An affront Remey Couldn’t Endure: October 1959: Mason Remey left Haifa, and went into "self-banished exile" (Spataro, p. 31) to Washington, D.C. Remey had agreed with the hands that if they would follow everything Shoghi Effendi laid out in his plans for 1963, he would go along with them. Shoghi Effendi's plan for the IBC, of which Remey was president, was that it would become a world court in 1963, and eventually it would blossom into the UHJ. However, in 1959, the hands called for the election of a new IBC in 1961. This led Remey to leave the hands, since he believed they had no authority to put anyone out of office who had been put there by Shoghi Effendi. A Vision Unveiled: Joel Marangella's account sheds light on Remey's evolving understanding of his role: “It was not until the end of His two-and-a-half year Period in Haifa and actually after his departure from Haifa when he was composing his appeals to the Hands of the Faith that for the first time,...