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
... physical world , just as the physi- cal world is greater than the world we inhabit while in our mother's womb . This last statement is based on the Bahá'í concept of the soul and of life after physical death . According to the Bahá'í ...
... physical world , just as the physi- cal world is greater than the world we inhabit while in our mother's womb . This last statement is based on the Bahá'í concept of the soul and of life after physical death . According to the Bahá'í ...
Page 109
... physical existence when we re- sembled some animals in superficial ways , humans were a distinct and superior physical species , as well as being distinguished by the existence of the nonmaterial rational soul which , as has been ...
... physical existence when we re- sembled some animals in superficial ways , humans were a distinct and superior physical species , as well as being distinguished by the existence of the nonmaterial rational soul which , as has been ...
Page 110
... physical faculties is to serve as a proper vehicle for the devel- opment of the soul . As the energies of the body are gradually brought under the conscious control of the soul , they become instruments for the expression of spiritual ...
... physical faculties is to serve as a proper vehicle for the devel- opment of the soul . As the energies of the body are gradually brought under the conscious control of the soul , they become instruments for the expression of spiritual ...
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