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February 10, 2021

The Old Churches and the New World-Faith – by George Townshend, M. A. (Oxon) (Sometime Canon of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and Archdeacon of Clonfert)

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Having identified myself with the Faith of Baha'u'llah and sacrificed my position as a canon and a dignitary of the Church of Irelan...
December 10, 2020

A Sampler from Mahmud’s Diary – by Marzieh Gail

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We tend to forget what a star 'Abdu'l-Baha was in the worldly sense, what a dazzling personality. We would be much mistaken if we th...
November 18, 2020

The Writings of the Guardian: – “precise and luminous” - by Rúhíyyih Khanum

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In an age when people play football with words, kicking them right and left indiscriminately with no respect for either their meaning or cor...
October 18, 2020

The Missionary as Historian: William Miller and the Baha’i Faith – by Douglas Martin

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A review of William McElwee Miller’s THE BAHA’I FAITH: ITS HISTORY AND TEACHINGS (S. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1974), 358 pages, ...
September 13, 2020

Baha’u’llah as Protector – by Mabel Hyde Paine

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In whatever way we view Baha'u'llah, awe and wonder and an inability to comprehend must loom large in our attitude. An early pilgrim...
August 10, 2020

Baha’u’llah’s Epistle to the Son of the Wolf – Notes by Marzieh Gail

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This is the last major outstanding Tablet of Baha’u’llah. The last He wrote before He left us; before that happened of which the Báb has w...
July 12, 2020

The Divine Servant – The Life of ‘Abdu’l-Baha – Part 1: 1844-1908 – by Jinab-i-Fadil

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Jinab-i-Fadil The life of 'Abdu'l-Baha is very significant among the lives of the past heavenly educators. If we study the histo...
May 19, 2020

Psychology from the Spiritual Standpoint – by Ella Goodall Cooper

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Ella Goodall Cooper We, as Baha'is, approach the study of psychology as we do every other science which is helpful to humanity, sinc...
March 17, 2020

Happiness – Material and Spiritual – by Shahnaz (Louise Spencer) Waite

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Thomas Edison, when celebrating his eighty-second birthday, was asked to give his formula for a happy life. He replied -"I am not acq...
January 14, 2020

1979: The tragic death of the Hand of the Cause Enoch Olinga and his family – by NSA of Canada

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The Universal House of justice has shared with us a copy of a letter dated January 11, 1980, from the Hands of the Cause of God residing in ...
October 23, 2019

July 1950: Pilgrimage to the Scenes of the Báb’s Captivity and Martyrdom – by Hand of the Cause Dhikru’llah Khadem, translated by Marzieh Gail

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A hundred years have now gone by since the meek and holy Báb, the Gate of God, was put to death at noon on July 9, 1850, and even to the p...
July 17, 2019

‘Abdu’l-Baha, The Center of the Covenant – by Juliet Thompson

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Juliet Thompson in her studio 'Abdu’l-Baha: Vibrant Personality and Unique Function of the Figure Who Heralds the Golden Age In ...
February 10, 2019

Question: If all souls' thoughts were entirely given to holy thoughts of God, what would become of the world from a commercial standpoint? – Answer by Mirza ‘Abu’l-Fadl

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circa 1902: Mirza Abu'l-Fadl (center) with some early Western believers Love, faith and being filled with the will of God are not ...
January 15, 2019

Baha’i Scientific Proofs of Life after Death – a talk by Martha Root, 1927

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An address given at the second Baha'i session of the Nineteenth Universal Congress of Esperanto, August first, 1927, in Danzig, Europe...
December 19, 2018

August 2000: The Millennium World Peace Summit: A Baha'i Perspective, presented by Dr. Albert Lincoln, Secretary-General of the Baha'i­ International Community.

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New York - 29 August 2000 Mr. Secretary-General, Excellencies, distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen. Over a century ago,...
November 12, 2018

An Italian scientist extols the Báb: – one of the very first documentations made by a European of the episode of the Báb – by Ugo R. Giachery

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Among the apostles of modern science and liberty of thought, a prominent place belongs to Michele Lessona, an Italian, whose sincere and c...
October 9, 2018

Brief History of Mashriqu’l-Adhkar in America - by Corinne True

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“O people of the world! Build ye houses of worship throughout the lands in the name of Him Who is the Lord of all religions. Make them as ...
August 5, 2018

A Brief History of the American Development of the Baha’i Movement – by Thornton Chase

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Thornton Chase In the month of June, 1894, a gentleman in Chicago desired to study Sanskrit, in order to further pursue his search into ...
July 7, 2018

Excerpts from a letter by the Greatest Holy Leaf to the American Baha’is in 1924

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Let us then, affectionate brothers and sisters, ponder for a while upon the underlying reason that had made God’s divine Messengers prefer a...
April 18, 2018

Centenary of the Tablets of Divine Plan - a talk by Paul Lample, Member of the Universal House of Justice, Bahá’í House of Worship, Chicago, May 20, 2016

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[Please note: some headings were added to the transcript to further encourage readership] Friends, it's such a pleasure to be here w...
January 17, 2018

The Life and Service of the Greatest Holy Leaf - by Dr. Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

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(Adapted from the address of Dr. Bahiyyih Nakhjavani to the Baha’i International Conference, Montreal, Quebec, 3 September 1982) Across ...
December 6, 2017

Remembering Shoghi Effendi as Interpreter – a talk by Glenford Mitchell

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[Transcript of a talk on July 27, 1997, at the Foundation Hall of the House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois] 1997 marks the centen...
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...