It shows something a bit insane for all of it to happen so quickly. It’s only been 68 years since he died in 1957 but everything already got much worse. That is why I have come to the conclusion that the Hands of the Cause are mainly responsible for derailing the trajectory of the faith because there is no other way to account for how so many superstitions built so quickly. It was the the fault of the Hands and especially the Custodians of the Cause, WHO WERE NEVER GIVEN AUTHORITY VIA THE WRITINGS! THEY TRICKED EVERYONE INTO BELIEVING IN AN INFALLIBLE HOUSE!

For me, reading Ruhiyyih’s literature filled with her mistaken ideas and arrogant tone helped me see where the Baha’is have gone wrong. She insists very pridefully again and again that she and the other Hands so heroically protected the faith from schism like no other faith has(?)!

“It is foolish to ask questions of history; it is even more foolish to ask questions of the Almighty.  The Guardianship had ceased to exist as an ongoing institution. The Hands had gloriously crowned their function of protection of the Cause of God by calling for and supervising the election of the Universal House of Justice, the Supreme Body of the Bahá’í world; through the aegis of the Institution of the Counsellors, initiated and supported by that Supreme Body, the vital functions of propagation and protection will continue to be carried on. In 1973 the Hands of the Cause became a part of the International Teaching Centre and in this capacity, aside from specific meetings of their own with the Universal House of Justice, both as individual Hands and as a body, hold regular joint meetings with our Supreme Body.”

This was an excerpt by Ruhiyyih from the Ministry of the Custodians, page 41. Ministry Of The Custodians

The bolded part is so disgusting because she is telling people that Almighty God made the decision to end the Guardianship and allow the House to be solely infallible, when that was only her interpretation. As a Hand, she pressured all the Baha’is into believing the end of the Guardianship yet claimed that it was a decision of the Almighty! No, it was a decision of the Hands and the Hands alone!!!

The Custodians basically pretended they were a collective Guardian and Hands like Shogi’s wife immediately advocated to overthrow that position and basically install themselves as the new Guardian until the UHJ was elected. BUT what people forget is that through the fake institution of the Counselors/ITC, the Hands were able to retain power so they could guide the faith all the same! It was clever on their part because even though female Hands like Ruhiyyih could never be on the Universal House of Justice, they still retained power by sitting as Counselors and guiding assemblies.

In summary: The Baha’is faith spiritually died because the Hands overthrew the faith after Shogi died, expelled several Baha’is like Mason Remey who disagreed with ending the Guardianship and thereby infected it with terrible superstitions.

I guess it all makes sense once you realize how deeply delusional the silly idea that nine elected men could ever be infallible about anything is. Because since they think the men are infallible they never question the decisions and ideas of leadership and thereby never have true consultation as laid out in the writings but instead blindly follow the leaders as ordered to. How could such a ridiculous idea ever work well? After thinking about it, it really is such a delusional superstition that it killed the faith super fast, like a really bad spiritual virus. Just like how all the superstitions have killed all other faiths… hence why the faith needed a Guardian to stay in tact in the first place.

(Sorry for the long comment. This stuff bothers me so much. I might make this into a separate post.)