From: wahidazal66@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, 23 June 2002 06:39:10 UTC+2, Freethought110  wrote:   
   > CONTINUED FROM PART 3   
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   > Section 7:   
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   > Issues Concerning the Reunification of Believers   
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   > False Covenants   
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   > 1Once upon a time, there was a great and lofty house. 2This house was built   
   > by the hired hands of the head carpenter. 3In the beginning, the chief came   
   > unto his workers and said, "Here is the blueprint for this structure,   
   > designed by the master architect and given me. 4Now I show it unto you, that   
   > ye may raise up the glorious mansion of the lord who hath commissioned this   
   > noble and majestic undertaking." 5And all the hired hands answered, saying,   
   > "Yea, O chief of the builders, we shall do as ye have instructed us." 6And   
   > the head carpenter left them to their labors.   
   >    
   > 7While the leader was away on another site, attending to one of many   
   > projects for his lord, he died in the course of his work due to an accident:   
   > and therefore he returned not to the site whereupon the lord's great house   
   > was to be built. 8And after a short time, the hired hands saw that they were   
   > without the guidance they needed to build the house appropriately: for they   
   > had already forgotten many details of the blueprint, and their own skills   
   > were poor compared to the perfection of their leader. 9So they all came   
   > together and said, "What are we now to do, seeing that the head carpenter   
   > hath gone?" 10And most of the hands said, "Let us build the house in   
   > whatsoever way we please, according to our own estimation. 11Surely no one   
   > will know the difference."   
   >    
   > 12But the man who had been appointed by the leader as deputy supervisor of   
   > this project would not agree. 13Seeking to protect the integrity of the   
   > original plans, he said, "I remember the essentials of the blueprint, and ye   
   > must neglect it not. 14For if ye do otherwise, the lord would rebuke us for   
   > deviating from his wishes." 15But the other hands did not listen to him.   
   > 16So then he rose up and spoke loudly, saying, "I have been entrusted with   
   > the most important position among you; I am the greatest carpenter   
   > remaining. 17Make me now your leader, and do everything I say!" 18But the   
   > other hands said, "Nay, ye are but one of us -- a hired hand, not a head   
   > carpenter." 19And this man waxed arrogant, saying, "I am as good a carpenter   
   > as the leader who hath left us; surely there is nothing about him that is   
   > superior to me!" 20Yet truly he was but mediocre in his trade, and the head   
   > carpenter surpassed him in all things.   
   >    
   > 21So most of the hired hands proceeded to build the house of the lord   
   > without sufficient knowledge, ability, or guidance to do the job correctly.   
   > 22And the deputy supervisor went away and began to build another house by   
   > himself, desiring to prove to his colleagues that he was worthy of   
   > leadership, and that he could build the glorious house of the lord on his   
   > own. 23And it came to pass that both houses were completed: 24And the house   
   > built by many hands appeared great and lofty, though its frame was severely   
   > compromised, and its materials were corrupt, and it ever teetered on the   
   > brink of collapse. 25And the house of the deputy was small and insignificant   
   > in comparison, and it did not even approach the glory of the original   
   > blueprint.   
   >    
   > 26And one day, the lord appeared to survey the progress of the most   
   > important project in his land; and he brought with him a new carpenter whom   
   > he had promoted in his service forty days after the death of the one who had   
   > been hired of the architect. 27And they came unto the site of the new   
   > mansion and saw that it had been built. 28But when they went inside and   
   > examined it, they found many things poorly constructed, and some things even   
   > dangerous. 29And as they left the house, the entire thing imploded upon   
   > itself and became rubble and dust -- yea, even in the blink of an eye!   
   > 30Full of anger, the lord then came upon the lesser house built by the   
   > greatest of the hired hands. 31And he and his servant did see that it was   
   > nothing more than a shack, wherein the lord could not live. 32So he   
   > condemned it to the fire: and his servant burnt it all to ashes.   
   >    
   > 33And the lord found the hired hands, and he expelled them all from his   
   > presence, saying, "Ye contemptible men! 34What have ye done in my land?   
   > 35For I hired an architect, who hired a head carpenter, who hired you to   
   > build me a house. 36But when the head carpenter died, ye followed not his   
   > instructions, and ignored the patterns of mine architect's blueprint, and in   
   > your haste to build me a house have done worse than nothing; and thus do I   
   > find a great waste, and must I find myself new men to create what I have   
   > wanted." 37And the insubordinate laborers were led away in chains. 38And   
   > promptly the lord instructed his new carpenter to hire for himself men who   
   > could raise up a glorious dwelling-place wherein he might abide.   
   >    
   > 39O people of Bahá! 40Let this parable be a lesson for you; and seek ye to   
   > work in the true service of the Lord, guided by this servant who seeketh to   
   > build a glorious mansion of faith in the earth according to a carefully   
   > drawn blueprint. 41All hath come to pass even as We have described. 42Turn   
   > not away therefrom, but let it be for an education, and as an inspiration   
   > unto rectitude in all your labors in the cause of God.   
   >    
   > 43Here appeareth the eighteenth point of light in the glorious heaven of   
   > restoration: The international ruling body of the Bahá'í World Faith shall   
   > renounce the false covenant created by the Hands of the Cause and   
   > perpetuated by their own body; shall repudiate the worldliness and the   
   > reverence for bureaucracy that have been prevalent in Bahá'í institutions   
   > and communities since the passing of the Guardian; shall apologize for the   
   > injustices they have inflicted upon believers in the name of God; and shall   
   > invite all who call themselves Baháí to unite as the members of a purified,   
   > rectified, reformed and restored Bahá'í Faith.   
   >    
   > 44In the name of Unity doth this servant make such a statement! 45For today,   
   > We observe that the majority of the Baháís have been led astray by their   
   > divines, deluded by a covenant of falsehood. 46Verily We see that the people   
   > of Bahá are wallowing in manifest error, ignorant though they be of its   
      
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