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(Since I can't get the instant-message thing to work, I'll just give you a not here:) Please note the spelling, Art: MUSKET (not muskit). Thank you.

Greetings! Baha'i elections are democratic, with each adult believer able to vote, typically for nine-member administrative bodies. Nominations, campaigning, and discussion of individual personalities (as contrasted with desired qualities for all those elected) are forbidden (and indeed...

Not any sort of central belief, no! There's simply some remainder of it because it tends to be more significant in Persian and Arabic cultures because just as with Greek, some words can be expressed and numbers and vice versa. A good example is the town of Adrianople, where Baha'u'llah was...

Re: Symbolic meaning of numbers nine and nineteen: And in addition, nine is the value of the letters forming the word "baha": 2+1+5+1 = 9. Peace, :-) Bruce

You're most welcome! :-)

The Wilmette, IL temple is in fact the North American temple, there being one per continent at present (with the exception of South America, which temple is still being built). Worship does indeed take place there, especially prayers as well as a choir that performs there regularly! This is...

>[W]hy did the leaders of the Baha'i faith make such a concession? The Baha'is didn't "make such a concession." This was directed by Baha'u'llah Himself.

I hope this has since changed to include all the UK! Bruce

Art, trying to use your link gives a "not found" error. Bruce

Save that Baha'is are under obligation (from their own scriptures) to OBEY the laws of the land!! The only thing they may not do is deny their Faith. And as to why Baha'is and others make such a big deal out of this, perhaps you're not aware that in addition to Baha'is' being persecuted...

You might wish to note that the Baha'i Faith is also a "traditionally pacifist church," having been such since its inception! Peace, :-) Bruce

One of the best Baha'i sites around is Planet Baha'i, which you can find here: http://www.planetbahai.org It's discussion area has a great mix of Baha'is and others! And I wish you good hunting. :-) Bruce

Another very good one is in many Baha'i prayer books under "Assistance": it begins, "Remove not, O Lord, the festal board." Best! :-) Bruce

And the Baha'i scriptures also say this: "It is even possible that the condition of those who have died in sin and unbelief may become changed; that is to say, they may become the object of pardon through the bounty of God, not through His justice; for bounty is giving without desert, and...

Bob, >It's possible that the UU "Unitarian Baha'is" are a bogus group. There are people supposedly involved with them who have definitely been false identities in the past. The above was posted by "Ruth White," speaking of falsehoods! Ruth White was a notorious covenant-breaker spreading her...

Precisely! And as 'Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi have asserted, the Baha'i Faith itself will survive and endure, while these other groups not only keep splitting but keep going extinct! Most of the remaining groups--other than the Baha'i Faith itself--number only a very few people--hundreds...

And the contrast is clear, I trust, between those Baha'is who endeavor to progress the Faith as a whole and its stress on unity and harmony, and the one or two individuals who spend all their time attacking other individuals and the established Baha'i Faith as a whole! Bruce

And the short answer is, it's one of the (many) volumes of Baha'i scripture--in this case, one considered quite mystical. Peace, :-) Bruce

Probably around one percent, that being the overall percentage of Baha'is in the national population. Bruce

Unpardonable sin is also addressed in "Some Answered Questions," where 'Abdu'l-Baha explains that "blasphemy against the Holy Spirit" refers not to rejecting a particular Divine Messenger who brings the Light, but hatred of the Light itself. You can find that passage here: Bahá'í Library...