Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Messages to the Bahá'í World: 1950–1957

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Chapters

4. Chapter 4

The completion of the interior ornamentation of the holiest House of Worship ever to be raised by the followers of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, the initiation of the landscaping of...

9. Chapter 9

The vast area surrounding the Bab's Sepulcher has been enlarged through the purchase from the Development Authority of the State of Israel, of five houses, adjoining the last te...

11. Chapter 11

Such heart-warming, soul-stirring examples of Baha'i initiative and enterprise; such splendid testimonies to Baha'i solidarity, perseverance, courage, fortitude, and self-sacrif...

7. Chapter 7

On the eve of this Ridvan Festival marking the opening of the second decade of the second Baha'i century, and coinciding with the termination of the first year of the World Spir...

18. Chapter 18

All the areas within the Western Hemisphere allocated to the United States National Assembly are assigned. A third of the membership of that same Assembly is joining the ranks o...

12. Chapter 12

In the Holy Land--the Qiblih of a world community, the heart from which the energizing influences of a vivifying Faith continually stream, and the seat and center around which t...

10. Chapter 10

Reacting to these barbarous acts, over a thousand groups and local Assemblies of the Baha'i world appealed telegraphically to the authorities, and all National Assemblies addres...

17. Chapter 17

So vast, so momentous and challenging a crusade that will, God willing, illuminate the annals of the second epoch of the Formative Age of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, and immortali...

5. Chapter 5

Recall with feelings of profound emotion, as mid-August approaches, the distressing circumstances attending the dastardly act which, one hundred years ago, precipitated the chai...

8. Chapter 8

Seven virgin territories have been opened to the Faith since the announcement on the morrow of the Ridvan Festival, raising the total number of the Sovereign States and Dependen...

16. Chapter 16

The task, at once arduous, thrilling and challenging, which now confronts these four Baha'i communities involves: First, the formation, under the aegis of the National Spiritual...

6. Chapter 6

Would to God that Baha'i warriors, six score and ten, the number required to fill the gaps in the still unconquered territories of the globe, will promptly arise and enroll them...

14. Chapter 14

The raising of the number of Baha'i centers--foci and pivots of Baha'i teaching and administrative activity--all over the globe, from twenty-five hundred to forty-five hundred;...

15. Chapter 15

I hail with a joyous heart the convocation in the heart of the African continent of the first of the four Intercontinental Teaching Conferences constituting the highlights of th...

3. Chapter 3

Announce friends East and West, through National Assemblies, following nominations raising the number of the present Hands of the Cause of God to nineteen. Dominion Canada and U...

1. Chapter 1

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2. Chapter 2

My heart is filled with thankfulness at contemplation of the chain of swiftly succeeding, epoch-making events transpiring in the course of the fifth year of the second Seven Yea...

13. Chapter 13

"If they arise to teach My Cause," Baha'u'llah Himself, revealing the secret of success for the propagation of His Faith, has declared, "they must let the breath of Him Who is t...

19. Chapter 19

The adoption of the following itinerary is recommended: Mason Remey, Dorothy Baker and Horace Holley to India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon; Ugo Giachery to Persia; Valiyu'llah Va...