Re: an obscure and unauthenticated translation of an oral statement

2003-10-12 Thread Susan Maneck
That the Bahai Faith could not or should not be organized. Dear Steve, Ruth White would quote a pilgrim's note which reported Abdu'l-Baha as saying the Baha'i Faith could never be organized. She used it to oppose Shoghi Effendi's efforts to create the administrative order. My recollection is

RE: an obscure and unauthenticated translation of an oral statement

2003-10-12 Thread Steve Cooney
Yes, and Ruth White would be of assistance to Herman Zimmer developing his thesis of Political Shoghism forty years later. There is a long essay published in Star of the West in 1923, called Baha'i Organization: Its basis in the revealed word (March 1923). This isn't your usual essay. Its a