The Guardianship was preserved by Shoghi Effendi when he appointed Mason Remey as President (Head) of the International Bahá’í Council, (the embryonic Universal House of Justice,) in 1951. The full meaning of the establishment of that Council and the appointment of Mason Remey as its President did not become fully revealed until 1960 when it was shown to the Bahá’í world in the Proclamation of Mason Remey. Shoghi Effendi, who diligently fulfilled his every duty, did not overlook his “incumbent duty” to appoint “within his own lifetime” his successor (that duty having been assigned to every guardian by the Will and Testament of `Abdu’l-Bahá.) The fact that the majority of the Bahá’í world turned against Mason Remey is their negligence, not his. That Mason Remey stood alone during the earliest part of his ministry is not a judgement against him, but against those who failed to independently investigate the legitimacy of his claim and join him in carrying forward the original, unadulterated Bahá’í Faith. The Guardianship was preserved by Shoghi Effendi, and it has continued, uninterrupted in the Orthodox Bahá’í Faith (the true Bahá’í Faith.)
The Orthodox Bahá’í Faith 