Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Messages to America Selected Letters and Cablegrams Addressed to the Bahá'í's of North America 1932–1946

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13. Part 13

"One night in a dream," Baha'u'llah Himself, recounting His soul-shaking experience of the first stirrings of His prophetic Mission, in the Year Nine, in that abominable pit, ha...

4. Part 4

The American believers, while straining to accomplish befittingly this particular task, must simultaneously brace themselves for another sublime effort to discharge, ere the pre...

5. Part 5

For such as might undertake, in the days to come, the meritorious and highly enviable pilgrimage to these blessed shrines, as well as for the benefit of the less privileged who,...

12. Part 12

The creation of the administrative machinery of the Faith, according to the precepts laid down in 'Abdu'l-Baha's Will and Testament, and on which, during the opening years of it...

7. Part 7

The schism which their foolish leaders had contrived so sedulously to produce within the Faith, will soon, to their utter amazement, come to be regarded as a process of purifica...

9. Part 9

The vigorous action promptly taken by your assembly to insure the success of the forthcoming Centenary Celebrations is highly commendable, and provides a fresh demonstration of...

6. Part 6

To these words, written on my behalf, and in answer to your particular questions relating to the administrative issues that confront you in these days, I wish to add my own trib...

2. Part 2

I cannot allow this communication to be sent without adding a few words in person and stress afresh the significance of the undertaking in which the entire Baha'i community has...

11. Part 11

Our hearts are uplifted in thanksgiving for complete cessation of the prolonged, unprecedented world conflict. I hail the prospects of the removal of the restrictions enabling A...

10. Part 10

The marvelous, rapid, sound evolution of the institutions of the Faith in five continents, particularly in the Western Hemisphere, constitutes best monition, most effective coun...

1. Part 1

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3. Part 3

The period ahead is short, strenuous, fraught with mortal perils for human society, yet pregnant with possibilities of unsurpassed triumphs for the power of Baha'u'llah's redemp...

8. Part 8

The immortal Lua, mother-teacher of the American Baha'i Community, herald of the dawn of the Day of the Covenant, has been ceremoniously and reverently transferred by Egyptian b...

14. Part 14

I hail with particular satisfaction the consummation of the twin major tasks spontaneously undertaken and brilliantly discharged by the same community in both the administrative...