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 20
... death provided a fo- cal point for a new wave of interest in his message . The story spread like wildfire , not only among the Persians , but also among the diplo- mats , merchants , military advisers , and journalists who made up the ...
... death provided a fo- cal point for a new wave of interest in his message . The story spread like wildfire , not only among the Persians , but also among the diplo- mats , merchants , military advisers , and journalists who made up the ...
Page 31
... death . Each day the ex- ecutioners would descend the steps , select a victim , and conduct him to execution . Several of the condemned were murdered on the spot . In some instances , a hammer and peg were used to drive a heavy wooden ...
... death . Each day the ex- ecutioners would descend the steps , select a victim , and conduct him to execution . Several of the condemned were murdered on the spot . In some instances , a hammer and peg were used to drive a heavy wooden ...
Page 101
... death , the individual 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 ...
... death , the individual 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 ...
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