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 61
... Holy Land in just a few short years . Only thirteen years before , as a helpless exile , ' Abdu'l - Bahá had faced the very real possibility that he would be publicly executed . By the time of his death , however , he had established an ...
... Holy Land in just a few short years . Only thirteen years before , as a helpless exile , ' Abdu'l - Bahá had faced the very real possibility that he would be publicly executed . By the time of his death , however , he had established an ...
Page 73
... Holy Book . Since then , six international plans have been successfully achieved under the guidance of the Universal House of Justice . The current five - year plan , launched in 2001 , begins a se- ries of five - year plans that will ...
... Holy Book . Since then , six international plans have been successfully achieved under the guidance of the Universal House of Justice . The current five - year plan , launched in 2001 , begins a se- ries of five - year plans that will ...
Page 121
... Holy manifestations , though they have the degrees of endless perfections , yet , speaking generally , have only three stations . The first station is the physical ; the second station is the human , which is that of the rational soul ...
... Holy manifestations , though they have the degrees of endless perfections , yet , speaking generally , have only three stations . The first station is the physical ; the second station is the human , which is that of the rational soul ...
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