Editing Mason Remey (section)

===Fracturing===

Beginning in 1966–67, Remey was abandoned by almost all of his followers,{{sfn|Johnson|2020|p=44}} and his movement began to weaken and decline rapidly.{{sfn|Fareed|2015}} Besides dissolving the institutions that he had organized, Remey began focusing on impending global catastrophe and criticizing Shoghi Effendi.

In the late 1940s, he expressed his belief that nuclear war would destroy much of the world, and by the 1960s he stated publicly that the Earth's axis would tilt and produce global floods. He encouraged his followers to move to high ground in the [[Rocky Mountains]] to avoid the imminent floods.{{sfn|Balch|1983|p=131}} These beliefs were the foundation of why he deposited copies of his memoirs in several prominent libraries in 1940, to ensure that a set would survive.{{sfn|Stockman|1995}}

In 1966 he became very critical of Shoghi Effendi. In a letter that year he reasoned that Shoghi Effendi had been practicing the religion of the Báb, and that,{{sfn|Johnson|2020|p=43}}

{{blockquote
|text=The first Guardian of the Faith so construed the Master Abdu'l Baha's Will and Testament that he formed his Administration upon the Babi Faith and not upon the Baha'i Faith. This mistake has caused so much confusion and misunderstanding and trouble that the only thing for the second Guardian to do, to set matters aright, is to discard all which Shoghi Effendi did and to institute a New Faith which shall be the Orthodox Faith under the Holy Name of ABHA in order to carry out the conditions that will lead to the establishment of the TRUE Baha'i Faith (of Baha'u'llah) which Faith has not yet been established in the world.
}}

In a further letter the following year, Remey again repeated that, "the First Guardian Shoghi Effendi built his Administration about the Babi Faith and not about the Baha'i Faith. Shoghi Effendi was a very confused soul. He was an ego maniac. He flaunted and disobeyed the laws of the Aqdas and created all this confusion himself."{{sfn|Johnson|2020|p=44}}

These ideas came as a surprise to Remey's small band of followers, and nearly all of them abandoned him. They were not organized until several of them began forming their own groups based on different understandings of succession, even before his death in 1974.{{sfn|Barrett|2001}}{{sfn|Warburg|2006|p=206}} The majority of them claimed that Remey was showing signs of senility.{{sfn|Johnson|2020|p=44}} The number of people who recognized his claim had greatly diminished by the time of his death.{{sfn|Momen|Smith|1989}}