God Passes By Outline
Correlation with A Traveler's Narrative and The Dawn-Breakers
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(Note: Only Chapters 1-5 and the first parts of Chapters 6 and 7 have extended outlines (the chapters correlating to A Traveler's Narrative and The Dawn-Breakers). The Introduction, Foreword, and Retrospect and Prospect also have extended outlines.)Introduction (by George Townshend)
Foreword (by Shoghi Effendi)
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Retrospect and Prospect
Introduction Foreword 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Retrospect and Prospect
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GPB page #- paragraph# (print copy line#) Topic/Headings DB/TN page # (or GPB page # cross-reference) I. Expectations of Future in Relation to the Past xi-1 At 100th Anniversary Contemplating Great Potentialities (Unique, Culminating, Enduring) (None) xi-2, xi-3, xii-0 Great tumult (in thought; antagonisms of races/creeds/classes; and the downfall of kingdoms, ecclesiastics, and institutions) especially since WWI (right before the Formative Age began), due to travail at ignoring Creative spirit; the spirit is, however, cleansing and impelling humanity to strive to be delivered (None) xii-1, xiii-0 II. Work to survey: xii-1 (12-22) a. ...outstanding events of the (glorious, tumultuous, and spiritually revolutionary) century (when His Spirit burst forth upon the world) GPB xiii-1 (12-13) xii-1 (12-22) b. ...initial stages of Spirit's incarnation in (administrative) System (to evolve into Order embracing and fulfilling destiny of all humanity) GPB xiii-1 (13-14, 14-17) xii-1 (22-23) c. ...momentous happenings (see also VI. below) xii-1 (22-27) i. From sect to universal (amidst perversity, indifference, or hostility) GPB xvi-1 (25-29) xii-1 (27-28) ii. Believers' Organic and Indissoluble Unity xii-1 (28-29) iii. Regional Spread GPB xvi-1 (18-25) xii-1 (30-31) iv. National Spread (# of countries) xii-1 (31-32) v. Literary Development GPB xvi-1 (32-41), xvii-0 (1) xii-1 (32-34) vi. Endowments' Monetary Value GPB xvii-0 (28-33) xii-1 (34-36) vii. Official Recognition of Institutions GPB xvii-0 (24-28) xii-1 (37-38) viii. Racial and Religious Diversity GPB xvi-1 (29-31) xii-1 (38-39) ix. U.S. and Persian Civil Spread GPB xvii-0 (24-28) xii-1 (40) x. Royalty GPB xvi-1 (32), xviii xii-1 (40-42), xiii-0 (1) xi. Independent Status GPB xvii-0 (19-24) xiii-0 (1-5) xii. Claims Recognized in Israel xiii-1 III. This Work Not to Show: xiii-1 (6-7) a. Detailed History of Period xiii-1 (7-10) b. Origins (conditions, religion from which it sprung) xiii-1 (10-12) c. External Impact xiii-1 This Work to Show: (Repeat of IIa, IIb. above) GPB xii-1 (12-18) xiii-1 a. Salient features of: xiii-1 (13) i. birth and rise of Faith GPB xii-1 (12-15) xiii-1 (14-15) ii. initial establishment of institutions GPB xii-1 (15-16) xiii-1 (15-18) a) (Institutions as the nucleus and herald of the essential World Order) GPB xii-1 (16-18) xiii-2 IV. Alternation of (propulsions of) Crisis and Victory xiii-3, xiv (1) V. (Ages/Periods within First Century described (and indicated as part of one purpose and process)) xiii-3 (34-38) a. Overview Description of Specific Ages in First Century xiii-3 (38-40), xiv-0 (1-3) 1. Heroic/Primitive/Apostolic Age xiii-3 (40-41), xiv-0 (3-4) 2. Beginning of Formative/Transitional/Iron Age xiv-1 b. Overview Description of Specific Periods in First Century GPB xv-1, xvi-0 xiv-2 (20-32) 1. 1st Period GPB xvi-1 (8-9, 13-15) xiv-2 (32-41), xv-0 (1-7) 2. 2nd Period GPB xvi-1 (9-10, 15-16) xv-0 (7-21) 3. 3rd Period GPB xvi-1 (10-11, 16-17) xv-0 (21-36) 4. 4th Period GPB xvi-1 (11-13, 17-18) xv-1, xvi-0, xvi-1 (7-8) (All periods (see V.b. above) are of one whole purpose and process) GPB xiv-1 xvi-1 (8-9, 9-10, 10-11, 11-13;
13-15, 15-16, 16-17, 17-18)(Another summary of four periods (see b. above)) GPB xiv (2), xv (0) xvi-1 (18-41), xvii, xviii VI. (mostly repeated description of aspects of Faith's advancement over time) (See also II.C. above) xvi-1 (18-25) a. Regional Spread GPB xii-1 (28-29) xvi-1 (29-31) b. Religious, class, color (representative) spread (from Shí'ah masses originally) GPB xii-1 (22-27, 37-38) xvi-1 (32-41), xvii-0 (1) c. Literary spread GPB xii-1 (31-32) xvii-0 (1-6) d. Evolution of teachings' scope (rigid, expanded, systematized, etc.) xvii-0 (6-20) e. Grade of Increasing Opposition xvii-0 (19-24) f. Evolution toward recognition (from obscurity) GPB xi-1 (40-42), xiii-0 (1) xvii-0 (24-28) g. Rise of institutions GPB xii-1 (34-36, 38-39) xvii-0 (28-33) h. Endowments and Houses of Worship GPB xii-1 (34-36) xvii-0 (33-41), xviii (0) i. Condition of Pilgrimages