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Words to Mary Lucas and other pilgrims, spoken on 1905-02-02

For everything there is a special time. There is a special time to plant the seed; there is a special time for its growth

BAVA.025 bahai-library.com/pdf/l/lucas_my_visit_acca.pdf#page=1 BLO_PN#021 bahai-library.com/lucas_my_visit_acca

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity, @symbolism, @birth of Christ; purity; virginity of Mary

ABU1878

Words to Mary Lucas and other pilgrims, spoken on 1905-02-02

160

These words of Christ were addressed to the Jews and Pharisees. By coming in the name of the Father

BAVA.024-025 bahai-library.com/pdf/l/lucas_my_visit_acca.pdf#page=1 BLO_PN#021 bahai-library.com/lucas_my_visit_acca

@suffering; rejection of Christ, @prophecy and fulfillment, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @early Christian persecutions; the Pharisees

ABU2869

Words to Mary Lucas and other pilgrims, spoken on 1905-01-31

In the Koran are many things referring to Christ not mentioned in the Gospel. For instance: It is said that Christ took a bit of clay

SW_v09#18 p.211 bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_18 BAVA.021 bahai-library.com/pdf/l/lucas_my_visit_acca.pdf#page=1 BLO_PN#021 bahai-library.com/lucas_my_visit_acca

@Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @Christ; Christianity, @spiritual transformation, @symbolism

ABU0474

Words to Mary Lucas and other pilgrims, spoken on 1905-01-30

560

Arts, Importance of in Promoting the Faith

Voice is the vibration of the air, and is like the waves of the sea. The voice is produced through the instrumentality of the lips… It is natural for the heart and spirit to take pleasure and enjoyment in all things that show forth symmetry, harmony, and perfection

BRL_IOA#24x bahai.org/r/796188175 COC#1422 bahai-library.com/compilation_music#1422 BAVA.011-014 bahai-library.com/pdf/l/lucas_my_visit_acca.pdf#page=1 BLO_PN#021 bahai-library.com/lucas_my_visit_acca

@chastity and purity, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @harmony of science and religion, @the power of words; of speech, @spiritual transformation

ABU1574

Words to Mary J. MacNutt

200

Bahá'u'lláh dictated the book of Iqan to me 1275 A.H. in less than twenty-four hours…

PN_unsorted p006 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_unsorted.pdf#page=6

@review of publications, @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @suffering and imprisonment

ABU2529

Words to Mary Hanford Ford, spoken on 1911-10-27

Pay not attention to things material but reach after the Spirit. Fix your eyes on the Sun of Truth

SW_v08#08 p.103 bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_8

@spiritual transformation, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @Manifestation of God as sun, @The Holy Spirit, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @Christ; Christianity

ABU3450

Words to Mary Hanford Ford, spoken on 1911-10-18

Yes, surely sincere prayer always has its effect and it has a great influence in the other world

SW_v08#04 p.047 bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_4 PN_1911 p017 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1911.pdf#page=17

@soul; spirit after death, @prayer for the departed, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @power of prayer

ABU3232

Words to Mary Hanford Ford in 1910

I think we should learn to live in the body as if it were a glass case, through which we can look clearly on all sides. But we must remember that we cannot see through glass unless it is clean, and no one can dust his own case but himself.

TOR.200-201 archive.org/stream/cu31924029187164#page/n202/mode/2up

@occult sciences; psychic phenomena, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @spiritual transformation

ABU2370

Words to Mary Hanford Ford in 1910

100

But we are all happy because we have the love of God in our hearts. When the heart is full of the love of God it loses consciousness of the body.

PN_unsorted p150 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_unsorted.pdf#page=150 TOR.160 archive.org/stream/cu31924029187164#page/n162/mode/2up

@love of God, @martyrs and martyrdom, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @transcending the material condition, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU2610

Words to Mary Hanford Ford et al around 1911-10-25

I am very unhappy to see how wicked and uncivilized human beings can be... See what a slight thing will shut off our physical sight, so will a slight indiscretion, a cross word, an adverse criticism shut off the delicate spiritual sight.

SW_v08#11 p.139x bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_11 PN_1911 p019 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1911.pdf#page=19 PN_1911 p024 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1911.pdf#page=24

@two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @war and peace, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration

ABU1317

Words to Mary Hanford Ford around Oct. 1911

240

Bahá'í Scriptures

The utterances of Bahá'u'lláh are to be translated into deeds... It is possible to so adjust oneself to the practice of nobility that its atmosphere surrounds us and colors all our acts

BSC.450 #822x bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/ SW_v07#18 p.188x bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_18 PN_1911 p023 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1911.pdf#page=23 BSTW#084x h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=86

@corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @unity; oneness of humanity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @words vs deeds

ABU3199

Words to Marie Watson et al in Aug. 1921

Take prejudice, how it grows. First a few people say something disparaging about a person, and generally, there is a fragment of the truth in what they say.

PN_1921 p012 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1921.pdf#page=12 BLO_PN#060 bahai-library.com/watson_pilgrimage_land_desire

@prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU3059

Words to Marie Watson et al in Aug. 1921

Tests are not sent as punishment, but to reveal the soul to itself. Suffering unfolds both the strength and the weakness.

PN_1921 p012 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1921.pdf#page=12 BLO_PN#060 bahai-library.com/watson_pilgrimage_land_desire

@self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @spiritual transformation, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @knowledge of self

ABU0064

Words to Marie Watson et al in Aug. 1921

1440

I have sent for thee. Others have had to ask for permission. I have thus honored thee.... All the believers in this cycle are in the same station when they accept the Manifestation of God and His Teachings. This is the baptism of water...

SW_v16#05 p.518x bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_16/Issue_5 PN_1921 p006 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1921.pdf#page=6

@spiritual transformation, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @unity in diversity, @Word of God and human limitations, @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir]

ABU1473

Words to Marie Watson et al around Aug. 1921

220

Retrogression is a possibility also through egotistic importance. Pride is the greatest sin - perhaps the only sin - leading to every other evil

PN_1921 p002x bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1921.pdf#page=2 PN_1921 p004 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1921.pdf#page=4

@spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @education and the development of capacity, @scarcity of receptive souls, @contention and conflict, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization

ABU1871

Words to Marie Watson et al around Aug. 1921

160

I plant a seed in your mind; if your heart approves it, it will become a tree and bear fruit... When the brain cells in the 'upper chamber' are active, they respond to celestial vibrations... Discerning, conscious souls who comprehend the reality of the divine teachings are few in every age.

ABU3687

Words to Marie Watson et al

150

You must be like these swift-moving, luminous clouds. They move, nothing hinders them. I shall pray for you that you will be like these clouds.

BLO_PN#060 bahai-library.com/watson_pilgrimage_land_desire

@disregarding individual capacity; weakness, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @love and unity, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

BBU0008

Words to Manuchihr Khan

130

May God requite you for your noble intentions. So lofty a purpose is to Me

DB.213-214 reference.bahai.org/en/t/nz/DB/db-29.html#pg213

@growth of the Cause, @martyrs and martyrdom, @predictions and prophecies, @chastisement and requital, @praise and encouragement

BBU0016

Words to Manuchihr Khan

140

When We departed from Shiraz, cholera raged over the province of Fars, and Husayn Khan escaped with all deliberate speed from the city

GEN.045-046 bahai-library.com/pdf/a/afnan_rabbani_genesis_faiths.pdf

BBU0017

Words to Manuchihr Khan

In the presence of God, there is no past, present, or future. There is an eternal now

ABU2082

Words to Mahmud Zarqani, spoken on 1914-06-18

130

You have worked very diligently over the compilation of these two volumes. During the first journey to Europe no one was thinking to do this work. Now and then Mirza Baqir Khan

DAS.1914-06-18 bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_10.pdf#page=116

@growth of the Cause, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU3052

Words to Madame Scaramuchi, spoken on 1913-02-20

The Cause of Bahá'u'lláh is the same as the Cause of Christ. For example this room is now lighted, but someone comes in and turns off the light

DAS.1913-02-20

@oneness; unity of religion, @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion

ABU2935

Words to Madame Laheebe Hashem, spoken on 1913-10-24

Be thou kind to all mankind. Try thy utmost to alleviate their burdens. Enlighten the minds with the light of knowledge.

DAS.1913-10-24 bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=50

@education of children; moral education, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @love and unity, @role and station of women, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2927

Words to Madame D'astre, spoken on 1913-01-29

When a person is a light sleeper, one single touch will awake him, if he sleeps heavily, then one must awake him by shaking him... if even this will not awake the sleeper we will then have to use dynamite.

DAS.1913-01-29

@call to action, @spiritual transformation, @growth of the Cause, @predictions and prophecies

ABU2606

Words to Madam J, spoken on 1904-04-15

No, no, one never returns here, for this world is a school where the soul of man learns its first lessons in spirituality

PN_1904 p021 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=21 PN_1904 p030 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=30 PN_1904 p093 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=93 BSTW#180c h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=54

@soul; spirit after death, @reincarnation, @the human soul, @spiritual transformation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU1711

Words to Madam J, spoken on 1904-04-15

180

Yes, I know, and the more you think to know the reason the less you can solve the problem... Man erroneously thinks his happiness comes from the world

PN_1904 p021 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=21 PN_1904 p029 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=29

@material and spiritual existence; two books, @suffering and imprisonment, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @human reality created in the image of God, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

ABU3490

Words to Madam J, spoken on 1904-04-15

Of course, they can see us and know everything we are doing for that is the world of real sight and sense.

PN_1904 p021 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=21 PN_1904 p030 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=30 BSTW#180c h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=54

@soul; spirit after death, @connection between material and spiritual worlds

ABU0191

Words to MacNutts et al around Jan. 1905

930

Bahá'í Scriptures

Now have we, the beloved of God, gathered together to partake of material and spiritual food... Strive, Strive always that ye may be united... There are two kinds of love... There is something that I especially wish to make you sure of... If you should receive news in America that I have been thrown into the sea

BSC.450 #821x bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/ SW_v12#16 p.254x bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_16 SW_v08#10 p.134x bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_10 PN_1905 p010 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1905.pdf#page=10 PN_1904 p088x bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=88 PN_1905 p011x bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1905.pdf#page=11 BSTW#320 h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_301-350.pdf#page=29

@unity; oneness of humanity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @love of God, @love and unity, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @suffering and imprisonment, @Nineteen-Day Feast

ABU0671

Words to MacNutts et al around Jan. 1905

440

There is something especially I wish to make you sure of…. Until real firmness is established among the believers in New York, individually and together, there will be no result.

PN_1905 p015 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1905.pdf#page=15

@consolation and comfort, @suffering and imprisonment, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @growth of the Cause, @firmness in the Covenant, @Mary Magdalene, @Saint Peter and Saint Paul

ABU2656

Words to Mabel MacCoy Irwin, spoken on 1911-09-18

Give to them in America my loving greetings and my wish for their success. Tell them that if they would attain nearness to the Blessed Beauty they must love much, for love is everything.

PN_1911 p025 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1911.pdf#page=25

@love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @exhortations and counsels, @love of God

ABU1018

Words to M.H. in 1912

310

That child is your trust within the charge of God. She was a child when she went... I had a son who was four years old

SW_v09#09 p.102 bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_9 PN_1912 p134 bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=134 VLAB.142x bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VLAB.pdf

@interpretation of dreams and visions, @consolation and comfort, @soul; spirit after death

ABU2517

Words to M. R. Shirazi, spoken on 1914-04-27

I have many wounds, I do not speak of them and bear the pain in silence. You know well that I have to bear the brunt of criticisms and to be ready to escape the pitfalls

TDAB.21

@suffering and imprisonment, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @growth of the Cause

ABU1784

Words to M. R. Shirazi, spoken on 1914-04-07

170

It is really very sad to see how Buddha and Christ are fallen into the hands of the bad people of their respective followers... At the very utmost photographs are for remembrance and not for worship.

DAS.1914-04-07 bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_09.pdf#page=10 TDAB.04-05

@autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @photographs and recordings, @birth of Christ; purity; virginity of Mary, @Buddhism and Hinduism; religions of the East, @idolatry, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU3050