Century of Light

In consequence, the two decades immediately after Shoghi Effendi assumed his responsibility for the vindication of the Cause of God were a period of deepening gloom throughout t...

In the society and culture the Master was developing, spiritual energies expressed themselves in the practical affairs of day-to-day life. The emphasis in the teachings on educa...

Appreciation of the benefits--in terms of the personal freedom, social prosperity and scientific progress enjoyed by a significant minority of the Earth's people--cannot withhol...

Ironically, no matter how harsh were the reparations required of the defeated, the supposed victors awoke to the appalled realization that their triumph--and the demand for unco...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, impulses to devise and promote any formal materialistic belief system disappeared. Nor would any useful purpose have been served by such e...

In effect, the Plan called for the Cause to make a giant leap forward over what might otherwise have been several stages in its evolution. What Shoghi Effendi saw clearly--and w...

Greater yet than the effort expended on His public exposition of the Cause was the time and energy the Master devoted to deepening the believers' understanding of the spiritual...

The language of the messages is magnificent, enthralling. In acknowledging the darkness that widespread godlessness, violence and creeping immorality was engendering, Shoghi Eff...

The Guardian provided, as well, the organizing image for this mighty work. The "Heroic Age" of Baha'u'llah's Dispensation, he declared, had ended with the passing of 'Abdu'l-Bah...

The structure of the Baha'i International Community reflects the principles guiding its work. It has escaped labelling as merely another special interest lobby group. While maki...

The burst of enrolments brought with it, however, equally great problems. At the immediate level, the resources of Baha'i communities engaged in the work were soon overwhelmed b...

Some movements appear, manifest a brief period of activity, then discontinue. Others show forth a greater measure of growth and strength, but before attaining mature development...

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37 Edward R. Kantowicz, _The Rage of Nations_ (Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999), p. 138. Kantowicz adds that the total population loss for Europe was 48...