Vaughn Sheline wrote: > > To my mind, spiritual winter denotes spiritual oppression and the widespread > disappearance of the love of God and human virtues. > > Although I suppose there must be occasional periods of time during which > future Manifestations of God will be recognized initially by only a few and > initially will be opposed, I think the authoritative interpretations of the > Baha'i Writings indicate that one of the distinctions between the present > Day of God and previous Days is that spiritual winters will not occur during > the successive Dispensations which will occur within the 5,000 century > Baha'i Cycle. > Could you give some citations for this idea? The only ones I can think of circle around the idea of this being "the day which shall not be followed by night".
The fact that the Sun of Guidance, in the form of the House of Justice, does not go away (night time) does not mean that it will have much effect or be paid attention to. So to me, the analogy to a spiritual winter, as opposed to a spiritual night, seems very apt. In my opinion, during this period, Baha'i principles will be secularized and trivialized; and only lip service given to the Faith and Its institutions. For additional comments, see the end of my other post on fundamentalism. Don C -- He who believes himself spiritual proves he is not. ---------- You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.jccc.net/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=bahai-st news://list.jccc.net/bahai-st http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist (public) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (public)
