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More so - I would say there are measurable markers when a religion has begun to fail to lead the larger percent of its population - when it has generally begun to fail to lead people towards God and is more interested in itself than in God. One simple way I think most can agree with is when...

Hi Lunamoth, Why do we have to keep covering this ground? No it doesn't mean that Christianity is at best a misunderstanding. It means that Christianity's goal is to lead you towards God and as soon as it has done it's job then, as the goal is God, Christianity is not important and then...

Thanks, I guess I'm off the hook then. And it just took your forgiveness! I'm saying there is only one path. All other "paths" are in fact at best misunderstandings. You think you are going somewhere but in fact you are not. But if you move with sincerity and honesty, keeping to pure...

Starting with this a clue... "Imitation destroys the foundation of religion, extinguishes the spirituality of the human world, transforms heavenly illumination into darkness and deprives man of the knowledge of God. It is the cause of the victory of materialism and infidelity over religion...

Or perhaps we're all in a religious black hole and once inside all paths lead to the One. Or there should be something rather more authentic than just "going the other way". Which ever way you go it should be yours.

Consider... The Valley/City of Search (Seven Valleys) "At every step, aid from the Invisible Realm will attend him and the heat of his search will grow." (Gems of Divine Mysteries) "God may guide him in the paths of His favour and the ways of His mercy...He beholdeth the wonders of...

THis thread has covered many topics indepth, but this theme was a bit brief I believe.... Just in case anyone wants this bit of extension. Even in more modern times, like in 1918, WWI "The war to end all war". With importance to still unfolding events to the Bahá'ís. And so it was...

Interesting! That a treatise from 500AD... in Spain? should connect so well with a theme picked up in Sufi/Muslim lit. and then by Baha'u'llah Himself in one of His earliest works! Very interesting.... Add that to my reading list.... Anyone else pulled some angles and tangents out of Seven...

Re: O ye rulers of the earth! I noticed my typo, repeated the search and still found nothing except my post - I also tried editing the page to fix the typo but it just kept spinning.....

Re: O ye rulers of the earth! Hi Bruce! I was going to say it didn't work on a Mac but it turns out it's just Safari - Firefox on the Mac works! Except I can't bring up a phrase like "Cloud of Unknowning" - can on several other sites like True Seeker (but doesn't have as much stuff)...

Hmmm hadn't heard that term.... it reminds me of the general condition of this world being where... for example, our own true value is hidden from us.... however if this what you are refering to? Sprinkling of the Cloud of Unknowing

Re: Be not dismayed, O peoples of the world ...

a new universal Abrahamic religion? Really! Any candidates?

Rather not the thrust of the thread - despite the fact that numbers of Baha'is are engaged in promoting the interests and skills in larger and larger numbers of women, not just Baha'i women, everyone seems to be focusing on some supposed exception to some norm or other. But still the lives of...

more examples of endevors Baha'is have undertaken to advance the conditions and give voice to women... These are among the practical expressions of endevors Baha'is seek to be engaged in. The Bahá'í-inspired Tahirih Justice Center and the Barli Vocational Institute for Rural Women in India...

Here's a worthy thread.... And here's a story to kick it off.... ""I have come with a message of peace. The people want peace. I am asking you to make peace out of this process," Norah Anek, Joseph Kony's mother, while meeting him in the Sudan on Sunday. "Using the principle of justice and...

Current events are coming along quickly in Egypt. Go to Google or you own choice of search engine and put in "blogs egyptian Baha'is" and the number one site will be a personal blig by a Baha'i from Egypt (but I think not actually in Egypt.) There you can get a personal point of view on...

Actually it fits your request exactly. It is documentary. It establishes conclusively that Browne had his own political agenda. and that icing as an independent non-Baha'i historian. Intellectual honesty requires taking the evidence seriously - not making general dismissing comments.

Actually at least one person involved with them seems to be a Baha'i as far as I can tell but the website certainly makes claims clearly not supported by, and in a few cases opposed by, the teachings presented in the texts of the Baha'i Faith. As to any philosophical/religious background of...

Indeed and it would approach how bad it is now in Iran... You might recall that the religious leadership in Iran, with formal authority within the government of Iran, had sent out a secret letter detailing that Baha'is should be kept track of in October 2005. This letter had been discovered...