tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58674556472433944182024-03-14T03:14:01.078-07:00Baha'is Under the Provisions of the Covenant - IndiaBUPC Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00525915713265392942noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867455647243394418.post-40682263825675984902021-06-12T00:42:00.003-07:002021-06-12T00:42:19.168-07:00We Condemn the Unjustified Court Case Against the BUPC Baha’is<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Bitter, Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">We Condemn the Unjustified Court Case Against the BUPC Baha’is</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Bitter, Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivZwuu6mFGl-N1B2u4Clb6s7ZwmApAVyUqzTKy4S4-VMpW3W4aRF_kMxz0ZwmwXcpAKPHPdaklOPzcN_CVWY5z_OKV3t13B1xhZdPAkNsldVMtbAh714_iSaO_dFQC1WbhGKChyphenhypheneU2hBzb/s640/hammer-1278402_640.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="640" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivZwuu6mFGl-N1B2u4Clb6s7ZwmApAVyUqzTKy4S4-VMpW3W4aRF_kMxz0ZwmwXcpAKPHPdaklOPzcN_CVWY5z_OKV3t13B1xhZdPAkNsldVMtbAh714_iSaO_dFQC1WbhGKChyphenhypheneU2hBzb/w640-h444/hammer-1278402_640.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Bitter, Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Bitter, Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We, BUPC Baha’is of India, condemn the frivolous suit and the other ridiculous and unfounded attempts to defame us or forestall teaching efforts. It is yet another attempt to shut down our Baha’i websites and restrict our public internet teaching effort (see file attached).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Bitter, Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While the teachings of Bahaullah are based on justice, Universal House of justice <span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>leaves no opportunity to scuttle efforts of other sects of Baha’is.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Bitter, Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As a reminder, on previous such attempts, the fake UHJ has been defeated three times in court <i style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">{at WIPO </i></span><i style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2005: <a href="http://www.bupc.org/wipo/wipo-press-release.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); border: 0px; color: #ea141f; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0s ease 0s, color 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.bupc.org/wipo/wipo-press-release.html</a>) and in the United States Federal Court of the 7th circuit and upheld in the US 7th circuit Federal Court of Appeal in the year 2010 (<a href="https://cite.case.law/f3d/628/837/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); border: 0px; color: #ea141f; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0s ease 0s, color 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">https://cite.case.law/f3d/628/837/</a>)}.</i><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> UHJ has not learnt from the past and dares to be humiliated fourth time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Bitter, Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We appeal to all justice loving people of the world to condemn this un-democratic attempt of Heterodox Baha’is, who leave no stone unturned to criticize various countries like Iran, Iraq, India, Korea etc for persecuting the Baha’is, while they themselves are treating the other sects of Baha’is with intimidation of court cases. The UHJ is over-confident of its money and muscle power and think it can get away with anything and everything. Alas, their assessment is at grave error.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Bitter, Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0cm; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Every such attempt only helps us to further serve our united global educational teaching efforts, and fan the flames of the love of God in </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: New, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the hearts, minds and souls of all the peoples of the world<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Bitter, Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Bitter, Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0cm; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: New, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Baha’is under the provision of Covenant<span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>of India.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Bitter, Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0cm; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: New, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Bitter, Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0cm; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: New, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Originally posted on Official India Baha'i website: <a href="http://www.bahai-india.com/2021/06/we-condemn-unjustified-court-case.html">http://www.bahai-india.com/2021/06/we-condemn-unjustified-court-case.html</a></span></p>BUPC Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00525915713265392942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867455647243394418.post-5981893704078031762021-06-12T00:18:00.006-07:002021-06-12T00:18:45.861-07:00निषेध ! निषेध ! निषेध ! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-j6BtCaAHmJ5bKsXbESi91dg3ZntGBdSbJ5qY7uIzg823zA9lrYXoZqHo0fueW5RrfQbbwZphyXowfycokIxWLs3rXjpUPwRz9B832JgvuocmTotrexWrcNH8dHogtEwL2Nuw1IJRydlg/s640/hammer-1278402_640.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-j6BtCaAHmJ5bKsXbESi91dg3ZntGBdSbJ5qY7uIzg823zA9lrYXoZqHo0fueW5RrfQbbwZphyXowfycokIxWLs3rXjpUPwRz9B832JgvuocmTotrexWrcNH8dHogtEwL2Nuw1IJRydlg/s16000/hammer-1278402_640.png" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> <b>निषेध ! </b><b>निषेध ! </b><b>निषेध ! </b></p><p>आम्ही, भारतातील बी.यू.पी.सी. बहाई, आमच्या संघटनेवर करण्यात आलेला खटला आणि आमची बदनामी करण्याच्या व इतर हास्यास्पद व निराधार प्रयत्नांचा निषेध करतो. आमच्या संप्रदायाची वेबसाइट बंद करण्याचा आणि इंटरनेटवर आमच्या संप्रदायाचा प्रचार-प्रसार प्रतिबंधित करण्याच्या आणखी एक प्रयत्न आहे. (फाईल संलग्न केलेली पहा).</p><p>बहाउल्लाहची शिकवण न्यायावर आधारित असताना पाखंडी विश्व न्याय मंदिर, इतर बहाई पंथांच्या प्रचार-प्रसार प्रयत्नांना अडथळा आणण्याची संधी सधी सोडत नाही.</p><p>स्मरणपत्र म्हणून, यापूर्वीच्या प्रयत्नांवर पाखंडी विश्व न्याय मंदिराचा कोर्टात तीन वेळा पराभव झाला - डब्ल्यू.आय.पी.ओ. २००:: http://www.bupc.org/wipo/wipo-press-release.html) आणि युनायटेड स्टेट्स फेडरल कोर्ट ऑफ 7th सर्किट मध्ये आणि अमेरिकेच्या फेडरल कोर्ट च्या 7th सर्किट ऑफ अपीलमध्ये २०१० साली (https://cite.case.law/f3d/628/837/). पाखंडी विश्व न्याय मंदिर भूतकाळपासून शिकला नाही आणि चौथ्यांदा अपमानित होण्याची हिम्मत करित आहे.</p><p>इराण, इराक, भारत, कोरिया इत्यादी विविध देशांवर बहाईंचा छळ केल्याबद्दल टीका करण्यार्या हेटरोडॉक्स बहाईंच्या या हुकुमशाही प्रयत्नाचा निषेध करण्यासाठी जगातील सर्व न्यायप्रेमी जनतेला आम्ही आवाहन करतो. न्यायालयीन खटल्यांची धास्ती घेऊन इतर संप्रदायांना धमकी देण्यात देत आहे. पाखंडी विश्व न्याय मंदिराला त्याच्या पैशांवर आणि शक्तिवर जास्त विश्वास आहे आणि त्यांना वाटते की ते काहीही करू शकतात. त्यांचे मूल्यांकन गंभीर चुकांवर आहे.</p><p>अशा प्रत्येक प्रयत्नामुळे आम्हाला आमच्या अखंड जागतिक शैक्षणिक अध्यापनाच्या प्रयत्नांना पुढे नेण्यास मदत होते आणि लोकांच्या मनामध्ये आणि आत्म्यावरील देवाच्या प्रेमाच्या ज्वालांची तीव्रता वाढविण्यास मदद होते.</p><p>बहाई संविदाच्या तरतूदीखाली (बी.यू.पी.सी.) भारत.</p>BUPC Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00525915713265392942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867455647243394418.post-77147523610237372082021-05-10T13:03:00.005-07:002021-05-10T13:03:49.532-07:00Ridvan 2021 - The Centenary Of the Heroic Age! <p> <i style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The flame of every fire hath been extinguished except the Flame which the hands of Thine omnipotence have kindled, and whose radiance Thou hast, by the power of Thy Name, shed abroad before all that are in Thy heaven and all that are on Thy earth. As the tribulations deepen, it waxeth hotter and hotter. </span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><i><b>Baha’u’llah</b></i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJs0xAncVoAjhjW3qhZttTVZuLNmPmc-zBakv7zZqiI5EBgmfMYMDlMnybO1lUoRuKAVwr12lpCffc6GQky7O2KdsGLuW-NcSMP2rKiJA3B6HMRbEQUnj3TPtf10RPB6NzOvvfFBceXr-0/s1200/file-20171130-30931-mb6d9m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJs0xAncVoAjhjW3qhZttTVZuLNmPmc-zBakv7zZqiI5EBgmfMYMDlMnybO1lUoRuKAVwr12lpCffc6GQky7O2KdsGLuW-NcSMP2rKiJA3B6HMRbEQUnj3TPtf10RPB6NzOvvfFBceXr-0/w400-h400/file-20171130-30931-mb6d9m.jpg" width="400" /></a></i></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><i><br /><b><br /></b></i></span><p></p><p>Dear friends,</p><p><br /></p><p>Allah’u’Abha!</p><p><br /></p><p>The promises of God for the unification of the entire human race, functioning cooperatively as a loving and caring family, kind to all, compassionate to all, and having the well-being of all first and foremost in the intentionality all our endeavors has finally come upon us all due to the current global crisis that effects us all. “As the tribulations deepen” the fires of the love of God and for the Oneness of Humanity are only more strongly fueled and set ablaze by the breaths of the Holy Spirit which Baha’u’llah states can be heard in the sighs and prayers of all the people for the Victory of His Cause, the Triumph of His will, and the growth and fast acting solutions enshrined in His everlasting Kingdom.</p><p><br /></p><p>“Will this misery-laden world ever attain happiness?” a visitor asked one day. The Master replied: “It is nearly two thousand years since His holiness the Lord Christ taught this prayer to His people: ‘Thy Kingdom come, It will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven.’ Thinkest thou that He would have commanded thee to pray for that which would never come? That prayer is also a prophecy.”</p><p><br /></p><p>“‘Abdu’l-Baha, when will the Kingdom come? How soon will His Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven?”</p><p><br /></p><p>“It depends on how intensely you, each and every one of you, serve day and night. Ye are all torches that I have lighted with mine own hands. Go forth, light others till all the separate waiting servants are linked together in a Great Unity.</p><p><br /></p><p>“Those who are working alone are like ants, but when they are united they will become as eagles.</p><p><br /></p><p>“Those who work singly are as drops, but, when united, they will become a vast river carrying the cleansing water of life into the barren desert places of the world. Before the power of its rushing flood, neither misery, nor sorrow, nor any grief will be able to stand. Be united! It is rather dangerous to be an isolated drop. It might be spilled or blown away.”</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On November 28, 1921 ‘Abdu’l-Baha ascended into the Abha realm, and the sacred Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha (W&T), the CHARTER of the Kingdom (see World Order of Baha’u’llah, p. 144 for more) became activated and went into effect. The passing of ‘Abdu’l-Baha marks the close of the Heroic Age of the Faith and the opening of the Age of fulfillment in the world where everyone and their neighbor is able to have direct and immediate access to the Kingdom of God, understand their personal role in the Covenant and Administration, and receive their personal inheritance of their rays of the Holy Spirit, activating their true genius, winning their spiritual station--the perfection of their own selves--and congregating in the Assembly of their fellow believers in the Presence of God and the Holy Angels in both this life and the next, in this world and in the world to come.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If we consider nature, and the creation of the entire universe, we find a dynamic flowing and growing system of diversity and plurality that is self perpetuating, self-organizing, and self-sustaining according to the inscrutable will of God. Yet when we gaze upon the world of humanity we see the suffering of the people, manmade wars, manmade pollution, unkindness, callousness toward other human beings, disease and starvation, profits above people and the ignorance and lack of a proper education that undergirds these many diverse problems. Since the first telegraph message was sent in 1844 stating “Look what God has wrought!” the communications ability of human beings has reached such a high degree of development, that now a message can be sent instantaneously through the internet and mass media all around the world in not only lightning speeds of rapidity, but actually reaching almost all the members of human family in that same single instant individually. Through this great power, many things that have been occurring and have occurred before are now transparent for all the world to see immediately. Not only that, but this capability gives the human beings the power to respond and take action--and mobilize immediately in groups--to aid and assist the people who may be effected by the consequences of the dire stages in changing world events and local happenings as we move as a unified people through this transitional period from nationalism to internationalism; as the Oneness of Humanity blossoms, blooming-full and abundant, and souls and societies are spiritually transfigured both from within and from without.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today’s Century--marked on the prophetical calendars of all the peoples of the world--is the Epoch of the Divine Evolution of all human beings upon planet earth. Nothing can stop the cosmic clock of transforming all and every species into the essential features of its true being, when instinct, and God given natural selection, cause that peculiar mutation and maturation, to forever change and evolve that species into something new. Such is the caterpillar and the butterfly--and such are all of us now on planet earth: such that God consciousness has flowed forth over the entire world even as the waters cover the face of the sea.</p><p>The elimination of prejudice today--all prejudiced--including of the utmost import religious prejudiced needs to be removed and eliminated from all human society, thought, conduct, behavior, and appearance. The cocoon of the old must be discarded to make way for the new. Only in this way we will all be able to give our fullest and strongest attention to this most important and overlooked fact: the Role of the Divine Manifestations of God in Human Evolution.</p><p><br /></p><p>No one can stop the spiritual transformation of the hearts, minds, and souls of the people: as the spirits of their ancestors rise, like prayers of the martyrs and saints from beneath the altar, and the prophecies of the religions of the past are all fulfilled now in this day today. As stated in the sacred scriptures when it appears darkest in the world, that is where the Cause of God will be made to shine the brightest! For the Manifestations of God are the First Teachers leading up to the Revelation of the Oneness of Humanity in this very day and Age!</p><p>Thus along with the problem comes the solution. But we have to choose to implement the solution, and we have to want that solution and be motivated for it. And we are not alone. God has a Plan, and never changes His method of sending us that solution that we need, by sending us guidance from God in the form of the great educators and first primordial teachers of human kind, the manifestations of God and His prophets and promised ones. These great personages all have revealed the same basic principle of cooperation at the foundations of their various religious systems. If we take a historical view here, we will see that God has been building greater and greater unities amongst the peoples of the world through the appearance of the Holy Manifestations of God as the divine revelators of an ever advancing civilization of which “religion” and “spirituality” are an essential component part that serve the function to stabilize the humanistic and spiritual foundation of God in the hearts, minds, and souls of the people, so that religious prejudiced should be removed; individual differences appreciated, honored and encouraged, not despised nor rejected; and that the diversity of life and life abundantly in both our interior and exterior lives may grow better and better and wax greater and greater in health, well-being and personal and communal satisfaction every day, each day even better and more radiant than the next.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the past, the teachers gave great revelations, and the appearance of the greater and lesser lights (their loyal followers) and civilization building reached the heights of many golden ages. Egypt at the time of Adam and Enoch and the building of the great pyramid of Giza; Greece, Jerusalem, and Babylon at the time of Moses, David, and Solomon; India in the time of Krishna and later in China in the time after the Buddha in the days of King Asoka; Persia, after the appearance of Zoroaster; Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East after the appearance of Christ whose message of “love thy enemy” was sent out all along the silk road route of the ancient world; and the rise of the Islamic Dynasties after the appearance of the prophet Muhammad. But none of this was televised or seen on the internet by all the people of the world all at once. Thus these unities that God formed through these teachers were limited in their time and scope, and specifically tuned to the peculiar needs of their day and age, and when these great cultures and civilizations fell, we were left with the husks of the original revelations, now devoid of the fiery civilization building spirit that they once enshrined, and this is what the people mean when they think about “religions” this day today.</p><p>They are ancient forms of ritual, dogma, doctrine and creeds, that once upheld a beautiful and flourishing loving human civilization in some region of the world, and then later fell into oblivion, in which the surviving devotees merely carry our ritual acts, ceremonies, and commemoration of historical past days once performed by that active society. The result--if studied closely by thinking people with religious prejudice removed--is manifold.</p><p>In the eyes of man clergy classes were established to preserve the ancient forms of ritual and tradition. These have benefitted the people of the world by preserving a large variety of spiritual traditions and religious experiences that individuals are able to have access to, that the people utilize in their own personal and group and community practices: the essence being prayer and fasting, and the personal development of the mystic experience in God as they understand it.</p><p><br /></p><p>These “unities” of the past: due to their lack of potency, the limited restrictions of geography and communications, and the limitations of the growth and development of the spiritual capacity of the peoples in those past days, while able to unite many people for many years, and give rise to other golden ages of the past, were and are still unable to bring about the greater unity of all the people of the world needed now at this time. In fact now, due to “the job security” mentality of the various clergy classes, these former “unities” and their current devotees and populations, now find one another in competition, at odds with each other, and at variance with one another. With no international and universal agreement upon religion, the truth of God, the sanctity of personal spiritual experience, and in the current climate of religious prejudice and warring and competing religious ideas and factions, is it no wonder there is also warfare in the material world of our human material civilization?</p><p>The foundation of true religion is universal agreement and universal cooperation. Therefore in God’s Plan, all these sacred traditions, practices, and unities that have their origin in God, also contain the infallible prophecy of God for the golden age of the future. This golden age is one of mass communication, where everyone has an influence, even as each drop adds to the sea. It is hallmarked by the Oneness of Humanity being is major and first theme. A deep and powerful and greatest potency of a revelation that appears within the very heart and mind and soul of everyone, and is reflected by us all into the formation of the institutions of our outer material and inner burgeoning spiritual civilization.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>“In every Dispensation, the light of Divine Guidance has been focused upon one central theme…In this wondrous Revelation, this glorious century, the foundation of the Faith of God, and the distinguishing feature of His Law, is the consciousness of the oneness of mankind.” (‘Abdu’l-Baha)</p><p>Through the science of many cooperating minds material civilization has progressed until today: we are now in the communication age. Now with the apparatus and means for worldwide communication begun with the first telegraph sent in 1844 we come to the centenary--the 100 years anniversary of the culmination of the Heroic Age in the appearance of the first century of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha. Through the religion and spirituality of many co-operating minds--deepened and loyal to every single provision of the CHARTER of the Kingdom (W&T)--the religions and revelations of the past are RE-VISIONED in the minds of the people of spirit as one divine progressive plan--called the covenant--leading up to our working together as one for the betterment of the world now today as we most need it! The global pandemic, the universal march for justice and fairness for all, the reformation of the world economic system, a need for universal education for all, a high tech environmentally conscious work for global agriculture, the need for a world federal system of government preserving the diversity of our world both within and amongst the peoples and nations of our global village is now not only possible in human capability, but is more than probable, due to the rising costs of and emotional tolls of the spiritual, emotional, mental and material traumas experienced in these manifold crises: it is inevitable. And the educated Baha’i peoples know that the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha--now seen in the first century of its workings and operation (1921-2021)--is the God given instrument for alleviating the sufferings and ills of all mankind: the Charter of the Kingdom, the Charter of Cooperation that God gave: the Covenant of Friendship and Universal Agreement that every eye shall see, once religious prejudice is removed.</p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p>Shoghi Effendi writes:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>“The contents of the Will of the Master is far too much for the present generation to comprehend. It needs at least a century of actual working before the treasures of wisdom hidden in it can be revealed. How can we at this stage and with our limited understanding denounce its spirit and purport.”</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>“Now of the utmost importance is for the believers, each and all, to cling firmly to the provisions of our beloved Master’s Will and Testament, as by this means alone the unity of the Cause, and its safe and speedy growth can be maintained, safeguarded and insured. Such an absolute and unwavering fidelity to ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s Will, and firm adherence to the principles of the Administrative Order is indeed incumbent upon every one of the friends, without any distinction whatever. Upon this basis alone the Faith can be safeguarded and flourish.”</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From the Master:</p><p><br /></p><p>“It is indubitably clear, that the pivot of the Oneness of Mankind is nothing else but the power of the Covenant…. The power of the Covenant is as the heat of the sun which quickeneth and promoteth the development of all created things on earth. The light of the Covenant, in like manner, is the educator of the minds, the spirits, the hearts and souls of men.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Thus the “unities” of the past were given by God to form even greater and greater “unities” until this time today when the people have the capacity for reading, spirituality, and universal understanding: when the rise of science in harmony with religion is understood by the majority, a time when religious prejudiced and ethnic and cultural intolerance are now removed, when justice and fairness for all is the universal cry of the people, when all shall wish to eliminate absolute poverty, and global starvation, when all will rise up for universal education for all, healthcare through whole-person approaches for all, environmental consciousness and clean air and clean water for all. These material gifts and bounties of God are dependent upon the people recognizing God and turning to God and His Plan so that universal cooperation in God may be promulgated, and with our spiritual diversity understood, and the mystery of our unity in God made know, any and every problem that faces and confronts the people of the world, in every day and age, can be resolved by the cooperating people of God, in the greatest unity and golden age that this world has ever seen: the Unity of God, known as the Kingdom of God now established upon the earth as it is in heaven.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now this Kingdom is both a spiritual and everlasting Kingdom that the souls throughout all time enjoy the presence of God, and it is an outward material and spiritual civilization for the planet earth, that empowers the people through the principles of world spiritual democracy to resolve all the difficult affairs of the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>“The foundation of this Cause is pure spiritual democracy, and not theocracy” (‘Abdu’l-Baha, Baha’i Scriptures, p. 449). “Just as in the world of politics there is need for free thought, likewise in the world of religion there should be the right of unrestricted individual belief. Consider what a vast difference exists between modern democracy and the old forms of despotism. Under an autocratic government the opinions of men are not free, and development is stifled, whereas in democracy, because thought and speech are not restricted, the greatest progress is witnessed. It is likewise true in the world of religion. When freedom of conscience, liberty of thought and right of speech prevail--that is to say, when every man according to his own idealization may give expression to his beliefs--development and growth are inevitable.” (‘Abdu’l-Baha, Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 197)</p><p><br /></p><p>In order for its non-violent life-giving spirit to be made know, and the life-giving potency of the indestructible power of this revelation to unify all the peoples of the world through the fulfillment of the prophecies of all previous faiths, religions, seers, traditions, visions, hopes and dreams and promises: God has chosen in the 6000 years cycle of Adam (4000 BC - 2001 AD) and within this first century of the Covenant (1921 AD - 2021 AD) to demonstrate that God is the essence of humility. He does this by allowing the people to do whatsoever they want to His servants the prophets, manifestations of God, promised ones, guides and teachers, and greater and lesser lights. The personal lives of the Central figures in the Faith, the Bab, Baha’u’llah, and ‘Abdu’l-Baha demonstrate this truth, as does the unfolding destiny of the dual successorship fulfilled in the living Davidic Kings (the guardians) and of the Alim, the people of Baha’u’llah who are the loyal adherents and fellow joint heirs to the Covenant of Baha’u’llah and the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha. Consider this Tablet of Baha’u’llah:</p><p><br /></p><p>“Praise be to Thee, O Lord My God, for the wondrous revelations of Thy inscrutable decree and the manifold woes and trials Thou hast destined for Myself. At one time Thou didst deliver Me into the hands of Nimrod; at another Thou hast allowed Pharaoh’s rod to persecute Me. Thou, alone, canst estimate, through Thine all-encompassing knowledge and the operation of Thy Will, the incalculable afflictions I have suffered at their hands. Again Thou didst cast Me into the prison-cell of the ungodly, for no reason except that I was moved to whisper into the ears of the well-favored denizens of Thy Kingdom an intimation of the vision with which Thou hadst, through Thy knowledge, inspired Me, and revealed to Me its meaning through the potency of Thy might. And again Thou didst decree that I be beheaded by the sword of the infidel. Again I was crucified for having unveiled to men’s eyes the hidden gems of Thy glorious unity, for having revealed to them the wondrous signs of Thy sovereign and everlasting power. How bitter the humiliations heaped upon Me, in a subsequent age, on the plain of Karbilá! How lonely did I feel amidst Thy people! To what a state of helplessness I was reduced in that land! Unsatisfied with such indignities, My persecutors decapitated Me, and, carrying aloft My head from land to land paraded it before the gaze of the unbelieving multitude, and deposited it on the seats of the perverse and faithless. In a later age, I was suspended, and My breast was made a target to the darts of the malicious cruelty of My foes. My limbs were riddled with bullets, and My body was torn asunder. Finally, behold how, in this Day, My treacherous enemies have leagued themselves against Me, and are continually plotting to instill the venom of hate and malice into the souls of Thy servants. With all their might they are scheming to accomplish their purpose…. Grievous as is My plight, O God, My Well-Beloved, I render thanks unto Thee, and My Spirit is grateful for whatsoever hath befallen me in the path of Thy good-pleasure. I am well pleased with that which Thou didst ordain for Me, and welcome, however calamitous, the pains and sorrows I am made to suffer.”</p><p><br /></p><p>This is also along the lines of what Jesus has said as applied to ourselves the heirs of the Kingdom in our joint inheritance:</p><p><br /></p><p>“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my Name, for they do not know the One [Baha’u’llah: the Father--Baha’u’llah literally means the “the glory of the father” (see Mark 8:38)] who sent me. (John 15:18-21 NIV)</p><p><br /></p><p>“In the conduct of this twofold crusade,” writes Shoghi Effendi, “the valiant warriors struggling in the name and for the Cause of Baha’u’llah must, of necessity, encounter stiff resistance, and suffer many a setback. Their own instincts, no less than the fury of conservative forces, the opposition of vested interests, and the objections of a corrupt and pleasure-seeking generation, must be reckoned with, resolutely resisted, and completely overcome. As their defensive measures for the impending struggle are organized and extended, storms of abuse and ridicule, and campaigns of condemnation and misrepresentation, may be unloosed against them. Their Faith, they may soon find, has been assaulted, their motives misconstrued, their aims defamed, their aspirations derided, their institutions scorned, their influence belittled, their authority undermined, and their Cause, at times, deserted by a few who will either be incapable of appreciating the nature of their ideals, or unwilling to bear the brunt of the mounting criticisms which such a contest is sure to involve. ‘Because of ‘Abdu’l-Baha,’ the beloved Master has prophesied [concerning the faithful and loyal souls adhering to every single provision of His Will and Testament] “many a test will be visited upon you. Troubles will befall you, and suffering afflict you.’</p><p><br /></p><p>The Kingdom of God of this current burgeoning Golden Age of civilization is at once the fulfillment and transcendental culmination of all the previous golden ages on this planet of the past. Its great instrument of unity in the Covenant of God provides a means for a one-world value system that holds the Oneness of Humanity as the axis of true spiritual activity and perspective and the touchstone of all right deeds. It is world inclusive of all peoples and all faiths, all arts and all sciences, all cultures and all languages. It is inclusive of God in the consciousness of all the peoples as they understand it. It is not a secular humanism, that we are now seeing the rampant collapse of the Godless society--not godless in the hearts, minds and souls of the people of the world, but absent from the doctrines, dogmas and creeds of the outworn political, religious, social and educational institutions of the past, and absent from the nonsensical stranglehold of immature and false belief systems that relegate or dismiss the presence of God to a mere dogma or creed, instead of experienced dynamically, personally and socially as the real active power and motive operating force that breaths, moves, and flows forth from God as the operating reality behind the scenes.</p><p> </p><p>Once Varqa asked Baha’u’llah: “How will the Cause of God be universally adopted by mankind?” Baha’u’llah prophesied:</p><p><br /></p><p>“First the nations of the world will arm themselves with infernal engines of war, and when fully armed they will attack each other [without mercy] like bloodthirsty beasts. As a result, there will be enormous bloodshed throughout the world. Then the wise from all nations will gather together to investigate the cause of such bloodshed. They will come to the conclusion that prejudices are the cause, a major form being religious prejudice. They will therefore try to eliminate religion so as to eliminate prejudice. Later [NOW] they will realize than man cannot live without religion. Then they will study the teachings of all religions to see which of the religions conforms to the prevailing conditions of the time. It is then that the Cause of God will become universal.”</p><p> </p><p>This universal global crises of the pandemic, seen by all in the media and on the internet, giving rise for the spiritual cry of justice, equality, and fairness for all in establishing a global economy for our global village that cares for all, protects all, includes all, and accepts all has already overwhelmed the peoples and nations of the world. The depth of the tragedy, the terrible loss of loved ones, the failure to have agreement on the real medical science behind the problem, its origin and its treatment and cure, the failure to act in harmony throughout all the regions of the world as one in response to contain such a threat in the first place--has given rise to the questioning of the deeper meaning of our human purpose in life, our personal unique missions in this world, the direction of our journey as a group and individually. Wisdom from the Baha’i center of the EU, under the provisions of the Covenant, written by MP:</p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p>As promised here are some of my thoughts on the significance of the cholera outbreak in Shiraz and the connection with the corona crisis (and any other health crisis I guess), which I shared during yesterdays...meeting....Please share any thoughts you have with me ��:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the Dawnbreakers chapter 9 a cholera outbreak happens in Shiraz.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a footnote we are referred to a reference in the DALÁ’IL-I-SAB’IH, the book of 7 proofs, written by the Bab. :</p><p><br /></p><p>“Recall the first days of the Manifestation — how many men were dead at that time of cholera! That was one of the marvels of the Manifestation, and nobody understood it. During four years the plague reigned among the Shi’i Muslims without anyone grasping the significance thereof....”</p><p><br /></p><p>The Bab who is meant to be brought to the governor and to be captured, ends up being released because the governor has fled the city due to the cholera outbreak. And He heals the son of his capturer in his own home who then pleads with the governor to release the Bab. Surely this is a great marvel by itself: but to me the book of 7 proofs seems to have a deeper meaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book continues on the subject like this:</p><p><br /></p><p>“...See this verse in the Quran: ‘The infidels have thought that they could take as patrons those who are only our servants? We have prepared for them jahannam (hell) as a dwelling place.’</p><p>This verse was descended for them who took the Christian priests as guides against the Prophet of God, and this very chastisement was their hell during their lives, for there has not been and there is no greater recompense for him who does pious deeds in this world than the approbation of God, and there is no fire more violent than to be far from God in this lower world. Know that this menace of hell is made for those who adore others save God: to adore means here to obey. One does not obey God in this lower world except in obeying that One in Whom one can see God in each Manifestation. Understand well this so as not to obey others besides God. The day in which Him Whom God shall manifest will appear, you will have acted against Him and consequently against God if you continue to obey one of the doctors of the Bayán”....and it continues and I’m not sure where the subject continues or flows into the next, so I will stop here.</p><p><br /></p><p>In another footnote Nicolas writes: “Once more an outbreak of cholera, and no awakening of the population of Shiraz from its heedlessness and unbelief.”</p><p><br /></p><p>What is the significance of a plague amongst the Shi’i Muslims for 4 years that no one can grasp? Why is the outbreak one of the marvels of the manifestation which nobody understands?</p><p>Of course it made me think of our own ‘plague’ in these years. Are the significance’s spiritual, social, scientific, economic, biological...?</p><p><br /></p><p>When I googled ‘Cholera and Covid 19’ I found a few articles. One from Zimbabwe, where, following unwise, corrupt and greedy economic reform structures, there was a terrible cholera outbreak in 2008, The author tells us how the disease can have a 50% death rate, even though with simple things like clean water, hygiene, hydration and electrolytes it can be reduced to 1%. Finally NGO’s stepped in and saved many people’s lives but..only for a little time. Just to save the people and the situation for a moment. The program is reactive and not preventative, not to fix the real problems, to look at why it happened in the first place...</p><p><br /></p><p>From my understanding clean water and cleanliness for everyone would go a long way...Water is mentioned a total of 722 times in the Bible, more often than faith, hope, prayer, and worship. “We made from water every living thing,” the Koran tells us, it’s the foundation of life material and spiritual. With water still being such an unsolved mysterious thing, being able to hold memory, being used in our ablutions, 70% of the planet is water so are our bodies made up of 70% water, and many other components and ideas which helps me understand water is very special and sacred... we are perhaps more literally ‘drops of one ocean’ than we think, when we read this at first ... and then cleanliness; being next to godliness, I’ve heard people in here say before...so.. I believe that ensuring these 2 things for all the people will solve so many things. Health wise, spiritually, economically, socially, scientifically...</p><p><br /></p><p>Going back to the Dawnbreakers chapter 9 for a moment...While people were told not to drink unboiled water to avoid the plague, The Báb told the son of the governors man, who was dying of cholera, to drink the water He had used for His ablutions, that this would save his life. Which it did. Such great potency in the water!</p><p><br /></p><p>The article from Zimbabwe ends with: “Epidemics are tests of social and political systems. Will the coronavirus do the same 12 years later?” (it was written about a year ago by the way.)</p><p>With this corona virus, our current day systems all over the planet are tested, pushed and reformed. In all different areas, socially, technologically, scientifically, and so on...</p><p>While politicians and media have us believe that locking people down, masking healthy children in school, testing healthy people to prove their unsickness, and focusing fully on the one and only solution for humanity, the big bandage on the open seeping wound...a vaccine....</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile scientists and doctors and lawyers with a more advanced and holistic approach are being pushed harder to come with solutions and to speak out. For our health, for our happiness, economics etc. Pushing humanity forward.</p><p><br /></p><p>Zach Bush MD tells almost a love story about viruses, giving us an update in our evolutionary process and helping us deal with an ever increasing toxic environment. I remember Neal also saying that viruses give us an update, a spiritual one I guess?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Other scientists claim viruses don’t exist in the way we think at all. We still know so little about all this ever getting smaller stuff...the science is definitely not settled, nor will it ever be I’m guessing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Could this be one answer to understanding one of the marvels of the Manifestation, which nobody understood...</p><p><br /></p><p>Just as we now don’t understand why and how a system can be so corrupt, to offer retarded, short sighted and inept ways to solve a health crisis and not just to provide access to clean water when they do have the understanding and the power to do so, perhaps later on in the future we won’t understand why we used retarded, short sighted and inept ways to put a bandage, on a big, seeping, open wound... instead of looking at the root of the problem. Now, we might have less feces in the water in most countries to cause cholera, but now we have a more complex situation at hand, we have pharmaceuticals in the water, toxins in the water, glyphosate, and other harmful things...and not only in our water but also in our air, our ground, our food...even so our minds, are full of toxic thoughts...</p><p><br /></p><p>We must live in harmony with nature and God, is that part of the significance of these ‘pandemics’?</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Bab’s book of 7 proofs he writes: “During four years the plague reigned among the Shi’i Muslims without anyone grasping the significance thereof.” Why does the Bab specifically mention the Shi’i Muslims, surely it affected all citizens? Will it much later ‘in a 1000 years’ be written that a corona virus reigned among the Baha’is without anyone grasping its significance?</p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p>*****</p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Friends! Along with the instrument of cooperation, the Revelation of Baha’u’llah founded upon the Oneness of Humanity provides an infallible source of guidance for the remediation of all the ills that perplex the peoples of the world:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>“The American nation, of which the community of the Most Great Name forms as yet a negligible and infinitesimal part, stands, indeed, from whichever angle one observes its immediate fortunes, in grave peril. The woes and tribulations which threaten it are partly avoidable, but mostly inevitable and God-sent, for by reason of them a government and people clinging tenaciously to the obsolescent doctrine of absolute sovereignty and upholding a political system, manifestly at variance with the needs of a world already contracted into a neighborhood and crying out for unity, will find itself purged of its anachronistic conceptions, and prepared to play a preponderating role, as foretold by ‘Abdu’l-Baha, in the hoisting of the standard of the Lesser Peace, in the unification of mankind, and in the establishment of a world federal government on this planet. These same fiery tribulations will not only firmly weld the American nation to its sister nations [such as India, Iran, Israel and Russia] in both hemispheres, but will through their cleansing effect, purge it thoroughly of the accumulated dross which ingrained racial prejudice, rampant materialism, widespread ungodliness and moral laxity have combined, in the course of successive generations, to produce, and which have prevented her thus far from assuming the role of world spiritual leadership forecast by ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s unerring pen--a role which she is bound to fulfill through travail and sorrow.” (Shoghi Effendi)</p><p><br /></p><p>And moreover:</p><p><br /></p><p>“Difference of capacity in human individuals is fundamental. It is impossible for all to be alike, all to be equal, all to be wise. Baha’u’llah has revealed principles and laws which will accomplish the adjustment of varying human capacities. He has said that whatsoever is possible of accomplishment in human government will be effected through these principles. When the laws he has instituted are carried out there will be no millionaires possible in the community and likewise no extremely poor. This will be effected and regulated by adjusting the different degrees of human capacity. The fundamental basis of the community is agriculture, tillage of the soil. All must be producers. Each person in the community whose income is equal to his individual producing capacity shall be exempt from taxation. But if his income is greater than his needs he must pay a tax until an adjustment is effected. That is to say, a man’s capacity for production and his needs will be equalized and reconciled through taxation. If his production exceeds he will pay no tax; if his necessities exceed his production he shall receive an amount sufficient to equalize or adjust. Therefore taxation will be proportionate to capacity and production and there will be no poor in the community.” (‘Abdu’l-Baha)</p><p><br /></p><p>As we all transition through the next six years of the Hopi Purification, the influence, and protecting guidance vouchsafed to our community of the Most Great Name through the joint heirship bequeathed from God through the Covenant of Baha’u’llah (Kitab-i-Ahd) as delineated in the sacred Will and Testament of ‘Abdul-Baha shall continue to be the touchstone to see us through:</p><p><br /></p><p>“Far from yielding in their resolve, far from growing oblivious of their task, they should, at no time, however much buffeted by circumstances, forget that the synchronization of such world-shaking crises with the progressive unfoldment and fruition of their divinely appointed task is itself the work of Providence, the design of an inscrutable Wisdom, and the purpose of an all-compelling Will, a Will that directs and controls, in its own mysterious way, both the fortunes of the Faith and the destinies of men. Such simultaneous processes of rise and of fall, of integration and of disintegration, of order and chaos, with their continuous and reciprocal reactions on each other, are but aspects of a greater Plan, one and indivisible, whose Source is God, whose author is Baha’u’llah, the theater of whose operations is the entire planet, and whose ultimate objectives are the unity of the human race and the peace of all mankind.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>“Reflections such as these should steel the resolve of the entire Baha’i community, should dissipate their forebodings, and arouse them to rededicate themselves to every single provision of that Divine Charter [the sacred Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha] whose outline has been delineated for them by the pen of ‘Abdu’l-Baha.” (Shoghi Effendi)</p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Friends!</p><p> </p><p>Our prayers for all the fellow believers and citizens of India during the time of this terrible calamity and crisis that has encircled the entire globe, touched the lives of all--and contains the seeds of uniting us all. May God guide all the people of the world to the waters of life that are free of price. That all should see the truth with their own eyes and not through the eyes of their neighbor--where this everlasting Covenant of friendship will result in the appearance of the Most Great Justice the everlasting foundation for the Most Great Peace of Our Time!</p><p><br /></p><p>The purpose of the descendant of King David being the president of Baha’u’llah’s Universal House of Justice is so that we can recognize Baha’u’llah’s true Universal House of Justice from fakes, frauds, and imitations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please find Baha’u’llah’s Tablet of the Howdah attached. It is the companion tablet to the Tablet of the Holy Mariner in which, ‘Abdu’l-Baha states that “the Blessed Beauty has indeed foretold future events”!</p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p>I remain yours, your servant,</p><p><br /></p><p>Neal.</p><p><a href="http://UHJ.net">UHJ.net</a></p><p><a href="http://BUPC.org">BUPC.org</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Suffer me not, O God, my God, to be kept back from the heaven of Thy bounties and the daystar of Thy favors. I beseech Thee by that Word through which Thou hast subdued all things visible and invisible to assist me and to assist Thy chosen ones to accomplish that which shall exalt Thy Cause amidst Thy servants and throughout Thy regions. Do Thou ordain for me, then, every good thing which Thou hast sent down in Thy Book.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"></span></p><p>Verily Thou art the Almighty, the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Generous. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Source</b>: <a href="http://www.bahai-india.com/2021/05/ridvan-2021-centenary-of-heroic-age.html">http://www.bahai-india.com/2021/05/ridvan-2021-centenary-of-heroic-age.html</a></p>BUPC Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00525915713265392942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867455647243394418.post-50093701908483101382020-05-01T12:12:00.000-07:002020-05-08T00:06:51.665-07:00Ridwan 2020: An open letter to all the Baha’i world - Directed through the friends of India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dear friends,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">May the blessings and glory of God be upon you all and all your loved
ones in this clear Day of the visible birth of the Great Peace of our times.
"Man schemes and God schemes and God is the best of schemers"
(al-Anfal Q 8:20).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">AS WE come into the fullness of this first Century of the Covenant
(1921-2021), and this penultimate year of 2020, BEHOLD: an Act of God--The
current COVID-19 Crisis, and the universal global lock-down and shut-in
protocols of the Quarantine for all the people of the world--as 'Abdu'l-Baha
spoke in 1912: "All nations will be forced into it."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Quarantine has effectively stopped all the major wars in temporary
cease fire. Palestinians and Israelis have gone home; Yemen signed a temporary
truce to get aid and medical supplies, etc. This may be the first time that the
world has experienced the closest thing to peace on earth! At least for the
last 40 days. According to the New York Times, the majority of Americans say
"No!" to returning back to the former "Beast" materialistic
economy of the American driven so-called "Forever War." The people
are tired of living the way they have been, out of balance, working endless
jobs without breaks, living hand to mouth, pay check to pay check, and
participating--through no other options--in destructive behaviors and
destructive lifestyles dictated by the circumstances of an endless war economy
based on greed, personal aggrandizement, a throw-away culture of instant
gratifications, and planned obsolescence of inferior products, goods, and
services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">This Act of God has in effect said: "STOP!" "Go
home...cooperate with one another...clean up your act....change your
ways....emerge to work together for a better world..." Together We can
make this world not merely a better place, but a real garden paradise on earth
for ourselves, our children, all creatures, and for all future generations.
Obviously if we will work together, cooperate, as the Baha'is are able to do
through our Covenant and Administration--as one soul in one body--this alone
can remedy the situation--all of us real people--human beings--taking care of
the real business at hand of life, and life abundantly! Through meeting,
gathering, assembling, speaking out, and participating together under the
Covenant, God guides us along the way every moment of every day, and all
obstacles are overcome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">For the first time in many years the Holy Mountains of the Himalayas can
be seen again from the low lands of India because the air pollution has cleared
up in just over one month of God halting man's destructive activities, and in
Beijing as well as in other places. The rivers have cleared up in the canals of
Venice for the first time anyone can remember in their lives, and in other
parts many animals are reported to be re-occupying areas now abandoned by the
people. Traffic is down, crime is down, gas prices in America are abnormally
low. The streets of Rome and New York City are vacated and empty (Rev. ch.
16-19). The threats of a coming oil war (Rev. 6:6) with the US and Russia are
brewing at this very time with Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel, Turkey, Syria, the
Palestinians, and other Arab peoples in the midst.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">This current universal Covid-19 crisis has opened a door of opportunity
for universal human cooperation to NOW take place to make the earth a better
place and better home for us all. We sent out a video message for Naw Ruz that
can be found at the links to be given in our follow-up letter. That Naw Ruz
2020 message gets into the prophetical aspect of these things from the
perspective of the Book of Revelation and HOPI Prophecy. Also to be sent out in
follow-up to this guidance letter we have 3 documents of importance we
recently received from the Hopi. These will be uploaded to the Internet and can
be found in the link section in our follow-up letter. Also to uploaded the
Council of the IBC/UHJ has re-issued The Indictment sent out during the April
29, 1980 worldwide media projection of Dr. Leland Jensen. The IBC/UHJ has
reissued The Indictment in time for the 40th year anniversary: April 29,
1980-April 29, 2020 (Ez. 4:6 KJV).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">As for other guidance:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The IBC/UHJ is at the present time establishing a solid communication
network with all the friends throughout the world. A more efficient system of
communication for the business affairs of the faith. On the one hand while we
strengthen our gnostic connections with one another through Baha'u'llah's
Covenant of friendship, we are able to use the proper channels of the Covenant
and Administration to communicate, resolve, and implement both spiritual and
practical affairs more quickly and smoothly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">In establishing the protocol of proper channels the IBC/UHJ will be
contacting the different friends and believers in the coming weeks through our
new contact e-mail address of the Secretary General's office: <a href="mailto:secgen2020@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">secgen2020@yahoo.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The secretary generals of the local, national, and international
councils (as well as the isolated centers) are the communication hub of the
Baha'i world. Baha'u'llah has stated that Our "mere act of...gathering
together" (GL. xliii) is enough to "scatter the forces" of
darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Through the regular communication, assembly, and fellowship of all the
friends everywhere--and including the office of the Secretariat--as well as
holding 19 day feasts, online zoom meetings, and other regular assemblies of
the Baha'is, our community generates a self-sustaining positive spiritual
vortex that has a lasting effect on the world and our immediate spiritual and
physical environment for the better (see World Order of Baha'u'llah, pp. 9 and
19 for more). If you wish to be in direct touch with us please contact us
anytime at: <a href="mailto:secgen2020@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">secgen2020@yahoo.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">This current crisis that began this Equinox 2020 parallels the Exodus of
Moses event almost 4000 years ago. It begins on the Vernal Equinox with
"the angel of death" (Ex. chps. 11, 12) passing over the entire world
in the form of this crisis, only on a scale of "one day is equal to one
year" (Num. 14:34; Ez. 4:6). The outer virus threat is also symbolic of
the other invisible "virus" of a new covenant-breaking strain of
poison that has been circulating through the population at this same time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Passing the test is as easy as falling off a log, Dr. Jensen has said.
Opposition only engenders loyalty in all the rest, states 'Abdu'l-Baha. Like
the physical virus survival only boosts the immune system and strengthens the
body as these tests come upon us. The people need to have ample time to make
their adjustments to the new reality. The work to be done now is the inner
temple work. As we turn toward the God of our own understanding, make our
adjustments, and deepen in God, the spirit, and practical matters such as the
need to plant Victory Gardens at this time, and prepare for what is to come
next. If the Baha'is work together and cooperate, the prophecy states, these
times of trouble shall be like passing though warm-milk for the believers. As
we consolidate our own affairs, and perform our own inner temple work of the
spirit for ourselves and our community this will set a tone and influence those
around us to be able to trust more in God and turn to the Divine protection and
Bounty in this day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Trustworthiness is the greatest portal leading unto the
tranquility and security of the people. In truth the stability of every affair
hath depended and doth depend upon it. All the domains of power, of grandeur
and of wealth are illumined by its light." (Baha'u'llah, Tarazat)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Truthfulness is the foundation of all human virtues. Without
truthfulness progress and success, in all the worlds of God, are impossible for
any soul. When this holy attribute is established in man, all the divine
qualities will also be acquired." ('Abdu'l-Baha, cf. Advent of Divine
Justice) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">'Abdu'l-Baha states that "the day of judgment is not the time for
God to exercise His wrath but to exercise His mercy." This is because the
signs for the reality of God are so obvious on the Day of Judgment (20/20
vision), that it is a Mercy for us all to be guided to see the truth of God
with our own eyes and to directly and immediately experience the personal
reality of God's Promise fulfilled in our very own beings: independent of all
save God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">At the last August Gathering in 2019 we announced that as the "7
seals" of the Hopi Fireclan Tablet were now opened we have entered the time
period of the Hopi Purification that shall last for 7 years, 7 months, 7 weeks,
and seven days. This corresponds with the prophetic events that parallel the
exodus of Moses on the scale of each day for a year, the next seven years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">This lock down shows us that we will not be able to move from our
locations in the time of a great disaster. The India community should look into
purchasing a national center property in a rural area of India (Shoghi Effendi
calls this a "goal city") where the School & Cultural Center
would be safe from both a nuclear war and the earth's shifting crust. This is
to preserve the faith, the culture of India and the people of India, that
includes the Baha'i peoples of India there. A teaching, healing, and refugee
center with enough Baha'i households in that town or village to have a Baha'i
community with people there to accept, orient, and care for students, guests,
visitors, and in the case of disasters, refugees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The American Baha'i Community is in the process of consolidating its
national center and business offices in the rural areas of the State of
Colorado at this time; and with the assistance of the IBC/UHJ has located a
suitable "goal city." This is in accordance with the instructions of
both the Guardians 'Abdu'l-Baha's son, Mason Remey Aghsan and Shoghi Effendi.
Shoghi Effendi stated:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Baha'is must have a new way of life. They need to be different
from other people. They must be distinguished. The more distinguished, the more
they will attract people. The greater the distinction, the greater the
attraction. They must read the Tablets of the Covenant of 'Abdu'l-Baha (Will
and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha) and study the Text of the Teaching (the Book of
the Covenant of Baha'u'llah, the Kitab-i-Ahd). It is not enough to be good and
kind and to lead a religious life today; it does not count for much unless one
accepts the Manifestation of God and His Covenant, and the successors named
therein..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">"The young people must disperse far away, the old ones to outlying
places; they must settle goal cities. Sell your property and pioneer! The young
people of America should go out into the country on farms and work with their
hands and produce food for their families."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Americans are exposed to great dangers. Today the power of America
is in the hands of the masses. There is a terrific power in the press, and the
people are swayed by it. The United States, on a national scale, sets the
pattern for an international pattern. There will be a World Civil War, followed
by the establishment of a world state; all the nations will be a part of it and
will have to conform to it. This war has already started...."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Mankind cannot be purified and cleansed without suffering. It is
positively dangerous to live in cities. The cities are doomed. They will go up
in smoke. They will evaporate. The Baha'is must disperse from the cities...why
do they not disperse? If they do not respond and disperse, they will suffer
spiritually, materially, and physically. In America the destruction will be
great! They must disperse for their own protection. The cities are doomed: New
York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles... America will become the storm
center of the future."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Those with independent means must pack up and go. Those with
spirit must pack up and go. There must be a mass response. I can warn them, but
I cannot make them go. The Cause will triumph in spite of the actions and
inactivity of the believers. If one country falls down, another will make up
for it. The Baha'is have been given the method. Now they must have the spirit.
It is hopeless for capable teachers in the cities (the people will not
listen)...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">"People are flocking to churches through fear. Americans must have
a totally new way of life, become a race of wholly devoted souls, devoted to
God and His ways. They must get to a simpler way of life. The standards of
America must be lowered, have fewer luxuries. Americans do not have enough
belief in God, not enough detachment. They must be more spiritual, disencumber
themselves from things, have Baha'i standards, not American standards.
Americans are too materialistic, too mechanized, too attached to family,
health, and death. There must be less materialism, less intellectualism, and
more spirit. America is the most disturbed nation, politically, on earth. There
is too much organization in America and too little spirit." (Shoghi
Effendi, <a href="http://www.uhj.net/end-time-prophecy.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.uhj.net/end-time-prophecy.html</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Reflections such as these should steel the resolve of the entire
Baha'i community, should dissipate their forebodings, and arouse them TO
REDEDICATE THEMSELVES TO EVERY SINGLE PROVISION OF THAT DIVINE CHARTER-the
sacred Will and Testament-whose outline has been delineated for them by the pen
of 'Abdu'l-Baha." (Shoghi Effendi, Advent of Divine Justice, p. 73)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Today the American Baha'i Community has overcome all of the challenges
and obstacles leveled against those of the past by Shoghi Effendi. The Baha'is
under the Covenant today in America are not like the people in the 1940s and
50s. They have located many goal cities and pioneered them back in the 60s,
70s, 80s, and 90s. The mainstay of the entire Baha'i Community in America lives
outside of these large mega-cities that Shoghi Effendi has warned against.
Those few in or near these nuclear target cities are there for spiritual and
not material reasons. All today are filled with the Spirit. All today have
attained the deep level of devotion, loyalty, severance, and detachment needed
in these times of Test. How else could the American National Council
consolidate its resources, combine its energies, and focus upon one single goal
city at this time, to make the people's national center in the USA? By the
power of Spirit!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Therefore have we all--in both India and America and our community of
loved ones all throughout the world--most certainly attained the individual and
group capacity to take up this task, and reap that great benefits and spiritual
rewards in both this world and the next for working together on this plane of
existence for a common important goal of great significance and impact: The
Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven, the pure spiritual democracy of unity in
diversity, that is, divine civilization for all! God graduates us from the
former cycle and condition, and has opened up this new Baha'i era: and if we
look very closely and subtly, and if we take pause and meditate into deep
spiritual intuition and interior percepts: we may behold the birth and
blossoming of the first green shoots of the Lesser Peace! Has not Baha'u'llah
Himself prophetically declared in the Ridvan Season: "Behold! The Divine
Springtime has Come!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Now in this crisis we have already lost friends, loved ones, and dear
family members. It is my firm belief that those of us who are physically taken
in these things are called by God into the light to be the protectors,
coworkers, and guardian angels over our loved ones still on earth on this side
of the veil. Nothing can ever separate us from each other, or us from God,
because love is simply the POWER of ATTRACTION; and we are attracted to God,
and know each other with God, through God, and in God. As long as God shall
last, Baha'u'llah declares in His holy writings, we shall last (GL, lxxiii).
Death itself is a lie, for we are surrounded by our loved ones, ancestors, and
holy angels, and advanced beings protecting and looking out for us as helpers
unto God in both this life and the next.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">"It is clear and evident that when the veils that conceal the
realities of the manifestations of the Names and Attributes of God, nay of all
created things visible or invisible, have been rent asunder, nothing except the
Sign of God will remain--a sign which He, Himself, hath placed within these
realities. This sign will endure as long as is the wish of the Lord thy God,
the Lord of the heavens and of the earth. If such be the blessings
conferred on all created things, how superior must be the destiny of the true
believer, whose existence and life are to be regarded as the originating
purpose of all creation. Just as the conception of faith hath existed from the
beginning that hath no beginning, and will endure till the end that hath no
end, in like manner will the true believer eternally live and endure. His
spirit will everlastingly circle round the Will of God. He will last as long as
God, Himself, will last. He is revealed through the Revelation of God, and is
hidden at His bidding. It is evident that the loftiest mansions in the Realm of
Immortality have been ordained as the habitation of them that have truly
believed in God and in His signs. Death can never invade that holy seat. Thus
have We entrusted thee with the signs of thy Lord, that thou mayest persevere
in thy love for Him, and be of them that comprehend this truth."
(Baha’u’llah, GL, lxxiii)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">This Covid Crisis and the social distancing pattern must be overcome. We
are going to do this by gathering together on a more conscious regular basis
and communicating with one another through both proper channels and through
individual social and fellowship efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Now is the appointed time--our world wide global wake-up call appointed
hour--to come together and meet with one another. By activating the office of
the Secretary General we mean to open up all proper channels so that everyone
can participate!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The guidance from the IBC/UHJ is to participate. Through participating
in the Covenant and current administration we are promised through Baha'i
consultation to have all of our needs met and solutions given and prayers
answered: when we work together and share fully and frankly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">We look forward to speaking with all the friends and networking with one
another in person or via internet in the coming weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The universe is pregnant with these manifold bounties, awaiting the hour when the effects of Its unseen gifts will be made manifest in this world, when the languishing and sore athirst will attain the living Kawthar* of their Well-Beloved, and the erring wanderer, lost in the wilds of remoteness and nothingness, will enter the tabernacle of life, and attain reunion with his heart’s desire. In the soil of whose heart will these holy seeds germinate? From the garden of whose soul will the blossoms of the invisible realities spring forth? Verily, I say, so fierce is the blaze of the Bush of love, burning in the Sinai** of the heart, that the streaming waters of holy utterance can never quench its flame. Oceans can never allay this Leviathan’s burning thirst, and this Phoenix*** of the undying fire can abide nowhere save in the glow of the countenance of the Well-Beloved. Therefore, O brother! kindle with the oil of wisdom the lamp of the spirit within the innermost chamber of thy heart, and guard it with the globe of understanding, that the breath of the infidel may extinguish not its flame nor dim its brightness. Thus have We illuminated the heavens of utterance with the splendours of the Sun of divine wisdom and understanding, that thy heart may find peace, that thou mayest be of those who, on the wings of certitude, have soared unto the heaven of the love of their Lord, the All-Merciful.<br />
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Baha’u’llah, Kitab-i-Iqan/Book of Certitude<br />
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*Kawthar: A river of Paradise from which all the others flow. Part of its waters are led into a great lake on the shores of which the souls of the faithful rest when they have crossed the terrible bridge which is laid over the midst of Hell.<br />
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**Sinai: the mountain where God gave the Law to Moses. (Qur’án, súrih 7:139 and Exodus 19).<br />
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***Phoenix: A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes.<br />
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63. O SON OF MAN!<br />
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The light hath shone on thee from the horizon of the sacred Mount and the spirit of enlightenment hath breathed in the Sinai of thy heart. Wherefore, free thyself from the veils of idle fancies and enter into My court, that thou mayest be fit for everlasting life and worthy to meet Me. Thus may death not come upon thee, neither weariness nor trouble.<br />
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Baha’u’llah, Hidden Words.<br />
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All the people have formed a god in the world of thought, and that
form of their own imagination they worship; when the fact is that the
imagined form is finite and the human mind is infinite.<span class="Sfootnumber"><a class="Sfootnumber" href="http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/TAB/tab-614.html.utf8?query=Entity&action=highlight#fn1">1</a></span>
Surely the infinite is greater than the finite, for imagination is
accidental (or non-essential) while the mind is essential; surely the
essential is greater than the accidental.<br />
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Therefore consider: All the sects and peoples worship their own
thought; they create a god in their own minds and acknowledge him to be
the creator of all things, when that form is superstition—thus people
adore and worship imagination (or illusion).<br />
That Essence of the Divine Entity and the Unseen of the unseen is
holy above imagination and is beyond thought. Consciousness doth not
reach It. Within the capacity of comprehension of a produced (or
created) reality that Ancient Reality cannot be contained. It is a
different world; from it there is no information; arrival thereat is
impossible; attainment thereto is prohibited and inaccessible. This much
is known: It exists and Its existence is certain and proven—but the
condition is unknown.<br />
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All the philosophers and the doctors knew that It is, but they were
perplexed in the comprehension of Its existence and were at last
discouraged, and in great <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="pg563"></a>despair they left this
world. For the comprehension of the condition and mysteries of that
Reality of realities and Mystery of mysteries there is need for another
power and another sense. That power and sense is not possessed by
mankind, therefore they have not found any information. For example: If a
man possess the power of hearing, the power of tasting, the power of
smelling and the power of feeling, but no power of seeing, he cannot
see. Hence, through the powers and senses present in man the realization
of the Unseen Reality, which is pure and holy above the reach of
doubts, is impossible. Other powers are needed and other senses
required. If those powers and senses are obtained, then information can
be had; otherwise, not.<br />
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<li>Infinite in regard to imagination, for without the mind there would
be no imagination. Another translation of this paragraph is as follows:
“All the people have formed a god in the world of thought and they
worship that form of their own imagination, while the fact is that the
imagined concept is comprehended by the mind which is comprehensive.
Surely that which comprehends is greater than the comprehended, for
imagination is accidental (non-essential), while the mind is essential.
Surely the essential is greater than the accidental.”</li>
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Abdu’l-Baha’, Tablets vol. III pp 561-563<br />
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Creation is the expression of motion. Motion is life. A moving object is a living object, whereas that which is motionless and inert is as dead. All created forms are progressive in their planes, or kingdoms of existence, under the stimulus of the power or spirit of life. The universal energy is dynamic. Nothing is stationary in the material world of outer phenomena or in the inner world of intellect and consciousness.<br />
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Religion is the outer expression of the divine reality. Therefore, it must be living, vitalized, moving and progressive. If it be without motion and non progressive, it is without the divine life; it is dead. The divine institutes are continuously active and evolutionary; therefore, the revelation of them must be progressive and continuous. All things are subject to reformation. This is a century of life and renewal. Sciences and arts, industry and invention have been reformed. Law and ethics have been reconstituted, reorganized. The world of thought has been regenerated. Sciences of former ages and philosophies of the past are useless today. Present exigencies demand new methods of solution; world problems are without precedent. Old ideas and modes of thought are fast becoming obsolete. Ancient laws and archaic ethical systems will not meet the requirements of modern conditions, for this is clearly the century of a new life, the century of the revelation of reality and, therefore, the greatest of all centuries. Consider how the scientific developments of fifty years have surpassed and eclipsed the knowledge and achievements of all the former ages combined. Would the announcements and theories of ancient astronomers explain our present knowledge of the suns and planetary systems? Would the mask of obscurity which beclouded medieval centuries meet the demand for clear-eyed vision and understanding which characterizes the world today? Will the despotism of former governments answer the call for freedom which has risen from the heart of humanity in this cycle of illumination? It is evident that no vital results are now forthcoming from the customs, institutions and standpoints of the past. In view of this, shall blind imitations of ancestral forms and theological interpretations continue to guide and control the religious life and spiritual development of humanity today? Shall man, gifted with the power of reason, unthinkingly follow and adhere to dogma, creeds and hereditary beliefs which will not bear the analysis of reason in this century of effulgent reality? Unquestionably this will not satisfy men of science, for when they find premise or conclusion contrary to present standards of proof and without real foundation, they reject that which has been formerly accepted as standard and correct and move forward from new foundations.<br />
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The divine Prophets have revealed and founded religion. They have laid down certain laws and heavenly principles for the guidance of mankind. They have taught and promulgated the knowledge of God, established praiseworthy ethical ideals and inculcated the highest standards of virtues in the human world. Gradually these heavenly teachings and foundations of reality have been beclouded by human interpretations and dogmatic imitations of ancestral beliefs. The essential realities, which the Prophets labored so hard to establish in human hearts and minds while undergoing ordeals and suffering tortures of persecution, have now well nigh vanished. Some of these heavenly Messengers have been killed, some imprisoned, all of Them despised and rejected while proclaiming the reality of Divinity. Soon after Their departure from this world, the essential truth of Their teachings was lost sight of and dogmatic imitations adhered to.<br />
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In as much as human interpretations and blind imitations differ widely, religious strife and disagreement have arisen among mankind, the light of true religion has been extinguished and the unity of the world of humanity destroyed. The Prophets of God voiced the spirit of unity and agreement. They have been the Founders of divine reality. Therefore, if the nations of the world forsake imitations and investigate the reality underlying the revealed Word of God, they will agree and become reconciled. For reality is one and not multiple.<br />
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The nations and religions are steeped in blind and bigoted imitations. A man is a Jew because his father was a Jew. The Muslim follows implicitly the footsteps of his ancestors in belief and observance. The Buddhist is true to his heredity as a Buddhist. That is to say, they profess religious belief blindly and without investigation, making unity and agreement impossible. It is evident, therefore, that this condition will not be remedied without a reformation in the world of religion. In other words, the fundamental reality of the divine religions must be renewed, reformed, revoiced to mankind.<br />
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From the seed of reality religion has grown into a tree which has put forth leaves and branches, blossoms and fruit. After a time this tree has fallen into a condition of decay. The leaves and blossoms have withered and perished; the tree has become stricken and fruitless. It is not reasonable that man should hold to the old tree, claiming that its life forces are undiminished, its fruit unequaled, its existence eternal. The seed of reality must be sown again in human hearts in order that a new tree may grow therefrom and new divine fruits refresh the world. By this means the nations and peoples now divergent in religion will be brought into unity, imitations will be forsaken, and a universal brotherhood in reality itself will be established. Warfare and strife will cease among mankind; all will be reconciled as servants of God. For all are sheltered beneath the tree of His providence and mercy. God is kind to all; He is the giver of bounty to all alike, even as Jesus Christ has declared that God “sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust”—that is to say, the mercy of God is universal. All humanity is under the protection of His love and favor, and unto all He has pointed the way of guidance and progress. Progress is of two kinds: material and spiritual. The former is attained through observation of the surrounding existence and constitutes the foundation of civilization. Spiritual progress is through the breaths of the Holy Spirit and is the awakening of the conscious soul of man to perceive the reality of Divinity. Material progress ensures the happiness of the human world. Spiritual progress ensures the happiness and eternal continuance of the soul. The Prophets of God have founded the laws of divine civilization. They have been the root and fundamental source of all knowledge. They have established the principles of human brotherhood, of fraternity, which is of various kinds—such as the fraternity of family, of race, of nation and of ethical motives. These forms of fraternity, these bonds of brotherhood, are merely temporal and transient in association. They do not ensure harmony and are usually productive of disagreement. They do not prevent warfare and strife; on the contrary, they are selfish, restricted and fruitful causes of enmity and hatred among mankind. The spiritual brotherhood which is enkindled and established through the breaths of the Holy Spirit unites nations and removes the cause of warfare and strife. It transforms mankind into one great family and establishes the foundations of the oneness of humanity. It promulgates the spirit of international agreement and ensures universal peace. Therefore, we must investigate the foundation of this heavenly fraternity. We must forsake all imitations and promote the reality of the divine teachings. In accordance with these principles and actions and by the assistance of the Holy Spirit, both material and spiritual happiness shall become realized. Until all nations and peoples become united by the bonds of the Holy Spirit in this real fraternity, until national and international prejudices are effaced in the reality of this spiritual brotherhood, true progress, prosperity and lasting happiness will not be attained by man. This is the century of new and universal nationhood. Sciences have advanced; industries have progressed; politics have been reformed; liberty has been proclaimed; justice is awakening. This is the century of motion, divine stimulus and accomplishment, the century of human solidarity and altruistic service, the century of universal peace and the reality of the divine Kingdom.<br />
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--Abdu’l-Baha’-The Promulgation Of Universal Peace<br />
TALK AT THE TREMONT TEMPLE AT THE UNITARIAN CONFERENCEBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, May 22, 1912<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Introduction</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">“Until the heavenly civilization is
founded, no result will be forthcoming from material civilization, even
as you observe. See what catastrophes overwhelm mankind. Consider the
wars which disturb the world. Consider the enmity and hatred. The
existence of these wars and conditions indicates and proves that the
heavenly civilization has not yet been established. If the civilization
of the Kingdom be spread to all the nations, this dust of disagreement
will be dispelled, these clouds will pass away, and the Sun of Reality
in its greatest effulgence and glory will shine upon mankind.”
–Abdu’l-Baha, Chicago, May 5<sup>th</sup>, 1912</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;">These words, spoken more than a century ago by <a href="http://uhj.net/abdulbaha.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3366ff;">‘Abdu’l-Baha</span></a>, son of <span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://bupc.org/genealogy/genealogy-of-christ.html" style="color: #3366ff;" target="_blank">Baha’u’llah</a></span>,
highlight the professed reality that unless and until the principles
and values of the Oneness of Humanity and Unity in Diversity, based on a
foundation of Justice for All, are embraced and infused into human
society, we will not successfully enter into a progressive form of
internationalism and globalism, but will instead find ourselves hindered
and stunted from achieving our true potential.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">“Today
people fear or resent “new world-order” takeover schemes of those such
as announced by Bush Sr. on September 11, 1991. Thinking people see a
pattern in these global events. In reality this pattern is based in the
underlying Pattern of Prophecy. The Bible warns us against
“world-orders” as the “kingdom of this world” (Rev. 11:15 RSV) and
contains astonishing prophetical imagery such as that of the coming of
the Beast, the False Prophet, the Antichrist and the Battle of
Armageddon </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">But the
Bible is not against all forms of world order. In fact it supports one.
This is the coming of the world order of the Kingdom of God upon the
earth as it is in heaven – as Jesus stated in the Lord’s prayer. “Our
Father who art in heaven, hallowed by Thy Name. They Kingdom come, It
will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">The Kingdom
of God is a real Kingdom with laws subjects and a king. It is the
government of God ruling from the throne of King David (Is. 9:6-7) that
is the executive branch of the “House of the Lord” (Is. 2:2) to which
“all nations shall flow” (Is. 2:2); thus international </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">The “throne
of King David” (Is. 9:6-7; Psalms 89, etc.) and that living one seated
upon that throne is therefore the “sign of God” so that we can recognize
the true Kingdom of God from fakes, frauds, and imitations – false “new
world-orders” like those of Bush Sr.; false religious outfits; evil
man-made “theocracies”; preistcraftisms; and phony organizations that
have no authenticity and are in opposition to the person of the living
Davidic King dwelling amongst us who is alive in the world today.” –Neal
Chase, from the Foreword of <i>Child of the East</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">In a time of “alternative facts” and
“fake news”, and through the social static of materialism run rampant,
Baha’u’llah has yet to be seen and recognized for who He is – that great
descendant of King David that the whole Bible is talking about – the
Messiah ben David, and the second coming of Christ seated upon the
throne of David, with a Revelation in the potency of the Everlasting
Father (Isaiah 9:6-7). Baha’u’llah fulfills detailed prophecies from the
books and writings of Christians, Jews, and Muslims, as well as from
the Eastern religions, and Native American Tribes, including the Hopi,
Paiute, and Lakota. The Revelation of Baha’u’llah is a vast ocean of
knowledge, comprised of many books, tablets, and letters, but can be
summed up into 12 basic Baha’i principles:</span><br />
<ol>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">The Oneness of Humanity</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">Independent, Unfettered Investigation of the Truth</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">Religion is Progressive, All Having a Common Foundation</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">Religion Must Be the Source of Unity</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">True Science and True Religion Must Correspond</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">The Equality of Men and Women</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">Removal of All Prejudice</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">Universal Peace Upheld by a Spiritual World Government</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">Universal Compulsory Education</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">A Spiritual Solution to the Economic Problem</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">A Universal Auxiliary Language</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">Universal House of Justice with a descendant of King David</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"> through Baha’u’llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha, at its head.</span></li>
</ol>
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<span style="color: black;">A Time of Entrenched Nationalism</span></h2>
<span style="color: black;">In the seventh chapter of his book, the
Hebrew prophet Daniel envisions a scenario where a man he refers to as
the “Little Horn” rises to power, boasting arrogantly, speaking “GREAT”
things, and making audacious claims. He speaks against, oppresses, and
tries to wear down spiritual and religious groups, and in so doing is
speaking against God. He intends to change the law and alter the times,
culminating in court rulings against him. Through the course of a
timeline of events, his dominion is eventually taken away, consumed,
annihilated and destroyed. On the other side of a fiery ordeal, the
oppressed people at last receive and come into the golden age of
civilization, referred to by Daniel as the Kingdom. So at least there’s a
happy ending.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">In explaining the nature of the prophetic and “living word”, <span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://bupc.org/genealogy/genealogy-of-christ.html" style="color: #3366ff;" target="_blank">Baha’u’llah</a></span>, who fulfills prophecy as the <a href="http://bupc.org/genealogy/genealogy-of-christ.html" style="color: black;">second coming of Christ</a>,
says “We speak one word, and by it we intend one and seventy meanings;
each one of these meanings we can explain.” Authentic prophecy is always
fulfilled, though people’s expectations often aren’t fulfilled – and
that includes mine. The following hypotheses are some thoughts and
meditations on Daniel’s prophetic vision in the seventh chapter of his
book, relating to current events, as one potential meaning of the
vision.</span><br />
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BUPC Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00525915713265392942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867455647243394418.post-19790607205278955592017-03-26T10:17:00.001-07:002017-03-26T10:17:21.312-07:00 Naw Ruz message from Guardian Neal chase<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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SPIRITUAL EXALTATION OF THE NAW RUZ PRAYER FOR THE VERNAL EQUINOX: FRIST DAY OF SPRING!</div>
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(Naw-Ruz, to be celebrated on the day of the exact moment of the Vernal or Spring Equinox, is the first day of the Baha'i year. Occurs usually between March 19-21 Gregorian)<br />
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Praised be Thou, O my God, that Thou hast ordained Naw-Ruz as a festival unto those who have observed the fast for love of Thee and abstained from all that is abhorrent unto Thee. Grant, O my Lord, that the fire of Thy love and the heat produced by the fast enjoined by Thee may inflame them in Thy Cause, and make them to be occupied with Thy praise and with remembrance of Thee.<br />
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Since thou hast adorned them, O my Lord, with the ornament of the fast prescribed by Thee, do Thou adorn them also with the ornament of Thine acceptance, through Thy grace and bountiful favor. For the doings of men are all dependent upon Thy good-pleasure, and are conditioned by Thy behest. Shouldst Thou regard him who hath broken the fast as one who hath observed it, such a man would be reckoned among them who from eternity had been keeping the fast. And shouldst Thou decree that he who hath observed the fast hath broken it, that person would be numbered with such as have caused the Robe of Thy Revelation to be stained with dust, and been far removed from the crystal waters of this living Fountain.<br />
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Thou art He through Whom the ensign “Praise-worthy art Thou in Thy works” hath been lifted up, and the standard "Obeyed art Thou in thy behest" hath been unfurled. Make known this Thy station, O my God, unto Thy servants, that they may be made aware that the excellence of all things is dependent upon Thy bidding and Thy word, and the virtue of every act is conditioned by Thy leave and the good pleasure of Thy will, and may recognize that the reins of men's doings are within the grasp of Thine acceptance and Thy commandment. Make this known unto them, that nothing whatsoever may shut them out from Thy Beauty, in these days whereon the Christ exclaimeth: “All dominion is Thine, O Thou the Begetter of the Spirit (Jesus);” and Thy Friend (Muhammad) crieth out: "Glory be to Thee, O Thou the Best-Beloved, for that thou hast uncovered thy Beauty, and written down for Thy chosen ones what will cause them to attain unto the seat of the revelation of Thy Most Great Name, through which all the peoples have lamented except such as have detached themselves from all else except Thee, and set themselves towards Him Who is the Revealer of Thyself and the Manifestation of Thine attributes.<br />
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He Who is Thy BRANCH (Zech. 3: 8 KJV--lit. Aghsan) and all Thy company, O my Lord, have broken this day their fast, after haviang observed it within the precincts of Thy court, and in their eagerness to please Thee. Do Thou ordain for Him, and for them, and for all such as have entered Thy presence in those days all the good Thou didst destine in Thy Book. Supply them, then, with that which will profit them, in both this life and in the life beyond.<br />
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All those who break the Covenant suffer terrible deaths. ‘Abdu’l-Baha writes in the Will and Testament:<br /><br />“Were he to incline a hair’s breadth to the right or to the left, his deviation would be established and his utter nothingness made manifest. And now ye are witnessing how the wrath of God hath from all sides afflicted him and how he is speeding towards destruction. Ere long will ye behold him and his associates, outwardly and inwardly, condemned to utter ruin.” (W&T, p. 6.)<br /><br />Hasan Balyuzi suffered terrible guilt and remorse for his violation and his part in instigating the Persian Hands to say Bada. Here seen through the eyes of his son is the terrible demise that he sank into until his death in 1980. Tormented by guilt and self incrimination he was “Punished” (as his son puts it) “by illness of the body and near mental breakdown” until his gruesome end.<br /><br />“I can still recall vividly that day of November 1957 when, as a child of thirteen, I stood on the graveside as Shoghi Effendi’s coffin was lowered into the ground. In that charged moment I can remember looking up at my father [Hasan Balyuzi] and marking how rigid and motionless he stood, his face almost devoid of expression. When he came to speak the final prayer, the one of Baha’u’llah’s which begins “Glory be to Thee, O God, for Thy manifestation of love to Mankind!” he did so almost in monotone, his voice sounding to me drained of emotion. I could not properly understand then, but believe now, in the knowledge of all that happened after, that at that moment his heart was broken. The depth of his grieving was such that he was in a state of profound shock in which his feelings were numbed so that emotion could find little outlet. For six years after that he kept going, borne along by the force of events during a time of great crisis and momentous decisions, when the duties imposed upon by his station as a hand of the Cause had to be met. But after the culminating events of this period, the election of the first Universal House of Justice and the Baha’i World Congress in London in 1963, the increasingly fragile prop of physical health finally collapsed and he [Balyuzi] plunged into a dark and despairing retreat punished by illness of the body and near mental breakdown. In her memorial article Mrs. Hoffman has written of how his mind was filled with the ‘foreboding of guilt for his wasted days and abdication of his responsibilities as a Hand.” (Balyuzi, Eminent Baha’is, p. xiii.)<br /><br />Balyuzi must have felt like Judas after he betrayed Christ for thirty pieces of silver, but unlike Judas that hung himself in despair, Balyuzi feared death, he was afraid that when he closed his eyes for the last time to this world and opened them to the next he realized the great punishment that awaited him, for he had committed the most great sin which was blasphemy against the Holy Spirit--he knew the truth and went against it--which is not forgiven in this world or the next. Like Christ on the cross said “Father please forgive them for they know not what they do.” He didn’t include Judas in this, for Judas knew what he did.<br /><br />Note from what Balyuzi’s son said above that after: “the election of the first Universal House of Justice...the increasingly fragile prop of physical health finally collapsed and he [Balyuzi] plunged into a dark and despairing retreat punished by illness of the body and near mental breakdown.” Balyuzi knew that House of Justice was not the Baha’i House of Justice, but a headless monster that he and Ruhiyyih had created.<br /><br />This conspiracy between Ruhiyyih and Hasan M. Balyuzi resulted in the “Hands” becoming the deciding body of the faith in place of the IBC/UHJ after the passing of Shoghi Effendi. This resulted in the Guardianship being declared ended and the Baha’is becoming oppressed, with the threat of expulsion for even discussing the matter among themselves much less from searching independently the truth for themselves. What is wrong with all of this? On the very last page of the W&T ‘Abdu’l-Baha states: <br /><br />“To none is given the right to put forth his own opinion or express his particular convictions. All must seek guidance and turn unto the Center of the Cause [Shoghi Effendi] and the House of Justice [IBC/UHJ:head and body both] And he that turneth unto whatsoever else is indeed in grievous error.” (W&T, p. 26)</div>
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Baha’u’llah is the “prince of this world” spoken of in the Bible, which the Christian clergy say is Satan and the Antichrist. The “prince of this world” actually refers to the prophesied Prince of Peace and Return of Christ spoken of all throughout the Bible, who comes seated upon the throne of King David and Who brings God’s government on earth, the Christ promised Kingdom of God.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>ECONOMIC JUSTICE</b></span></span><br />by<br />'Abdu'l-Baha<br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVen38IKQ-6XTm97AEhzyGhAfTuUxsNCuWI6270UYTodXjHIeEKL3BO5X0F15Akuwt26H81tDVkWktYqEjvdopAunxnbv2XTvQ1LSgentxrq80bvlF-kMXe74MYWk8ZHWPf8jMLtQ4qnw0/s1600/ECONOMIC+JUSTICE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVen38IKQ-6XTm97AEhzyGhAfTuUxsNCuWI6270UYTodXjHIeEKL3BO5X0F15Akuwt26H81tDVkWktYqEjvdopAunxnbv2XTvQ1LSgentxrq80bvlF-kMXe74MYWk8ZHWPf8jMLtQ4qnw0/s1600/ECONOMIC+JUSTICE.jpg" /></a><br />
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<br />The principal cause of these difficulties lies in the laws of the present civilization; for they lead to a small number of individuals accumulating incomparable fortunes, beyond their needs, whilst the greater number remains destitute, stripped and in the greatest misery. This is contrary to justice, to humanity, to equity; it is the height of iniquity, the opposite to what causes divine satisfaction.<br /><br />This contrast is peculiar to the world of man: with other creatures, that is to say with nearly all animals, there is a kind of justice and equality. Thus in a shepherd's flock of sheep, in a troop of deer in the country, among the birds of the prairie, of the plain, of the hill or of the orchard, almost every animal receives a just share based on equality. With them such a difference in the means of existence is not to be found: so they live in the most complete peace and joy.<br /> <br />It is quite otherwise with the human species, which persists in the greatest error, and in absolute iniquity. Consider an individual who has amassed treasures by colonizing a country for his profit: he has obtained an incomparable fortune, and has secured profits and incomes which flow like a river, whilst a hundred thousand unfortunate people, weak and powerless, are in need of a mouthful of bread. There is neither equality nor brotherhood. So you see that general peace and joy are destroyed, the welfare of humanity is partially annihilated, and that collective life is fruitless. Indeed, fortune, honors, commerce, industry are in the hands of some industrials, whilst other people are submitted to quite a series of difficulties and to limitless troubles: they have neither advantages nor profits, nor comforts, nor peace.<br /><br />Then rules and laws should be established to regulate the excessive fortunes of certain private individuals, and limit the misery of millions of the poor masses; thus a certain moderation would be obtained. However, absolute equality is just as impossible, for absolute equality in fortunes, honors, commerce, agriculture, industry, would end in a want of comfort, in discouragement, in disorganization of the means of existence, and in universal disappointment: the order of the community would be quite destroyed. Thus, there is a great wisdom in the fact that equality is not imposed by law: it is, therefore, preferable for moderation to do its work. The main point is, by means of laws and regulations to hinder the constitution of the excessive fortunes of certain individuals, and to protect the essential needs of the masses.<br /><br />For instance, the manufacturers and the industrials heap up a treasure each day, and the poor artisans do not gain their daily sustenance: that is the height of iniquity, and no just man can accept it. Therefore, laws and regulations should be established which would permit the workmen to receive from the factory owner their wages and a share in the fourth or the fifth part of the profits, according to the wants of the factory; or in some other way the body of workmen and the manufacturers should share equitably the profits and advantages. Indeed, the direction and administration of affairs come from the owner of the factory, and the work and labor, from the body of the workmen. In other words, the workmen should receive wages which assure them an adequate support, and when they cease work, becoming feeble or helpless, they should receive from the owner of the factory a sufficient pension. The wages should be high enough to satisfy the workmen with the amount they receive, so that they may be able to put a little aside for days of want and helplessness.<br /> <br />When matters will be thus fixed, the owner of the factory [read:CEO’s, etc.] will no longer put aside daily a treasure which he has absolutely no need of (without taking into consideration that if the fortune is disproportionate, the capitalist succumbs under a formidable burden, and gets into the greatest difficulties and troubles; the administration of an excessive fortune is very difficult, and exhausts man's natural strength). And, the workmen and artisans will no longer be in the greatest misery and want, they will no longer be submitted to the worst privations at the end of their life.<br /> <br />It is, then, clear and evident that the repartition of excessive fortunes amongst a small number of individuals, while the masses are in misery, is an iniquity and an injustice. In the same way, absolute equality would be an obstacle to life, to welfare, to order and to the peace of humanity. In such a question a just medium is preferable. It lies in the capitalists being moderate in the acquisition of their profits, and in their having a consideration for the welfare of the poor and needy; that is to say, that the workmen and artisans receive a fixed and established daily wage, and have a share in the general profits of the factory.<br /> <br />It would be well, with regard to the social rights of manufacturers, workmen and artisans, that laws be established, giving moderate profits to manufacturers, and to workmen the necessary means of existence and security for the future. Thus, when they become feeble and cease working, get old and helpless, and die leaving children under age, these children will not be annihilated by excess of poverty. And it is from the income of the factory itself, to which they have a right, that they will derive a little of the means of existence.<br /> <br /> In the same way, the workmen should no longer rebel and revolt, nor demand beyond their rights; they should no longer go out on strike, they should be obedient and submissive, and not ask for impudent wages. But the mutual rights of both associated parties will be fixed and established according to custom by just and impartial laws. In case one of the two parties should transgress, the courts of justice would have to give judgment, and by an efficacious fine put an end to the transgression; thus order will be re-established, and the difficulties settled. The interference of courts of justice and of the Government in difficulties pending between manufacturers and workmen is legal, for the reason that current affairs between workmen and manufacturers cannot be compared with ordinary affairs between private persons, which do not concern the public, and with which the Government should not occupy itself. In reality, although they appear to be matters between private persons, these difficulties between patrons and workmen produce a general detriment; for commerce, industry, agriculture and the general affairs of the country are all intimately linked together. If one of these suffers an abuse, the detriment affects the mass. Thus the difficulties between workmen and manufacturers become a cause of general detriment.<br /> <br />The court of justice and the Government have therefore the right of interference. When a difficulty occurs between two individuals with reference to private rights, it is necessary for a third to settle the question: this is the part of the Government: then the question of strikes--which cause troubles in the country and are often connected with the excessive vexations of the workmen, as well as with the rapacity of manufacturers--how could it remain neglected?<br /> <br />Good God! is it possible that, seeing one of his fellow-creatures starving, destitute of everything, a man can rest and live comfortably in his luxurious mansion?<br /><br />He who meets another in the greatest misery, can he enjoy his fortune?<br /><br />That is why, in the religion of God, it is prescribed and established that wealthy men each year give over a certain part of their fortune for the maintenance of the poor and unfortunate. That is the foundation of the religion of God, and the most essential of the commandments.<br /> <br />As now man is not forced nor obliged by the Government, if by the natural tendency of his good heart, with the greatest spirituality, he goes to this expense for the poor, this will be a thing very much praised, approved and pleasing.<br /> <br />Such is the meaning of the good works in the Divine Books and Tablets.<br />
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This last Baha'i year has seen many great advancements in the Cause--even as the inner reality of the soul outwardly supports the physical body (and upon the souls departure the body separates back into parts)--all the outward progress and developments in our spiritual community are due to the power of the Covenant now alive in the hearts, minds and souls of the faithful!<br />
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This year has seen the great opening of our Persian language Baha'i Center under the provisions of the Covenant; the blossoming of the European and African branches of our school, and those teachers and guides who have been deepening their Roots in those lands in order to secure integration within the greater communities of those nations through humanitarian employment and occupations. Due to the firmness of the Covenant in the Americas and India--these two sister communities have been able to evolve in tandem--shifting the activity of the people upon the maturing foundation of democratic and spiritual elections. This is the most important and most significant development in the Baha'i Faith since the days of the Great Dividing in 1960!<br />
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For example--if it be thought about with deep insight--it is clearly seen that the throne-line of King David has been well established and under the protection of God from the time of David and Solomon up through the days of Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha down to the present time. For almost 3000 years God has protected and established this throne-line and family lineage within the world! But it will also be seen that the world has been troubled all throughout this same time period. That wars have ensued. That poverty, disease, racism, and ignorance and other unnatural divisions have prevailed. That religious fanaticism and scientistic atheism have both served to obscure clear proofs and real faith--and the peoples personal experience with God had been cut off like dark clouds that fill the sky cutting those huddled upon God's great green earth off from the clear light of the Resplendant Shining Sun from on high. Now all this has changed! It is the fulfillment of the prophecy of the Kitab-i-Aqdas: "the Mystery of the Reversal of the sign of the Sovereign!" The flag of the Covenant-breakers has been pulled down in all lands and climes; and the world-wide banner and standard of the Covenant has been valiantly hoisted and upraised all throughout the world!<br />
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"He is God! O thou who art attracted by the rays of the light emanating from the dawning place of mysteries! Hasten to attain true salvation; hasten towards the shining light; hasten towards eternal joy; hasten towards the wondrous grace; hasten towards the mighty Covenant. Verily the hearts of the heedless have been shaken by the convulsions of frequent calamities, by great tests and difficulties, and the horizons of their lives have been darkened by thick clouds of wickedness and rebellion. Thus the water of certitude dried up and in its place the boding waters of idle fancies and vain imaginings welled forth. Doubts and illusions spread, as they abandoned the authorized Centre of the Covenant [every single provision of the sacred Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha] and the solid edifice of the Faith of God, and followed instead every rash and heedless one, the speakers who hear not, and the guides who see not.<br />
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"Do they think that they shall be left alone to their own devices? Nay! When the nightingale sings in the eternal paradise, and the dove of holiness warbles its melody in the groves of the realm of grandeur, and the rays of confirmation beam forth from the midmost heart of heaven, and the lamps of oneness shine brightly within the hearts of His chosen ones, and the way is prepared, and the path made straight, and the trumpet of ecstasy is sounded, and the bugle of eternal life is blown, and the hosts of the Abha Kingdom rush forth, and the angels of the Supreme Concourse spur on their chargers, and the standards of the Covenant are hoisted, and the sails of fidelity and harmony are unfurled-on that Day shalt thou see the steadfast ones abiding in the highest heaven, dwelling beneath His all-embracing shadow, occupying a glorious station, and partaking of His conspicuous favors, while the heedless shall be seen enshrouded in a black smoke, reduced to the seat of abasement, and fallen prey to distress, loss and sorrow, until the Day whereon they shall be raised again to life." ('Abdu'l-Baha)<br />
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And what is this reversal? It is the coming forth of the rod of iron, the spiritual heirs of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah to receive their inheritance of His Kingdom! They are those that the Master--'Abdu'l-Baha--calls The Learned! Those that Baha'u'llah Himself has designated The Learned in the Book of the Covenant, the Kitab-i-'Ahd.<br />
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"The state is, moreover, based upon two potent forces, the legislative and the executive. The focal center of the executive power is the government, while that of the legislative is the learned—and if this latter great support and pillar should prove defective, how is it conceivable that the state should stand?"('Abdu'l-Baha, Secret of Divine Civilization)<br />
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"It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the raiment of equity and justice. Blessed are the rulers and learned in el-Baha! They verily are My trustees amongst My servants and the manifestations of My commandments amidst My people. Upon them rest My glory, My blessings and My grace which have pervaded the world of being. In this connection the utterances revealed in the Kitab-i-Aqdas (the Most Holy Book) are such that from the horizon of their words the light of divine grace shineth luminous and resplendant." (Baha'u'llah, Kitab-i-'Ahd)<br />
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All throughout the world everyone loves God. Everywhere we go we here the people praising God and thanking God. But God for the most part is not known. Why? If you had a choice to be either known or to be loved--which would you choose for yourself? That everywhere people talk well of you and sing your praises and shower you with love and affection--but no one really knows you; or that people do know you but are not interested or hate you? Most people would choose to be loved over being known--and apparently that is what God does too!<br />
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The Learned therefore are those people who now only have that same deep abiding love of God as most people, but who are also knowledgeable in God as well. They know God through their own direct and immediate experience of God; and from this they have deepened in a lifetime of wisdom and understanding. This direct and immediate knowing of God, and the growth of wisdom and understanding--The Learning of the Learned--does not come upon a person accidentally. No. It comes upon a person when they turn to God and say "yes" of their own free volition. In this manner they enter into a Covenant with God--the everlasting Covenant--and through the welcomed tests, trials, tribulations, and hassles of this world--they overcome! They overcome the world. They overcome themselves! They overcome the dark. And an eternal fire and light is ignited within them that shall last through all this world and the all the worlds of the next, the writings tell us, as long as God Himself shall last--we shall last in everlasting life in eternal paradise. Such is the promise of God. But first we have to say "yes."<br />
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"Whoso maketh efforts for Us in Our ways we shall assuredly guide them!" (Baha'u'llah, Iqan)<br />
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Thus those who say “yes” become transformed from the image of the animal (two eyes, two ears, mouth, nose, arms and legs) into the image of God: the spiritual qualities and attributes, love, justice, generosity, concord, fidelity, harmony, loving-kindness, compassion, knowledgeable, empathy, humility, strength, valor, etc. This is the learned. The path of the believers. The path of the firmness in this covenant. For they both know and love. They have been guided out of objective and subjective faith--into living discerning faith. Their eyes are open and they see. Their minds are ready and they know. They have overcome the personal. They have overcome the social. In this way they are liberated to gather once again--and form their true Baha'i Councils under the Provisions of the Covenant and develop of their own volition and freedoms--independent of all save God--wonderful and vibrant community life!<br />
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And this is the difference of what is taking place now! For 3000 years God has guarded and protected the throne-line of King David--but only now since 1844 and 2001 (through a 149 years dynamic program that is still currently ongoing) has God raised up His people into the light, dispelled the clouds of darkness, open the gates of the doors of heaven, sounded the trumpet announcing the great day, and called forth to all people that the Kingdom is come now upon the earth as it is in heaven. All have been invited to this heavenly banquet and not only as guests but as fellow heirs of the Kingdom, men and women both! heirs of iron--symbolical of the spiritual, the intellectual and the magnetic--to receive their promised share in both this world and the next!<br />
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This has never happened before in the history of the world. That all the people should be raised up to inherit. That as the active body of the learned they can elect their chosen representatives and form the international, national and local councils (the current form of the houses of justice) in all their lands and various cultures. That diversity should preserved, and individuality respected. But that this diversity and individuality only flourishes and thrives within the commonweal of the Great community collective of an all-merciful and mighty God: His Kingdom--that prevails in both this world and the next.<br />
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Though the Jewish throne-line of this Kingdom (of David and Solomon, of Bostanai, Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha) has been preserved for so long, it is only until now that all the people have slowly awoken out of the false religious forms and refuted the hoaxes perpetrated by the usurpers of the various faiths--and are NOW aroused into action and life to form, this new way upon the earth, and have this legislative parliament established for themselves in the Kingdom as God has promised aforetime:<br />
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"The state is, moreover, based upon two potent forces, the legislative and the executive. The focal center of the executive power [the Davidic Kingship] is the government, while that of the legislative is the learned—and if this latter great support and pillar should prove defective, how is it conceivable that the state should stand?"('Abdu'l-Baha, Secret of Divine Civilization)<br />
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"It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the raiment of equity and justice. Blessed are the rulers and learned in el-Baha! They verily are My trustees amongst My servants and the manifestations of My commandments amidst My people. Upon them rest My glory, My blessings and My grace which have pervaded the world of being. In this connection the utterances revealed in the Kitab-i-Aqdas (the Most Holy Book) are such that from the horizon of their words the light of divine grace shineth luminous and resplendant." (Baha'u'llah, Kitab-i-'Ahd)<br />
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My prayers are with you all this coming Ridvan Season!<br />
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Blessing to ALL on this Great Holy Day!<br />
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I remain yours,<br />
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Neal Chase.<br />
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BUPC Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00525915713265392942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867455647243394418.post-28447682500434087992015-08-21T08:03:00.000-07:002015-08-21T08:03:35.505-07:00Chinvat : Memorial of the Faithful<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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O my God! O my God! Verily, thy servant, humble before the majesty of Thy divine supremacy, lowly at the door of Thy oneness, hath believed in Thee and in Thy verses, hath testified to Thy word, hath been enkindled with the fire of Thy love, hath been immersed in the depths of the ocean of Thy knowledge, hath been attracted by Thy breezes, hath relied upon Thee, hath turned his face to Thee, hath offered his supplications to Thee, and hath been assured of Thy pardon and forgiveness. He hath abandoned this mortal life and hath flown to the kingdom of immortality, yearning for the favor of meeting Thee.<br />
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O Lord, glorify his station, shelter him under the pavilion of Thy supreme mercy, cause him to enter Thy glorious paradise, and perpetuate his existence in Thine exalted rose garden, that he may plunge into the sea of light in the world of mysteries.<br />
Verily, Thou art the Generous, the Powerful, the Forgiver and the Bestower.<br />
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Dear Friends,<br />
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Dwight Seeley was a very important person in the Kingdom. He and his wife Betty came to visit us in Glenwood Springs, CO in the early 2000s and always gave their full grounded support for all our efforts and projects. I first met the Seeley's during my several trips from Detroit to New York City back in the 1980s when I would come through Hermitage, PA. They always opened opened up both their home and their hearts for me in my travels and were always full loving supporters of all the diverse activities of their son Kevin who introduced me to them.<br />
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Recently in a trip to Washington D.C. they again opened up their home and hospitality for myself and my entire family. I had many exciting and wonderful talks with Dwight. He was extremely knowledgeable in both spiritual and material matters. Our prayers go out to him and his entire family. About 5 days before his passing he told Kevin--who had been taking care of all his personal needs for over a year now--that he was "done with this old worn out body." Kevin writes:<br />
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"Allah'u'Abha! Dear friends, My beloved father (Dwight Arling Seeley) made a most peaceful passage from his mortal body into the next world at 12:00 am Eastern time on Kamal 19, 172 B.E. (8/19/2015). All prayers for the departed will surely be to his benefit at the Threshold of God's Singleness. God's Grace is abundant." "After I found the Revelation of Baha'u'llah and had moved to Colorado, he began keeping track of news stories he came across about the Baha'i Faith and expressing his acceptance of it as no mere cult and giving his full support of all of my efforts in my personal teaching efforts even to the extent of great personal sacrifices. Any thoughts and prayers directed to God the Most Merciful, the Most Gracious on his behalf will surely ease his birth into his new life beyond this earthly realm. God bless all the friends and may all teaching efforts increase immeasurably. In service, Kevin Paul Seeley. Ya Allah El-Mustaghath!"<br />
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On Saturday, August 22, they will be assembling at noon in PA and then having a Memorial service for Dwight in the Masonic Tradition at about a quarter to 2:00 Eastern Time. Masonic Lodge 137 sits at the foot of Chair Mountain in Marble Colorado. 'Abdu'l-Baha has stated:<br />
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As many of us will also be assembling world-wide to commemorate the anniversary of the Birth of the establisher, Dr. Leland Jensen on August 22--we will also be having a simultaneous memorial service for the crossing over of Dwight in our home here on the Front range--and will say prayers for the departed at a quarter to noon Mountain Time.<br />
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Neal.</div>
BUPC Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00525915713265392942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867455647243394418.post-39709479401630141252015-08-03T06:33:00.002-07:002015-08-03T06:33:49.203-07:00Mason Remey was an Aghsan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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[Mason Remey is the legally adopted son of 'Abdu'l-Baha]<br />
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In the Star of the West it is recorded that 'Abdu'l-Baha publicly addressed Mason Remey as "O my dear son," (vol 10, #8 page 144) and "O thou enlightened beloved son," (vol 11, #13, page 229) plus it is recorded in a book written by one of the early believers that 'Abdu'l-Baha sent a message to Mason Remey saying, "You are very dear to me. You are so dear to me I think of you day and night. You are my real son. Therefore I have an idea for you. I hope it may come to pass. 'Abdu'l-Baha." [Diary of Juliet Thompson, page 71]<br />
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The evidence listed above is enough to prove that Mason was 'Abdu'l-Baha's son. In order to make the adoption legal and binding, in accordance with Israeli law, 'Abdu'l-Baha gave Mason Remey a token of inheritance via Shoghi Effendi. He enclosed it inside an envelope within which was another envelope containing the token. On the outside of the envelope in Shoghi Effendi's handwriting was this note:<br />
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"Of all the remnants of Baha'u'llah's all-sacred Person, the most hallowed, the most precious, confidently delivered into the hands of my brother and co-worker in the Cause of God, Mr. Remey. [Signed] Shoghi. March 1922."<br />
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On the inside envelope, which was sealed with a blob of wax was handwritten,<br />
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"Coagulated drops of Baha'u'llah's all-Sacred Blood and Ringlets of His Most Blessed Locks presented as my most precious possession to 'Abdu'l-Baha's 'DEAR SON' Mr. Charles Mason Remey as a token of my Baha'i affection and brotherly love. [signed] Shoghi."<br />
[Click here to view the envelope of this token authenticated by the Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, in his own handwriting and signed by him]<br />
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It is clear and evident that Shoghi Effendi knew that Mason was 'Abdu'l-Baha's adopted son. This token seals the adoption agreement making it legal and binding! This token of the hair and the blood has important symbolism. The blood represents Baha'u'llah's bloodline which is "all-Sacred" and "Hallowed." The bloodline is that of the royal line of Kings descended from David. The hair represents the head, or guardianship of the Baha'i Faith.<br />
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Mason Remey Aghsan then adopted and appointed his son, Joseph Pepe Remey Aghsan who then adopted and appointed his son, Neal Chase ben Joseph Aghsan, to succeed him as the current Guardian of the Baha'i Faith. The appointment of the successors to the guardianship of the Baha’i faith always comes as a test unto the people. 'Abdu'l-Baha used the token of the hair and the blood; Mason used a token of a medallion in the shape of a nine pointed Baha’i star; and Pepe used a token in the form of a lapis lazuli Baha'i ring. When asked about these tokens, Mason Remey explained that they were a way to give away the test--but that they were not the manner in which the next guardian was appointed as anyone could then steal the token for themselves and claim the guardianship--the guardianship therefore can never be tied to any material object as that can always be stolen by others, Mason explained.<br />
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The criteria for the guardianship is to be a son (of the Aghsan lineage of King David through Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha) and to be appointed by the pervious guardian in the guardian's life-time. Neal inherited all these material possessions from his father Pepe and then donated them including the three tokens (a. the hair and blood; b. the medallion; and c. the ringstone seal) and other personal artifacts in his possession that he had inherited from Mason and Pepe--through the executor of Pepe's estate--to the public trust of all the Baha'i peoples Under the Provisions of the Covenant into the personal care of Dr. Leland Jensen in 1994 A.D. The guardian said he did this because first, no one would ever believe or be fooled into thinking that Dr. Jensen was the guardian of the Baha’i faith, and second so that these tokens could never be used by anyone ever again in the future to claim the guardianship of the Baha'i Faith as they had already served their purpose during the tests of Mason, Pepe and Neal. It is possible these relics and artifacts will survive the catastrophe and be placed in a Baha’i “Smithsonian;” and it is possible that they won't.<br />
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An adopted son has all the rigths and prerogatives as a natural son, inlcuding the Kingship.</div>
BUPC Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00525915713265392942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867455647243394418.post-59360174284511262622015-05-25T02:48:00.001-07:002015-05-25T02:48:15.873-07:00CHINVAT : THE NAZARENES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Huwwa al-'ajami al-farisi al-'iraqi: “He is the American! The exiled Persian!” (Baha’u’llah, The Tablet of the Holy Mariner: Persian Section)<br />
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The purpose of the Covenant is not to unite the believers. The believers are already united. The function of the Covenant is to expose the Covenant-breakers--so we can separate (Hebrew: nazar literally separate) from them (W&T, p. 20)--for they are already in violation of the Covenant as materialists.<br />
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This is what Jesus meant in the Light Verse we he said: “And this is the judgment, that the light (baha) has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light (baha), because their deeds were evil. For every one who does evil hates the light (baha), and does not come to the light (baha), lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does what is true comes to the light (baha), that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God.” (John 3:19-22, RSV)<br />
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The Covenant exposes the Covenant-breakers by allowing them to manifest their hate of God focused upon the innocent person of the living Davidic King in exile (exilarchs: exiled monarchs of King David). This appears in the form of Federal Court cases, personal ad hominem attacks and other stratagem and overt or subtitle devices, etc. In this way all scriptures explain that God separates the believers from the unbelievers through the criteria of his Covenant: “Therefore, come out from among unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them, says the LORD” (2 Cor. 6:17, NLT)<br />
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“Aslan refers to Al Qaeda's jihad against the west as ‘a cosmic war’, distinct from holy war, in which rival religious groups are engaged in an earthly battle for material goals. ‘A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.’ American rhetoric of ‘war on terrorism’, Aslan says, is in precise ‘cosmic dualism’ to Al Qaeda's jihad… Aslan's prescription for winning the cosmic war is not to fight… ‘Throughout the Middle East, whenever moderate Islamist parties have been allowed to participate in the political process, popular support for more extremist groups has diminished.’” In all cases the goals are materialistic--they are material goals. This means dividing the spiritual people one against another and perpetuating the wars of the religions against one another. For if they admitted the existence of the heir to David’s throne all wars would cease. It is these WARS that fill their pockets for their own empowerment and aggrandizement. It is the real value and real wealth of human beings “cashed out,” so to speak, in the deaths of the lives of the people that translate into the gold that lines their pockets. And the foolish loved ones of God allow themselves to be deceived by these materialists who masquerade as the leaders of faith? Whom Jesus called wolves (materialists) in sheep’s clothing. So God send them a promised one--the living descendant of King David--so that those that hate God should expose themselves in public to all the unsuspecting people--so the loved ones of God should see that they are the Covenant-breakers; so the loved ones of God can separate themselves from these materialistic self-aggrandizers--falsifying numbers of followers to gain bank loans--and be free in God to govern themselves and worship God in their own way in the true unorganized religion--for no one,‘Abdu’l-Baha, states can organize spirituality in any way, shape or form. In the Kitab-i Ahd (Covenant of Baha’u’llah) and the sacred Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha it establishes the living David King as the center of the Covenant: “He is the “‘sign of God’” (W&T, p. 11). He is the “sign of God” against who the Covenant-breakers fight exposing themselves. He is the “sign of God” separating the believers from the unbelievers. He is the “sign of God” by which we can recognize the true Universal House of Justice of Baha’u’llah from fakes, frauds and imitations!<br />
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The word Nazarene (means to separate). Jesus was a Nazarene or Nazarite (Num. 6:1-21) because they separated themselves from the corrupt politics and materialistic wars of the materialists or “unbelievers” in the spiritual reality: they were liberated from the divisiveness in his day. It is in the advantage of the materialist to masquerade as “saved” and “holy” and take up leadership positions in the churches, synagogues and mosques, and then beat the drums of war for their materialistic political allies and gain their gratuitous kick-backs.<br />
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Thus the Covenant exposes those who are against God so the believers in God the pure in heart can separate from them. As to those who are not against the living David King and the work we are doing: Jesus states: “Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.”<br />
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Our allies are those who allow us to continue our work unhindered. Those in opposition, those who are against us personally: they are those that are the violators of the Covenant “Verily we wronged them not but they have wronged themselves.” (W&T, p. 9).<br />
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Huwwa al-'ajami al-farisi al-'iraqi: “He is the Nazarene! The Exilarch!” (Baha’u’llah, The Tablet of the Holy Mariner: Persian Section)<br />
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Official Website of the Baha'is Under the Provision of Covenant (of India) has been launched.<br />
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Please visit :<br />
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