Baha'i Faith for Sunday, September 3, 2006

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Sunday, September 3, 2006

The last gasp

There are two more groups that I need to discuss - groups which are not necessarily members of the mainstream Baha'i faith, but which merit discussion here. A Frenchman named Jacques Soghomonian has basically declared himself the fourth Guardian. He has followers in several areas of the world, and... Sign in to see full entry.

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The Charles Mason Remey Society

One of the most confusing things about the behavior of Charles Mason Remey - the man who declared himself Guardian after Shoghi Effendi's death in 1957 - is that he appointed Donald Harvey as his successor, without first rescinding the appointment of Joel Bray Marangella as his successor. This... Sign in to see full entry.

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Small potatoes - I mean, very small

I've found that there are several splinter groups that are off the religious radar, mostly for one reason: They were so small that they eventually went extinct. There was one group, for example, that went "out of business" when its most visible follower, John Carre, found out the leader was (in my... Sign in to see full entry.

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The Tarbiyat Baha'i Community

The Tarbiyat Baha'i Community is the smallest Baha'i group that I've been able to find, at least of the ones that are still active. From what I've been able to dig up on the Web, there is apparently only one Tarbiyat group out there, in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the closest, in terms of doctrine and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Orthodox Baha'i Faith

The Orthodox Baha'i Faith is perhaps the largest of all the heretical splinter groups. It is the group that claims direct lineage from Charles Mason Remey, the man who claimed to have been appointed by Shoghi Effendi himself as the next Guardian of the Baha'i Faith. To refresh your memory on the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Baha'is Under the Provisions of the Covenant

Today, I'll start a series on the various heretical splinter groups of the Baha'i faith. All of these groups share the same basic doctrines of the faith - racial equality (or race unity, in Baha'i terms), the equality of the genders, and so forth. The vast majority of the currently-extant splinter... Sign in to see full entry.

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