If I didnt know any better I would have said that Abdul-Baha was cheating in
order to make 3.5 days into 1260 years. Perhaps Im missing something...
The Master's use of a year to represent 360 days and a month 30 etc., is
well-established and is really pretty universally accepted by
Often, `Abdul-Baha gives different or additional applications of familiar Bible
verses; for example, cutting off the right hand or plucking out the eye [Matthew 18:9]
to mean expulsion of Covenant-breakers [BWF 432] is a completely original
interpretation.
I think that He is not here speaking
I have heard from one of the friends that there is a Tablet from Baha'u'llah in which
He says that if a person wants the things of this world in preference to the spiritual
gifts God offers, God in His justice will give them to him in abundance, because
throughout all the worlds of God, that's
Being a martyr is easier than being a bureaucrat? Amazing!
The true calling of a Baha'i administrator is a very high one. It calls on one to be
a complete person, to have a well-developed panoply of virtues, and to be wholly
consecrated to the well-being of the Cause of Bahaullah and
I'd be interested to know where he got the idea that the Guardian was arranging
these categories from easiest to most difficult.
I assume that is his own view, based on his own experiences. Given that this is the
view of a man who lived through the Nazi persecution of the Baha'i community, it
But none of the above specifically relate to being an administrator. Why not call
the above a saint instead?
You are quite correct, this is saintly behavior. And Mr. Grossman's point was that to
be a real Baha'i administrator, one needs to be a saint.
Baha'i administration isn't about
It has to do with the autoformatting feature.
In Word click
FORMAT
Then AUTOFORMAT
OPTIONS button
AUTOCORRECT tab
The cursor should be blinking in the replace box.
Type the small letter i.
In the larger box below it you will see that a list appears, and at the
top of the list on the
Is it possible to get this memorandum in a Word document, or is there
somewhere on the Net where it can be found formatted? I access the
messages on this list on the Net, and the memorandum came across very
broken up.
Thanks
Brent
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Has the House actually confirmed that the Remey design will be built?
Given that the Master and Guardian approved Remey and his design before
he broke the covenant, it would seem that the House would have grounds
to alter the decision. Does it seem credible or consistent that either
the
'Abdu'l-Baha
permitted the covenant breaker to live at the mansion at Bahji, even
paying their expenses. In contrast, Shoghi Effendi could not wait to
get them out and bulldoze their shanty appendages. How do we view
Shoghi Effendi's actions in light of 'Abdu'l-Baha's?
It's my view
Dear Friends,
Allah'u'Abha...
Does the verses of God include the Writings of the Bab too?
With much love,
Ardalan
In the Notes to the Aqdas the House states that the Guardian has stated
that neither the Writings of the Master nor those of the Guardian are
intended by this verse.
My
Patti Goebel wrote:
Dear Brent,
You are most correct in identifying our neglegence. How often I've =
heard someone say We should have brought a camera! or What year was =
that?
I am not so sure it is negligence; more often we just don't think of it.
We don't have a historical
Mirza Ahmad Sohrab kept a diary of events during the Master's sojourn in
Egypt, including, as I recall, some Tablets. This book, published as
`Abdu'l-Baha in Egypt was reviewed by the US NSA and was a kind of peace
offering to Sohrab in a vain effort to attract him back to the
Administration.
Richard Gravelly wrote:
Below is a narration of those new laws of the Bab'i
Dispensation, Revealed by Tahirih and possibly Quddus as two of the
Successors of the Bab.
And quoted from the Dawn-breakers:
Still others who
recognized the authority of both Tahirih and Quddus viewed the whole
In God Passes By, Shoghi Effendi explains that the Vazir Haji Mirza Aqasi
engineered the banishment of the Bab to the remotest outreaches in
northwest Persia. However, this isolation that the plot of the Vazir
brought about, actually allowed the Bab uninterrupted time to develop His
Faith.
My second question derives from the same sentence of the Guardian, in
which he describes the fruit of the Bab's three-year banishment to the
mountains of Adhirbayjan:
Little did he [Aqasi] imagine that the very isolation he was forcing upon
his Prisoner would enable Him to evolve the System
Some quotes referencing / implying Adam was a Manifestation:
It seems to me that the whole notion of the First man implies a
Manifestation. It all depends on how one defines man and if humanity
implies the capacity to know God, how could one know God if there was no
Manifestation?
Similarly,
Faruq wrote:
Dear friends as we haven't seen all letters and tablets revealed by
`Abdu'l-Baha, we cannot definitely comment that there has never been such
a thing like designating Muhammad Hussayn Shafti, Avareh, as Hand of the
Cause.
There is another sense in which a believer might be
*Another case of suppression involves John E. Esselmont's use of materials by the
former Baha'i historian Abdu'l-Husayn Ayati, named Avarih or Wanderer by
Abdu'l-Baha. Avarih was also a Hand of the Cause
I note that there is no footnote to Mr. Salisbury's assertion that Avarih
was designated
The link to Arthur Dahl's paper didn't come through the last time, let's
see if it does this time.
Brent
http://bahai-library.org/conferences/water.html
QUESTION: Concerning pure water, and the point at which it is considered
used.
David, you might find this brief paper presented
QUESTION: Concerning pure water, and the point at which it is considered
used.
David, you might find this brief paper presented by Arthur Dahl at a
Symposium on Water interesting -- The Baha'i Perspective on Water. I
believe Arthur was working for an international agency at the time, and
may
M. Chase wrote:
Personally, I don't care who does the research. A more important point
in my mind is that Bahais need to figure out for themselves what works
and doesn't work in the administrative order and how to make
improvements. We need to be able to learn how the administration order
Has there been any scholarship on social problems within the Baha'i Faith,
such as abusive behavior, corruption of institutions, and mind-control
cults?
Jim
Jim, I think the questions are unduly harsh. I've helped with
investigations of sensitive cases as an ad hoc basis from time to time; I
If, however, he persisteth in his error, God will, assuredly, send down one
who will deal mercilessly with him.
(Baha'u'llah: The Kitab-i-Aqdas, Page: 32)
I'm not familiar with any interpretive passages in the Writings about this
verse, and I'm not sure how to understand it.
The language
I missed the part of the Constitution and By-laws that Guy posted.
The only specific reference I can find in the Constitution of the House of
Justice to the requirement for the entire membership to be present in
consultation on a matter, is at the very end of the Constitution and
Bylaws:
This
Are there any other Mount Carmel's I
should know about?
As has been quoted, the Master compared the vegetation in California to
that of the Holy Land, and then prayed that a spiritual similarity would
develop as well. I recall reading a pilgrim's note where the Master
referred to California
Also, I'm
trying to get in
touch with two of his old friends, Andrea Jordan and Jeff Miller. I know
Andrea Jordan used to live in Baytown, TX, taught ESL in China, and has two
children (Vahid and Deana). Jeff Miller, I believe, lives in Mexico. Any
form of contact information for these two
In my personal view, the moral corruption in America is accelerating. In
the last 2 or 3 years the lack of moral conscience related to sexuality
among many of the young, and the increasing number of people who have no
conscience when it comes to murder and other acts for selfish reasons, has
Dear Brent,
Do you have any evidence for this? It is my understanding that the crime rate
is actually down.
I've been fortunate in that I have not been touched much by crime in my
life, so it is not based on that kind of personal experience. Nor is it
because crimes now are more heinous,
From the language of this statement do we know whether 'His' in the
fragrance of His garment refers to God or to the person of
Baha'u'llah?
And then, what is your understanding as to the meaning of 'garment'?
The metaphor of the 'fragrant garment' is frequently used in the Baha'i
Does anyone know how I can write to his widow with my condolences? Loni Bramson
You can write to any U.S. Baha'i c/o the Office of Membership and Records,
Baha'i National Center, Wilmette IL 60091 and that office will forward it.
They will not release the address to you, but will forward it.
You state the Writings bestow the House of Justice with these powers but
what you quote is the House of Justice itself which isn't exactly saying
that at all.
The Writings bestow those powers but often do not use those terms of art.
The House has condensed the descriptions of those powers
That is, each word of
the Constitution describing a power of the House rests squarely on a verse
in the Writings.
Dear Brent,
Where does it say that?
In a letter dated 3 June 1997 from the House of Justice. I found it on
Ocean:
There remains the question concerning the authority for
That is, each word of
the Constitution describing a power of the House rests squarely on a
verse
? in the Writings.
}Dear Brent,
}Where does it say that?
This is again stated by the House of Justice in more exalted language, in
the Constitution itself:
The provenance, the authority, the
There are some passages from Baha'u'llah which echo prophecies in the
Revelation of John.
In the Revelation of John, Chapter 4 is written:
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the
first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me;
which said,
It is often pointed out that the House of Justice is infallibly guided
when it legislates to fill the gaps intentionally left by Baha'u'llah in
the fabric of His laws. That is, that the House is guided in the laws the
House itself creates. This is true of course, but as the Guardian states,
the
How to type the word Bahai with accents over the a and the i
(I'm using Windows ME so your mileage may vary)
1. B
2. a
3. h
4. control- apostrophe (hold down the control key and strike the
apostrophe key, the key two to the right of the L key, and release them
both at the same time.)
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From: Timothy Nolan
My point, which may have been obvious from my previous post,
is that if Baha'u'llah was neither Nabi nor Rasul, if He was of a different
category, then the Seal of the Prophets problem goes away.
That is, if Muhammad said there will be no X or Y
Don Calkins writes:
As does Jesus in the parable of the master of the vineyard (Mark 12,
Mathew 21, and Luke 20).
And the other aspect of that parable/ prophecy by Jesus, is that the
Hebrew word carm means vineyard and carm-El means Vineyard of the
Lord.
Four times He visited Haifa, His
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