Peace for Our Planet — A New Approach, by Roya Akhavan: Review - Waren,Warren (2018)
Originally posted at bahai-studies.ca/peace-for-our-planet [archive.org].

Peace in Perspective: The Historical Development of Peace Studies and the Bahá'í Concept - Ferreira,Marcos Alan (Journal of the Sociology and Theory of Religion, 2022)
How the peace concept evolved through history, and how it dialogues with perspectives of Bahá’í writings and thinkers vs. the conceptual frameworks of Peace Studies, in light of an understanding of violence, human nature, and unity.
This article is online under CC license at revistas.uva.es/index.php/socireli/article/view/6276. See full journal Los problemas sociales, económicos y religiosos desde la perspectiva bahá’í.
Keywords: Human nature; Peace; Unity; Unity of humanity; Violence

"Peace" in the Baha'i Scriptures - Velasco,Ismael (2001)
Annotated compilation on the gestation of thoughts about peace and the Lesser Peace in the writings of Baha’u’llah, universal peace in the writings of Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi's "New World Order," and the UHJ's influences on the Lesser Peace.
Keywords: Lesser Peace; Most Great Peace; Peace; World order

Peace Notes - Mesbah,Trudy; Mullin,Ruie; Russ,Joan; et al. (dialogue magazine, 1986)
Five short reports about anti-war movements: "Australian Expo Raises the Banner of Peace," "Peace Takes a Holiday," "Beyond War: A New Way of Thinking," "Magic Peace Project," and letters.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Activism; Peace; Social action

Peace, Activism for - Universal House of Justice (1987)
Bahá'ís may be actively involved in peace processes but may not interfere excessively, since Bahá'í institutions will not be directly involved in effecting the political unity of nations.
Keywords: Activism; Lesser Peace; Peace; Unity of Nations

Pedigree of the Qajar Dynasty - Shoghi Effendi (The Dawn-Breakers, 1932)
Genealogical chart of the Qajar Dynasty
Keywords: Dawn-Breakers (book); Genealogy; Iran (documents); Nasirid-Din Sháh; Qajar dynasty; Shahs

Peeps Into Persia - de Warzee,Dorothy (Hurst and Blackett, Ltd, 1913)
Brief mention of the Bahá'í Faith in a travelogue about Persia.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Mentions; Travelogues

Pensamientos varios de un economista místico - Shams,Badi (2016)
Colección de 68 artículos publicados en bahaiteachings.org
Vea esto en inglés en Random Thoughts of a Mystic Economist. Ver otros ensayos en español en Hacia un Nuevo Orden Económico-Espiritual. Vea también badishams.com/resources.
Keywords: Economics

Perceiving Differences: A Look at Gender and Equality - Brush,Mark (dialogue magazine, 1988)
Observations on what Richard DeNovellis' "Personality Type Preference Indicator" tests show about ages and genders; laws of nature vs. laws of God.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Children; Equality; Gender; Laws; Psychology; Women

Perception Into Faith: A Radical Discontinuity Within Unity - Barnes,William (Lights of Irfan, 2001)
Entering into eternal life is both a change of being and of perception; the two natures of man; faith versus good deeds as means for attaining eternal life; the Bahá’í 'spirit of faith'.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #32, Bosch Bahá'í School (November 23-6, 2000). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/32/barnes_faith.
Keywords: Deeds; Ethics; Faith and works; Human nature; Irfán Colloquia; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ, Crucifixion of; Salvation; Self; Soul

Perfection and Refinement: Towards an Aesthetics of the Bab - Momen,Moojan (Lights of Irfan, 2011)
The writings of the Bab have implications for the "plastic" arts; significance for native traditions; relevance to the performing arts; and the concept of refinement which comes across in both the person and the writings of the Báb.
Paper slightly updated in July 2014. Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/97/momen_refinement.
Keywords: Aboriginal people; Aesthetics; Africa; Aqa Bala-Big Naqqash-bashi; Architecture; Arts and crafts; Australia; Bahá'í World Centre; Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan); Beauty; Business; Báb, Portrait of; Báb, Teachings of; Báb, The; Báb, Writings of; Calligraphy; China; Culture, Persian; Dance; Dá’irih (circle); Gardens; Haykal (temple); Indigenous people; Iran (documents); Japan; Kitáb-i-Asma (Book of Names); Literature; Manufacturing; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Music; Native Americans; New Zealand; Painting; Paradise; Perfection; Poetry; Portraits; Prayer; Prayer texts; Qayyumul-Asma (book); Refinement; Style (Writings); Talismans; Teaching; Theatre; Transformation; United States (documents); Work; Writing

Permissibility of Chinese New Year Celebrations and Cultural Prostrations - Universal House of Justice (2019)
Permissibility of observing Chinese New Year; prostrating is permissible for cultures in which prostrations do not signify submission or humiliation, but are merely gestures of respect or politeness.
Title not in original, but created for this online posting.
Keywords: China; Chinese New Year; Cultural diversity; Holy days; Holy days of other religions; India; New year; Prostrations; Respect; Traditions

Permissibility of Circulating Photographs of 'Abdu'l-Bahá Online - Universal House of Justice (2024)
Guidance and quotations regarding the use of images of Abdu'l-Baha in print, newsletters, and social media.
Keywords: Photographs; Social media; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Pictures and portraits

Permission to Change Pronouns in Private Prayer - Universal House of Justice (2022)
Bahá'u'lláh's permission to change the pronoun when reciting a prayer (e.g. from "him" to "me") should be applied only when it is recited in private and only by changing the third person to the first, where appropriate.
Posted with permission of recipient; original on file. See also the original quotation in Changing Pronouns and Dropping 'Say' in Prayers.
Keywords: Prayer; Prayer texts; Pronouns; Research Department, Questions and answers; Say (phrase)

Perpetual Bahá'í Calendar - McKinney,Morgan Edna (Bahá'í Publishing Committee)
One-page table showing the Bahá'í days of the year in relation to the Gregorian calendar.
From the Emma Maxie Jones Collection. Many newer versions of this table are now available online; this one is posted for historical interest. It was published by the U.S. Bahá'í Publishing Committee (no date), printed on plate finish paper and glued to a cardstock backing.
Keywords: Badi calendar; Charts; Visuals

Persecution of the Bahá'í Community of Iran Under the Islamic Republic: Twenty Years of Intolerance - Tahririha-Danesh,Tahirih (Converging Realities, 2000)
Description of some of the persecutions of the Bahá'í community in Iran over the past twenty years.
Originally published at converge.landegg.edu, archived at archive.org. Article re-posted here with permission of publisher (notwithstanding the publisher's copyright restrictions).
Keywords: Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other

Persecution of the Bahá'í Community of Iran: 1983-1986 - Universal House of Justice, compiler (Baha'i World, 1994)
Lengthy survey of events, and life stories of participants.
Keywords: 1983; 1986; Biography; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other

Persecution of the Baha'is in Iran: 1979-1986: A 7-year campaign to eliminate a religious minority - Bahá'í International Community (1986)
Overview of activities and propaganda against Bahá'ís in Iran, and the responses of the United Nations.
Mirrored from bahaideepeningresources.blogspot.ca.
Keywords: 1979; 1986; BIC statements; Bahá'í International Community; Human rights; Iran (documents); Opposition; Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other; Statements

Persecution of the Bahá'ís of Iran 1844-1984 - Martin,Douglas (Baha'i Studies, 1984)
Treatment of the Bahá'ís in Iran by the state and by the Shi'ism under the Qájárs (1844-1925), Pahlavis (1925-1979), and under the Islamic Republic (1979-); responses by the Bahá'í Community.
Mirrored with permission from bahaistudies.ca/bahai-studies-monographs.
Keywords: 1844; 1984; 20th century; Douglas Martin; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other

Persecutions of Babis in 1888-1891 at Isfahan and Yazd - Various (Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion, 1918)
Eyewitness or historical accounts of specific events, uprisings, and attacks, as collected by E.G. Browne.
From Materials for the Study of the Bábí Religion. Online version is exact replica of original, except underscore used to indicate under-dot.
Keywords: 1888; 1891; Iran (documents); Isfahan, Iran; Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other; Yazd, Iran

Persia - Sykes,Percy Molesworth (Oxford University Press, 1922)
3-page overview of early Bábí history. Complete book is included, for historical interest.
This book is online in a variety of formats at archive.org.
Keywords: Bábí history

Persia - Author unknown (American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1865, 1866)
Short summary of the Bábí Faith and Qurratu'l-Ayn, on last page of an entry about Persia.
From books.google.com.
Keywords: Bábísm; Iran (documents); Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn

Persia - Frye,Richard N. (Schocken Books, 1968)
Excerpt from a book on the history of Iran. Includes mention of Bahá'í schools in the early twentieth century.
Keywords: Agriculture; Bahá'í inspired schools; Constitutional Movement (Iran); Education; Iran (documents); Iran, General history; Iranian constitution; Islam; Laws; Mentions; Philosophy; Reform; Religious leaders (clergy); Reza Shah Pahlavi; Shahs; Shia Islam (Shiism); Zoroastrianism

Persia and Its People - Sykes,Ella C. (Macmillan Co., 1910)
Brief reference to the Bahá'ís extracted from a popular description of Iran based on extensive travel in the country over a period of three years at the turn of the 19th century by the sister of a British diplomat.
Keywords: 1900s; Culture, Persian; Mentions

Persia and the Persian Question, endnotes - Curzon,George N. (1892)
Endnotes for Persia and the Persian Question. [Posted as a separate entry due to the huge size of the main document.]

Persia and the Persian Question, volume I - Curzon,George N. (Longmans, Green & Co., 1892)
In Moojan Momen's "The Bábí and Bahá'í Religions 1844-1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts" (1981), p. 45, the work is described: "One of the most remarkable books ever to appear on Persia…", reviewed through p. 47 and used many times beyond.
See also End notes. This book is also available as a nicely-formatted PDF (3.5MB; formatted by Bobbi Lyons). Both volumes are online in a variety of formats at archive.org. This edition London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1966.
Keywords: 19th century; George Curzon; Iran (documents); Iran, General history

Persia and the Regeneration of Islam - Temple,Bernard (Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 1910)
An argument to a British business audience that Persia is becoming more civilized and is experiencing its own version of the Reformation, as shown by the example of the Bahá'ís.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Islam

Persia by a Persian: Personal Experiences, Manners, Customs, Habits, Religious and Social Life in Persia - Adams,Isaac (Elliot Stock, 1906)
Answers to "questions about the manners, customs, and peculiarities of my own people" received while the author was on lecture tours in the U.S.; an account of Iranian life, culture, and local religious practices before the modern petroleum state.
See two sections of this book excerpted as Bab and Babism and Two Letters of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst. Mirrored from archive.org, where it is available in a variety of formats. Also online at Google books.
Keywords: 19th century; Biography; Culture, Persian; Iran (documents); Travelogues

Persia Past and Present: A Book of Travel and Research - Jackson,Abraham Valentine Williams (Macmillan Company, 1906)
A few passing mentions of the Babis.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Mentions; Travelogues

Persia Revisited: With Remarks on H.I.M. Mozuffer-Ed-Din Shah, and the Present Situation in Persia - Gordon,Thomas Edward (E. Arnold, 1895)
Short chapter-length overview of the Bábí Faith.
This book is online in a variety of formats at gutenberg.org and archive.org.
Keywords: Bábí history; Muzaffarid-Dín Sháh

Persia: Romance and Reality - Merritt-Hawkes,Onera Amelia (Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1935)
Travel diary including lunch with a Bahá'í doctor, a visit to two Bahá'í schools in Yazd, and meeting Bahá'í children in Kirmán.
O. A. Merritt-Hawkes was the pen-name of Mary Weston, 1877-1951. In a book about her, Onèra Amelia Merritt-Hawkes: Author and Scientist of Upton Upon Severn, she is described as "a biologist and educator, stalwart of the Eugenics Society, author of three travel books, two volumes of memoirs and a novel..." (abebooks).
Keywords: 1930s; Bahá'í schools; Kirman, Iran; Travelogues; Yazd, Iran

Persia: The Awakening East - Cresson,W. P. (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1908)
Brief overview of the early years of the Bábí Faith.
Keywords: Bábí history

Persia: The Land of the Imams - Bassett,James (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886)
Brief mention of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths.
Online at books.google and elsewhere.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Mentions

Persian and Arabic names - Balyuzi,Hasan M.; Gail,Marzieh; Ayman,Iraj (The Báb, 1973)
Explanations of the elaborate system of Persian names and titles used in the nineteenth century.
Prepared as part of Wilmette Institute notes and commentary on the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh.
Keywords: Arabic language; Glossaries; Names (personal); Names and titles; Persian language; Terminology

Persian Bahá'í Poets and Poetry: A General Overview - Moayyad,Heshmat (2008)
Lecture hosted by the Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa, June 3 2008. Mirrored from gulfc.haifa.ac.il.
Keywords: Iran (documents); Literature, Persian; Poetry

Persian Bahá'ís in Australia - Hassall,Graham (Religion and Ethnic Identity, An Australian Study, 1989)
Overview of the history and modern activities (ca. 1989) of the Persian Bahá'í community in Australia.
Keywords: 1989; Australia; Bahá'í history by country; Diaspora, Persian; Migration

Persian Bayan ("Exposition"): From A.L.M. Nicolas' French translation - Báb, The (2020)
Bayan-i-Farsi ("Persian Exposition"), translated from the original Persian into French by A.L.M. Nicolas (as Le Beyan Persan), then translated into English by Anonymous.
See also Nicolas' 4-volume French original, a partial translation of Nicolas' French into English by Ismael Velasco, E. G. Browne's A Summary of the Persian Bayan, Peter Terry's Summary and Thematic Analysis, an English rendering of Nicolas' French translation of The Arabic Bayan, and a partial translation by Denis MacEoin.
Keywords: A. L. M. Nicolas; Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan); Báb, Writings of

Persian Bayan, A Summary - Báb, The; Browne,E. G. (Selections from the Writings of E. G. Browne on the Babi and Baha'i Religions, 1987)
Overview and summary of The Bab's Persian Bayán, translated by Browne, edited by Momen.
Two versions of this summary were posted on scribd.com. One is missing the section on "Wahid IX" but has nicer formatting; download the shorter but better-formatted version here: momen_summary...shorter.pdf. Shared with permission of both editor and publisher. See also four short excerpts of the Bayan translated by Nicolas, Peter Terry's "Thematic Analysis and Summary," and a partial translation by Denis MacEoin.
Keywords: Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan); Báb, Writings of; Outlines and summaries

Persian Bayán: Thematic Analysis and Summary - Terry,Peter (2015)
A detailed overview of this lengthy text of The Báb, which outlines elements of Bábí law, discussion of religious concepts, and the glorification of "He whom God shall make manifest."
69 pages. See also Nicolas' 4-volume French translation, E. G. Browne's Persian Bayan: A Summary, a partial translation by Ismael Velasco, and a partial translation by Denis MacEoin.
Keywords: Balance (Day of Judgment); Bayan-i-Farsi (Persian Bayan); Bridge (afterlife); Báb (Gate); Colors; Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); Death (unbelief) and life (belief); Fire; God; He Whom God shall make manifest; Heaven and hell; Laws; Light; Manifestations of God; Manifestations of God, Recognition of; Mustaghath; Outlines and summaries; Paradise; Point; Primal Will; Progressive revelation; Resurrection; Return; Revelation writing; Unity of religion

Persian Language in the Literature of Baha'i Worship - Rassekh,Shapour (Religious Texts in Iranian Languages, 2007)
Brief article on the literary sources of Bahá'í prayer, their diversity and varied style, and Persian as a language of prayer.
From the proceedings of a symposium held at Copenhagen University, May 2002. Posted by publisher; full book is online at royalacademy.dk/Publications/Low/2085_.pdf.
Keywords: Language; Persian language; Prayer

Persian Mirrors, by Elaine Sciolino: Review - Lapidus,Ira (New York Times, 2000)

Persian Revolution of 1905-1909, The, by E. G. Browne: Reviews - Various (1996)
Three reviews, published in CIRA Bulletin, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and Journal of Islamic Studies.
See the book online at browne_persian_revolution_1905-1909. Mirrored from and formatted by mage.com/REVrev.html [archive.org], which did not list the reviewers' names.
Keywords: 1900s; 1905; 1909; Constitutional Revolution (Iran, 1905-1911); E. G. Browne; Iran (documents); Iran, General history

Persian Translation of Arabic verses - Universal House of Justice (Lights of Irfan, 2018)
There are no authorized Persian translations of any of the Arabic Writings; personal translations are acceptable but should not be recited in Bahá’í gatherings; explanations in Persian may be shared for the sake of better understanding the Arabic.
Below are two separate letters, sent at different times to different individuals. They have been combined here because they are about the same topics.
Keywords: Arabic language; Deepening; Obligatory prayer; Persian language; Tajik language; Translation

Persian, Arabic, and Provisional Translations - Ayman,Iraj; Stockman,Robert (1999)
Words relating to the titles of Bahá'í Writings, "Pure" Persian and "Pure" Arabic, and information on provisional translations.
Prepared as part of Wilmette Institute notes and commentary on the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh.
Keywords: Arabic language; Bahá'í Writings; Glossaries; Persian language; Provisional translations; Translation

Persian-speaking Believers in Anglophone Communities - Universal House of Justice (Baha'i Canada, 1996)
Some Persian expatriates feel deprived of participation in Bahá'í gatherings because of an inability to understand English.
Keywords: Alienation; Community (general); Cultural diversity; Diaspora, Persian; English language; Estrangement; Language; Language learning; Migration; Nineteen Day Feast; Persian language; Translation; Unity

Persian/Arabic Bahá'í Books in the Library of Ahang Rabbani - Rabbani,Ahang, compiler (1999)
Private library of Persian and Arabic sacred writings and other Bahá'í-related material.
Note: this list is from 1999 and is now well out-of-date.
Keywords: Archives; Indexes and catalogues; Libraries; Manuscripts

Persien wie es ist und war mit Karawane, Auto und Flugzeug durch Risas Königreich - Norden,Hermann (F. A. Brockhous, 1929)
I don't know if this refers to Bahá'ís or not; possibly on page 197? Email me if you can read German, or have access to Hathi Trust.
German translation of Under Persian skies: a record of travel by the old caravan routes of western Persia (1928).
Keywords: Iran; Travelogues

Personal Interpretation of the term 'Seal of the Prophets' - Hakim,Kamran (1997)
A lengthy examination of the terms khatam, "seal," and Nabi, "Prophet," and their meanings in Islam.
See also Islam and the Bahá'í Faith.
Keywords: Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); Finality; Hadith; Islam; Prophecies; Quran; Seal of the Prophets

Personal Letter to Isabelle M. Campbell - Finch,Ida A. (1920)
Short letter from Finch in Tokyo to Isabelle M. Campbell in Spokane WA, describing some Baha'i activities in Japan, referencing Ahmad [Sohrab] in the U.S. and some translations into Japanese, and a pilgrim's note about Abdu'l-Bahá being sleepless.
Typed and posted with permission of Campbell's granddaughter Mary Galbraith. See more of Finch's pilgrim's notes in Flowers Culled from the Rose Garden of Acca.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Ida Finch; Isabelle Campbell; Japan; Spokane, WA; Tokyo, Japan; United States (documents)

Personal Names and Titles in Islamic and Baha'i Usage - Walbridge,John (Essays and Notes on Babi and Baha'i History, 2002)
Included in author's compilation Essays and Notes on Bábí and Bahá'í History.
Keywords: Introductory; Names (personal); Names and titles

Personal page - Winters,Jonah (1997)
My own links, theses, and papers. The tags are places I've lived or gone to school.
Keywords: Brock University; Chapel Hill, NC; Evanston, IL; Jonah Winters; McGill University; Montreal, QC; Niagara Falls, ON; Ottawa, ON; Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; St. Catharines, ON; Toronto, ON; University of Toronto; Vancouver, BC; Weston-super-Mare, England

Personal Page - Zamir,Brett (2003)
Links to some personal projects.
I hereby release all of the materials I have written, compiled, or otherwise created or will write, compile, or otherwise create at this website (with the exception of the Text Browser software and its documentation which are under the GNU General Public License and the GNU Free Documentation License, respectively) to be under a "Unlicense" license. So, feel free to modify them yourselves, or do as you wish... --Brett Zamir, 19-3-2006 You are welcome to send comments about this page (or anything else) to my collaborative page here (off-line to editing at the moment).
Keywords: Brett Zamir

Personal Page: Dianne Bradford: Deepening and teaching materials - Bradford,Dianne (1999)
Links to some personal projects.

Personal Page: Ehsan Bayat - Bayat,Ehsan (2001)
Ehsan Bayat's personal compilations.
Keywords: Shoghi Effendi, Writings of

Personal Page: Gary Fuhrman - Fuhrman,Gary (2001)

Personal Page: Paula Bidwell - Bidwell,Paula (2015)
Links for and information about an American Indian artist, author, and speaker from Idaho, who has been assisting with bahai-library.com for over a decade.

Personal Page: Ralph D. Wagner - Wagner,Ralph D. (1999)

Personal Page: Sen McGlinn - McGlinn,Sen (2010)

Personal Page: Sonja van Kerkhoff: arts reviews, essays - van Kerkhoff,Sonja (2010)
Links to some personal projects.

Personal Recollections of Famagusta - Jones Edelstein,Frances Bradford (1964)
Two-page summary of time pioneering in Cyprus, 1954-1956, with a passing mention of pioneering in Switzerland.
From the "Frances Jones Papers," U.S. National Bahá'í Archives. See also Memoirs of Frances Bradford (Jones) Edelstein. Note: The date "December 1952" conflicts with "1953" in link above.
Keywords: 1952; 1954; 1956; Cyprus; Famagusta, Cyprus; Frances Bradford Edelstein (Frances B. Jones); Switzerland

Personal Remarks to the Friends - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (1953)
On crises in the history of the Faith, e.g. the declaration of Bahá'u'lláh's mission, the rebellion of Muhammad ‘Alí, opposition to Shoghi Effendi as Guardian, undermining the House of Justice; each one strengthened the Institutions and communal unity.
From the Emma Maxie Jones Collection.

Personal Reminiscences of the Bábí Insurrection at Zanjan in 1850 - Browne,E. G. (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1897)
The testimony of Áqá 'Abdu'l-Ahad Zanjani.
See also Persian text, online at the H-Bahá'í site. See also Browne's Translation of the Chronicle of `Abdu'l-Ahad Zanjani. Online version is exact replica of original, save underdots represented as underline; Persian text transcribed (by Juan Cole) and bracketed; footnotes included in the body of the text.
Keywords: 1850; Cyprus; Iran (documents); Mírzá Yaḥyá (Subh-i-Azal); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other; Upheavals; Zanjan upheaval; Zanjan, Iran

Personal Teaching: A Florilegium - Zein,Violetta, compiler (2023)
What does it mean to share the teachings of the Faith with another soul; the import of promulgating the Cause; the methods that are efficient and wise for doing so, the audience, and the timing; spiritual meanings of teaching and martyrdom.
Keywords: Teaching; Words and phrases

Personal Websites, Audiences, and Use of Language on the Internet - Universal House of Justice (2015)
Letter to an NSA on strengthening the official Bahá'í presence on the Internet; individual initiatives vs. global audiences; use of the word "Bahá'í" in personal sites; the use of moderate and courteous language.
Title not in original; created for posting online here. Mirrored from bahai.org, where it is available in pdf, html, and doc formats.
Keywords: Internet; Moderation; Social media; Teaching

Perspectives on Development - Eyford,Glen A.
Talk given at Green Acre Bahá'í School.
No information is given about the date or context of this talk; email me if you know. Originally posted at bahaistudy.org, archived at archive.org.

Perspectives on Science and Religion - Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2013)
On questions about discourses in the scientific community, the existence of the soul, and certain utterances of Abdu'l-Bahá on issues in science.
Mirrored from payamha-iran.org.
Keywords: Alchemy; Ether (concept); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Man-made doctrines and dogmas; Materialism; Quran; Reason; Science; Some Answered Questions (book); Speculation; Superstition; Transmutation of elements

Perspectives on the Global Economy at the Dawn of the 21st Century: An Irish Bahá'í View - Moane,Eamonn (Solas, 2001)
The state and issues of the global economy, including Ireland, at the start of the 21st century. Though not intended to be a general Bahá’í critique of the world economy, the paper concludes with a Bahá’í contribution to the issues raised.
See also a PDF of the complete issue of Solas 1. Mirrored from breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/solas.
Keywords: 21st century; Economics; Globalization; Wealth and poverty

Perspectives on the Inseparable Twin Duties Prescribed in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas - Moane,Eamonn (Solas, 2003)
Religions differ in the balance of faith versus good works, the grace of God versus human strivings, and the scheme of salvation. To Bahá'ís, recognizing the Prophet and obedience to his laws are equal duties. For salvation, faith surpasses deeds.
See also a PDF of the complete issue of Solas 3. Mirrored from breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/solas.
Keywords: Buddhism; Christianity; Deeds; Ethics; Faith and works; Free will; Freedom and liberty; Hinduism; Islam; Judaism; Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Laws; Manifestations of God, Recognition of; Philosophy; Religion (general); Salvation; Search; Soul; Steadfastness; Transformation; Twin duties

Petition from the Persian Reformers - Various (1867)
A petition sent by Bahá'ís in Baghdad and Shushtar, Iran, in 1867 to the US Consulate general, seeking assistance in getting Bahá'u'lláh released from imposed exile.
Two editions of this petition are online. The following are the original documents; see also a new translation and introduction published in World Order. See also discussion of this petition in Fifty Three Years In Syria, by H. Jessup.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other; Petitions; United States (documents); United States government

Peut-on réellement pardonner? - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2003)
Fireside talk.
Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.

Phenomenon of Religion, The by Moojan Momen: Review - Buck,Christopher (Baha'i Studies Review, 1999)
This review of The Phenomenon of Religion utilizes Buck's DREAMS paradigm: Doctrinal, Ritual, Ethical, Artistic, Mystical, and Social dimensions of religion, a refinement of the dimensional model of religion.
This review also available as PDF. The book has also been published under the title "Understanding Religion: A Thematic Approach" (2009).
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Religion (general)

Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond, ed. Jacoby Adeshai Carter and Leonard Harris: Review - Buck,Christopher (Baha'i Studies Review, 2012)
Mirrored with permission from academia.edu.
Keywords: Alain Locke; United States (documents)

Philosophical and Religious Contributions to the Emergence of Human Rights: The Bahá'í Perspective - Wheatley,Dan (Juxta Publishing Co., 2012)
While some forms of religious extremism are contemptuous of human rights, and human rights are sometimes considered a contemporary secular religion, Bahá'ís believe that religious faith and human rights are more synergistic.
From the series "Bahá'í-Inspired Perspectives on Human Rights"; see also Volume 1. Mirrored with permission from, and HTML version available at, perspectives.juxta.com.
Keywords: Human rights; Interfaith dialogue; Philosophy

Philosophical Statements by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Some Answered Questions - Abdul-Bahá (2019)
Quotations extracted from Ian Kluge's article "Some Answered Questions: A Philosophical Perspective" (2009), using the 2014 revised edition of "Some Answered Questions".
The original article is online here: kluge_saq_philosophical_perspective (Lights of Irfan, Volume 10, 2009). Also available in Microsoft Word format, which can be used to create versions in other languages. People are welcome to send versions in other languages, please contact us. For Some Answered Questions in different languages, see bahaiprayers.net/saq.
Keywords: Causality (causation); Ethics; Evolution; Free will; God; Human nature; Humanity; Infallibility; Knowledge; Life after death (afterlife); Manifestations of God; Mind; Neoplatonism; Ontology; Pantheism and panentheism; Philosophers; Philosophy; Philosophy, Greek; Philosophy, Islamic; Science; Some Answered Questions (book); Soul

Philosophy Special Interest Group Sessions at the 38th Annual ABS Conference, 2014: Conference Report - Kluge,Ian (Studies in Baha'i Philosophy, 2014)
Summary of four presentations: K. Naimi's "Thinking Sociologically About Independent Investigation," I. Kluge's "Insufficiencies of Secular Humanism," M. Sergeev's "Bahá’í Faith and Modernity," and J. Howden's "Unconscious Civilization."
See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: 2014; Conferences, Bahá'í studies; Philosophy

Philosophy: Material and Spiritual - Terry,Peter (2005)
Compilation and commentary on matters relating to material and divine philosophy, and definitions of terms.
Keywords: Philosophy

Phoenix and the Ashes: The Bahá'í Faith and the Modern Apocalypse, by Geoffrey Nash: Review - Huddleston,John (dialogue magazine, 1988)
19th-century optimism, disillusionment with contemporary society, philosophy of history, political theory, Arthur Koestler and Aldous Huxley, and the future of humanity. Includes review of Jon Winokur's The Portable Curmudgeon, by Robert Ballenger.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: 19th century; 20th century; History (general); Literature; Literature, English; Philosophy; Politics; Promised Day is Come (letter); Sociology

Photo brochure of the Bahá'í Temple in Wilmette - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1965)
A booklet of color photographs, postcard-size and quality, with text and statistics about the Temple.
Title "Photo brochure of..." created for this posting of the brochure; original appears to have no title. See also The Bahá'í Temple, House of Worship of a World Faith (1942) and The Bahá'í House of Worship: The Meaning of the Temple (1975). See also an earlier brochure dated 1953.
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; Photographs; United States (documents); Wilmette, IL

Photo of the Moscow Bahá'í Community, 1925 - Author unknown, compiler (1925)
Picture of Bahá'ís gathered to welcome Siyyid Mihdíy-i-Gulpáygání to Moscow, with identifications. Includes A. A. Furutan.
Two slightly different captions and identifications are given. The first one is possibly the more accurate, as it is given by Mrs. Izadi, the widow of one person pictured. Izadi is fairly certain that the photo was taken in Moscow, but the book Years of Silence: The Bahá'ís in the USSR 1938-1946 by Asadu'llah Alizad says that the place of gathering is Ishqabad in 1926, not Moscow in 1925.
Keywords: 1925; Ashgabat; Moscow, Russia; Russia; `Alí-Akbar Furútan

Photograph of Baha'u'llah on Website - Universal House of Justice (1999)
Source of a photo of Bahá'u'lláh publicly displayed on a non-Bahá'í website, and whether action can be taken to have it removed.
Transmitted by email. Name retained by permission of recipient.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Photographs of; Internet

Photographs of Bahá'u'lláh; William Miller - Universal House of Justice (1980)
Two questions and a short compilation occasioned by William Miller's book The Bahá'í Faith: Its History and Teachings: reading books by covenant-breakers, and viewing photographs of Bahá'u'lláh.
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. Posted with permission of recipients; original letters on file.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Photographs of; William McElwee Miller

Physical disability preventing genuflections of Long Obligatory Prayer - Universal House of Justice (2000)
How can a believer with physical disabilities say the Long Obligatory Prayer, which requires genuflections. Preceded by original question asked.
Transmitted by email. Submitted by and posted with permission of recipient. See also illustrations (prepared by an individual, not The House) showing the positions to adopt when reciting this prayer: bolhuis_prayer_positions.pdf.
Keywords: Disability; Exemption; Genuflections; Obligatory prayer; Obligatory prayer, Long

Physical Discpline of Children - Research Department of the Universal House of Justice (1994)
The Bahá'í concept of punishment within the overall context of justice and world order; the principle of reward in child-rearing; physical vs. moral and intellectual discipline.
Keywords: Children; Education; Family; Punishment; Reward and punishment

Picture Gallery of Early British Bahá'ís - Author unknown (United Kingdom Bahá'í Heritage Site, 1998)
Published in honor of the UK Bahá'í Centenary, 1998/99.
Original site defunct; preserved at archive.org. Reformatted for posting here.
Keywords: 1898; 1899; 1901; Arts and crafts; Bahá'í history; Biography; E. G. Browne; Ethel Rosenberg; George Townshend; John Esslemont; Kahlil Gibran; Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield; Malietoa Tanumafili II of Western Samoa; Mary Virginia Thornburgh-Cropper (Maryam Khánum); Mishkín-Qalam; Painting; Photographs; Portraits; Queen Marie of Romania; Shoghi Effendi, Resting place of (London); Souley-Cambell, Miss; Thomas Breakwell; United Kingdom; Zaynu'l-Muqarrabín (Mullá Zaynul-ʻÁbidín); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Pictures and portraits

Pilgrim Letter of Hooper Harris to Mr. Hoar - Harris,Hooper (1907)
Letter from a pilgrim to a friend back home in America, giving impressions of Akka and of Abdu'l-Bahá.
This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: 1907; Hooper Harris; Pilgrims notes; William Hoar

Pilgrim Notes - Phelps,Myron Henry (1917)
Notes taken by Phelps during his second visit to Acca, 1917, from the words of Abdul-Baha.
This document typed from a photocopy provided by Lovejoy, and an identical photocopy from the Seattle Bahá'í Archives. Parentheses are as per original. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: 1917; Animals; Myron Phelps; Philosophy; Pilgrims notes; Plants; Soul

Pilgrim Notes - Cardell,Ted (1952)
Notes from a visit with the Guardian, likely written in 1990 from journal entries taken while on pilgrimage in 1952 from a pioneering post in Kenya.
Exact date and provenance of these notes unknown, and missing sections unknown. See another set of recollections in the author's memoir One Person's Search for a Better World.
Keywords: 1952; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Mazra'ih); Kampala, Uganda; Mount Carmel; Nairobi, Kenya; Pilgrims notes; Ted Cardell; Universal House of Justice, Membership on

Pilgrim Notes Recorded after the Nightly Dinner-table Talks of the Beloved Guardian, Shoghi Effendi - Sabri,Isobel (1957)
Table-talk notes from April 19-28 1957.
See also Passing of Counselor Isobel Sabri (archive.org). Also available in Word format.
Keywords: 1957; Pilgrims notes; Table talks

Pilgrim's Notes - Author unknown (1953)
Anonymous notes from January 1953.
The author's name of this is unknown, but there may be clues in the notes. Contact us if you have information. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: 1953; Ethel Revell; Jessie Revell; Louise Caswell; Pilgrims notes

Pilgrim's Notes - French,Nellie (1952)
Notes from a pilgrimage in 1952.
See obituary of Nellie French, 1868-1959, in Bahá'í World, Volume 12, p. 699. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: 1952; Pilgrims notes

Pilgrim's Notes - Levy,Ben (1953)
Notes from a pilgrimage March 9-16, 1953.
Typos from original retained. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: 1953; Pilgrims notes; Shoghi Effendi

Pilgrim's Notes - Allison,William; Allison,Thelma W. (1957)
Notes from a 1957 pilgrimage; Allison was one of the last Bahá'ís to visit the Guardian in Haifa.
Notes found in the collection of a Jean Nicholson. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: 1957; Haifa, Israel; Pilgrims notes; Shoghi Effendi

Pilgrim's notes about Shoghi Effendi - Brown,Ramona (Memories of 'Abdu'l-Bahá: Recollections of the Early Days of the Bahá'ís of California, 1980)
Notes from a pilgrimage in 1954.
See also Brown's informal pilgrim's notes, Haifa Notes. Any errors from original retained. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: 1954; Pilgrims notes; Shoghi Effendi

Pilgrimage and Religious Identity in the Bahá'í Faith - Akerdahl,Per-Olof (Lights of Irfan, 2000)
Pilgrimage has been an important part in the creation of a religious identity. The meaning of pilgrimage in the Bahá’í Faith, and in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #18, London (August 21-24, 1998). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/18/akerdahl_pilgrimage.
Keywords: Axis Mundi; Bahji, Israel; Bahá'í World Centre; Christianity; Irfán Colloquia; Islam; Judaism; Mount Carmel; Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage in Baha'u'llah's Writings - Rabbani,Ahang (2010)
On pilgrimage to the Twin Shrines in the Holy Land and their Tablets of Visitation, to the House of the Bab in Shiraz, and to the House of Baha’u’llah in Baghdad. Includes provisional translations of several Tablets of Visitation.
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq; Bahji, Israel; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Báb, House of (Shiraz); Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Haifa, Israel; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Baghdad); Iran (documents); Iraq; Pilgrimage; Prayers for pilgrimage; Shíráz, Iran; Tablets of Visitation; Twin Shrines (Shiraz and Baghdad); Ziyarat (pilgrimage); Ziyarat-Namih (Tablet of Visitation for the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh)

Pilgrimage or Tourism at the Baha'i Gardens? - Religion For Breakfast (2018)
Transcript prepared by Doug Couper from video online at youtube.com/watch?v=ZXXdnrGNfB0.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Bahá'í World Centre; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel; Pilgrimage; Tourism

Pilgrimage to Haifa and Akka: Parts Two-Three - Sears,William (1954)
Notes on his pilgrimage in 1954 by American Baha'i and pioneer (and later Hand of the Cause) William Sears.
Posted with permission of Marguerite Sears. Obituary William Sears, Hand of the Cause of God, 1911-1992, see American Bahá'í, April 28, 1992. Below are Parts 2 and 3 of Sears' notes; if you have Part 1 please contact me.
Keywords: 1954; Akka, Israel; Haifa, Israel; Pilgrims notes; William Sears

Pilgrimage: Notes by LeRoy Jones - Jones,LeRoy (1998)
Contemporary notes from a 1975 pilgrimage.
Written in February 1998 about a pilgrimage taken in November-December 1975. See also the author's essay Essential Mystical Nature of the Bahá'í Faith.
Keywords: 1975; Pilgrims notes

Pilgrims Notes - Sears,Marguerite R. (1953)
Pilgrimage to Haifa, Israel, February 26 to March 9, 1953.
I have three editions of these notes, presumably all copies of an original. Only one edition has the name of the scribe, Maxine Smith. All include excerpts from Ben Levy's notes. Each of the three editions of the Sears notes are virtually identical. The "Maxine Smith" edition is the most complete and indicates that the original notes of both Ben Levy and Marguerite Sears were "taken stenographically by his [Shoghi Effendi's] secretaries", although this may not be accurate as none of the other editions have that preface including Ben Levy's complete notes which actually had a preface indicating he was responsible for his notes. This online version of the Marguerite Sears notes is from the Maxine Smith edition without paragraph or page numbers. -R.S. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: 1953; Haifa, Israel; Pilgrims notes

Pilgrims Notes and the "Calamity" - International Teaching Centre (1984)
Status of Pilgrims' Notes and their discussion of the catastrophic events some Bahá'ís believe might occur around the turn of the millennium.
Keywords: Calamities and catastrophes; Cities; Expectations; Lesser Peace; Most Great Peace; Peace; Pilgrims notes; Prophecies; Speculation; Suffering; Teaching; World peace

Pilgrims' Notes - Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (Lights of Guidance, 1988)
Keywords: Eyewitness; Pilgrims notes; Pilgrims notes (general)

Pilgrims' Notes from U.S. Archives - Various (1898)
Pilgrim notes from the U.S. Bahá'í National Archives, organized by year, 1898-1959, unsorted, in 60 PDF and TIF files.
Keywords: 1898; 1899; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1945; 1950s; Pilgrims notes; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá

Pilgrims' Notes Online - Universal House of Justice (1997)
No policy other than the exercise of wisdom currently exists regarding the publishing of pilgrims' notes on the internet.
Transmitted by email; posted and name retained with permission of recipient.
Keywords: Internet; Pilgrims notes (general)

Pilgrims' Notes, Status of - Winters,Jonah (1998)
"Pilgrims' Notes" are unofficial records of meetings with central figures of the Bahá'í Faith, like 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi. They may contain inaccuracies, and are not considered authentic, but can be of help, guidance and inspiration.
Keywords: Authenticity; Eyewitness; Pilgrims notes; Pilgrims notes (general); Unofficial information

Pilgrims' Notes: Considerations for Sharing - Universal House of Justice (2013)
Some points to consider when sharing or publishing pilgrims notes.
Original PDF on file.
Keywords: Eyewitness; Pilgrims notes (general)

Pioneering - Walker,Penelope (2007)
Mirrored with permission from bahaimp3.narod.ru. No information is given about the context of the lecture, it might be part of the "Serving the Divine Plan" program; if you know, please contact us.
Keywords: Pioneering; Teaching

Pioneering - Universal House of Justice (2007)
Short letter to the Bahá'ís of the world.
Keywords: Pioneering

Pioneering in Latin America - Dunbar,Hooper (1994)
Experiences pioneering in Central and South America.
No information is given about the context of this talk; email me if you know.
Keywords: Hooper Dunbar; Latin America; Pioneers

Pioneering or Education? - Universal House of Justice (1968)
To Bahá'í youth in every land: deciding whether to pioneer or continue with higher education.
Keywords: Education; Higher education; Pioneering; Studying; Youth

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: A Century of Precursors: 1743-1843: Section VIII Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study in Autobiography, 2007)
There were four epochs from 1844 to 1944 and a precursor period which, here, I define as 1743 to 1843. The poetry in this document is related to that century before the declaration of the Bab.
Shaykh Ahmad was born at some time in the period 1743 to 1753 and he died in 1826 with Siyyid Kazim becoming the leader of the Shaykhi Movement until the Siyyid's death on the last day of December in 1843 five short months short of the Bab's declaration in Shiraz in 1844. The years 1744-1844 were a century of massive social, intellectual, religious and political change in western history. The following prose-poems bring together many of the happenings in that century focusing on these great precursors of the Bábí Revelation and integrating their lives into an understanding of that critical century, 1744-1844, as well as our own lives and times.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography: Part 2.1 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 2008)
This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, his projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, his life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account goes through to the year 2044. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography and biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries, as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of his personal experience and the teaching plans until at least 2036, when he will be in his 90s, and possibly until 2044, the end of the second century of the Bahá'í Era. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2500 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 2.1 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since 2003. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. This 8th edition is envisaged to be published in its final form somewhere in cyberspace, perhaps at BLO, in April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100 Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography since this work explores the author's personal experience and also connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1743 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period. That's a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography: Part 2.2 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 2014)
This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, his projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, his life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account goes through to the year 2044. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography and biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries, as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of his personal experience and the teaching plans until at least 2036, when he will be in his 90s, and possibly until 2044 when he will have reached the age of 100. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2500 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 2.2 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since 2003. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. This 8th edition is envisaged to be published in its final form, hopefully here at BLO in April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100, the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography since this work explores the author's personal experience and also connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1753 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period. That's a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study In Autobiography: Part 3.1 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 2009)
This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, his projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, his life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account goes through to the year 2044, the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography and biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries, as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of his personal experience and the teaching plans until at least 2036, when he will be in his 90s, and possibly until 2044 when he will have reached the age of 100. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2500 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 3.1 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since 2003. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. This 8th edition is envisaged to be published in its final form hopefully here at BLO in April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100, the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography since this work explores the author's personal experience and also connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1753 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period. That's a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study In Autobiography: Part 3.2 - Price,Ron (2014)
This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, his projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, his life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account goes through to the year 2044, and the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography and biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries, as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of his personal experience and the teaching plans until at least 2036, when he will be in his 90s, and possibly until 2044 when he will have reached the age of 100. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2500 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 3.2 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since 2003. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. This 8th edition is envisaged to be published in its final form hopefully here at BLO in April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100, the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography since this work explores the author's personal experience and also connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1753 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period. That's a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study: Poetry and essays - Price,Ron (1944)
Table of Contents for a memoir of six decades of teaching & international travel, an extensive personal account of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the 2nd epoch, 1944 to 1963, of the teaching Plans.
See all of Ron Price's work in the Ron Price Collection.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Eight Prefaces: Subtitle of document: A Study of Autobiography - Price,Ron (2010)
This autobiography of a Bahai over six decades of teaching and consolidation, travel-teaching and social activism is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the 2nd epoch of the Formative Age(1944-1963)
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, a projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, a life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account goes through to the year 2044. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography, biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of the teaching plans until at least 2036, when he will be in his 90s, and possibly until 2044 when he will have reached the age of 100. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2600 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. All of these Parts are kept updated in the author's computer file since the space available here at BLO makes additions to the content difficult. If he can find some means of publishing that 8th edition online he will do so. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 1.1 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since then. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. This 8th edition is envisaged to be completed in its final form in the author's computer directory and, hopefully, in cyberspace, in April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100, the end of the second century of the Formative Age, 1844 to 2044. Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography. Auto-ethnography explores the author's personal experience and connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1743 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period, a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Literary Work As Epic: Epic Poetry, Epic Narrative and the Epic of Bahá'í History - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2005)
In the ten year period September 1997 to September 2007 the concept, the organizing principle, the basis for my magnum opus Pioneering Over Four Epochs, as epic, found its first shaping.
My epic-opus includes: 6600 prose-poems, a 2600 page five volume autobiographical-narrative; a collection of 5000 letters, emails and internet posts; 400 essays, a 300 page study of the poetry of Roger White; an internet site of 3000 pages. This skeletal framework, these literary media and genres of writing could be seen as a single work in parts, a unity in multiplicity, a total oeuvre which came to be defined as epic by sensible and insensible degrees during the decade 1997 to 2007. This literary endeavour deals with aspects of the history and development, the ideas and ideals, the philosophy and sociology of a new polity. This polity is viewed through the lens of the life experience of a pioneer over the four epochs 1944 to 2021 & his opitcal and analytical integration, his take, on some of the insights of several thousand thinkers in the history of civilization. This concept of his prose and poetry, as epic, took shape from 1997 to 2007 after more than 50 years of association with what may well prove to be the greatest epic in human history, the gradual realization of the wondrous vision, the brightest emanations of the mind of the prophet-founder of the Bahai Faith and what Bahais believe will become, over time, the fairest fruit of the fairest civilization the world has yet seen. During these ten years, the author's final years of full-time teaching in a technical and further education college in Australia and the first years of his early retirement, this concept of my work as epic sensibly and insensibly evolved. By 2007 he had been writing seriously for at least 50 years and writing poetry for 45. The concept of his written opus as epic crystallized in some detail in that decade as the projects on Mt. Carmel and the garden terraces on that Hill of God were completed. With the increasing elaboration, definition and development of the structure and concept, the notion and framework, of his entire collected works as epic has come a conceptual home of memory, action and vision which readers will find described in the following Bahai Library Online document. No intelligent writer knows if he is any good, wrote T.S. Eliot; he must live with the possibility, the theoretical uncertainty,that his entire work has all been a waste of time. Ron Price finds this provocative idea of Eliot's has some truth. But write he must, whether for public utility or just for private pleasure, and the result is this epic work for good or ill. To approach this epic and read it certainly requires an effort on the part of readers. Ron Price likes to think that such an effort will be rewarded, that such an exercise will be worthwhile; of course, a writer can make no such guarantee.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Notebooks-Section IX: Autobiography: Section IX - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2005)
The Notebooks I now possess were collected over a thirty year period, 1980 to 2010, from the age of 35 to 65. This collection of some 300 Notebooks is in the form of two-ring binders, arch-lever files & plastic ring-bound booklets.
I began assembling Notebooks as early as the late 1940s and early 1950s in primary school and continued through the 1970s by which time I had become a teacher, a lecturer, a taxi driver and a worker in a tin mine. Very little remains from this first collection of thirty years. Beginning in the 1980s and continuing to the present time, 2010, I assembled a second and much more extensive collection of Notebooks from the humanities and the social sciences: quotations from my reading, photocopies from books, magazines and journals and, by the late nineties,resources from the Internet. Some of these notes were destroyed or given away when they seemed irrelevant to my future study, research and writing activities. Such a time arose when I retired in 1999 from FT teaching for the major cull of this thirty year period. My poetry Notebooks contain the sorts of notes that come from observations and experience as well as from reading. I have also accummulated many notes from these sources and they are found in my journals/diaries. By 2010 my Notebooks were found in 300 two-ring binders, arch-lever files and plastic covered binders. They were filled with notes for more than 6600 poems as well as many subjects and disciplines: ancient history, modern history, sociology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, media studies, personal/creative writing, post-graduate studies, literature, poetry, Baha’i files on many topics, essay writing, autobiography and biography, miscellaneous, letters, inter alia. There is some material in these Notebooks going back to the 1950s and 1960s, the beginning of my Bahá'í and pioneering experience but, for the most part, the Notebooks gradually assumed the form they now have from 1980 to 2010 and especially after I retired from FT employment in 1999, PT work in 2003 and most volunteer activity in 2005.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Part 1.1: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography - Price,Ron (2011)
Abstract: This autobiographical, memoiristic, work is that of a Bahai over 7 decades of teaching & international travel. It is one of the few extensive accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the 2nd epoch(1944-63)of the Formative Age
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, Ron Price’s projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, his life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account plans to go through to the year 2044, and the first nine years of the 3rd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography and biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries, as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of his personal experience and the teaching plans until at least 2044, when he will be 100. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2500 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 1.1 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since 2003. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. The 8th edition is envisaged to be published in its final form somewhere in cyberspace in or after April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100. Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography since this work explores the author's personal experience and also connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1753 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers, at least that is his current plan, through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period. That's a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist, researcher and scholar, is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Part 1.2: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography - Price,Ron (2014)
This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, his projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, his life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account goes through to the year 2044, and the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography and biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries, as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of his personal experience and the teaching plans until at least 2036, when he will be in his 90s, and possibly until 2044 when he will have reached the age of 100. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2500 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 1.2 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since 2003. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. This 8th edition is envisaged to be published in its final form somewhere in cyberspace in or after April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100, the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography since this work explores the author's personal experience and also connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1753 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period. That's a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VI.1 Essays: Unpublished Essays - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 2003)
This is section VI.1 of my autobiography: unpublished essays. I wrote some 300 essays as a student, as a teacher-lecturer, as a Bahá'í-publicity officer writing items for the media, as a poet-writer and simply as a person with literary needs and interests
These essays at this site were written over the thirty year period: 1979 to 2009. I wrote essays which were not published as far back as about 1959, but only two remain from the period 1956-1978. In the 50 year period 1959 to 2009 in which I have been a member of the Bahá'í Faith writing unpublished essays has occupied much of my time.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII - Poetry - The Heroic Age: 3rd Epoch: 1892-1921 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2007)
Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
Abdul-Baha's ministry occupies the framework of this third epoch: 1892-1921. This prose-poetry has as its central theme the ministry of 'Abdu'l-Bahá,the events and history of these years, that fin de siecle and the first 21 years of the 20th century. My prose-poetry tries to integrate history, Bahá'í history, my own life and society into some cohesive whole. Readers will find here in this document a varied mix of content and theme around aspects of this final chapter of the Heroic Age in the history of the Bahá'í Faith.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII Poetry - The Formative Age: 1st Epoch (1921-1944) - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study in Autobiography, 2007)
Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
There were four epochs before I was born and there have been four during my life in the history of the Bahá'í Faith: 1844-2021. The first epoch of the Formative Age was just finishing in the month I was born in 1944. The prose-poetry here has as its focus the period 1921 to 1944 and the first epoch of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Plan was 1921 to April 21st 1963.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII: Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study in Autobiography, 2007)
Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
This poetry and prose was written over several years, years in which I have placed poetry at Bahá'í Library Online. Readers will find each of my poems introduced with a prose preamble an idea I found in the poetry of my poetic mentor, Roger White. The poetry here, toward the end of this lengthy thread, was written from the 9th to the 21st months of the Five Year Plan (2006-2011), that is from December 21st 2006 to December 31st 2007. the opening lengthy essay was written in the years 2008 to 2016. None of the poetry I wrote in my first 18 years of pioneering (1962-1980) has been kept. The intensity of my poetic experience seemed to come after more than thirty years of pioneering(1962-1992) and a dozen years of asking for the assistance of holy souls (1980-1992)(See: Gleanings, p.161) Some commentary on my poetic philosophy and the autobiographical evolution of this poetry is also found here. Much editing needs to be done on what is this second draft.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII: Poetry 2006 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2007)
Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
2006 was the 12th year of placing poetry at Bahá'í Library Online. It contains poetry written in the last four months of the Five Year Plan (2001-2006) and the first eight months of the following Five Year Plan (2006-2011). I wrote poetry as far back as the first year of my pioneering life in 1962. In 1980 I began to collect and archive my poetry.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section X.2 Diary or Journal: Section X.2 Journal - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2005)
I began the process of diary and journal making on January 19th 1980, nine years after my international pioneering life began, eighteen years after my homefront pioneering life began and twenty-seven years after my association with the Bahá'í Faith began.
Some diarists want to record the smallest impulses, what seem to me to be the most trivial details, of everyday life. Consequently their extant diaries come to occupy a great bulk if they keep at the exercise for many years. The banality, the indiscriminate agglomeration of daily detail, the constant repetition of physical, quotidian and psychological aspects of phenomenal reality, of everyday happenings, what for such diarists becomes a type of photograph of their lives, is impossible for me to record. It simply seems pointless and, more importantly, it is a cause of some angst just to write down such daily conventionalisms. I actually feel physically quite uncomfortable recording so much of this mundane material. To overcome this banality I give my diary context by means of prose-poems. This poetic medium allows my diary to sail on different oceans, wider journo-diaristic rivers and seas, more finely tuned and analytical rivers and estuaries with perspectives that enrich quotidian reality. I invite readers to come sail with me. By the time we sail together, though, I am inclined to think I will be beyond this mortal coil in that Undiscovered Country as Shakespeare refers to the afterlife in Hamlet. My diary-journal contains the most confessional of my writings and I leave the publication of the whole or a part of my journals in the hands of those Bahá'í institutions into whose hands, as my literary executors, I have reposed my trust.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Sections X.I Photographs and XI Memorabilia - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2005)
I have added some photographs going as far back as 1908 and a brief literary-historical sketch of my family history going back my great-great grandparents' lives in the 1830s and 1840s, the beginning of Babi-Bahá'í history.
I now possess a dozen albums of photographs. Photographs can represent a significant aspect of an autobiography or memoir. The essays and prose-poems in this document here try to put all these photographs in perspective. The photographs themselves are kept in my study, in hard-copy and in my computer for future reference if required. The photographs serve as a pictorial backdrop which both reveals and conceals. This visual backdrop also heightens the expression of my life, my family's and that of the Bahá'í community I have been a part of for nearly sixty years. These photographs paralyze (1) by their facticity and the absense of fact or (2) by what might be called the physicality of reality. In my writing I try to get behind and beneath this surface physicality. The memorabilia, of course, which will survive me and be of any relevance to the ongoing history of the Bahá'í Faith I would tend to think are not relevant, although only time will tell down the future's mysterious track. No photographs or memorabilia are included here. Given the importance to us on earth of these two physical forms, I have tried to place them in a long term perspective, a longue duree, as one school of historians calls the long haul.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: The Heroic Age: The 2nd Epoch: 1853-1892: Pioneering Over Four Epochs Section VIII: Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2007)
The prose-poetry in this document involves, in various ways, the Person of Bahá'u'lláh, His life and teachings. I try to bring that Life into my own time and life in this poetry by means of the metaphorical nature of Bahá'í history.
For this poet history, sociology, psychology and literature among other disciplines all combine in various ways to provide perspectives on the Founder of this Faith. This poetry has as its themes: events, ideas and experiences from the second epoch of the Heroic Age: 1853-1892.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: The Heroic Age: The First Epoch: 1844-1853: Section VII Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2007)
Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
My life has been lived within the time frame of four epochs (1944-2021) of the Formative Age. There were four epochs in Bahá'í history that preceded my life. They were the years 1844-1944. This poetry involves the Bab in the first of those epochs: 1844-1853. The prose-poetry in this document at Bahá'í Library Online focuses on themes from the six short years of the Bábí Revelation & the epoch 1844-1853. My prose-poems try to bring the themes, the facts, the events of this period and the wider society into my own life, my own time and society.
Keywords: Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Heroic age; Poetry; Ron Price

Pioneering, Language, Arts, Example of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Universal House of Justice (1998)
Pioneering; Serving parents; Serving where need is; Gardens; International Auxiliary Language; Arabic pronunciation; study of Persian; Some references in Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Folk art; External affairs; Daily living; Abdu'l-Bahá as divine exemplar.
Keywords: Advent of Divine Justice (letter); Arabic language; Arts and crafts; Clothing; Cultural diversity; Dawn-Breakers (book); External affairs; Flexibility; Food; Gardens; International auxiliary language; Language; Lifestyle; Parents; Persian language; Pioneering; Pronunciation; Service; Words and phrases; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Exemplar

Pioneria Internacional en le Plan de Cinco Años - Universal House of Justice (2002)
Keywords: Five Year Plan (2001-2006); Pioneering

Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy 1831-1896, by Abbas Amanat: Review - Quinn,Sholeh A. (Baha'i Studies Review, 1998)
Keywords: 1896; History (general); Iran (documents); Iran, General history; Nasirid-Din Sháh; Qajar dynasty; Shahs

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Places named by `Abdu'l-Bahá in the Tablets of the Divine Plan - Walbridge,John, compiler (Baha'i World, 1981)
Map of the regions of North America named in Tablets of the Divine Plan, likely based on a 1912 geography book.
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: 1912; Maps; Tablets of the Divine Plan

Places Where the Manifestations of God Have Appeared; Equality of Men and Women - Universal House of Justice (1986)
The consistent portrayal of all known Manifestations of God as male and their historical emergence exclusively in the East; the equality of men and women; on soul mates.
First published in Messages from the Universal House of Justice: 1986-2001 as Equality of Women and Men. This text mirrored from bahai.org/library.
Keywords: Authenticity; Buddha; Children; Criticism and apologetics; East (Orient); Education; Equality; Gender; Guardianship; Hermes Trismegistus; Hud (Prophet); Idris (Prophet); India; Iran; Israel; Lesser Prophets; Levant; Manifestations of God; Manifestations of God, Places of appearance; Middle East; Prophets; Quotations from the Quran; Salih (Prophet); Saudi Arabia; Soul mates; Universal House of Justice, Membership on; Women

Planning Progress: Lessons from Shoghi Effendi, by June Manning Thomas: Review - Echevarria-Howe,Lynn (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2000)
See also Shoghi Effendi's Plans for Progress Practical Lessons (Thomas, 1997).

Platón, Leonardo y el sistema del Monte Carmelo - Fernandez,Ernesto (2012)
The symbolic systems of Plato and Leonardo da Vinci, and their modern architectural representation in the Shrine of the Bab and the slopes of Mount Carmel. Includes English essay "Leonardo and his Vitruvian Man."
Keywords: Architecture; Arts and crafts; Leonardo da Vinci; Mathematics; Philosophy; Plato; Science; Symbolism

Pledge of Allegiance - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States (2002)
A short letter from the US Bahá'í National Center's Office of Public Information re a June 2002 ruling that the phrase "under God" violates the separation of church and state.
Transmitted by email.

Poems - Garrett,Leslie (2016)
Author Leslie Garrett, retired, is a Bahai who resides in Mexico. To view more of her work, see also poemsbylesliegarrett.com, obrasdeteatroporlesliegarrett.com, and obrasdeteatroparaninos.com.
Keywords: Poetry

Poems from a Misty Island - McLean,Jack (1997)
Poetry written while on a two-year stay on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.
See the author's essays from this period, published in Gulf Islands Driftwood, at jack-mclean.com/essays.
Keywords: British Columbia, Canada; Canada; Poetry; Salt Spring Island, BC

Poems Often Enrich My Spirit - Eskuche,Betty (2005)
A collection of a dozen poems and the Bahá'í quotes that inspired them.
Keywords: Poetry

Poems On the Afterlife: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VII Poetry - Price,Ron (2006)
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, as I approached the age of 40, I began to take a serious interest in the afterlife. This was largely the result of personal trauma and difficulties. I began to seek the assistance of holy souls by means of intercession.
For 30 years now I have been praying to those who have remained faithful unto the Covenant of God, those who can help the progress of the arts and sciences, those souls who have passed on to that Undiscovered Country. These poems are a reflection of my interest in the subject of the afterlife and, inevitably, in aspects of this life.
Keywords: Ron Price

Poetry About Philosophy: Section VIII: Poetry: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2005)
The poetry in this section is concerned with various aspects of philosophy in the western tradition and Bahá'í philosophy in particular. The concept of the manifestation of God is pivotal to Bahá'í philosophy and to this poetry.
My general approach to philosophy is one that places it within an essentially interdisciplinary and relativistic context. Readers will find in the poems which follow, then, a mix of content that covers a very wide field from the social sciences and humanities, life and personal experience blended, when appropriate, into a philosophical context. I am also indebted to those Bahá'ís who have ventured forth into the field of philosophy with their initial explorations, explorations on which I have drawn from time to time.
Keywords: Philosophy; Ron Price

Poetry and Self-Transformation - White,Roger (The Creative Circle, 1989)
Poetry is no longer very accessible to the average reader or widely read; serious poets are often in conflict with their times; the Bahá'í Writings provide a foundation for poetic expression and a renewed spiritual aesthetics.
From books.google.com.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Poetry; Robert Hayden; Roger White; Transformation

Poetry and the Arts in Rebuilding Society - Herrmann,Duane L. (The Creative Circle, 1989)
The status of poetry is exalted in the Bahá’í Revelation, starting from the writings of the Bab to the hymns of the contemporary community; even God is described as a poet. The arts allow us to arise to our divine nature.
See a portion of this book online at books.google.com.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Poetry

Poetry and Transformation - Murphy,Peter E. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2014)
A personal story of how the evolving attraction to and love of poetry transformed the author's life. Poetry, faith, and the revealed Word can have a dramatic effect on one's struggle for personal transformation in the midst of crisis and turmoil.
Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/168.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Poetry; Transformation

Poetry as Revelation: Introduction to Bahá'u'lláh's 'Mathnavíy-i Mubárak' - Lewis,Frank (Baha'i Studies Review, 1999)
On Bahá'u'lláh and the poetic tradition, Sufism, Sufi poetry, and Rumi; rhetorical orientation; date of the poem and history of the text; and interpretation and the translation process. Includes a provisional translation.
See also a translation of this tablet.
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq; Bahá'u'lláh, Poetry of; Dating of Writings; Iraq; Istanbul, Turkey; Kurdistan; Mathnavi; Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak; Mysticism; Poetry; Rumi (Mevlana); Sufism; Sulaymaniyyih, Iraq; Translation; Turkey

Poetry from dialogue magazine - Sousa,Gretchen; Chase,L. B.; Shamlu,Ahmad; Pershing,Susan (dialogue magazine, 1986)
Nine poems by six authors, published in various volumes of Dialogue.
The following poems are combined here in one posting, for ease of filing. See also a poem by Sheila Banani. See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Poetry

Poetry in 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Writings and Utterances - Savi,Julio; Mardani,Faezeh (Lights of Irfan, 2017)
'Abdu'l-Bahá mentions at least seven aspects of poetry: inspiration, beauty, eloquence, versified language, novelty, expressivity, depth, and loftiness. He also sets forth clear concepts on the purposes of poetry, which benefit any aspiring poet.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #138 (Acuto, 2016). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/138/savi_poetry.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Beauty; Inspiration; Metaphors and allegories; Persian language; Poetry; Words and phrases; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Poetry of; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Poetry of Loving: Family Therapy and the Bahá'í Faith - Bruwer,Michael J. (Baha'i Studies Notebook, 1983)
Psychotherapy and the family; the Bahá'í concept of the family; the role of models of the world.
See Bahá'í Studies Notebook 3.1 table of contents.
Keywords: Consultation; Family; Family consultation; Psychology

Poetry on the Seven Year Plan: 1937-1944: Pioneering Over Four Epochs Section VIII: Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2006)
The poetry in this section has a wide range of relationships with the first Bahá'í teaching Plan launched in 1937. I was born in the summer of 1944,when Shoghi Effendi celebrated the completion of that Plan with the publication in August of God Passes By.
My poetry here is based on: Bahá'í history, secular history and my own life. I try to draw various strands of experience together into a reflective, a reflexive, oeuvre in relation to this first Plan, a Plan Shoghi Effendi called our "preliminary task." The accomplishment of this task, wrote Shoghi Effendi, would enable my generation to fulfil its destiny in the century, 1944-2044.
Keywords: Ron Price; Seven Year Plan, US and CA (1937-1944)

Poetry on the Ten Year Crusade: 1953-1963: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study in Autobiography, 2006)
The poetry here is related to the 10 Year Crusade: 1953-1963. I began my pioneering life during this period and this poetry brings together secular, Bahá'í and personal history.
Shoghi Effendi said, in one of his last letters during this Crusade, written in April 1957, that global society was "hovering on the brink of self-destruction." There was a certain urgency in this time period; there was Ike Eisenhower, rock and roll, Mr. Clean, Doris Day and luxury without stress. One of the greatest periods in the expansion of the Bahá'í Faith occurred at this time. The Kingdom of God on Earth began in this period--in 1953. These poems were written about themes and events, ideas and activities in the years of this Plan and the 2nd epoch(1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
Keywords: Ron Price; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963)

Poets, Guidance to - Universal House of Justice (1988)
Guidance on the responsibilities of poets; includes an overview of Tablets addressed to poets.
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. See also Compilation on Writers and Writing.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Poetry; Writing

"Point" and "Letter" in the Writings of the Báb - Afnan,Muhammad (Lights of Irfan, 2001)
In the Báb’s writings, the Point of Truth is the source of all existence in both the spiritual and the material world, and letters and words are given spiritual meaning. His system is distinctively different from that of the Hurúfís and Nuqtavís, however.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/afnan_point.
Keywords: Báb, Writings of; Huruf (letters); Hurufism; Iran (documents); Irfán Colloquia; Nuqtavi; Point

Police Forces Bearing Arms, Bahá'í Enlistment in - Universal House of Justice (Baha'i Studies Bulletin, 1995)
Two letters from the House on joining armed police forces, e.g. the Ulster Defence Regiment and the police force in Northern Ireland, and whether they would be allowed to bear arms. Also discussion of consummating marriage, and marrying an atheist.
First letter includes unrelated mention about the numbers of Bábí martyrs; see more on this topic at uhj_mazandarani_number_martyrs. Second letter includes unrelated topic: a couple does not have to literally "consummate" their marriage, as long as their intent is to establish a family relationship, and a Bahá'í cannot marry anyone, including an atheist, if he/she refuses to participate in the Bahá'í marriage ceremony. Both letters published in BSB with permission of recipient.
Keywords: Marriage; Martyrdom; Military; Military (armed forces); Statistics; Weapons

Political Divisions and Schisms - Ali,Syed Ameer (The Spirit of Islam: A History of the Evolution and Ideals of Islam, with a Life of the Prophet, 1902)
Three page excerpt, with two endnotes.
This text is from the 1923 edition. See both editions, in multiple formats, at archive.org: 1902 and 1923.
Keywords: Bábí history

Political Non-Involvement and Obedience to Government: Compilation by Peter Khan with Cover Letter from Secretariat - Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2003)
Current world events can cause confusion and anguish among those seeking global peace. Rather than being drawn into prevailing attitudes and disputes, Bahá'ís must hold a broader long-term perspective.
Compilation first published in 1979 by the NSA of Australia. See also the PDF original, with a cover letter from the US NSA. Letter and compilation also posted in PDF format at uhj_avoidance_politics_disputes. See also Bahá'í Approach to Non-Involvement in Partisan Political Activity.
Keywords: Charity and relief work; Government; Obedience; Peace; Peter Khan; Politics; Questions and answers; Unity; War

Politics and Engagement in the Life of Society - Universal House of Justice (2010)
On which principles should guide Iranian believers in their participation in the life of society, and other themes related to political activism and social justice.
Mirrored from bahai.org, where it is also available in PDF and Word formats.
Keywords: Activism; Consultation; Demonstrations; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Politics; Protest; Public discourse (discourses of society); Youth

Politics, Text, and Context: In Search of the Bahá'í Revolution - Armstrong-Ingram,R. Jackson (dialogue magazine, 1986)
The rationale for Shoghi Effendi requiring Bahá'ís to disassociate themselves from other churches and political movements; the role of political science in Bahá'í theology; how best to work with non-Bahá'í groups to better society.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Politics

Portals to Freedom - Ives,Howard Colby (George Ronald, 1983)
A collection of anecdotes and history of Abdu'l-Bahá's travels to the United States, as told by one observer.
See also the pilgrim's notes of Muriel Ives Barrow Newhall, the daughter of Howard Colby Ives. Posted online with permission of publisher and with permission of Ives' family. Proofread and formatted by Michelle Reid and Jonah Winters. Any older quotations contained in the text that have been retranslated are endnoted with the authorized translation; all footnotes placed as endnotes. Page numbers not retained. [-J.W., 1999]
Keywords: 1912; Howard Colby Ives; Pilgrims notes; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Second Western tour; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Portion of Tablet to Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí (Lawh-i-Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí) - Bahá'u'lláh (Eminent Bahá'ís in the Time of Bahá'u'lláh, 1985)
Original published in Bihjatu’s-Sudúr pp. 96-7.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Edirne, Turkey; Hájí Mírzá Haydar-`Alí (Angel of Carmel); Lawh-i-Hájí Mírzá Haydar-`Alí (Tablet to Hájí Mírzá Haydar-`Alí)

Portrait of Abdu'l-Bahá: Selections From Memories of Nine Years in Akká - Afroukhteh,Youness Khan (2006)
Habits of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in His daily tasks and services, his concentration, the way he revealed verses, his manner of speaking, his bearing, interactions with governments, his burdens and tasks, and his love and generosity.
See also the complete book.
Keywords: 1900s; Akka, Israel; Biography; Memories of Nine Years in Akka (book); Pen portraits; Stories; Youness Khan Afroukhteh; `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Pen portraits

Posledneye Slovo Bekha-Ully [Baha'u'llah's Last Word] - Tumanski,Aleksandr Grigor'evich (Zapiski Vostochnago Otdeleniya Imperatorskago Russkago Arkheologicheskago Obshestva [Memoirs of the Oriental Branch of the Russian Archaeological Society], 1892)
Russian translation of, and commentary on, Bahá'u'lláh's "Kitab-i 'Ahdi" ("Book of My Covenant").
See also The Russian Publication of Bahá'u'lláh's Last Will and Testament. This PDF scanned by Google; also online at bahaiarc.org/collections/research, including a reprint (or standalone printing?) with different pagination, bahaiarc.org/images/Research/last-word.pdf. [-S.C., 2021]
Keywords: Alexander Tumansky; Kitáb-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant); Will and Testament of Bahá'u'lláh

Possibility of a Woman Being Designated a Manifestation of God - Universal House of Justice (1999)
No elucidation in the writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá or Shoghi Effendi has been found for the passage "...were He to pronounce one of the leaves to be the manifestation of all His excellent titles."
Title taken from last line of document. Shared by and name retained with permission of recipient.
Keywords: Future Manifestations of God; Gender; God, Will of; Suriy-i-Vafa (Tablet to Vafa); Women

Possible Topics for Research - Khan,Peter J. (Baha'i Studies Review, 1993)
List of research topics suggested by Dr. Peter Khan to the Association for Bahá'í Studies (Australia).
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Peter Khan; Research questions

Postmodernism and the Bahá'í Writings - Kluge,Ian (Lights of Irfan, 2008)
Whilst the Bahá'í Writings and postmodernism share a variety of ideas at a superficial level, on fundamental issues of ontology, epistemology, philosophical anthropology (theory of man), ethics and cultural theory, they are incompatible.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #79, Louhelen Bahá'í School, Michigan (October 11-14, 2007). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/79/kluge_postmodernism.
Keywords: Irfán Colloquia; Philosophy; Postmodernism

Potential Calamities and Ensuring Sustainability of Communities - Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2020)
Guidance on calamitous events and our response to them.
Keywords: Administrative Order; Calamities and catastrophes; Cities; Deepening; Economics; Expectations; Faith (general); Fear; Hope; Integration and disintegration; Materialism; Peace; Pilgrims notes (general); Prophecies; Social action; Speculation; Suffering; Teaching; Teaching; Tests and difficulties; Unity of humanity; Villages

Potentialities and their Manifestation: A Selection of Passages from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb and from the Writings and Talks of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Bookwalter,Wm. Keith, compiler (2024)
Compilation of quotations on one of the Bahá'í Faith's basic ideas, that Bahá'u'lláh calls upon us to "manifest the potentialities," the gems of our inborn nature via a "proper education."
Also available in Microsoft Word format.
Keywords: Anisa Educational Model; Creation; Self-knowledge

Pourquoi l'être humain veut-il la paix mais fait la guerre? - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2002)
Fireside talk.
Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.

Pourquoi s'appeler bahá'í? - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2008)
Fireside talk.
Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.

Pourquoi tenons-nous tellement à nos préjugés? - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2003)
Fireside talk.
Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.

Power and the Bahá'í community - Momen,Moojan (Lights of Irfan, 2018)
While Bahá'í social teachings may have sounded new and exciting a century ago, that is no longer the case today. The problem the world faces is not in the principles that would lead to a better society, but in their application.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/54/momen_power.
Keywords: Administration; Alienation; Authority; Business; Centralization and decentralization; Charity and relief work; Competition; Consultation; Corruption; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Crime; Education; Elections; Empowerment; Environment; Equality; Ethics; European Union (EU); Freedom and liberty; Fundamentalism; Gender; Individualism; Institute process; Institutions; Interpretation; Justice; Laws; Materialism; Maturity of humanity; Media (communication); Minorities; New Age; Obedience; Participation; Peace; Philosophy; Plans; Politics; Power; Promise of World Peace (statement); Punishment; Reflection; Reform; Revolution; Service; Social action; Spiritual Assemblies; Theology; Unity; Unity in diversity; Violence; War; Wealth and poverty; Women

Power of Divine Assistance - Dunbar,Hooper (2007)
From "Serving the Divine Plan Programme"; see mentions of this program in uhj_turning_point_1996-2006 pages iii, viii, and 223, and haifalife.blogspot.ca. Mirrored with permission from bahaimp3.narod.ru.
Keywords: Divine Assistance; Hooper Dunbar

Power of Prayer - Grossmann,Hartmut (2007)
From "Serving the Divine Plan Programme"; see mentions of this program in uhj_turning_point_1996-2006 pages iii, viii, and 223, and haifalife.blogspot.ca. Mirrored with permission from bahaimp3.narod.ru.
Keywords: Prayer

Powerpoints for Deepening - Troxel,Duane (2004)
26 presentations in Powerpoint format, on a variety of topics covering Bahá'í history, Central Figures, teachings, and relationship with Islam.
See also Videos for Deepening.
Keywords: Administrative Order; Agnes Alexander; Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum; Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í Faith, Sect, NRM or World Religion; Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; Báb, The; Christianity; Covenant; Criticism and apologetics; Day of the Covenant; Deepening; Disciples of `Abdu'l-Bahá; Hawaii, USA; Holy days; Introductory; Islam; Jesus Christ; Life after death (afterlife); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mongolia; Muhammad (Prophet); Naw-Rúz; Principles; Prophecies; Quran; Return; Soul; Tablets of the Divine Plan

Powerseeking and Ideology - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2008)
Good and evil are a potential that lie within the heart of each individual; but a believer in an ideology can feel morally justified in perpetrating cruelty towards others, because he sees himself as defending a higher value against an infidel.
Note: contact me if you know what this article is from. As it opens with "In the last chapter, we have seen..." it must be from a longer work, but I don't know what. [-J.W., 2011] Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.

Practical Economic Suggestions For Everyday Use - Shams,Badi (2021)
List of simple ideas for ways people can introduce spiritual values in their day-to-day economic activities.
See more at badishams.net. See this in Spanish translation, and see also Practical Suggestions for Community Service.
Keywords: Service; Tips and suggestions; Volunteering

Practical Suggestions for Community Service - Shams,Badi (2021)
List of ideas and ways that individuals can volunteer in their communities by finding time to serve in their fast paced lives.
See more at badishams.net. See this in Spanish translation, and see also Practical Economic Suggestions For Everyday Use.
Keywords: Service; Tips and suggestions; Volunteering

Prairies of Possibilities - Herrmann,Duane L. (iUniverse Inc., 2005)
Sample of poems from the published book, selected by the author — whom Midwest Quarterly celebrated as "one of the most recognized poets in Kansas" — for sharing with the Bahá'í Library,
Purchase the complete book from iuniverse.com or amazon.com.
Keywords: Poetry

Praise the King of Glory: New and Selected Poems - Herrmann,Duane L. (Buffalo Press, 2017)
9 poems, selected by the author, from a collection published to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Bahá’u’lláh. Many of the poems refer to events in the life of Bahá’u’lláh.
Purchase the entire volume at amazon.com.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh; Centenaries; Poetry

Prayer and Devotional Life - Báb, The; Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi (2019)
A compilation to assist Bahá'ís in a time when, as the House says in its cover letter, "devotional activities are everywhere multiplying and are increasingly being integrated into the core of community life."
Posted at, and also online in Microsoft Word format at, bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/compilations/prayer-devotional-life. See also the cover letter sent by the House which introduces the following compilation.
Keywords: Devotional gatherings; Health and healing; Institute process; Meditation; Obligatory prayer; Prayer; Spirituality

Prayer and Meditation - Hatcher,William S. (2003)
Talk at the Bahá'í Center in St. Petersburg.
Posted to Youtube by william.hatcher.org.
Keywords: Meditation; Prayer

Prayer and Meditation: Warwick Leaflets - Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop (1990)
Keywords: Introductory; Meditation; Prayer; Spirituality

Prayer and Worship - Walbridge,John (Sacred Acts, Sacred Space, Sacred Time, 1996)
An overview of devotional practices and prayers in Babism and the Bahá'í Faith.
Written for possible inclusion in The Bahá'í Encyclopedia. Posted with permission of both the author and of the editor of the Encyclopedia project.
Keywords: Dhikr (Remembrance); Obligatory prayer; Prayer; Recitation; Remembrance; Worship

Prayer for Fathers - Abdul-Bahá (Star of the West, 1921)
Tablet revealed for Albert Windust, first American publisher of the Bahá'í Writings and founder of Star of the West, on the occasion of his father's passing.
See also the translation in Bahá'í Prayers, p. 65 (1991 ed.).
Keywords: Albert Windust; Chicago, IL; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Death; Family; Fathers; Life after death (afterlife); Names and titles; Parents; Prayer texts; Promulgation of Universal Peace (book); Soul; Star of the West; Tablets of `Abdu'l-Bahá (3 volumes); United States (documents)

Prayer for Illumination - Bahá'u'lláh (Ad'iyyih Hadrát-i-Mahbúb, 1999)
2-paragraph prayer from Ad'iyyih Hadrát-i-Mahbúb.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Illumination; Prayer texts

Prayer for Protection - Bahá'u'lláh (1996)
A short prayer, authoritatively translated on behalf of the Universal House of Justice.
Keywords: Health and healing; Prayer; Prayer texts; Protection

Prayer for Shaykh Kázim Samandar (Múnáját-i-Jináb-i-Samandarí) - Bahá'u'lláh; Universal House of Justice (2001)
Brief prayer revealed by Bahá'u'lláh to aid in making decisions. Translation and accompanying letter by the Bahá'í World Centre.
Keywords: Authenticity; Decision making; Meditation; Munajat-i-Jinab-i-Samandari (Prayer for Shaykh Kazim Samandar); Nineteen (number); Prayer texts; Repetition; Research Department, Questions and answers; Shaykh Káẓim-i-Samandarí; ‘Andalíb

Prayer for Shaykh Kázim Samandar: Authorised Translation of Bahá'u'lláh's Prayers for Jináb-i-Samandarí - Bahá'u'lláh (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
Authorised translation of a prayer for decision making.
Originally posted at ojbs.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Authenticity; Decision making; Meditation; Munajat-i-Jinab-i-Samandari (Prayer for Shaykh Kazim Samandar); Nineteen (number); Prayer texts; Repetition; Shaykh Káẓim-i-Samandarí; ‘Andalíb

Prayer for Steadfastness - Abdul-Bahá
Authorized translation of a short prayer, probably revealed for a Western believer.
This prayer is believed to have been given to Edward "Saffa" Kinney by 'Abdu'l-Bahá. The Research Department of the Universal House of Justice states that the original of the prayer does not bear the name of the recipient, though it is likely it was revealed for a western believer because the Master signed it in the roman alphabet. The original was published in Persian in "Muntakhabat-i-Matatib", vol. 2, Page 16, number 24. The translation below is an authorized translation. This prayer can therefore be considered and used as authentic and authoritative.
Keywords: Edward Kinney; Prayer texts; Steadfastness

Prayer for the Dead, Recitiation of - Universal House of Justice (1999)
Instructions on the correct way to recite this prayer.
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work's topic here.
Keywords: Burial (funeral); Death; Prayer; Salat-i-Mayyit (Prayer for the Dead)

Prayer "Make me a hollow reed," Source of - Universal House of Justice (1999)
The prayer "Oh, God, make me a hollow reed..." is neither by Abdu'l-Bahá nor George Townshend, and its author is unknown.
Transmitted by email. Submitted by and posted with permission of recipient.
Keywords: Authenticity; George Townshend; Hollow reed; Prayer texts; Reed; Research Department, Questions and answers; Sanskrit language

Prayer of the Bab "God Sufficeth...," Two versions of - Universal House of Justice (1996)
The original text of the prayer "God Sufficeth" has not been found, and there may be two versions.
Keywords: Báb, Writings of; God sufficeth all things (invocation); Prayer texts; Research Department, Questions and answers; Translation

Prayer Revealed by the Exalted Pen for Mírzá 'Abu'l-Fadl - Bahá'u'lláh (1995)
Authorized translation of a short prayer, with a short introduction from the BWC Research Department.
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Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Mírzá Abu’l-Faḍl Gulpáygání; Prayer texts

Prayer, Meditation, and the Devotional Attitude, The Importance of - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Báb, The (Compilation of Compilations, 1991)
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Keywords: Devotion; Meditation; Prayer; Spirituality

Prayers and Holy Writings - Bahai,Bahai, compiler (Bahá'í House of Worship, 2024)
A selection of Bahá'í prayers on various themes, and some selections from the Writings, prepared for the Lotus Temple.
Mirrored from bahaihouseofworship.in/downloads.
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, New Delhi; Prayer texts

Prayers and Meditations - Bahá'u'lláh (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1988)
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Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers of; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Meditation; Prayer; Prayer texts; Prayers and Meditations of Bahá'u'lláh (book); Ziyarat-Namih (Tablet of Visitation for the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh)

Prayers and Meditations: Study Guide - Bayat,Ehsan, compiler (2024)
A lengthy study guide of the 184 passages from Bahá'u'lláh's writings selected by the Guardian, which combine prayers and meditative passages and offer the opportunity for personal reflection as well as conversation and communion with God.
Also available in Microsoft Word format.
Keywords: Outlines and summaries; Prayers and Meditations of Bahá'u'lláh (book); Study guides

Prayers and rituals in the Bahá'í Faith: Introduction to A Tablet to Jináb-i-Mullá 'Alí-Akbar fí Ardi'l-Álif - Savi,Julio; Mardani,Faezeh (Lights of Irfan, 2008)
A tablet of Bahá'u'lláh to one of the Bábís to renew his faith before He had revealed his mission; its recipient and circumstances of composition; a prayer of 'reunion' and its attendant rituals.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #76, Centre for Bahá'í Studies, Acuto, Italy (July 6-10, 2007). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/76/savi_prayers. See also proofread Microsoft Word version, prepared by Mike Thomas (2023).
Keywords: Ablutions; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Clothing; Detachment; Fragrance; Genuflections; Hadith; Irfán Colloquia; Meditation; Mullá `Alí-Akbar-i-Ardistání; Mysticism; Obligatory prayer; Perfume; Prayer; Prayer texts; Qiblih; Rituals; Salat-i-Hajat or Salat-i-Liqá (Prayer of the Needs or Reunion prayer); Search; Tests and difficulties

Prayers from the 2002 edition of Bahá'í Prayers not included in 1991 edition - Author unknown, compiler (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 2002)
Compilation of prayers in the newer American Bahá'í Prayers book that are not included in older editions.
This file has been compiled from different sources, and may contain errors. Mirrored with permission from sites.google.com/site/akbweb.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers of; Báb, Prayers of; Cross-reference; Prayer; Prayer texts; `Abdu'l-Bahá, prayers of