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March 8, 2015

The Prayers of Baha’u’llah – by Ruhiyyih Khanum

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Not the least of the treasures which Baha'u'llah has given to the world is the wealth of His prayers and meditations. He not only r...
February 15, 2015

Shoghi Effendi: A uniquely significant figure of the twentieth century – by the 1997 editors of “World Order” Baha’i magazine

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[The 1997 editors of World Order magazine were Firuz Kazemzadeh, Betty Fisher, Howard Garey, Robert Stockman, and James Stroke] Shoghi ...
December 9, 2014

The Descent of the New Jerusalem – by Hand of the Cause George Townshend

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Unnoticed by the great world, unfeared   as yet by the forces of Evil that now hold revel on the earth, the cause of Baha'u'llah   ...
November 29, 2014

The Synopsis and Codification of the Kitab-i-Aqdas – a talk by Ali Nakhjavani, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, 1973

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The Synopsis and Codification of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, which the House of Justice has just published, was one of the goals of the Nine Year ...
October 26, 2014

Commentary on the Kitab-i-Aqdas -- a talk by Hand of the Cause Abu'l-Qasim Faizi, 1973

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Dear friends of the United States of America. Your National Assembly has given me a special honor and privilege to talk to you about the ...
October 12, 2014

Shoghi Effendi, Expounder of the Word of God – by David Hofman

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[This essay was originally presented to the Ninth Annual Conference of the Association of Baha'i Studies. 'The Vision of Shoghi E...
September 20, 2014

A Tribute to Shoghi Effendi – a talk by Hand of the Cause Amelia Collins given in July 1958

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(The following address was delivered by Amelia Collins, Hand of the Cause, Haifa, Israel, at the Intercontinental Baha'i Conference...
July 1, 2014

The Martyrdom of the Báb – by Hand of the Cause William Sears

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A wave of violence unprecedented in its cruelty, its persistency, and its breadth swept the face of the entire land. From Khurasan on the ...
February 8, 2014

Manifestations of God – a brief introduction to the lives and teachings of Krishna, Buddha, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, the Báb, and Bahá’u’lláh – by Hushmand Fatheazam

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Krishna Krishna was a Messenger of God. His Message was the Message of love. He was born in a prison. This was a sign for us to know ...
December 15, 2013

Absence of women from the pages of the early history of the Bábi-Bahá’í Faith – by Baharieh Rouhani Ma’ani

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Women are generally absent from the pages of the early history of the Bábi-Bahá'í Faith and there are reasons for it. Their absence i...
November 20, 2013

Does Soul Survive Body? – by Louis G. Gregory

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Does soul survive body? This question has at times puzzled sages as well as peoples of lesser rank. What we know as death is so common th...
October 15, 2013

Baha’u’llah’s 'Epistle to the Son of the Wolf': explanation of its background circumstances and certain words and phrases, and elucidation concerning its uniqueness – by Marzieh Gail, 1953

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"I was walking in the Land of Tá (Tihrán)—the dayspring of the signs of thy Lord—when lo, I heard the lamentation of the pulpits and...
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...