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November 10, 2017
Glimpses of life in Iran in 1910 – by Dr. Susan Moody
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[Excerpts from two letters by Dr. Susan Moody describing conditions of women, medical work, bravery of Baha’is, school for girls, and pl...
October 17, 2017
The Spirit of ‘Abdu’l-Baha – by Horace Holley
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The divine power, in its fullness, penetrates the universe at all times, but each existent being shows for this power only to its own deg...
September 23, 2017
Happiness from the Baha’i Point of View – by Martha Root
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The Baha’i Cause now encircling the world is a movement for unity of religions, universal peace and a universal language. Its founders, the...
August 15, 2017
Humanity's Coming Encounter with Baha'u'llah - by Douglas Martin, April 1992
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Anniversaries are an invitation to take stock, to review where we have come from. The hope is that we can secure a vantage point from whi...
July 26, 2017
Message to Persian Baha'is abroad for “The Holy Year", 1992 - from Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum
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This is a wonderful opportunity to say something to the dear Persian Baha'is as we approach the hundredth anniversary of the Ascensio...
June 21, 2017
Question: What is easy familiarity? – from a talk by Peter Khan, 1984
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[Transcribed from video tape at Hawaii Summer School 1984, from a question asked] “The practice of indiscriminate kissing and embracing...
May 12, 2017
Parents' Words and Deeds are Children's Examples – by Hand of the Cause Ali-Akbar Furutan
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“Take heed, O people, lest ye be of them that give good counsel to others but forget to follow it themselves.” (Baha’u’llah, ‘Gleanings fro...
March 7, 2017
The Meaning of: Jesus, Son of God – by Hand of the Cause William Sears
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Misunderstanding about the reality of the station of Christ has caused great difficulties among Christians for over nineteen centuries. It ...
October 19, 2016
The Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha – by Amin Banani
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The Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha are the fruit of more than half a century of prolific labour from His early twenties to the seventy-eighth a...
September 8, 2016
Education of Children -- an interview with Hand of the Cause Mr. Furutan, April 1953
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Question: How can we teach values to children? Mr. Furutan considered this a very important subject. He clarified the question by say...
August 14, 2016
The Seed Sowing of the Ages - by May Maxwell
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Address at the Fifth Session of the Baha’i Congress Hotel Mealpin, New York City April 28th, 1919 (Stenographically reported) B...
June 4, 2016
The White Silk Dress – reflecting on the life of Táhirih (The Pure One) - by Marzieh Gail
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The body lies crushed into a well, with rocks over it, somewhere near the center of Tihran. Buildings have gone up around it, and traffic p...
April 20, 2016
The signs in the heavens during the appearance of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh - by Hand of the Cause William Sears
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It is said in Scripture and Tradition that at the time of the birth or announcement of every Messenger of God, a star or a sign appears in...
January 16, 2016
The Greatest Holy Leaf’s unparalleled role in religious history and the significance of the Arc, the site of her resting place – by Baharieh Rouhani Ma’ani
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The year 2013 marks the hundredth anniversary of ‘Abdu’l- Bahá’s return to the Holy Land from His historic trip to Egypt and the West. He l...
November 29, 2015
The Meaning of Resurrection – by Hand of the Cause William Sears
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What is the meaning of the Resurrection of His Holiness Jesus the Christ? It is written that after three days He rose from the dead. How ...
September 6, 2015
The God Who walks with men – by Hand of the Cause Horace Holley
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From an older day we hear there was a time when God walked with men. That ancient belief is now a faded rose that has lost its glory, but i...
May 17, 2015
The Baha'i Concept of God – a talk by Ali-Kuli Khan, 1956
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The Baha'i concept of God is that of a Supreme Being - of course, the language of man is inadequate to describe this great reality th...
April 29, 2015
The ninth cycle of the Bahá’í calendar and its relationship to the teaching work – by ‘Ali Nakhjavani, former member of the Universal House of Justice
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[‘Alí Nakhjavání, now a resident of France, served for 40 years as a member of the Universal House of Justice.] The letter of the Uni...
April 26, 2015
Simultaneous Process of Expansion and Consolidation – an explanation by Hand of the Cause 'Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum
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[In 1964 Hand of the Cause 'Amatu'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum spent several months in India and in the nearby countries of Ceylon, Nep...
April 12, 2015
The Passing of ‘Abdu’l-Baha – from a letter by Emogene Hoagg to Nellie French dated January 2, 1922
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[ Emogene Hoagg was an early believer who made her way from Italy to Haifa soon after she received a cable announcement of the ascension...
April 7, 2015
Interview of Sachiro Fujita, - by Sylvia Ioas, 1975
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Fujita 1971 Note: Sachiro Fujita was born in Yanai, Japan, April 15, 1886, and died in Haifa May 7, 1976. He is buried at the Bahá...
April 4, 2015
Teaching the Cause of God: A Two-Edged Sword – by Ali Nakhjavani
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In one of his letters Shoghí Effendí has explained to us that one of the distinctive features of our Faith is that we cannot separate the s...
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 ...
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