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April 19, 2015

“Manifestations of God have three stations: the physical station, the station of the rational soul, and the station of divine manifestation and heavenly splendour.”

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Know that, while the Manifestations of God possess infinite virtues and perfections, They occupy only three stations: The first is the mate...
March 29, 2015

‘Abdu’l-Baha’s health and happiness

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My health and happiness are in this, when I see the friends of God engaged in spreading the divine fragrances, arising to serve the Cause o...
March 8, 2015

Question: What is the significance of the word "He is God" which appears as the heading of every Tablet and Prayer of ‘Abdu’l-Baha?

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'Abdu'l-Baha’s answer: This is a usage of the people of the East; it is of Islam. Their purpose is that in every matter the commenc...
January 11, 2015

Human existence is not “among those things that have appeared in the world of being and that are due to the exigencies of nature.”

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Nature is that condition or reality which outwardly is the source of the life and death, or, in other words, of the composition and decompo...
December 20, 2014

“…this age is the age of the revelation of reality…”

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April 21, 1912 The Universalist Church Washington D.C. USA Whatever the minister has said (in his introductory remarks) is an eviden...
October 20, 2014

The “banner of Baha’u’llah will be unfurled, waving toward all regions”

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October 5, 1912 San Francisco, California I have the utmost joy to find in the distant West such an established Baha’i center, where ...
September 5, 2014

Socialism

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The principles of socialism are outstripped in the religions of God. For instance, God commands, ‘But [they] prefer them [the poor] before ...
July 13, 2014

Meaning of miracles in Scriptures

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The Holy Manifestations of God are the source of miracles and wonderful signs. To them even the impossible things are possible, and from th...
May 17, 2014

God’s command: ‘Love One Another’

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October 24, 2011 Paris   An Indian said to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: ‘My aim in life is to transmit as far as in me lies the message of Krish...
March 9, 2014

‘Abdu’l-Baha’s first public talk in Canada

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September 1, 1912 Montreal God the Almighty has created all humanity from dust, from the same elements. All are descended from one ra...
January 15, 2014

Proofs that human soul is independent of the body and death has no effect on the soul

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August 7, 1912, Parsons’ residence Dublin, New Hampshire, USA He is God! We must first prove that there is no annihilation in cre...
December 7, 2013

The Lord's Supper and the Lord's Sustenance

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Haifa May 15, 1910 Commemoration of the Declaration of the Báb  There are different gatherings and various meetings held in the w...
November 16, 2013

Meaning of the term “soul” in various kingdoms of creation

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March 2, 1917 Haifa As to the question concerning the soul, know thou, verily, that "soul" is a term applied to numerous re...
October 2, 2013

“… for existence there is no death … there is a transfer from one state to another.”

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Excerpt from a talk at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Parsons, August 7, 1912, Dublin, USA We must first prove that there is no annihila...
September 15, 2013

‘Abdu’l-Bha tells the story of His prison life at the request of a reporter

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Paris, 1911 (‘Abdu’l-Baha entered. With one impulse we arose, paying unconscious homage to the majesty of the station of servitude. Sur...
August 31, 2013

The “sons of the Kingdom are of two kinds. One is the real son and the other is the material one.”

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  Akka 1901 It is stated in the New Testament that Jesus Christ was once drinking the juice of grapes and said he would drink no more e...
August 15, 2013

“calamities in the path of God will cause His truth to become more apparent”

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Akka, 1901 When this blessed Cause was manifested in Persia some of the divines and famous learned men became believers and were martyr...
July 26, 2013

“I am the servant of Baha”

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Akka, 1901 In this greatest period there are only two Manifestations. The Blessed Báb, may my soul be a ransom to Him, and a Manifestat...
July 16, 2013

The teachings, proofs and evidences of the divine Manifestations (Prophets) are one -- They differ in name and form “but in reality They agree and are the same.”

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28 May 1912 Talk at Reception at Metropolitan Temple Seventh Avenue and Fourteenth Street, New York (Notes by Esther Foster) The ...