December 28, 2015

A Tablet in Baha'u'llah's own hand after He was poisoned by His half-brother


The first page of the Suri-i-Amr in Baha'u'llah's own hand, revealed soon after the attempt on His life.

December 20, 2015

Education and training of children


Among the greatest of all services that can possibly be rendered by man to Almighty God is the education and training of children..."
-‘Abdu’l-Baha  (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’; included in Ruhi Book 3)

December 13, 2015

Never have I seen anyone work as hard as Shoghi Effendi


Never have I seen anyone work as hard as Shoghi Effendi, and it must be very trying to him with his universal creative energy, his world horizon, his soaring ideals, to say nothing of the unfathomable depths of knowledge and wisdom which flow like undulated waves through his sacred entity at all times, it must be a cruel restraint that he has not a greater vehicle or channel through which to pour all this power throughout the world...
- May Maxwell  (From a letter to Katherine Baldwin, Honolulu. February 1939)

December 5, 2015

“The human soul is an essence spiritual in entity and material or physical in function.”


The human soul is an essence spiritual in entity and material or physical in function. It is defined as essence because it is independent in itself, while the body is accidental and dependent upon the soul.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha  (From a talk, quoted by Lua Getsinger in her talk in San Francisco on December 17, 1911)