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There has been a tension in the Baha'i Faith for over 140 years. Tension is as much a part of religion and politics as apple-pie is part of American culture. There has been tension in all of the great religions since Adam ate the proverbial apple. There is a tension in marriages, in sport teams...

sub specie pioneeringi Price knew he did not need to construct a new mythic base to replace the symbolic base of Western culture that had existed in Christianity. His religion provided that new mythic base, that new metaphysical frame for his vision, that new metaphorical basis of...

UNSUSPECTED BENEFITS It is a stupendous paradox that a god does not only fail to protect his chosen people against its enemies but allows them to fail....yet is worshipped only the more ardently. This is unexampled in history and is only to be explained by the powerful prestige of a prophetic...

sub specie pioneeringi Price knew he did not need to construct a new mythic base to replace the symbolic base of Western culture that had existed in Christianity. His religion provided that new mythic base, that new metaphysical frame for his vision, that new metaphorical basis of spiritual...

To use paganism to glorify and propagate Christian morality was a rather difficult task. Still, the Jesuits were confident enough to attempt it and succeed. In order to achieve that goal the Jesuits had to transform the ancient world, the world of Greece and Rome which had become in the...

A FORMATIVE AGE The highly varied social, intellectual, psychological, partisanly apolitical and artistic atmosphere of the Baha'i community deeply influenced Price and thousands of other Baha'is of artistic sensibility in the four epochs during which his pioneering story had its origins and...

RENAISSANCE San Francisco as a literary frontier has been a contentious place....these tensions are worked out within the myth of a "city on a hill" that claims belatedness as a sign of divine largess. Because that community was founded late in the history of a corrupt world, it might serve...

SUPREME REALITY AND ALLEN GINSBERG The poems in this volume(1953-1960)...mostly lack the desperately earnest cry for truth and the snug-tension accuracy of Ginsberg at his best. -A.R. Ammons, "Ginsberg’s New Poems"(published 1964) in On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde, editor...

AT LAST CONVERGING Literature dwindles to a mere chronicle of circumstances, or passionless fantasies and passionless meditation, unless it is constantly flooded with the passion and beliefs of the past and, of all the fountains of passion and beliefs of the past, Baha'i history has again and...

AMBIGUITY’S GAP The poet’s experience: the matter, the soil, the flora and fauna which inhabit that experience; the feelings, images, desires and fears, mediated through the poet’s language which express that experience and the image the poet has of himself which he offers to us in his...

O KING! Some visitors to Haifa tell us that Shoghi Effendi was tired and worn out by 1941, twenty years after assuming the helm of leadership of the Baha'i Faith. Ruhiyyih Rabbani informs us, in the last lines of her book The Priceless Pearl, that by his last years Shoghi Effendi was "called...

BEYOND FRAGMENTATION AND SUBMICROSCOPIC PARTICLES Trying to find the actual Jesus is like trying, in atomic physics, to locate a submicroscopic particle and determine its charge. The particle can not be seen directly.......history is more complex than physics...the intervention of unknown...

THE BIRTH OF SUBLIMITY Beautiful works of art serve our underlying purposes in both cognition and morality in a way uniquely characterized by the freedom of the imagination. When it comes to the sublime in art there always lurks the abyss of the unsayable, the larger sea of the ungraspable...

The dust of reviews has settled on this film and so: the time has come, perhaps, for a more dispassionate, a more considered, a more reflective, little review. Perhaps review is not quite the right word; perhaps what I have written here is just a comment, but it is no less provocative than the...

PROGRESSIVE EMANCIPATION Reading Colin Wilson’s summary of H.G. Wells’s thoughts on the freedom of the mind to work at creative and intellectual pursuits gave me some useful perspectives on writing poetry. Wells speaks of our entanglement with life and he craves release from the bothers...

Summary of Experience of Ron Price Ron Price has been associated with the Baha’i Faith for fifty years. He has served on eight LSAs, in eleven localities and groups and published three books on the Internet. He has been an international pioneer from Canada to Australia since 1971 and served...

THAT OLD WORKHORSE 'RELIGION' In the mid sixties I took an elective unit at university, while I was studying history and philosophy; it was in comparative religion. According to Carl Raschke in his article "Theorizing Religion at the turn of the Millennium," the study of religion only emerged...

I have been associated with the Baha'i Faith for 50 years(1954-2004). Recently, I have taken an interest in autobiography, autobiography of any kind: those of people with commitments to organized religion, causes of various kinds, experiences in various fields, contemporary and historical. Only...