Mary Maxwell was the Baha’i Jezebel

(Ruhiyyih = “Handmaiden of Glory”, was the pompous title she was given), just a bit rude like some other poorly behaved Baha’is or was she actually that special JEZEBEL/JUDAS who ruined the faith this time around? In other words, do you all think it was the Hands as a collective or was it mostly her alone who absolutely destroyed the faith and infected it with her misplaced pride, snottiness and judgmental attitude? I am starting to think she really is patient zero of the greatest spiritual infections that have diseased the body of any faith. The faith is pure delusion now and her pressuring the Hands and insisting that Shoghi can “guide them from the Abha realm” had derailed everything.

It was being ruined in some ways but if she was a different person, she should have been able to secure an heir for the Guardian earlier or a successor after hum but she likely had other self interested priorities such as being a leader who would not submit to another Guardian beside Shoghi. She could have saved the faith but instead she sped up it’s demise. History will probably see her as a post-Shoghi villain eventually, at least by Baha’is with good sense. I hope to be wrong somehow so that is why I am asking. I don’t really see any other moments so pivotal that would have led to Baha’is being so terribly misled, beside her and her involvement with the Guardianship, or lack thereof once Shoghi passed away.

Just 27 people who called themselves head disciples elected 9 and derailed an entire faith. They never took a vote with all the Baha’is about the Guardianship, the Custodians just abruptly took power made everyone deal with it! How could the Hands and all of the Baha’is be so foolish as to follow all of this? Who is primarily to blame and at fault? Is Shoghi’s wife the main person to blame or were all the Hands and many Baha’is collectively wanting to ruin the Guardianship and the faith?

I stumbled upon this today and it seems like Mary Maxwell liked to use the faith’s funds for her personal use. It seems like she thought of being a Hand of the Cause as a job that she had because she did in fact get money for fun stuff in addition to necessities even though she brags elsewhere about how Hands of the Cause like her were not on an official payroll unlike other religions. It appears though now there was an unofficial payroll.

“Milly Collins who is mild and innured to long suffering exploded to me today (24 December). It seems that from the Baha’i Administration n treasury, Ruhiyyih Khanum receives $500.00 a month for her personal expenses. Her meals and lodging etc. all are apart from this. These expenses come out of the common living fund. This $500.00 per month is for her personal things. She likes to go shopping to buy presents for her friends and she is fond of dress and jewelry and pretty things that she pays for out of her monthly stipend from the Baha’i treasury.

Now this is exasperating to Milly who is a very provident and economical spender, even though she is a wealthy person of the cause and gives large sums toward Baha’i projects, she is economical with her own expenses – always well dressed but never extravagantly so. In the Guardian’s House, she has a small and not a comfortable room without running water. She has to run to the other end of the house from her room for the toilets, bath, running water and kitchen where she has to prepare her own food (she is on a diet) and taking it all in all her lot is not agreeable, nevertheless she takes it all because she thinks she must serve the cause in this way. But today she blew up to me at Ruhiyyih Khanum’s extravagances at the expense of the Administrative Baha’i Fund contributed to by the Baha’is in various lands. Of cource Milly is right in her righteous indignation.” These are from Mason’s notes and contradicts Haifan narratives so they will just say Mason is lying to suit their own narratives.

https://proofsforguardian.blogspot.com/2024/03/daily-observations-of-bahai-faith-in_78.html

$500 in 1957 is approximately $5,800 dollars today. MARY MAXWELL MADE OVER $5000 a month off the funds of innocent believers which is $60,000 per year!!! SHE MADE MORE MONEY OFF THE BELIEVERS THAN MANY PRIESTS! Oh that’s right, she was Shoghi’s wife so everyone had to bow down and kiss her feet regardless of her horrid behavior, give me a break! She was very selfish and thought of her own needs first, demanding there be no other Guardian so she could stay in the Guardian’s house and have nice things. Her “service to the Cause” was again probably just a job for her.

“One day in one of our recent meetings of the Hands in the Holy Land I made some reference to the Guardian’s House whereupon Ruhiyyih Khanum turned and said to me, ‘That house will never again be lived in by one but me’, thus showing by this remark her intention of maintaining herself in command of the nine Custodians of the Faith by eliminating the possibility of a series of Guardians to follow Shoghi Effendi. Of course she insists that the Guardianship is BADAH because when the cause has the Second Guardian installed (the one I saw in my vision) she will then no longer be in the supreme position that she now has taken and this she is not yet ready to accept.”

The Baha’is now have no courage or backbone and don’t have the strength to stand up for anything that really matters!

How many times has the administration lied by now and why don’t the Baha’is care? They obviously lie about enrollment numbers, lie about the end of the Guardianship and now lie about Ruhiyyih too if you try to bring it up. I almost cannot believe how many lies the Baha’is willingly stuff into their minds and just look the other way. Haifa is becoming more cult-like by the day and they somehow wonder why the growth continues to dwindle. All that administration does is slow people down and confuse them. It is no longer just useless, but getting in the way of real spiritual progress.

What was the main point of derailment in the Baha’i movement? I think it was when Mary was the Baha’i Jezebel by encouraging Baha’s to now worship the false idol of the infallible House in place of God and Baha’u’llah.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeSpeechBahai/comments/1qfm0s5/was_mary_maxwell_the_bahai_jezebel/

The account of Baha'u'llah's close confident, Jarullah

Mirza Hussain Jarullah was a neighbor and a close, devoted associate of Baha'u'llah during his time in Baghdad. According to Kashful Hiyal of Avarih, he was a trusted individual who held the keys to Baha'u'llah’s house and was responsible for daily tasks such as opening the home every morning to prepare tea and coffee.

Origin of His Name

It was a habit of Baha'u'llah to give his close followers titles that incorporated the word "Allah". Because Mirza Hussain lived in the immediate vicinity of Baha'u'llah’s home, he was given the title "Jarullah" which means "Neighbor of God".

The Incident in Baghdad

The most significant account regarding Jarullah involves an event that led to his eventual departure from the Baha'i faith:

• The Discovery: One night, Jarullah accidentally left a door locked with Baha'u'llah inside. Upon returning the next morning and opening the door, he encountered a foul odor.
• State of Intoxication: Jarullah found Baha'u'llah in a state of extreme intoxication, rendered unconscious by "pure wine" to the point where he could not be woken.
• Physical Illness: Because Baha'u'llah was too drunk to leave his spot, he had used an expensive crystal drinking glass as a temporary toilet (chamber pot). Jarullah was shocked and disgusted by the scene. He felt that someone claiming to be the "Supreme God" should have more self-control and dignity. He couldn't understand how a divine being could be so overpowered by his own physical needs and the effects of alcohol.

Defection and Criticism

Following this incident, Jarullah renounced his faith in Baha'u'llah. He began to publicly criticize and curse him, questioning how an individual who could not maintain his own physical dignity or control his intake of intoxicants could be considered a "Supreme God" or a reformer of the human race.

Official Baha'i Perspective vs. Avarih's View

• Baha'i Explanation: Baha'is who are aware of this story often claim that Jarullah was a "good man" who simply chose to withdraw quietly into seclusion to protect the reputation of the faith rather than because he had actually lost his faith.
• Avarih's Critique: Avarih views Jarullah as a key witness to the leaders' human fallibility. He claims that if individuals like Jarullah had been more vocal about what they saw behind closed doors rather than remaining silent out of a sense of "wisdom" or social preservation, thousands of people might have been saved from what he describes as a "web of deception".

A First-Hand Account of Baha'u'llah's True Beliefs

I [Avarih] myself heard directly that the late Sepahsālār, four years before his death, on a day when the writer together with Sayyid Naṣrallāh Bāqerāf had gone to his house—and Bāqerāf was inclined to proselytize him to the Bahāʾī faith—that late man listened to his words, smiled, and said: My father used to say: I was in the house of Mīrzā Āqā Khān, the Ṣadr-i Aʿẓam, when they brought Mīrzā Ḥusayn-ʿAlī Nūrī to me under guard, on the very day that Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh had been shot. When they brought Mīrzā in, the Ṣadr-i Aʿẓam became angry with him and said: ‘Out of shared homeland ties I was a friend of your father, and he was not a bad man. It was possible that you might have taken his place and attained a position of chancery and courtly administration. But you are so wretched that you attach yourself to Sayyid-i- Bāb—about whom it is not even known what madness possessed him—and now you are also inciting the killing of the Shāh!’

Mīrzā immediately replied that he did not believe in Sayyid-i-Bāb, nor even in his ancestors … —but he immediately restrained his tongue. The Ṣadr-i Aʿẓam also rebuked him sharply and said, ‘Do not be impertinent,’ and gestured that they should take him away; so they took him. After his departure from the assembly and his entry into confinement, the Ṣadr-i Aʿẓam said: This statement which Mīrzā Ḥusayn-ʿAlī uttered involuntarily was in fact true—that he does not even believe in the Bāb’s ancestors [i.e. the Fourteen Infallibles]—because he is absolutely not upon the path of religion and has no aim other than misuse and exploitation.

[Kashf-al-Ḥīl, Vol. 1: 26 by Abd al-Husayn Ayati (Avarih)]

Source : https://www.reddit.com/r/BAYAN/comments/1q4a62e/account_in_vol_1_of_avarih_regarding_haba/

The Baha’i faith does not have clergy but instead maintains a rebranded, centralized, and authoritarian clerical system operating under a different name.

The Baha’i Faith’s public claim of having “no clergy” is misleading when examined in terms of function rather than terminology. Although it rejects ordained priests, the Baha’i Administrative Order, led by the Universal House of Justice (UHJ), performs all the core roles traditionally associated with a clergy. The UHJ is an infallible authority demanding absolute obedience, controlling doctrine through centralized interpretation and strict literature review, and suppressing dissent via censorship and punishment. Those who challenge the administrative authority risk expulsion (disenrollment) creating a powerful system of social and spiritual control.

The Baha’i leadership directs organized missionary activity, oversees standardized teaching programs, and manages mandatory financial contributions such as Huquq'ullah and national funds, reinforcing its clerical character. Despite its rhetoric of democracy and egalitarianism, Baha'ism is governed by a rigid, hierarchical structure with indirect elections that insulate top leadership from ordinary members. Cronyism, intolerance toward dissent, and ridicule of critics deepen the contradiction between the Baha'i faith’s public image and internal reality. 

The Baha’i faith does not have clergy but instead maintains a rebranded, centralized, and authoritarian clerical system operating under a different name.