The Baha'i Faith: The Emerging Global ReligionBaha'i Publishing, 2002 - 253 pages Explore the history, teachings, structure and community life of the world-wide Baha'i community-what may well be the most diverse organized body of people on earth-through this revised and updated comprehensive introduction (2002). Named by the Encyclopedia Britannica as a book that has made "significant contributions to the knowledge and understanding" of religious thought, The Baha'i Faith covers the most recent developments in a faith that, in just over 150 years, has grown to become the second most wide-spread of the independent world religions. |
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Page 101
... body , each human being has a rational soul , created by God . This soul is a nonmaterial entity , which does not depend on the body . Rather , the body serves as its vehicle in the physical world . The soul of an individual comes into ...
... body , each human being has a rational soul , created by God . This soul is a nonmaterial entity , which does not depend on the body . Rather , the body serves as its vehicle in the physical world . The soul of an individual comes into ...
Page 105
... body or mind . That a sick person showeth signs of weakness is due to the hindrances that interpose themselves between his soul and his body , for the soul itself remaineth un- affected by any bodily ailments . . . . When it leaveth the ...
... body or mind . That a sick person showeth signs of weakness is due to the hindrances that interpose themselves between his soul and his body , for the soul itself remaineth un- affected by any bodily ailments . . . . When it leaveth the ...
Page 188
... body of mankind in which God " hast endowed each and all with talents and faculties , " and is supremely true of the body of the Bahá'í World Community , for this body is already an organism , united in its aspirations , unified in its ...
... body of mankind in which God " hast endowed each and all with talents and faculties , " and is supremely true of the body of the Bahá'í World Community , for this body is already an organism , united in its aspirations , unified in its ...
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