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Each locality with nine or more adult believers was encouraged to elect a “ Local
Spiritual Assembly ” to govern the affairs of ... communications urged all believers
to give their wholehearted support and obedience to the bodies they elected .
Each locality with nine or more adult believers was encouraged to elect a “ Local
Spiritual Assembly ” to govern the affairs of ... communications urged all believers
to give their wholehearted support and obedience to the bodies they elected .
Page 71
In a remarkable gesture of renunciation , the Hands of the Cause disqualified
themselves from serving as elected members of ... For Bahá'ís , the election of the
first Universal House of Justice represented an event of transcendent importance
.
In a remarkable gesture of renunciation , the Hands of the Cause disqualified
themselves from serving as elected members of ... For Bahá'ís , the election of the
first Universal House of Justice represented an event of transcendent importance
.
Page 149
The spiritual assemblies are corporate bodies which come into being through
election by the Bahá'í community as a whole ... Although spiritual assembly
members may occasionally perform individual duties , as elected officers for
example ...
The spiritual assemblies are corporate bodies which come into being through
election by the Bahá'í community as a whole ... Although spiritual assembly
members may occasionally perform individual duties , as elected officers for
example ...
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Contents
The Bábí Faith | 6 |
Baháulláh | 28 |
The Succession to Leadership | 50 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Bahá'í Faith: The Emerging Global Religion |
| Author | William S. Hatcher |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1985 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 9 Sep 2011 |
| ISBN | 0060654414, 9780060654412 |
| Length | 228 pages |
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