Reform Baha\'is

\"To be a Baha\'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.\"
- Abdu\'l-Baha

They claim to be the moderate, spiritual religion of Baha’u’llah and Abdu’l-Baha and clearly set a new course away from the fanatical and fundamentalist Islamist sect of the Haifans, based on their fraudulent will and testament, propagating a manipulative creed intended only to coerce the individual believer and subject him or her to the tyranny of an illegitimate and mutilated organization. They take their teachings from Ruth White, Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Julie Chanler, etc. The books and publications of White, Sohrab, and Chanler have kept this vision alive, while the Baha’i upheavals and conflicts of the last three decades have led many thousands of Baha’is to experience for themselves the depth and degree to which the Faith of Baha’u’llah has been traduced and desecrated by people who seek to use and exploit it for their own worldly benefit, power, glory, and material gain. This group of Baha\'is are led by Fredrick Glaysier.

Reform Baha’i Articles:

The Divine Being has created a world of impermanence, evanescence, where nothing lasts forever, and all humanity is subjected to the vicissitudes of life, the fragility of health and constitution, the limits of human existence that He alone knows and sets. With an increasing sense of mortality, I feel it is incumbent upon me to set down, in writing, my own testimony of what I believe to be the truth about the Baha\'i Faith, having now been a member for over thirty years and having watched or participated in many struggles and debates and studied or watched those of many other souls in their search for truth and understanding.

Thinking of Martin Luther and John Wesley, I feel it especially as a duty and obligation to leave a record of my views for the Reform Baha\'i Convocation, which, God willing, one day, shall convene to restore and revive the moderate, spiritual religion of Baha’u’llah and Abdu’l-Baha and clearly set a new course away from the fanatical and fundamentalist Islamist sect of the Haifans, based on their fraudulent will and testament, propagating a manipulative creed intended only to coerce the individual believer and subject him or her to the tyranny of an illegitimate and mutilated organization.

Article I

\"The Revelation which, from time immemorial, hath been acclaimed as the Purpose and Promise of all the Prophets of God, and the most cherished Desire of His Messengers, hath now, by virtue of the pervasive Will of the Almighty and at His irresistible bidding, been revealed unto men. The advent of such a Revelation hath been heralded in all the sacred Scriptures.\"
- Baha’u’llah.

Article II

Baha’u’llah’s appointed heir and interpreter is Abdu’l-Baha.

Article III

As scientifically judged by Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell, the purported will and testament of Abdu’l-Baha is a fraudulent document: That is to say, the writing does not agree with the hypothesis that it was all written by one person. \"A minute comparison of the authenticated writing with the writing on every page of the alleged will... has failed to detect in any part of the will the characteristics of the writing of Abdu’l-Baha, as shown in the authenticated specimens.\" Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell, Report on the Writing Shown on the Photographs of the Alleged Will of Abdu\'l-Baha, Library of Congress, 1930.

Article IV

The Baha’i organizations, based upon the fraudulent document, including the writings of Shoghi Effendi, are inescapably defective and deficient: \"There is apparent contradiction between this section of the Will and his lifelong teachings. \"Abdu\'l-Baha had never in speech or writing given the slightest indication that there would be a successor to himself. On the contrary, a number of addresses delivered by him on various occasions had made the opposite impression\"
- Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. The Will and Testament of Abdu\'l-Baha, An Analysis. New York: Universal Publishing, 1944.

Article V

The results of the spurious document has reverberated down the generations and decades, as Ruth White rightly perceived: “Whether the alleged will of Abdu\'l-Baha is authentic or spurious, the results of the administration of Shoghi Effendi and the National Spiritual Assembly of Baha\'is stand as an historical indictment against them. [Boldface in original] They no more represent the Baha\'i Religion than the bigots of the dark ages of Christianity.
- Ruth White. Abdu\'l-Baha\'s Questioned Will and Testament. Beverly Hills: White, 1946.

Article VI

\"The Baha\'i Movement is not an organization. You cannot organize the Baha\'i Movement.
- Abdu’l-Baha.

The mystery of that paradox calls all Baha\'is to seek its meaning and return to the universal, liberal Teachings of Baha’u’llah and Abdu’l-Baha and their Writings.

Article VII

Far from creating a theocratic tyranny, the Founders of the Baha\'i Faith taught a moderate, universal, global religion, grounded in a spiritual democracy, teaching the separation of church and state, with science in its own respected domain, each a profound differentiation of social duty and responsibility, as in Abdu’l-Baha’s \"Sermon on the Art of Governance\"

Article VIII

With every passing year, the Writings of Baha’u’llah are being restored to humanity, from those who debased and lowered them to the level of a trademark and copyright.

Article IX

Reform Baha\'is choose to leave those who choose hatred, shunning, and interminable recrimination over the fraudulent will and testament and over stultifying legalisms, and look to the Spirit of brotherhood and love, knowledge and understanding, prayer and meditation, worship and community, service to one’s country and the world of humanity.

With the assurance of Abdu’l-Baha that humanity has entered the stage of maturity, wherein the individual can independently search for truth, Reform Baha\'is testify, in this universal, global age, that He reserves for Himself the \"hearts of men,\" rendering to Caesar what is Caesar’s, as Baha\'u\'llah taught in the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, accepting and embracing His multifaceted vision, the mystery that surpasses understanding.

Reform Baha\'is invite all Baha\'is, all humanity, to a Convocation of celebration, peace, love, and brotherhood, to seek humbly together His Will and service, for the good of all people and nations of this spinning globe.

Reform Baha’is are found in Africa, Ethiopia, Australia,Austria,Canada, British Columbia, Quebec, Cuba,France,Germany’New Zealand, Pakistan,Sweden, USA ,California, Los Angeles, San Diego

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