November 28, 2015

There are fourteen Tablets of the Divine Plan


The Tablets of the Divine Plan are fourteen in number and were revealed at two separate times by 'Abdu'l-Baha: eight of them in 1916, and six in 1917.
- Hand of the Cause Balyuzi  (‘Abdu'l-Baha - The Centre of the Covenant’)

November 21, 2015

Nov. 1919 -- 'Abdu'l-Baha With Some Eastern and Western Baha'is


'Abdu'l-Baha with some Eastern and Western Baha'is assembled on Mt. Carmel in November 1919. Mrs. Corinne True and daughter Edna are standing in front row.

November 1, 2015

Unity of East & West, Future World, and the Role of America


16 April 1912
Talk at Hotel Ansonia to Bahá'í Friends of New Jersey
Broadway and Seventy-third Street, New York
Notes by Ahmad Sohrab

Souls from the East and West have been brought together here through the power of the Holy Spirit. Such a gathering as this would be impossible through material means. A meeting of this kind has never been established in New York, for here tonight we find people from remote regions of the earth, associated with the people of America in the utmost love and spiritual unity. This is only possible through the power of God. Christ appeared in this world nineteen hundred years ago to establish ties of unity and bonds of love between the various nations and different communities. He cemented together the sciences of Rome and the splendors of the civilization of Greece. He also accomplished affiliation between the Assyrian kingdom and the power of Egypt. The blending of these nations in unity, love and agreement had been impossible, but Christ through divine power established this condition among the children of men.
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