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 94
... continue to exist in order to enable society to encourage the efforts of those ( such as doctors or farm- ers ) whose services are especially vital to the welfare of the community ; but these differences would be established within well ...
... continue to exist in order to enable society to encourage the efforts of those ( such as doctors or farm- ers ) whose services are especially vital to the welfare of the community ; but these differences would be established within well ...
Page 101
... continues to grow and develop in the spiri- tual world , which is greater than the 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 ...
... continues to grow and develop in the spiri- tual world , which is greater than the 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 ...
Page 106
... continues to live after the physical death of the hu- man body , but is , in fact , immortal . Bahá'u'lláh wrote : Know thou of a truth that the soul , after its separation from the body , will continue to progress until it attaineth ...
... continues to live after the physical death of the hu- man body , but is , in fact , immortal . Bahá'u'lláh wrote : Know thou of a truth that the soul , after its separation from the body , will continue to progress until it attaineth ...
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