a) The continuing Guardianship was totally expected until the passing of Shoghi Effendi. In the book 'World Order of Bahá'u'lláh', Effendi wrote about "the deeds of its present and future Guardians" and that "Divorced from the institution of the Guardianship the World Order of Bahá’u’lláh would be mutilated...". He also commented about the many Guardians in the future as reported in Isobel Sabri's Pilgrims notes. The scription on his casket, as described by Ruhiyyh Khanum, says: Shoghi Effendi - The First Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith. Thus, the absurd ending of the Guardianship only came up after Effendi's death.
b) The authority of the Hands of Cause is submitted to the Guardian. At that time Shoghi Effendi created the "embryo UHJ": International Bahá'í Council; and the Hands did not have any power to dismantle something performed by the Guardian. A letter addressed on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to Emeric Sala, said: "future Guardians: they cannot "abrogate" the interpretations of former Guardians, as this would imply not only lack of guidance but mistakes in making them; however they can elaborate and elucidate former interpretations, and can certainly abrogate some former ruling laid down as a temporary necessity by a former Guardian." also, the Will and Testament of 'Abdul-Bahá is immutable, no one can change the administrative design described on it, but the Hands did so.
c) The bahá’í literature was significantly altered subsequent to Shoghi Effendi's death, with the notable removal of references to "The First Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith," the "first and present Guardian". John Ferraby's All Things Made New is second only to Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era in the number of textual changes, as Vance Salisbury wrote.I'm not a member of the Orthodox Bahá'í Faith but I totally support THE RIGHT of any group to interpret and follow the precepts of your religion, differently from bahá'ís under sans-Guardian UHJ that preaches unity but shun the groups and people they consider disaffected (as they did with Juan Cole who was declated CB and the absurd case of Sean Mcglinn who was unerolled but not considered a CB!!), and including the fact they lost in the court the attempt to avoid the bahá'í sects to use the name Bahá'í.
In a historical point of view from the Orthodox Bahá'ís the short answers are:
1. He admitted there was no W&T nor living descendant, his position was perceived a little time further.
2. AB W&T says: "...must he (the guardian of the Cause of God) choose another branch to succeed him" Aghsán (Branch) with capital (male descendants) is different from aghsán (branch) (qualified successor). The argument that Remey was adopted came from Neal Chase, from the sect BUPC, not from Remey himself.
3. He should be appointed in his lifetime not in a Will.
4. The approval from the Hands is only to confirm the Guardian's choice considering a scenario with the UHJ
5. The Guardian should meets spiritual requirements, not fluency in languages
6. He nomined only 1 sucessor, the claims after that was done when Remey was no longer a Guardian
7. Remey presented symptoms of senility after 1965 and again, he no longer was the Guardian at that time8- It is the opposite, Federal appeals court rules in favor of the Orthodox Baha'i group in 2009 and after this, they started to increase the number of members worldwide specially with the use of social networks and the crescent number of disillusioned people coming from the mainstream bahá'í group.
You call them Remeytes but sorry, wanting or not, according to the Federal law they are Bahá'ís but following another leadership.If you advocate they are completely wrong and Mason Remey's claim is false, that is fine, but it is mandatory to admit that Shoghi Effendi buried the Bahá'í Faith with himself as he failed to continue the Guardianship and today a cluster from Haifa is driving a man-made institution.
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