner, p. 515).
 

This means that at the time the Messiah comes, Who is to bring the plans for the establishment for the Kingdom of God on earth, the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek must come as well. Jesus Christ was both Messiah and High Priest, but He did not come to establish the Kingdom, only to give the gospel of it. With the coming of the Messianic age, or Kingdom of God, these are two separate individuals. Baha’u’llah was the King-Messiah, and Dr. Leland Jensen is the return of Jesus as a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek. The High Priest is submissive to the Messiah because Dr. Leland Jensen is only establishing what Baha’u’llah revealed.
 

In the context of the Norse legends, the concept of Jesus returning as the High Priest is symbolized by the birth of Heimdall. The legends convey that the birth of Heimdall was a mystery, and that unlike any of the other gods living in Asgard, he was not descended from Odin. On the surface this appears to be a contradiction, because Dr. Leland Jensen is from the tribe of Dan, he therefore must be descended from Adam, who is symbolized in the legends as Odin. The apparent discrepancy is cleared up in Hebrews.
 

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him; and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. He is without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever (Hebrews 7:1-3).
 

Heimdall’s birth is a mystery because Dr. Leland Jensen is Melchizedek, and therefore is without genealogy in that regard. Dr. Leland’s authority does not come from a lineage, but from fulfilling prophecy. In fulfilling the prophecies for the return of Jesus, Dr. Leland’s Danish ancestry is important, but when making reference to his station as Melchizedek, it is irrelevant.
 

The White God
 

The Norse legends’ reference to Dr. Leland Jensen as the “White God,” and the fact that he rides a horse, parallels him with the knight on the white horse in the book of Revelation (chapters 19 and 6), and the last remaining Knight of Baha’u’llah as knighted by Shoghi Effendi. ‘Abdu’l-Baha prophesied that the Knights of Baha’u’llah would establish the Kingdom of God. This is irrefutable evidence that Dr. Leland Jensen is the establisher of the Baha’i faith since all other one hundred and forty-nine knights have either passed away or broken the Covenant of God.
 

How great, how very great is the Cause! How very fierce the onslaught of all the peoples and kindreds of the earth. Ere long shall the clamor of the multitude throughout Africa, throughout America, the cry of the European and of the Turk, the groaning of India and China, be heard far and near. One and all they shall arise with all their power to resist His Cause. Then shall the knights of the Lord, assisted by His grace from on high, strengthened by faith, aided by the power of understanding, and reinforced by legions of the Covenant, arise and make manifest the truth of the verse: “Behold the confusion that hath befallen the tribes of the defeated” (The World Order of Baha’u’llah, ‘Abdu’l-Baha, quoted by Shoghi Effendi, p. 17).
 

In the Norse legends, Heimdall’s teeth are made of living gold, which simply means the words Dr. Leland speaks are instrumental in the establishment of a Golden Age of civilization, and are perfected in the qualities and attributes of God.
 

Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war (Revelation 19:11 RSV).
 

And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and its rider had a bow [rainbow, the Covenant]; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer (Revelation 6:2 RSV).
 

The barbican, which is Heimdall’s home in the legends, is a large stone fortress (barbican), or in this case a prison. By being framed and wrongfully sent to prison, Dr. Leland Jensen fulfilled the prophecy of Joshua the High Priest. The barbican that Heimdall lives in is the “stone with seven eyes” spoken of in Zechariah 3:9, which is the Old Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana.
 

For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the engraving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts… (Zechariah 3:9).
 

Heimdall’s ability to hear and see everything attests to Leland’s spiritual awareness as a Promised One of God to perceive events in the world today that will lead to the catastrophe and the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth.
 

Another similarity between the Norse legends and the book of Revelation is the great bugle that Heimdall carries. This is the trumpet the seventh angel blows announcing the coming of a great catastrophe and the establishment of the Kingdom of God. Dr. Leland Jensen is the seventh angel in the book of Revelation.
 

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever” (Revelation 11:15 RSV).
 

This trumpet blast awakens God’s chosen army to arise in defense of the Covenant, as well as preparing them to teach the world this most glorious Cause. This is like Heimdall’s horn blast, which will be heard in every nook and cranny of all nine worlds. The six thousand year Adamic cycle has seen nine Divine Messengers of God, each of Whom, with their establishers, have brought a Revelation to mankind. Baha’u’llah and His establisher, Dr. Leland Jensen, bring them all together under the shadow of the One True Invisible God. No matter which one of the Revelations, or worlds, one belongs to, they will hear this horn blast because it is for all mankind. It is universal and does not discriminate between any of the world’s religions.
 

In the book Some Answered Questions, ‘Abdu’l-Baha gives a commentary on the eleventh chapter of Revelation in which he talks about the seventh angel.
 

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. For all the days which have come and gone were the days of Abraham, Moses and Christ, or of the other Prophets; but this day is the day of God, for the sun of reality will arise in it with the utmost warmth and splendour (Some Answered Questions, pp. 66-67).
 

So it is clear and evident that the seventh angel will establish the Kingdom of God on earth, and Dr. Leland Jensen is the only person in the world who fulfills the prophecy of the seventh angel.
 

Born of Nine Sisters
 

The birth of Heimdall also tells an interesting tale. He was said to have been born of nine sisters. To find out what this means, more facts must be uncovered about these sisters. Many sources say these nine sisters were as waves of the sea. The sea is a symbol for Baha’u’llah’s Revelation of God to mankind. Baha’u’llah’s Revelation proclaims that religion is universal and progressive, all religions having a common foundation in the One True Invisible God, thereby making all the separate Revelations the waves of one sea.
 

The nine waves are the religions brought by the Manifestations, the Adamic religion, Hebrew, Hindu, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Babi, and Baha’i. Because it takes knowledge of these religions to bring together God’s chosen army under the universal teachings of the Baha’i faith, Heimdall, who is Dr. Leland Jensen, was born of nine waves. All the faiths throughout history have prophesied the coming of this establisher, i.e., in the Hindu faith, Dr. Leland Jensen is the Avatar Kalki, in Zoroastrian scripture he is the Saoshyant, and in the writings of Buddha, Leland is the Maitreya.
 

The strength of this being came from the earth and the ice-cold sea, and he must surely be Heimdall, who according to the early poets was born of the waves, while the waves are also called his daughters. Dumezil saw a parallel in Welsh folklore in a tradition about the sea woman Gwenhidwy; of her it was said that the breaking waves were her ewes and the ninth wave a ram, and such an image might reconcile the two aspects of Heimdall, one of a ram and one as god of the waves (Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe, by H.R. Ellis Davidson, p. 211}.
 

These two aspects are very important because Leland fulfills the prophecy for the return of the Jesus as the Lamb spoken of in Revelation. The only difference between a ram and a lamb is that a ram is a male sheep and a lamb is a young sheep, so this clearly points to Leland’s fulfillment of prophecy.
 

And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders, I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth; and he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints; and they sang a new song, saying: “Worthy art thou to the scroll and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and by thy blood didst ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and hast made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth” (Revelation 5:6-10 RSV).
 

The Lamb in Revelation, who is the same as Heimdall (or the ram) in the Norse Legends, appears as though it had been slain. The Lamb is the return of Jesus, who on His first coming was crucified on a cross, and on his second coming appears as though slain. The seven horns upon his head represent the seven Manifestations whose Revelations are still practiced today, but have become apostate─the Revelations of Moses, Krishna, Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, and Baha’u’llah. The seven eyes of the Lamb are Dr. Leland’s insights into these Revelations which enable him to prove their validity and interpret the prophecies contained within them. The person seated on the throne is the guardian of the Baha’i faith, and the scroll is the Covenant. It is evident that the scroll is the Covenant since in verse one of the aforementioned chapter of Revelation it states that the scroll is “written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals.” The part written within is the Kitab-i-Ahd (Book of Baha’u’llah’s Covenant), and the part written on the back is the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, which further defines and delineates the Covenant of Baha’u’llah. The Will and Testament was signed (sealed) seven times by ‘Abdu’l-Baha: one signature on each of the Will’s three parts, one signature on the front of the envelope containing the Will (which was addressed to Shoghi Effendi), and three more signatures on the back of the envelope where it was stuck down, for a total of seven. The Lamb breaks the seals on the Covenant because only Dr. Leland Jensen has the true understanding of the Covenant to establish it in the world as prophesied. The Lamb is the only one worthy to break the seals because Dr. Jensen is the only person in the world who fulfills the prophecies for the establisher of the Baha’i faith. The explanations and commentaries of Dr. Jensen comprise the “new song” the people sing.
 

Heimdall’s title “god of the waves” in the Norse legends symbolizes Dr. Jensen’s knowledge of all world religions. Being the ninth wave shows that Leland is the establisher of the ninth and final religion in this cycle, the Baha’i faith.
 

The source of Heimdall’s power coming from the earth and the sea brings up another interesting point. The name “Leland” means “the land,” and the land is earth. So when he receives his power from the earth, or land, it is referring to his authority to establish the Kingdom by fulfilling prophecy by name, as well as by date, address, and mission. Again the sea refers to Leland’s knowledge of religions. These two things are also mentioned in the Bible, for he is the mighty angel in Revelation that comes down from heaven.
 

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire. He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring; when he called out, the seven thunders sounded (Revelation 10:1-3 RSV).
 

His right foot on the sea is the authority he has to establish the Baha’i faith, which is the joining of all the rivers of the Revelations into one sea. Dr. Jensen does not reveal anything new, he simply establishes that which has already been revealed. His left foot on the land (Le land) are the proofs for himself as the promised establisher.
 

His Head is His Sword
 

Several other facts about Heimdall should be mentioned. The first is a strange saying that the head of Heimdall is his sword. Leland uses his great knowledge of religion to guard himself from persecution and to attack the clergy and Covenant-breaking Baha’is. Leland has no need of physical weapons. The sword of Heimdall, or Leland, is the knowledge he has that exposes their corruption and reveals the truth. The concept of the sword is paralleled in Revelation, chapter 19:15, where it states, “From his [the knight on the white horse] mouth issues a sharp sword with which to smite the nations….”
 

In another legend, Thor’s hammer is stolen by the giants. Heimdall came up with the plan that got Thor’s hammer back. It has been previously shown that Thor is the guardian of the Baha’i faith, and his hammer is a symbol of his power and authority, having a short handle like the gavel he will use as the chairman of the Universal House of Justice. When the Hands of the Cause of God broke the Covenant and declared the guardianship had ended, most of the believers followed in the violation of the Hands. The ones who realized the Hands were corrupt joined together under the succeeding guardian, Charles Mason Remey, but fell away after his death. Only Dr. Leland Jensen and his wife Dr. Opal knew that Mason’s son, Joseph Pepe Remey, would be the one to succeed Mason as guardian of the Baha’i faith. As only a handful of people realize this fact today, it is Leland’s responsibility as establisher of the Baha’i faith to make sure the Kingdom of God gets established in the world, and the Universal House of Justice is functioning with the guardian presiding as president.
 

Unless the guardian sits at the head of the Universal House of Justice, he has practically no authority, as his function is to chair the Universal House of Justice and then to establish in the world the decisions arrived at. He has the Hands to assist him in his functions. He is the only one that is to receive the Huquq, and to use it to carry out his functions. In the legend, Thor (the guardian) has lost his hammer (source of power/authority). Just as Heimdall forms the plan that gets Thor’s hammer back into his possession, Dr. Leland Jensen forms the plan to get the guardian back into his rightful position as president of the International Baha’i Council/Universal House of Justice, therefore getting back the guardian’s authority.
 

Opposed by Satan
 

The last thing that will be stated about Heimdall is his relationship to Loki, the mischief-maker.
 

He (Heimdall) seems to have a special link with Loki, who is to be his opponent in the last great battle… (Scandinavian Mythology, by H.R. Ellis Davidson, p. 105).
 

During Ridvan of 1963 (April 21st to May 2nd), a convention was organized in Santa Fe, New Mexico for the purpose of electing a National Spiritual Assembly (NSA). This was Charles Mason Remey’s idea, for he believed that after the usurpation of the faith by the Hands of the Cause of God, an NSA under the guardianship should be set up to save those under the violation of the “Hands,” and to organize teaching efforts. Dr. Jensen arrived two days after the first day of Ridvan, or on April 23rd. Rex King, who lived 70 miles away from Santa Fe, had arrived early to commemorate the feast of the first day of Ridvan (April 21st) with the Baha’is of Santa Fe, as well as with the delegates and friends that were arriving early. Dr. Jensen found that Rex King had been telling the delegates that the guardian was grooming him to be the next guardian. He showed them letters from Mason praising Rex for the work that he was doing for the faith before he came under the guardianship of Mason. Rex King was talking against Dr. Jensen, and long-time friends of Dr. Jensen’s were shunning him. Rex King, in his politicking to get elected, and in order to get all the Friends to be his supporters in a clique around him, was campaigning and throwing mud at Dr. Jensen, as Dr. Jensen was a Knight of Baha’u’llah and had brought most of the Friends and delegates there into the faith, or they were his lifelong friends. Rex King’s objective in backbiting Dr. Jensen was to try and keep Dr. Jensen from being elected to the NSA so Rex would be able to run the entire show, so-to-speak.
 

The Convention started on April 25th and was in session for three days. On the last day was the election. Since many of the people attending the convention were duped by Rex King’s erroneous statements, they fell victim to his machinations. As a result, when the votes were counted, Dr. Jensen tied for ninth place, and in the runoff he was elected by just a one-vote margin. Rex King’s goal was to get control of the Baha’i faith in America, and then the world. He perceived Dr. Jensen as a threat to that plan, and therefore Rex was motivated by his own evil desires to spread lies about Leland. In 1969, Rex was declared Satan by the executive branch of the faith. ­
 

Anyone who turns against God is Satan, and as stated earlier, Loki is Satan. The special relationship between Heimdall and Loki is due to a prophecy that says Dr. Leland Jensen will be opposed by Satan. When Dr. Leland Jensen was opposed by Rex King, he was fulfilling the prophecy for Joshua the High Priest in Zechariah.
 

Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. And the Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?” (Zechariah 3:1,2 RSV)
 

The Guardian Charles Mason Remey even declared Rex King to be Satan in a letter addressed to the Baha’i world, and sent to Dr. Leland when he had the “stone with seven eyes” before him.
 

FOR DR. LELAND JENSEN FROM THE GUARDIAN OF THE ORTHODOX BAHA’I WORLD FAITH
 

Some days ago I was astonished to have word that Rex King and two young men were below wishing to see me! I sent word back to say I would like very much to see Rex but not the young men. I had things I wanted to tell him but not them.
 

I told Rex that no one of my acquaintance has a better knowledge of the Baha’i faith than he but as Lucifer in the Old Testament Days chose to put truth aside and espouse the cause of Satan, so has he in these modern times decided that he would now assume the station of Satan in these days of the Dispensation of Christ, despite the many opportunities that I had given him to change his evil ways, yet he refused and blatantly insisted on maintaining his satanic intentions, therefore obliging me to cast him out from all association in this world with the people of God that included the life to come as well as his life here upon earth─his station to be ever and eternally that of Satan for evermore. Signed, Charles Mason Remey.
 

Loki as Heimdall’s enemy can also be viewed as Leland’s mission to expose the satanic deeds of those in the past who have corrupted the true faith, such as those of Nimrod, Semiramis, the Christians, and the Hands of the Cause of God under Shoghi Effendi. The real Loki of the end times is Hasan Balyuzi who, along with his cohort, Ruhiyyih Khanum, lead five million, more or less, Baha’is astray into Covenant-breaking and opposition to Shoghi Effendi.
 

From Keys to the Kingdom in Scandinavian Legends by Brian Mueller.
 

[i] Branston, 42.
 

[ii] H. R. Ellis Davidson, Scandinavian Mythology, 51.
 

Chapter Nine
 

[iii] Will and Testament, 26.
 

[iv] Branston, 42.