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September 18, 2013

A Sacred History -- a talk by Matthew Weinberg, given at the formal opening of the Terraces of the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel, on 22 May 2001

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Today we commemorate a sacred history of unexampled love, supreme sacrifice, and divine vision. It is a narrative prefigured in the pronoun...
August 27, 2013

My Visits with ‘Abdu’l-Baha in 1901 & 1912 – transcript of a recording by William Copeland Dodge, February 6th, 1959

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This is William Copeland Dodge. Before relating the account of my visits with 'Abdu'l-Baha in 1901 & 1912 may I offer the fol...
August 3, 2013

The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah -- a talk by Hand of the Cause Abu'l-Qasim Faizi, December 9, 1967, Wilmette, Illinois

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First of all, a general description of The Hidden Words: When you study The Hidden Words, and compare it with other Writings of Bahá...
July 1, 2013

The Supreme Affliction: A Study in Baha’i Economics and Socialization – by Alfred E. Lunt

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[This article which was passed by the Reviewing Committee was originally printed in Star of the West, vol. 23, no. 3, June 1932 at the req...
September 20, 2012

This Earthly Life and the Journey of the Soul after Death -- some reflections by John S. Hatcher, 1994

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However knowledgeable we may become about the divine origins or our cosmos, however confident we may be about the destiny of humankind on t...
August 14, 2012

A day When the Faithful Rejoiced – by Hand of the Cause Abu’l-Qasim Faizi

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A gigantic container of pearls and jewels with multifarious forms and hues was the Albert Hall [1963, London, England] when more than 6,000 ...
July 18, 2012

The Baha’i Movement in Japan – by Tokujiro Torii, 1931

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“O my friends! Have ye forgotten that true and radiant morn, when in those hallowed and blessed surroundings ye were all gathered in My pr...
June 23, 2012

Some warm memories of ‘Abdu’l-Baha -- by Stanwood Cobb

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I first met ‘Abdu’l-Baha vicariously, so to speak, and it was this meeting that brought me into the Baha’i Faith in the summer of 1906. It h...
May 26, 2012

The Word of God, the world of spirit, and the world of matter — a talk by Lua Getsinger

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December 17, 1911, Sunday evening California Club Hall, San Francisco, California (Stenographically reported by B.S. Straum) One time in...
April 20, 2012

Notes on Baha’i concept of spirituality – by Adib Taherzadeh

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In their message to the participants at the International Conference in Dublin, the Universal House of Justice called for a campaign of sp...
February 16, 2012

The Valley of Love -- by Juliet Thompson

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The “Seven Valleys” of Baha’u’llah is a letter written by Him to an eminent Sufi, in which the Poet of poets, the supreme Revelator of thi...
January 24, 2012

The Significance of the House of 'Abdu'lláh Páshá -- an article prepared at the World Center and sent to all National Spiritual Assemblies on 4 March 1975 by the Department of the Secretariat of the Universal House of Justice

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Some of the most poignant, dramatic and historically significant events of the Heroic Age of our Faith are associated with this house, whic...
December 25, 2011

Huququ’llah (The Right of God) – a talk by the Hand of the Cause Dr. ‘Ali-Muhammad Varqa at the Sixth International Convention, Haifa, May 1, 1988

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Dearly loved friends, At the inception of the Six Year Plan of the Universal House of Justice, which coincided with dramatic changes in m...
December 10, 2011

The Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice – a talk by Ian Semple, former member of the Universal House of Justice, London, 28 January, 2006 [1]

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When, earlier today, I was recalling these past years, it occurred to me how much the British Bahá’í Community has grown in that short ti...
November 24, 2011

'Abdu’l-Baha and the Rabbi – by Willard P. Hatch

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The dynamic address of ‘Abdu'l-Baha at the Temple Emmanu-El referred to by the author in the following article, was published in full i...
November 6, 2011

Christianity in the Baha’i Message – by Lady Sitarih Blomfield

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"No one has ever loved Christ as I do." – ‘Abdu'l-Baha "Should a servant desire to make the words, deeds and actions ...
September 30, 2011

Arising to serve -- a letter from the Hand of the Cause Bill Sears

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[The following is a slightly abbreviated version of a letter sent to the Counsellors, the National Spiritual Assemblies in Africa, and throu...
August 4, 2011

The Greatest Holy Leaf: A Reminiscence – by ‘Ali Nakhjavani

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(Excerpts from an address presented during the World Centre seminar commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of the Greatest H...
May 27, 2011

The Beloved of All Hearts - Shoghi Effendi -- a talk by Hand of the Cause Dhikru’llah Khadem

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November, 1984 Ninth Annual Conference of the Association for Baha'i Studies Ottawa, Canada  I have been asked to speak of the be...
May 10, 2011

Count Leo Tolstoy and the Baha’i Movement – by Martha L. Root

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When I was in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1927, I met the secretary of Count Leo Tolstoy, Mr. Valentin Bulgakov; we had a long talk about Co...
April 8, 2011

A Message of Love from Hand of the Cause of God Enoch Olinga

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(After his triumphant tour through the Western Hemisphere, Hand of the Cause of Cod Enoch Olinga sent the following letter to all the Nation...
February 25, 2011

The value of prayer – A talk by Hand of the Cause John Robarts

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House of Worship in Wilmette March 20, 1974 From my earliest days in the Faith [Mr. Robarts and his wife Audrey have been Baha'i...
February 14, 2011

Reflecting on what it means to be a Baha’i – A talk given by Hand of the Cause, Amatu’l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum in India, in 1964

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Transcript of a talk given in 1964 at an all-India Teaching Conference, arranged by the National Spiritual Assembly at Gwalior Teaching Ins...
February 5, 2011

Explanation of the Emblem of the Greatest Name – by Hand of the Cause Abu’l-Qasim Faizi

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“From eternity Thou hast been removed far above the reach and the ken of the comprehension of Thy servants, and immeasurably exalted above t...
January 11, 2011

“Before Abraham was, I am”! – by Thornton Chase, “The First Baha’i in America”

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(A letter written by Thornton Chase , of Chicago, Ill., on September 27th, 1902, to a Christian studying the Baha’i Revelation) Your le...