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This is a posting I made to soc.religion.bahai a few months ago:
About 20 years ago, I came up with a list of eight forms of the eternal
Covenant. I don't have the sources readily available, so I will post the
list without substantiation. It reads pretty straightforward to me.
1. The Greater Covenant between God and His Prophets
2. The Specific Greater Covenant regarding the Bab
3. The Specific Greater Covenant regarding Baha'u'llah
4. The Greater Covenant regarding Obedience to the Prophet
5. The Greater Covenant regarding the Succession of Prophets
6. The Lesser Covenant establishing Successorship
7. The Specific Lesser Covenant regarding `Abdu'l-Baha
8. The Specific Lesser Covenant regarding the Guardianship and the
Universal House of Justice
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Regards, Mark A. Foster, Ph.D. * http://www.markfoster.net
"... the modern challenge is how to live with uncertainty. The
basic fault lines today are not between people with different
beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an
element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with
a pretense of certitude." — Peter L. Berger, sociologist
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