Dr. Leland Jensen / **Letters** # **Open Epistle to Governor Thomas L. Judge of Montana** #### **Dr. Leland Jensen** ###### Christmas Day, December 25, 1974 📄 [↓ PDF](https://leland-jensen-info.netlify.app/1974-12-25-jensen-to-gov-judge-montana.pdf) 📖 [↓ EPUB e-book](https://leland-jensen-info.netlify.app/1974-12-25-jensen-to-gov-judge-montana.epub) --- **Archivist Note:** Copies of this letter were sent to members of the Montana State Legislature on the same day as Governor Judge. What follows first is the cover letter to the members of the Montana State Legislature followed by the *Open Epistle to Governor Thomas L. Judge*. --- This is to announce to you the Glad Tydings that the Promised Ones prophesied to come in your Holy Scriptures have now come, and to present you with their credentials. And that God has sent down His long Promised Kingdom through His Manifestation Baha'u'llah (Glory of the Father, Mark 8:38). While the Christians' eyes have been glued to the sky looking for His Advent, the Son of Man descended from heaven with a cry of command, with the Archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. The Christians like other religious people don't know the difference between sky and heaven. Thus, the Christians are asleep in their tombs (churches). As a result the peoples of the world worship The Beast that now rules the world and is about to be dead. This is The Beast that was also prophesied to come in Holy Scriptures (Daniel 7th chapter and in Revelation 13th and 17th chapters). Those that worship The Beast—the masses of the peoples of the world—as Beast worshippers, go with The Beast into the fire, the oncoming thermonuclear holocaust, to either be purified or destroyed by it. Those that sit at the head of state have a responsibility to carefully examine the credentials of the Promised Ones, as to Their authenticity, and then to announce Them to their constituents. It is of the utmost importance for them to recognize—if they are to be saved—the One in this day that has been sent, by God, to guide them; the Promised Joshua, the Lamb, the 7th Angel, the Archangel; who is now among them in the air. He is, for a little while, obscure to then because of the **clouds** of heaven (the mis-interpretations of the churches). As a cloud in the sky prevents one from seeing the sun, a cloud in heaven prevents one from recognizing the Promised One. Should you fail to carefully examine the credentials of today's Promised One and proclaim Him, God then will pass you by and remove His base of support from you, then the calamity that has been following you will descend upon you and envelope you. Examples of this, of what have happened to the tyrants of the past that had ignored the Promised Ones, or worked against them, are recorded in the pages of history, and I have very well documented some classic examples in my open epistle to Governor Judge. May I strongly urge you to read it very carefully? On the other hand should you possess a pure heart and you examine my credentials with your God given perception, and arise in the service of God's Cause, you will then be assisted by God and have His blessings. For you, as a legislator, it is important that you work for the elimination of the corruption and perversity in the legal system and in government, so that in the confusion (anarchy) that is to follow the catastrophe, this state might be able to have some sort of government. The poor and oppressed peoples of your trust should receive your priorities. Therefore, it is imperative that you read my open letter to Governor Judge, for the most part the message that I sent him is for you and for the heads of state throughout the entire world. Your true friend, **Dr. Leland Jensen**   ---   **AN OPEN EPISTLE TO GOVERNOR THOMAS L. JUDGE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MONTANA**   **Dear Governor:** This letter is in response to your letter of August 5th concerning the religious persecution of Daniel Lopez at the Montana State Prison and by the Parole Board. In your review of the letters sent you, you say you have come to the conclusion that my allegations are unfounded. Had you conducted an investigation into the matter however, you would have found that what I wrote you was the truth. An assurance to you to the contrary by the Board of Pardons, or from Warden Crist is not an investigation. You state: “I find it difficult to believe that Warden Crist is engaging in a policy of persecution…”. I don’t know why you made that statement, for nowhere have I stated that he was. I, like you, don’t think that he himself is the instigator of the persecution going on against the Baha’is there. In fact, in my letter to you I explained definitely that it was his administration—one that he does not have control over—that has been continually persecuting the Baha’is. This administration is a custodial personnel that mostly grew up in Deer Lodge and have become interrelated by intermarriage and association. They have gotten in control of the prison as a livelihood and business. Warden Roger Crist, an out of stater, must go along with them or he is out. I also explained to you that on several occasions that I brought certain instances of persecution to his attention, he was unaware that these things were going on by his administration, and when brought to his attention took a hand in their correction. I also explained to you that because the persecution of Daniel Lopez involves the Board of Pardons, I brought the matter to you. For some unknown reason you have failed to see this situation in its true perspective, or you have interpreted it to mean something else than what I had put forth. Certainly Daniel Lopez was denied parole by the, Parole Board because of religious persecution; and if it wasn’t that way I would never have written you about it. Now that you have taken the old attitude of big government, that the establishment is always right and the ones that they serve are always wrong and for the justification of your stand you interpreted things to mean something else; I am therefore writing you this open letter. You stated: “a report from the Board of Pardons indicates that Mr. Lopez was denied parole based on a recommendation made by the prison Psychologist and also because of Mr. Lopez’s insistence that he be paroled in the Missoula area.” I have already explained to you that he came before the June board with a plan to be paroled to Helena, so he did not insist on being paroled in the Missoula area. The prison psychologist, that was on the prison payroll and under the direction of the prison administration, gave Daniel Lopez a negative report without giving him a psychiatric examination. All he did was to question him for about an hour on his religious beliefs. When Dan told him that he believed that I was the long Promised Joshua prophesied to come in the Holy Bible, especially of Daniel 12:12 and of the third chapter of Zechariah, he then made his report based on this information which is religious persecution. The prison administration got what they paid for, a “bum-rap” report, to be used in their religious persecution. If Daniel Lopez was really in need of psycho-therapy, as the prison psychologist recommended, why then wasn’t he given this when he entered the institution rather than waiting until it was time for him to go out on parole? Or why now are they not giving him this therapy? No, this report was given so that Dan would be denied parole at the Parole Board. Daniel Lopez was given two psychiatric examinations at the Warm Springs State Hospital. The first was given before he was sentenced, and was given by a battery psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, and social workers, and was made over a period of evaluation of six weeks. The second was made over a period of time, as was the first, a year and a half ago when he was denied parole the first time. Each time he was given a clear mental bill of health. Daniel Lopez came up again this year with a clean record, which was the stipulation made by the Parole Board for Dan to get a parole. Because of his clean record, the prison administration that is persecuting Dan for his strong affiliation with the Baha’i Faith by his being the Baha’i runner and his working in the Baha’i office at the prison, sent him to that prison psychologist so that Dan would be denied parole by the Parole Board. The tone of your rebuff to those of your constituents that wrote you on this matter is obnoxious and an insult to our intelligence. Such as, without you making an investigation into the matter (a letter from Warden Crist or from the Parole Board is not an investigation) the establishment is always right and the ones they serve are always wrong. This is totally unacceptable. It is reminiscent of some feudal lord out of the Middle Ages talking down to his peons. One sits at the head of State only by the leave of God. When God sends His Promised One to the head of State with a message to relieve the sufferings of the oppressed and help the downtrodden and persecuted of his trust; and the Promised One presents him with his credentials, (proofs that he is the Promised One of God), God requires of the head of State that he acts in accordance with the high principles of his office, and to proclaim to the people, after he had properly checked the credentials, that the Promised One had appeared among them. Should he fail in this matter then God passes him by and removes from him His base of support. This tyrant then is a fallen man and the calamity that had been following him descends upon him and destroys him. Certainly it must have reached your eyes and ears, even before I sent you my credentials, that I fulfill the prophecies in the Bible for the Advent of the coming of the Promised Joshua, as recorded in the third chapter of Zechariah. I had the “Stone With Seven Eyes” placed before me. I come in the name of “the land” (Leland). I wear the dirty garment. I had satan oppose me and I arrived at the date given by Daniel the prophet as recorded in Daniel 12:12. Also, enough supportive material was sent you to cause one who doesn’t have a hard heart to investigate. When I sent you my letters of July 4th and July 14th informing you of abuses of the administration of the Montana State Prison, in the persecution and oppression of the Baha’is there, and asking you to take a hand in correcting the situation, you were tested and found wanting. Your rebuff to me showed your indifference to human suffering in the state institutions; which portrays an entirely different image of you than the one you are trying to project to the public in your public statements and releases. I see a very dark cloud hovering over you and it is about to descend on you and envelop you. Should this happen to you God will have passed you by, and will have removed His base of support from you, and you will be at utter loss with none to rescue you. Thus, you are being rebuked in this epistle of admonition, so that you may alter your course and ways; and that you may investigate my, claim, with a pure heart and open mind, so this dark cloud may pass you by and leave you no harm. Therefore, this epistle is the most important document that you have ever received in your entire life. It is to your immediate advantage, for you to read every word of it very carefully. Examples of what is about to happen to you are recorded in the pages of history. In this epistle, I bring but a few of these examples to your attention, so that you may be appraised as to what God has in store for you. I tell you this now, while you are still in the plentitude of your power and authority, so that when it does happen, (if you ignore my credentials), you will then know that I am who I say I am; but then it may be too late for you. Efforts to ready this epistle and have it printed for world wide mass distribution have delayed its completion and delivery into your hands. You will understand this whole procedure as you finish reading this epistle. There have been tyrants aplenty down through the ages from whom God removed the base of His support and their end was disastrous. This is very well documented in the pages of history. One of the most trustworthy documentations of this history is the Bible itself. This is the main theme of the chapters of Kings and Chronicles. When a king would depart from the teachings, principles and laws of Moses, as recorded in the Books of Moses, then a prophet would appear among them. He would then admonish them. For those that would recognize the prophet and repent, things would go well; but for those who would ignore the prophet, or act hostile toward him, God would then remove His base of support from those tyrants and they would go down in ignominious defeat and loss. This history takes us all the way from the prophet Elijah on down to when the ten Northern Tribes went into captivity into Assyria, and the two Southern Tribes went into captivity into Babylon. Why are the Promised Ones of God, that come with credentials that prove that they are authentic, rejected by the people that are waiting for Their appearance? The answer is that the Promised One never comes the way the people expect Him to come. Their hearts are hardened, therefore, the credentials are ignored. The people believe the sect or denomination of their religion; and the prophecies of that religion the way that their church and the way that their theologians interpret the prophecies. For instance, in the time of Jesus they said, “how can this carpenter’s son, that comes from Nazareth, be anything much less our Promised Messiah?” Or in the time of Moses they said, “How can this murderer, who is of the detestable Israelites be anything much less being sent by God?” Due to the hardness of their hearts, they refused to examine Their credentials seriously, and continued to believe the interpretations of their churches. For instance, the Jews after nineteen hundred years are still waiting for the Advent of their Messiah. Moses, a High Prophet—a Manifestation of God (Exodus 4:16 and 7:1)—although He was sent to the Pharaoh of Egypt by God (Exodus 3:10) and He presented to the Pharaoh His credentials, the ten proofs or the ten plagues given Him by God, the Pharaoh failed to recognize Moses as being sent by God, for his heart was hardened (Exodus 7:3). The Pharaoh continued to believe his religion as interpreted by the theologians and priests (Exodus 7:11–14). Because, Moses admonished him, this tyrant increased his oppression of the Israelites (Exodus 5th chapter). Thus, his own tyranny eventually became the cause of his downfall. Due to the hardness of his heart—his inability to recognize the proofs and accept Moses—he went forth from Egypt to the Red Sea to destroy Moses and the Israelites, so God removed His base of support from that tyrant and he was drowned along with his army in the Red Sea. The documentation of the history of Jesus, a High Prophet, a Manifestation of God—not incarnate God—but like unto Moses (Deuteronomy 18:15, Acts 3:22 and 7:37), is the worlds greatest classic example of how God passes by and removes the base of His support of the tyrants that deny His Promised Ones. Although Jesus was Promised by Moses and and was prophesied by name, the address of His appearance, the date of His crucifixion and other pertinent particulars by the Old Testament’s prophets, which is the theme of the Gospel of Matthew, the tyrants both ecclesiastic and secular rejected Him. Their hearts were hardened, as they believed the theologies of their day, and the interpretation of prophecies made by their own churches (denominations). It is well known today, by secular history, what happened to the Jewish people and nation that rejected their Messiah. God didn’t give them any credit for being faithful to their religion as interpreted by their own churches. He passed them by and removed the base of His support from them. It happened to them exactly as Jesus had prophesied that it would: >And when he drew near and saw the city he wept over it, saying, ‘Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hid from your eyes. For the days shall come upon you, when, your enemies will case a bank about you and surround you, and hem you in on every side, and dash you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you; because you did not know the time of your visitation. > >(Luke 19:41-43) In 70 A.D. Titus at the head of the Roman legions marched into Jerusalem and leveled it to the ground, destroying the Temple and laid waste the Holy City. He desecrated and robbed the Holy of Holies of its treasures, and transported them to Rome, reared a pagan colony on the mount of Zion, massacred the Jews except for a remnant which were exiled and sold as slaves to the nations. What happened to that tyrant, Pontius Pilate, that though he found no wrong in Jesus, condemned Him to the cross? He knew very little of the Jewish religion and seemed to enjoy tormenting them. The Jewish court—the Sanhedrin—found Jesus guilty of blasphemy, because He claimed to be the Son of God. Pilate could find no fault with this, for back home in his church—the Pantheon—there were many gods and sons of gods. This God of the Jews, to him, must have been an unimportant god, if a god at all, for he was not among the Pantheon of gods in Rome and weren’t the Romans a powerful people and the Jews a subjected people? Had he investigated Jesus’ claim he would have found that his gods were no gods at all and that Jesus was whom He claimed to be, the Messiah, Son of God. What happened to this tyrant the people of today are not generally well aware of. God passed him by, and removed the base of His support from him. As church history has it, several years after the crucifixion, in the winter of 36–37 A.D., **he was removed as governor** and stripped of power. He was then sent to Rome to stand trial and it is reported that his condition was grievous that he committed suicide. Some people object to biblical history. They counter that the Books of Kings and Chronicles were either written by the scribe Ezra, or they were translated from the Hebrew to the Aramaic and embellished by him. They contend that the history of Moses was so long ago and what is found in the Bible is not verified by secular history and may have been invented by the Israelites. The same applies to the New Testament; some contend that Jesus was invented by the apostles or by the early church, or at least it was embellished by them. So let us move on to a later history, that of the latter part of the last century, one that is documented in both secular and Holy writings. Baha’u’llah, (the meaning of His Name is translated in the English translation of the Bible from the language of Jesus, i.e. Aramaic, as the Glory of God, or Father—see Mark 8:38), was a High Prophet of God, or Manifestation of God as was Jesus and Moses. He was not only prophesied by name, by Jesus, but by many of the Old Testament’s prophets, and by other Holy Books. As Daniel gave the date for the crucifixion of Jesus he also gave the date for the Advent of Baha’u’llah. Also, the address for His appearance, as well as, many other particulars prophesying His Advent were given by many of the Old Testament prophets and are recorded in many other Holy Books. Baha’u’llah sent messages to the kings of the earth. He proclaimed to them that the Promised One of all the Great Religions had now come. “O kings of the earth! He who is the sovereign Lord of all is now come. The kingdom is God’s, the Omnipotent Protector, the Self-Subsisting…”. He disclosed to them the character of His Mission; exhorts them to embrace His Message; affirms the validity of the Bab’s (His Forerunner), Revelation; reproves them for their indifference to His Cause; enjoins them to be just and vigilant, to compose their differences and reduce their armaments; expatiates on His affliction; commends the poor to their care; warns that “Divine chastisement” will “assail” them “from every direction,” if they refused to heed His counsels, and prophesies His “triumph upon earth” though no king be found who would turn his face toward Him. To the kings of Christendom, Baha’u’llah more specifically censures them for having failed to “welcome” and “draw nigh” unto Him Who is the “Spirit of truth” (John 16:12–13): “O kings of Christendom! Heard ye not the saying of Christ, the Spirit of God, ‘I go away, and come again unto you?’ Wherefore did ye fail, when He did come again unto you in the clouds of heaven,” (the clouds of heaven are similar to the clouds in the sky; they block ones view of the source of light, i.e., they are the interpretations of the prophecies of the return of Christ made by the churches), to draw nigh unto Him, that you might behold His face, and be of those that attained His Presence? In another passage He saith: “When He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth’” (John 16:13). And yet, behold how, when He did bring the truth, ye refused to turn your faces toward Him, and persisted in disporting yourselves with your pastimes and fancies.” These kings were fast asleep in their tombs—spiritually dead—and nothing could arouse them from their stupor. The Archangel’s Trumpet Blast, (My Book), has not yet sounded (1 Thessalonians 4:16), and the thermo-nuclear bombs have not as yet dropped on the tombs, (churches), opening them. >To the fate that has overtaken these kings, ministers and ecclesiastics, in the East as well as the West, who have, at various stages of Baha’u’llah’s ministry, either deliberately persecuted His Cause, or have neglected to heed the warnings He uttered, or failed in their manifest duty to respond to His summons or to accord Him and His message the treatment they deserve, particular attention, I feel, should at this juncture be directed. Baha’u’llah Himself, referring to those who had actively arisen to destroy or harm His Faith, had declared that ‘God hath not blinked, nor will He ever blink His eyes at the tyranny of the oppressor. More particularly in this Revelation hath He visited each and every tyrant with His vengeance.’ Vast and awful is, indeed, the spectacle which meets our eyes, as we survey the field over which the retributory winds of God have furiously swept, dethroning monarchs, extinguishing dynasties, uprooting ecclesiastical hierarchies, precipitating wars and revolutions, driving from office princes and ministers, dispossessing the usurper, casting down the tyrant, and chastising the wicked and rebellious. > >(Refer to appendix no.1 of this epistle where further writings by Shoghi Effendi on this subject appear taken from his book *God Passes By*.) In addition to His Tablets to the kings, Baha’u’llah wrote specific Tablets to various monarchs and ecclesiastics. These were more or less written to the heads of the world powers at that time. Among these were the Tablets that He wrote to Napoleon III, the foremost monarch in the West at that time. He proclaimed to Napoleon who He was in these words: “O King of Paris! Tell the priest to ring the bells no longer. By God, the True One! The Most Mighty Bell hath appeared in the form of Him Who is the Most Great Name…” The potency of the Revelation of the Most Great Name, Baha’u’llah, is that of the Father, i.e., “Glory of the Father”, in relation to the potency of the Revelation of Jesus, which was that of the Son, i.e., Son of God” (see Mark 8:38, Luke 9:26 and Matthew 16:27). He revealed to Napoleon several of the great new principles of this new Revelation from God; explained the succession of religions, Islam succeeding Christianity, Christianity succeeding Mosaism, Moses succeeding Abraham. He stated that His own Mission was to regenerate and unify the whole human race, which was to be regarded as one great family, (the Kingdom of God on earth). He called upon Napoleon to give up his crown, or if he retained it, to use it only for the service of God, and promised to assure the success of Napoleon in carrying out His, Baha’u’llah’s programme. In so doing he would be regarded as king of the world. In addition, in His tablet to Napoleon, Baha’u’llah dwelt upon the sufferings endured by Himself and His followers. He avowed their innocence; reminded him of his two pronouncements on behalf of the oppressed and helpless; and, desiring to test the sincerity of his motives, called upon him to “inquire into the conditions of such have been wronged,” and “extend his care to the weak,” and look upon Him and His fellow-exiles “with the eye of loving-kindness.” But, Napoleon in addition to being the most powerful and brilliant of the European sovereigns, was excessively ambitious, inordinately proud, tricky and superficial. It is reported that he contemptuously flung down the Tablet sent him by Baha’u’llah, thus he was tested and found wanting. So Baha’u’llah, from His prison cell, (at that time He was incarcerated in one of the most foul prisons in the world, at Akka, Palestine, now Akka, Israel), addressed him another tablet. This was at the time that Napoleon was in the plentitude of his power and the most secure sovereign in Europe. In part He stated: >I have written you an epistle before this, summoning you to the Cause of God but you are heedless. You proclaimed that you are the defender of the oppressed; now it has become evident that you are not. Nor are you kind to your own suffering and oppressed people. Your actions are contrary to your interests and your kingly pride must fall. Because of your arrogance, God shortly will destroy your sovereignty. France will flee away from you and you will be overwhelmed by a great conquest. For what thou hast done, thy kingdom shall be thrown into confusion, and thine empire shall pass from thine hands, as a punishment for that which thou hast wrought. Then wilt thou know how thou hast plainly erred. There will be lamentation and mourning, women bemoaning the loss of their sons. This open letter to Napoleon was sent by post, through the care of Cesar Ketafagoo, the son of a French Consul in Syria with whom Baha’u’llah had friendly relations. This open letter was published abroad and people in the various countries were waiting to see what would happen. This was in 1869 A.D. Baha’u’llah had included this epistle in one of His works the *Surat’l Haikal* and this was included in a book, the *Kitabu’l-Muhin* that had the widest circulation in Persia and India. Not long afterwards in July of 1870 A.D., the war between Germany and France broke out; and though no one at that time expected the victory of Germany, Napoleon was defeated and dishonoured. He surrendered to his enemies at Sedan on September 2nd. On September 4th, the third republic was proclaimed in Paris; marking the greatest military capitulation in history. He not only lost his kingdom as Baha’u’llah had predicted, but he spent the remaining years of his life in exile. His hopes were utterly blasted, his only son, the Prince Imperial, was killed in the Zulu war, his much vaunted empire collapsed, a civil war ensued more ferocious than the Franco-German war itself, and William I, the Prussian king, was hailed emperor of a unified Germany in the Palace of Versailles. Thus, did God pass him by and remove His base of support from the most powerful monarch of the West. At this time the Baha’i Faith was being most severely oppressed in the Middle East; and in Persia the most cruel martyrdoms of the Baha’is were still being committed. Yet in spite of this when the people saw that the prophecy concerning Napoleon came to pass, just as Baha’u’llah had said it would, they entered the Cause of God in troops. Why then didn’t Napoleon, when he was given this most great proof, repent and support the Cause of God? It could only be that his heart was hardened by his belief in his own church, as was the heart of the Pharaoh in the time of Moses. The interpretations of the prophecies, by his church, were veils, “clouds of heaven”, that prevented him from recognizing the “Blessed Beauty”, Baha’u’llah. When he was released by the Germans he withdrew to England. There he still had hopes of re-establishing the then defunct Holy Roman Empire under the papacy. He projected a return to France, in the hope that his presence would lead to a rising for his restoration to the throne; but the preliminary operation that he underwent to cure his incapacitating disease was unsuccessful. He died at Chislehurst, England on January 9th, 1873; not knowing that God had passed him by and had removed from him His base of support. Read and consider: One prisoner, single, and solitary, without assistance or defender, a foreigner and stranger imprisoned in the fortress of Akka writing such letters to the emperor of France and to the other emperors of the world. Reflect upon this how Baha’u’llah upraised the standard of His Cause in prison. Refer to history. It is without parallel. No such thing has happened before this time or until this very time that I am writing my epistles; a prisoner and an exile advancing His Cause and spreading His teachings broadcast so that eventually He became powerful enough to conquer the very king who banished Him. The Cause of Baha’u’llah has now spread throughout the entire world; in every country, state, island, province, and every possession. His message has been translated into every language and almost every dialect in the world. The believers that embrace His Revelation are of every race, nation, religion, ethnic group and creed. As Baha’u’llah is the Promised One and fulfills the prophecies of all the existing world religions, it alone, is the only universal religion, for it alone has the power to bring the peoples of the world together in one Universal Cause. Baha’u’llah taught that religion is progressive, like the grades in school, with the Baha’i Faith being the University education. All of the previous revelations were sent down by God to bring civilization from the stone age to the point where they are prepared to receive the Revelation of the “Glory of the Father”, (Baha’u’llah). Therefore, each of the world’s great religions, Sabian, Jewish, Hindu, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Christian, and Islam, that were founded by a High Prophet or Manifestation of God, had prophesied the coming of a Great Universal Manifestation, that would unite the world and establish the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. The volumes written by Baha’u’llah go into the hundreds. In His teachings He provides for a Divine economy. He gives the laws, ordinances and teachings for a united Universal society. He provides that the Universal House of Justice be elected by National Houses of Justice of Baha’i nations, as they become enrolled in the Kingdom of God. The Local, National, and Universal Houses of Justice are to judicate and enact laws not found in His Book of Laws, the *Kitab-i-Aqdas*. Then Baha’u’llah did something that had never been provided for in any of the past Revelations. He established the institution of the Guardianship. This is to keep the world permanently united. The Guardian is to be the President of the Universal House of Justice. Each Guardian is to appoint in his lifetime, his successor. He is the interpreter of the Word—Revelation of Baha’u’llah. He is the branch. He is the executive of the Kingdom of God on earth. These pronouncements are found in the *Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha*. In the Covenant of Baha’u’llah and in His *Tablet of the Branch*, He appointed ‘Abdu’l-Baha as His successor. The *Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha* is considered by the Baha’is as the Charter of the World Order of Baha’u’llah—the Kingdom of God on earth. In 1957, after the passing of the first Guardian, Shoghi Effendi most of the Baha’is, under the leadership of a group of 26 Baha’is, called the Hands of the Faith, (who were appointed by the first Guardian and were under the direction of the Guardianship of the Faith in accordance with the Provisions of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s *Will and Testament*), laid aside certain Provisions of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s *Will and Testament*. They refused to accept the second Guardian of the Faith who was appointed by the first Guardian in accordance with the Provisions of the *Will and Testament*. Thus, they broke the Covenant of Baha’u’llah, for the *Will and Testament* derives its authority from the Covenant of Baha’u’llah. Then comes Joshua, who was Promised to come in all of the Holy Books of God. Thus, we come to a history in which the ink is not yet dry on its pages, in which some of it is current and in which some of it has not yet happened. This history is coming to us via the communication media for mass consumption. Something has happened in this country that has absorbed the interest of the peoples of the world. This has never happened before. God has passed by and removed His base support of a President and a Vice-President of the United States and they have gone down in utter disgrace and defeat. This is but the beginning of a long list of tyrants who God is about to pass by and remove the base of His support. With the “Stone With Seven Eyes” before me, I had my wife on my behalf write to the most powerful head of State in the world, the President of the United States. For I was deprived by a tyrannical prison administration, of direct mail. By this they were in violation of the courts. What I had to say to him was not for that administration to know at that time. This letter was written on September 14, 1971, just a few months after my public Proclamation of April 29, 1971, that I was the Promised Joshua. It was at a time when the President was at the peak of his plentitude of power and authority. It was before the Watergate episode. (A copy of this letter is enclosed in appendix no. 2 of this epistle.) She presented him with my credentials, the authenticity of who I am. She explained to the President that she and I were the only two remaining “Knights of the Lord” in the Baha’i Faith under the Provisions of the Covenant; that in 1953 the first Guardian of the Baha’i Faith knighted us as “Knights of Baha’u’llah”. In 1953–54, Shoghi Effendi chose from among an estimated six to eight million Baha’is in the world, about 150 for knighthood. These were the only Baha’is ever Knighted in the Baha’i Faith. In the 1960’s, when the second Guardian of the Baha’i Faith, after many appeals, was forced to expel from the Baha’i Religious Faith the Covenant-breaking “Hands of the Faith” and all them that followed them in their violation of Baha’u’llah’s Covenant, for Covenant-breaking, all of the “Knights of the Lord” were removed from the rolls of the Baha’i Religious Faith except my wife and I. The Knights have a very prophetic function in establishing the “Kingdom of God on Earth”. ‘Abdu’l-Baha, The Greatest Branch, and the Center of Baha’u’llah’s Covenant, in the darkest moments of His life, under ‘Abdul-Hamid’s, (Sultan of the Turkish Empire), regime, when He stood ready to be deported to the most inhospitable region of Northern Africa, and at a time when the auspicious light of the Baha’i Revelation had only begun to break upon the West, He, in His parting message to the cousin of the Bab, uttered these prophetic and ominous words: >How great, how very great is the Cause! How fierce the onslaught of all the peoples and kindreds of the earth. Ere long shall the clamor of the multitude throughout Africa, throughout America, the cry of the European and the Turk, the groaning of India and China, be heard from far and near. One and all, they shall arise with all their power to resist His Cause. Then shall the Knights of the Lord, assisted by His grace from on high, strengthened by faith, aided by the power of understanding, and reinforced by the legions of the Covenant, arise and make manifest the truth of the verse: ‘Behold the confusion that hath befallen the tribes of the defeated!’ Shoghi Effendi, in commenting of the above prophecy of ‘Abdu’l-Baha stated, that, we the knights, would achieve complete and total victory in establishing God’s Kingdom on earth. When the second Guardian expelled all of the Knights, except my wife and I, from the Baha’i Faith for Covenant-breaking, it became quite apparent to me that my wife and I were left with the gigantic task of establishing the Kingdom heralded by Jesus Christ, with the Door opened by the Bab and brought by Baha’u’llah on this earth, but I was not quite sure of how we were to accomplish this. This was in the same year, (1963), that a man by the name of Rex King “opposed and resisted me” when we were both members of the National Spiritual Assembly (NSA) of the Baha’is of the United States of America, that were under the provisions of the Covenant. Rex King had gained control of the NSA and was now trying to wrest control of the Baha’i Faith under the Guardian. He knew that in order to do this he had to get rid of me, because I was exposing him in his scheme. Thus, he launched a vicious attack against me, driving me off the NSA and undermining me to the rest of the believers. This is the date prophesied by Daniel for the Advent of: “Blessed is he who waits and comes to the 1335 days.” The Bible has explained that each of these days are a year and ‘Abdu’l-Baha explained that these 1335 years should be calculated from the victory of Muhammad of 628 A.D. (628 A.D. + 1335 years = 1963 A.D.) In September of 1969 A.D. the second Guardian wrote an epistle to the Baha’i World proclaiming Rex King to be the Satan of our era. This epistle was written, and reached me, after the “Stone With Seven Eyes” was placed before me, (August 8, 1969 A.D.). (A copy of that epistle is enclosed with this epistle in appendix no. 3.) My wife explained to the President in these words: >When my husband found himself behind the stone wall with seven eyes and in view of what our guardian had written regarding satan for this day, he then realized that he was fulfilling the prophecies of the Bible for the coming of the modern Joshua. As Knights, we will be aided by His grace on high and strengthened by faith, aided by the power of understanding and reinforced by the legions of the Covenant until God’s Kingdom, which is here in embryonic form, will be born into the world. She also told him of Shoghi Effendi’s comment on the Tablet of the Knights, that there would be complete victory. My wife also explained to the President in these words: >My husband, Dr. Leland Jensen, was sentenced, placed and is being held illegally behind the stone walls of the Montana State Prison. It is illegal to charge and convict a doctor on a lewd and lascivious act by conducting an examination or giving a treatment to a patient in a professional office. Anything a doctor does in a practice could be construed as lewd and lascivious. He has now been there for two years. My wife was brushed off by receiving a very courteous reply on a United States Department of Justice letterhead signed by L.M. Pellerzi, Assistant Attorney General for the Administration: >Dear Dr. Jensen: > >The President has asked me to thank you for your recent communication. He appreciates the interest which prompted you to share your views with him. > >Sincerely, >L.M. Pellerzi. Now just why do you think my wife sent the President her letter presenting my credentials? Was it for her to receive just a courteous reply from the Justice Department? Heavens no! She sent him the most important letter that he had ever received in his entire life, the Good News that the Promised One that the entire world is waiting for had now come, and for him to examine the credentials and then proclaim Him, and then for him to save his own soul by arising and serving the Cause of God. When Richard Nixon became the President, by placing his hand upon the Bible in taking his oath of office his foremost duty to God and the people of this nation was not the upholding of the Constitution, but by placing his hand on the Bible, that he swore by, was to the words of God in that Bible. Therefore, he accepted, whether he knew it or not, the prophecies of the Advent of Joshua—the return of Jesus—coming in the clouds of heaven. So, when the Promised One did come on the clouds of heaven and his wife did send him His credentials, his foremost duty and responsibility to both God and man was to examine His credentials and proclaim Him to the peoples of this country and the world. The heart of this tyrant was hardened, as was the heart of the Pharaoh in the time of Moses and as were the hearts of tyrants down through the pages of history. They fail to recognize the Promised Ones of God and arise and serve their Cause. His heart was hardened by the same reason as were the tyrants of the past. He believed the prophecies of the Bible as interpreted by his church. For instance, the churches today are waiting for the son of man to come on a cloud in the sky instead of heaven; and that is because they do not know the difference between sky and heaven. The clouds of heaven are the veils of misinterpretation and prevent the people from beholding the light of truth of the Promised One. Thus, this tyrant with his face turned toward the sky failed to carefully examine the credentials of the Promised Son of Man that came on the clouds of heaven, as the Bible said He would. He was held responsible, for after all, the prophecies for my advent have been recorded in the pages of the Bible for thousands of years. The prophecies that are recorded in any of God’s Holy Books were always written in such a manner, (parables, allegory and symbolism, Mark 4:11), that the churches have never been able to comprehend their true meaning. Therefore, the interpretations of the churches are clouds of heaven. Heaven is the drawing closer to God by the recognition of the Revelation of God as given by His Manifestation in the day in which one lives, and then the living and acting in accordance with it. For Revelation is progressive, like the grades in school. Hell is the going further away from God by the non-recognition or by the rejection of the Promised Ones of God, and thus, the non-recognition or rejection of God’s Revelation. Therefore, the most important duty of a state or national executive is to carefully examine the credentials of the Promised One of God and then to proclaim Him so that He might be known to the people, so that they may by themselves and for themselves examine His credentials, so that they may enter heaven. The salvation of the Christians, as mentioned in the Bible and preached in the churches, is contingent to them being with Jesus in heaven on His return, (the rapture or translation). So that every eye may see Him, (Revelation 1:7), and that the true Christians may meet Him in the air, here on earth, not up in the sky where there isn’t air, (I Thessalonians 4:16–17), I am now sending my credentials to the executives of state throughout the world, so that they may examine them and proclaim me to the peoples. Thus, I am that king who sits on his throne in prison (technically I still have the “stone with seven eyes” before me, for I am on parole) that separate the sheep nations from the goat nations (Matthew 25:31–56) and am bringing about the judgment of mankind. This being with Jesus on His return is so essential for salvation (the avoidance of destruction by fire) that it cannot be accomplished other-wise. For what Jesus had to say, on His first coming, to the peoples of the world today is so wrapped up and folded away in His Book of Revelation, (Revelation 1:1), in allegory, parableism and symbolism, that absolutely no one in the world today knows what He said except Jesus on His return. ‘Abdu’l-Baha, in His book *Some Answered Questions*, explained the 11th and 12th chapters of the Book of Revelation, but these chapters do not pertain to the things that are now happening and are just about to happen in the world, but to Islam and Advent of the Bab and Baha’u’llah. For instance, no one in the world knew who “The Beast” was in the 13th and 17th chapters of Revelation until I, with the “stone with seven eyes” before me, wrote my rendition of *The Beast* that now rules the world and is about to be dead. (See a copy enclosed.) Jesus said: >But for those outside everything is in parable; so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they may turn again, and be forgiven. > >(Mark 4:11–12) Peter wrote: >First of all you must understand this, no prophecy of scriptures is a matter of one’s own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. > >(2 Peter 1:20–21) What is meant by the above is that, God, through the mouth of His Messengers and Holy prophets, made prophecies that were sealed, \[veiled]. The only Ones that know their true meaning, are the Promised Ones of God, as prophesied to come, as recorded in Holy Scriptures. St. Peter also said: >There are some things in them hard to understand which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do other scriptures. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, beware lest you be carried away with the error of lawless men \[the theologians, who are the false prophets] and lose your own stability. > >(2 Peter 3:16–17) The interpretation of prophecy is notoriously difficult, and on no subject do the opinions of the learned differ more widely. This is not to be wondered at, for according to the revealed writings themselves, many of the prophecies were given in such a form that they not only were not understood by the prophet that gave them, but they could not be fully understood until the fulfillment came and then only by the explanations given by the Promised One Himself, as sent by God, who fulfilled them. Daniel, the prophet, who gave the prophetic dates for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the Advent of the Bab, the Advent of Baha’u’llah and for my Advent, (see a copy of The Beast enclosed), himself didn’t understand the prophecies that he was giving, for they were sealed up until the time of fulfillment. At the end of Daniel’s vision the seer was told: >But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase… I heard but I did not understand. Then I said, ‘O my Lord, what shall be the issue of these things?’ He said, ‘Go thy way Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand. > >(Daniel 12:4, 8–9). If God sealed up the prophecies until the appointed time, and did not fully reveal the interpretations even to the prophet that uttered them, we may expect that none but God, spoken through the Promised One prophesied to come in the prophecy, would be able to break the seals and disclose the meanings concealed by the obscurity (clouds of heaven) of the prophetic symbolism, allegory, and parableism. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance for the seeker after truth to determine that the one who is offering explanations and interpretations is not a theologian (those who have made the interpretations of the church) who is guessing and is therefore a false prophet; but gives proofs, by Himself fulfilling prophecies as recorded in Holy scriptures. These proofs are His credentials that He is the authentic Promised One sent by God. Reflection of the history of prophecies and their misinterpretation in previous ages and dispensations, by the theologians, combined with the solemn warnings of the prophets themselves, should render one very wary of accepting the speculations of the churches today, as to the real meaning of these utterances and the manner of their fulfillment. On the other hand, when someone appears who claims to fulfill the prophecies, it is important to examine his claim, with a pure heart and open mind, free from the encumbrances of preconceived conceptions and interpretations of the theologians. Should he be an impostor, the fraud will soon be discovered and no harm will be done. But, WOE BETIDE HIM, who carelessly turns the Promised One of God aside! In the early part of 1972, soon after the, publication of the 1st edition of my rendition of *The Beast* (that now rules the world and is about to be dead) my wife sent a copy to the President through the Justice Department. This explained to him what Jesus said was going to befall the people of this country and the world, for they are now worshippers of this **Beast** instead of worshippers of God, as revealed through His Manifestation, Baha’u’llah. To this my wife received no reply. It is of the utmost importance for the people of this country and of the world to know what Jesus did say in the Book of Revelation as to what is now about to happen to them. But this tyrant failed to inform them and to proclaim to them the Promised Ones. Therefore, because the President failed in his most auspicious and solemn duty, God passed him by and removed His base of support from this tyrant. For me to dwell on what has happened to this man and what is yet to come to him, is not important to this epistle, for this is occupying the central position of the communication media. That is, the ink is not yet dry on the pages of this history. At the same time that my wife wrote to the President, she wrote an identical letter to the Vice-President; and at the same time that she sent a copy of *The Beast* to the President she sent a copy to the Vice-President. This was at a time that they both were in the plentitude of their power and respect. What has happened to him is also recent history. Nothing like this has ever happened in the history of this nation. A President and a Vice-President shamefully removed from power and their black characters widely exposed. At the same time that my wife sent letters to the President and the Vice-President she sent an identical letter and a copy of *The Beast* to the Congressman from our district, Arnold Olson. This was at a time that he was in the plentitude of his power and authority. He failed to even answer her, or to make an investigation, or to visit me in prison, although he passed me by many times on his trips between Helena and Butte, Montana. So God passed him by and removed His base of support from him. In the November elections he was defeated at the polls and this year in the primaries he was defeated and his political career came to an end. At the same time that she sent letters and copies of *The Beast* to the above, she sent identical ones to the Governor of the State of Montana, Forrest Anderson. At that time, he also was in the plentitude of his power and authority. Although he was somewhat in the know of what had happened to me, for my attorney, Mr. Vernon Hoven, who was trying my case, at the time of my trial, told me that Governor Anderson had promised him that he would appoint him to the judgeship if the lawyers that were united in a conspiracy were successful to unseat Judge Glore. Mr. Hoven was very aware at the time he was representing me that the prosecution against me was a persecution brought on by a conspiracy by most of the Missoula chiropractors. They entered into a conspiracy to have me removed from practice, for competitive reasons, as I had the bulk of the chiropractic practice in Missoula. Had he represented me properly, he would have exposed the conspiracy against me and I would have never been convicted. This would not have served his own political interests however, for these chiropractors were local political powers and he needed their support. So he used my case in another conspiracy with other law firms to try to have Judge Glore unseated. These conspiring chiropractors were Masons and they were running the chairs of the offices at that time. One of them was a member of the Exchange Club. He was the past president of the Montana Chiropractic Association and is now a member of the Board of Chiropractic Examiners for the State of Montana. Another co-conspirator was a member of the Central Committee of the Missoula County Republican Party and was the campaign manager for Richard Shoup when he ran successfully for Mayor of Missoula and again when he ran for Congressman and also again when he recently ran for Congressman and was defeated in this recent election, (Nov. 1974). These co-conspirators used their political connections with the County Attorney’s office to have me charged, tried, and convicted. The Assistant County attorney that prosecuted my case needed their political support, for him to run for County Attorney in the next election. When he ran he used my case as campaign fodder of how he “sent a dangerous man to prison.” This, however, was the main thing that defeated him, for most Missoulians were quite aware that the prosecution of my case was a persecution and a “frame-up.” My attorneys didn’t have my best interests at heart. They were doing their own political thing. I didn’t know this, however, until it was too late. The attorney, Vernon Hoven, that tried my case, during the very last days of the trial, after I had recognized that he had purposely thrown my case and I confronted him with it, explained to me that he wanted to have me convicted. He explained that his law firm and the law firm of Goldman, McChesney and Datsopoulos and another law firm had a plan and they had entered into a conspiracy to unseat Judge Glore who they claim was unfair to them. Their plan was to have each of the law firms try a case before Judge Glore (my case and two others with my case being the lead case) having Judge Glore make certain errors that would be reversible in the Supreme Court. He told me that his brother-in-law, Gene Daly, who was then the County Attorney of Cascade County and was the Democratic candidate for Attorney General, was sure to be elected in the November election which was only a month away. As Attorney General he would then take these cases to the Supreme Court with his arguments that they be reversed and the Supreme Court would then throw out these cases. They would then institute a procedure to have Judge Glore unseated. He told me that judge Glore was a Republican and was giving his and two other law firms, that were Democratic, unfavorable decisions in civil cases, where they made their money, as they took these on a percentage basis. He told me that Governor Anderson had promised them that he would appoint him, Vernon Hoven, to the vacancy that they were creating. My case was just about to go to the jury so there was absolutely nothing that I could do about this. He told me that he guaranteed that I would not go to prison. The next day he came out to my office and before my wife and I he repeated the plot and again stated, before my wife, “I guarantee that your husband will not go to prison.” He told us we didn’t need to worry about that or about the money for their services. He stated that Mr. Goldman had plenty of money and was backing the case all the way. I was convicted on October 11, 1968 and then was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The next week the newspapers came out with glaring headlines of the corruption, gambling, and prostitution that was going on in Cascade County; and Gene Daly, as a result of this, was not elected Attorney General as my attorneys had anticipated. Attorney General Woodahl was elected instead of Gene Daly and the Supreme Court acted in an irresponsible manner when they did not have my case reversed. They were more interested in establishing points of law instead of following the law. They were not interested in justice, or whether I was guilty or not, or whether or not I was a victim of vicious conspiracies. They were only interested in their own thing; and in their efforts to accomplish this, I became their victim. My conspirators brought into the trial court, the states’s 4th District, ten female ex-patients of mine that gave illicit and perjured testimony. They were not witnesses of the alleged crime of which I was charged, but were part of the conspiracy, at the urging of my conspirators, making them co-conspirators. Some of these, by aiding in getting me convicted got out of paying their bills for my services that I was about to place in the hands of a collection agency. Their testimony was for only one reason and that was to illegally bias and prejudice the jury. The argument given by the prosecuting attorney for the admission into the trial of this illicit testimony was to “establish a common scheme, plan, or system of two or more crimes so related to each other that proof of one tends to establish the other.” The only common scheme, plan, or system were those who were conspiring against me. As I had never been convicted of any of the charges of these co-conspiring females I was innocent of their being crimes. Because none of these women were witnesses of the alleged crime, their illicit testimonies were separate charges, therefore, I should have been charged separately with each one of them and an information should have been filed on each of these charges so that I could have adequately prepared a defense. At least they should have been separate counts of the same crime and an information should have been filed on each of these counts as was filed for the complaining witness. If this had been done a proper defense could have been prepared. But neither of these were done. When the Assistant County Attorney filed the charges against me, of what was called the complaining witness, he listed these ten co-conspiring females as witnesses and only supplied information on the complaining witness and therefore did not supply the defense with the information of the nature of the charges of these co-conspirators so an adequate defense could not be made. The accused is entitled to know what he is being charged with, but in this case this information was withheld until they testified. As this was not done there was nothing done by my attorney or myself in preparing an adequate defense as we did not know what these ten women were going to charge me with and it was then utterly impossible for my attorney and I to prepare a refutation of these charges as the Assistant County Attorney had only listed them as witnesses. Therefore no defense to these charges was prepared prior to the trial, for it was impossible. The State Supreme Court may have acted on the assumption that I was guilty of these charges and therefore it would not be necessary for the prosecuting attorney to file the information. But I was not aware of what they were going to charge me with, or that they were going to make charges at all, for most of their testimony was perjured and the rest of it could be easily refuted, as was the testimony of the complaining witness. When we had (my attorney and I) received the information and the list of so-called witnesses we knew they were not witnesses of the alleged crime, as there was no crime for anyone to see. As these so-called witnesses were not listed as separate counts, or charges and no information was filed concerning their charges both of my attorneys, Mr. Goldman and Mr. Hoven, told me that their illicit testimony would not be admissible in court. A research of my case made by the University of Montana Law School found that the testimony of these ten so-called witnesses were illegal at the time they testified. As it was illegal at the time, the lower courts decision should have been reversed by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court did not reverse the decision of the lower court, therefore it reversed the law, which they actually wanted to do. When I was first charged, my attorneys assured me that none of the judges in Missoula would allow the illicit testimony of these phony witnesses and thus I would not be railroaded into prison by an ambitious Assistant County Attorney and the rest of the conspirators. Later Mr. Hoven told me that in talking with Judge Glore on the list of phony witnesses he indicated to him that he was going to allow, them to testify. He explained to me that Judge Glore was not a lawyer and did not understand the law and therefore continually made bad errors. He also stated that Judge Glore was a Republican and was unfair to certain Democratic law firms. I was disheartened to hear that my case was scheduled to be tried by such an incompetent prejudicial judge. Therefore, I asked my lawyer to have him disqualified. He told me that he would wait to do this to after the pretrial conference, which would give him grounds to do so. Just before the trial Mr. Hoven told me that the reason that he did not have Judge Glore disqualified was that in the pretrial conference, Judge Glore had indicated to him that he would wait until the trial to see if their testimony was that of an actual witness of the alleged crime or not. The prosecuting (persecuting) attorney did not place the corpus delicti (the complaining witness) on the stand first, as is customary, but one of the co-conspiring females. Because this female did not testify as a witness to the alleged crime but was making her own bogus charges of which no information had been filed and because there had not yet been established a “prima facia case” the judge had no way to know what her testimony was for. Therefore he should not have allowed it. The county attorney stated that the reason for her testimony was to establish a scheme, plan, or system of action. But as these were separate charges and had never been proven and because no information had been filed for these charges and because there was no prima facia case established, the trial judge was in error by allowing this illicit testimony, especially over the objection of my attorney. It was quite evident that the only scheme, plan, or system of action was the railroading tactics of my conspirators. The trial judge allowed the Assistant County Attorney to present nine of these co-conspiring females to give their illicit testimony, over the objection of my attorney, before the Assistant County Attorney placed the corpus delicti on the stand. By this time the jury was completely biased and prejudiced against me by the illicit obnoxious charges of the co-conspiring females. At this time I got a very strong feeling that I had been a sitting duck, but somehow thought that in the defense my attorney had things to rectify this whole miscarriage of justice. In the defense, when my attorney had placed me on the stand he only questioned me on the testimony of the complaining witness and not one question of these ten co-conspiring females. I was denied an opportunity to refute their perjured testimony and explain the facts of each case. At this time I confronted my attorney with this, telling him that he had just thrown my case, by first not stopping the illicit testimony of these co-conspiring females, and second by not allowing me to defend myself from the vicious onslaught of these co-conspiring females. First he told me that he couldn’t stop judge Glore from admitting their illicit testimony. Then I asked him why he didn’t have this judge disqualified. He told me that he didn’t because Judge Glare was the only judge that would allow them to testify. This is when he told me that he wanted to have me convicted; and that his law firm and two other law firms were out to unseat Judge Glore. He told me that in civil cases he was biased in favor of the insurance companies and that in these civil cases the lawyers made their money as they took them on a percentage basis. He told me that after they were able to unseat Judge Glore, that Governor Anderson was going to appoint him to the unexpired term of Judge Glore. This must be true for after Judge Glore didn’t run in the next election, Vernon Hoven ran for that Judgeship. In addition to my attorney wanting to have me convicted, he explained to me that because the Assistant County Attorney did not file information on the charges of these females he was unable to prepare an adequate defense to their charges before the trial. For him to try to refute their testimony without this preparation would not do justice to my case. It would be impossible for him to have me try to refute their charges without going into each of their cases because the Assistant County Attorney did not file information on each of the cases. Had he had me try to refute their testimony without this preparation the defense would not have been adequate and he could have been held liable. To try, and fail, the case would not have been reversible because to try to refute their illicit testimony would give credence to their admissibility. Therefore, I was deprived of an adequate defense by not being allowed to refute the illicit testimony. Because of this the jury had no other alternative but to believe that I was guilty of the charges. In the summation of my case before the jury, my attorney did not try to refute the illicit testimony of these co-conspiring females for the same reasons that he did not bring out any refuting testimony from me when he had me on the witness stand. The jury did not convict me on the charges of the complaining witness (the corpus delicti) for her charges were adequately refuted, but on the unrefuted charges of the co-conspiring females that were not crimes in the first place. But, the jury did not know that, for they never told them that their charges, even if true, were not crimes. It was easy for my attorney to refute the testimony of the complaining witness in his summation, for she testified that she believed that the things that she was complaining about in her complaint, at the time that they transpired were legitimately part of her examination and treatment and that she was not aroused sexually by them; which was a necessary element in a lewd and lascivious act. She testified that she stopped taking treatments because the chiropractic adjustments hurt. And at no time was there any mention of misconduct. The invention of misconduct came later. She stated that it was several weeks later that she told her parents about misconduct; yet a month after she stopped treatments, her father took a series of treatments from me for his back and a year later he took another series of treatments for his knee, and at that time there was never any mention of any misconduct, or wrong doing on my part. It was only several years later that she filed charges, and this was due to mischief on their part and their joining the conspiracy against me. After her father had completed his second series of treatments, he borrowed some money from me and signed a note for it. Only later, after he reneged on payments and I was about to place the note in the hands of a collection agency, did he go to one of the conspiring chiropractors, Dr. Trosper, for treatments. Then the charges against me were invented. If I was guilty of any misconduct, why then did the girl’s father, who the girl stated she told several weeks after she discontinued taking treatments, take two series of treatments from me, three times a week for six weeks each, and recommend me to other people for treatment? Why was there no talk of misconduct until several years later, when he reneged on the note and talked to Dr. Trosper, one of the conspiring chiropractors? The answers to these questions are quite obvious. I was convicted on October 11, 1968 and then I was sentenced to 20 years in prison. This was the very same year that I was chosen as the most outstanding personality in my field, of the Northwest, recommended for the International Who’s Who and was asked by the International Platform Association to join them to be sent out on speaking engagements. I complained bitterly to my attorneys for using my case for their own political ends, although there was no doubt that Judge Glore was incompetent and irresponsible and should have been removed from office. I told them that by my being convicted by a jury, my good name had been smirched and many peoples would believe that I had been truly guilty of some crime. My attorneys then assured my wife and I that when the Supreme Court reversed the lower court, and Judge Glore would be removed from office for incompetency that I not only would have my good name restored but I would have a civil suit against my conspirators. Mr. Hoven said that he himself would file this suit. About a week after I was convicted, just before the November elections, the newspapers throughout the state came out with glaring headlines of prostitution and gambling in Cascade County (Great Falls area) of which Gene Daly was the prosecuting attorney. Although he was ahead in the sample polls at that time, he fell way down. Undoubtedly this bad publicity was intended to get his opponent elected, and it was successful as Robert Woodahl was elected as Attorney General. My attorney made the proper type of an appeal and it shouldn’t have made any difference who the Attorney General was, the Supreme Court should have reversed the lower court. However, there were a number of prosecuting attorneys in Montana that wanted to have the law reversed so there must have been a lot of pressure on Mr. Woodahl to use his influence and office to have the Supreme Court not reverse the lower court. So, in my opinion, both Woodahl and the Montana Supreme Court acted in an irresponsible manner by not abiding by what was then the established law. They wanted the law changed to make this type of illicit testimony legal so that it would be easier for a prosecuting attorney to get a conviction. I guess so, for with this type of procedure, that they used in my case, any body could be convicted for anything. Prosecuting attorneys for the most part are not much concerned about who is guilty or innocent, but about how to get a conviction. They need to do this to clear up the cases before them so that they can get elected in the next election. That is why about one third of the people that are now in prison are in there on one kind of a “bum beef” or another. They also need this to “railroad” their enemies and the enemies of their friends and supporters into prison. If those that are now in prison had a qualified attorney that was on the “up and up” instead of attorneys that are now appointed to represent the indigent; and their cases were not stacked against them by a corrupt County Attorney, so many would not “cop out” to crimes that they did not commit in those dastardly “plea bargaining” schemes of the perverse legal system. The state then would not have to pay $10,000 a-year per victim to keep the innocent one third of the present prison population in prison. I bring these iniquities (Zechariah 3:4, 9) to your attention Governor Judge, not only so that you may take a hand to clean up the corrupt courts and perverse legal systems in this state, but for several other important reasons. **#1.** To show in this open letter the wickedness of “The Beast” of Revelation, chapters 13 and 17, that now rules the world and is about to be dead; for God has sent down the Revelation of Baha’u’llah, which is the long promised Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven, to establish justice in the world. **#2.** To show that I only have a “dirty garment” (Zechariah 3:3–5, 9) and not that I am a dirty old man. I have fulfilled all of the other prophecies for the Advent of the Promised Joshua, so I will fulfill this one too. I will get a clean garment and my iniquities will soon pass away as prophesied (Zechariah 3:4, 9), regardless of whether you do anything about it or not. **#3.** This open letter will go throughout the world to its peoples. So let those that worship “The Beast” (Revelation 13:8) go with “The Beast” into the fire—the oncoming thermo-nuclear holocaust—that God has prepared for them from the foundations of the earth (Revelation 17:8, 19:20). And, let those who claim to worship God, truly worship God and enter into His Kingdom that He has sent down through His Manifestation, Baha’u’llah. If any one of the tyrants that my wife sent her letter to, of September 6, 1971, would have investigated her statement of, “My husband, Dr. Leland Jensen, was sentenced and placed and is being held behind the stone walls of the Montana State Prison illegally,” they would have found this to be true. They would also have found a lot of very foul play behind this illegal imprisonment. Any one of them were in a position to expose the foul play, which would have been the first step in remedying the situation. Not one of them came by to visit me in prison however, although my wife sent enough back-up material along with her letters to show that I was the Promised One sent by God. When Governor Anderson received my wife’s letter, he was in the plentitude of his power and authority. He had enough knowledge of my case (for he told Mr. Hoven that he would appoint him to the unexpired term of Judge Glore if their plan succeeded) to know that I was illegally incarcerated and that my conviction was the work of foul play. If he had investigated he could have learned of all the gruesome details, if he didn’t already know them. He could have easily exposed all of the plots against me, but to do so he would have had to expose the plot of his friends and supporters, my attorneys, against Judge Glore. Therefore, he would be more motivated to cover-up, which to him would have been more expedient. Governor Anderson not only did not come to see me in prison, he didn’t even answer her letter. So God passed this tyrant by and removed from him His base of support. He then became very ill and had a very bad operation in which the doctors removed his spleen without his permission. Since that time he has suffered the pangs of hell and as a consequence he was unable to run for re-election to the Governorship. Power and authority passed from his hands. There was one high elected official to whom my wife sent the identical letter that she sent the president, that God has not yet passed by. He made some investigation, although he did not visit me in prison. He sent her a sincere favorable reply with some recommendations that we have not as yet followed, but soon intend to. So, this man is still in the plentitude of his power and authority. God, however, will require him to come forth and proclaim me. Then the greatness of this man will become known. My wife’s letter of September 6, 1971 was limited to only a few high officials, and all of them have gone down but one although thousands of people have received a copy of the first edition of *The Beast* and other pertinent material. Now all the government heads in this state, all the government heads in every state and all the government heads in this nation will receive a copy of this open epistle and a copy of my second edition of my rendition of *The Beast* of Revelation. Also all of the government heads of each nation of the world will receive a copy along with a covering letter. This Promised One who is sitting on his throne in prison, with the “stone with seven eyes” before him (for I am yet a prisoner on parole) will separate the goat nations from the sheep nations with the goat nations going into the fire; the oncoming thermo-nuclear holocaust, prepared for them from the beginning, (Matthew 25:31–46). For you, Governor Judge, I see a very dark and ominous cloud hovering over you which is about to descend upon you and envelop you. Should this happen, God will then have passed you by and removed His base support from you. Your condition then will be much worse than those that I have already mentioned above, for this epistle goes into the subject and supplies you with explanations not given the others. If however, you should be able to pierce this dark cloud and see the Glory that awaits by investigating my claim and proclaiming me to the nations and you should arise to serve the Cause of God; you will be graciously assisted by God and become one of the foremost men in the world. The most oppressed peoples in the world today are the prisoners. Not only must this state stop the warehousing of patients in the state institutions, but stop the warehousing of prisoners. This can only be accomplished by the decentralization of prisoners. They need to be brought back to the communities where there are the facilities for training and education that they so sorely need. Most prisoners are anti-social personalities—there are no criminal types—and need to be integrated into the society to which they are maladjusted. Community centers need to be established with properly trained personnel to properly guide these people into this society and proper education and training. For instance, to duplicate the training and educational institutions—the schools, the university—that are here in Missoula, into the Deer Lodge prison would cost over a billion dollars. Therefore, the prison system must come to an end. No one must be imprisoned as punishment, for these prisons are schools of crime and homosexuality and rather than stopping crime they foster it. No Manifestation of God ever, as any part of His Revelation recommended prisons. They are completely institutions of man, not of God. Prisons were established in this country long before there were sociologists. Now that there are alternatives to prison no one ought to be imprisoned unless he could not possibly fit into an alternative (if there exists such an individual). Therefore, the money that is now appropriated for a new cage (prison) must not go down that rat hole, but must be reappropriated to community centers. The only reason that it was appropriated for a prison is that the legislature has been listening to those that are in the prison business (custodial oriented people) instead of the experts. All of the recommendations of the recent major commissions of the government in this area as well as many private organizations, (e.g., U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Correctional Association, American Bar Association), recommend that no new prisons be built but the money be spent in developing realistic and less expensive alternatives. I am asking you, Governor Judge, by using your office, to stop this atrocious mistake, the warehousing of prisoners, in the state of Montana. I also strongly urge you to examine my credentials and investigate the Baha’i claim so that you may proclaim and serve the Cause of God. I am available for further proofs, explanations and consultation. I recommend that everyone read *The Beast* (enclosed) the book *Some Answered Questions*, the *Will and Testament* by ‘Abdu’l-Baha, and become familiar with Shoghi Effendi’s appointment of his successor in Guardianship, so that the Branch may come forth and the Kingdom of God be established on earth as it is in heaven . Your true friend, **Dr. Leland Jensen**   --- **Document Details** - **Type:** Cover letter addressed to "legislator"(s) followed by an open epistle to the governor. *See Archivist Notes.* - **Date:** December 25, 1974 - **Author:** Dr. Leland Jensen - **Recipient:** Legislators (cover letter) and "The Honorable Thomas Judge Governor of Montana". - **Length:** 2 page cover letter, title page, 23 page open epistle for 26 total pages, (original pagination). - **Enclosure(s):** Four enclosures are mentioned. - #1. Dr. Leland Jensen, *The Beast*, 2nd. ed. - #2. Appendix No. 1: In the letter we read, "Refer to appendix no.1 of this epistle where further writings by Shoghi Effendi on this subject appear, taken from his book *God Passes By*." This appendix was not distributed with the letter we have in our collection. - #3. Appendix No. 2: Dr. Opal Jensen, *Letter to President Richard Nixon*, September 6, 1971. - #4. Appendix No. 3: Charles Mason Remey, *Letter to Believers*, September 13, 1969. - **Purpose:** The first sentence of the letter reads "This letter is in response to your letter of August 5th concerning the religious persecution of Daniel Lopez at the Montana State Prison and by the Parole Board." - **Editorial Note:** Lightly edited for clarity, typographic consistency, and web readability. Paragraph structure and substantive wording remain unchanged. Edits include correcting spelling or grammar, standardizing citations, and verifying quotations. **Archivist Notes:** - Copies of this letter were sent to members of the Montana State Legislature on the same day as the letter to Governor Judge. The cover letter to the members of the Montana State Legislature begins this letter, which is then followed by the *Open Epistle to Governor Thomas L. Judge*. - In the letter Dr. Jensen states "I had my wife on my behalf write to the most powerful head of State in the world, the President of the United States. … This letter was written on September 14, 1971…" And then later on in the letter we read "If any one of the tyrants that my wife sent her letter to, of September 6, 1971, would have investigated her statement…" and then again "My wife’s letter of September 6, 1971 was limited to only a few high officials…" The later two mentions don't state who received the letters but we believe they are all the same letter to President Richard Nixon dated September 6, 1971 found in this Archive under Associated Authors > Letters and Correspondence. At this time no other letters written by Dr. Opal Jensen on either date have surfaced. See [[1971-09-06 Jensen, Opal to President Nixon|Dr. Opal Jensen to President Richard Nixon, September 6, 1971]]. - This is the third letter to Governor Judge from Dr. Leland Jensen following letters on July 4, 1974 and July 14, 1974. **Archive Classification** - **Collection:** Dr. Leland Jensen → Letters - **Period:** One year following being released from prison. **Reference Information** - **Permanent Link:** https://leland-jensen.info/letters/1974-12-25-gov-judge-montana/ - **Download PDF:** [1974-12-25-jensen-to-gov-judge-montana.pdf](https://leland-jensen-info.netlify.app/1974-12-25-jensen-to-gov-judge-montana.pdf) - **Download EPUB e-book:** [1974-12-25-jensen-to-gov-judge-montana.epub](https://leland-jensen-info.netlify.app/1974-12-25-jensen-to-gov-judge-montana.epub) - **Citation (Chicago Style):** Jensen, Dr. Leland, to Governor Thomas Judge. "Letter to Governor Thomas Judge, December 25, 1974." Unpublished letter, Missoula, MT, December 25, 1974. 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