The Baha'i Studies Listserv At 04:30 PM 1/25/2014, Don C wrote: >I recently found an old pamphlet entitled The >World Religion A summary of Its Aims, Teachings >and History by SHOGHI EFFENDI Guardian of the >Bahá'i Faith as reprinted Jan 1941.
The first two paragraphs from the statement appear inside the back cover of each issue of "The Journal of Baha'i Studies", which is probably where people are most likely to have encountered it. I see that there is a reference to the statement on the Lincoln, Nebraska Web site, where they refer to it as having been written in 1933: http://www.lincolnbahai.org/Content/BahaiFaith.php Following up on that I noticed that a single phrase from the statement scientific in its method,[121] is referred to in: "Shoghi Effendis The Dispensation of Baháu'lláh: A Theology of the Word" by Jack McLean Published in Lights of Irfan, Volume 9, pages 239-280 (Wilmette, IL: Irfan Colloquia, 2008) This document is also online as a formatted PDF; download from irfancolloquia.org/79/mclean_proactive. http://jack-mclean.com/articles/shoghi-effendis-dispensation-of-bahaullah/#_edn121 The footnote (121) indicates the origin of the statement as: "[121] Shoghi Effendi, letter of June 1933 to the High Commissioner of Palestine. Extract from Compilation of Letters and Extracts of Writings From the Guardian Published in the Baháí News of the United States (December 1924 November 1934), no. 85." "This letter provides a cogent summary statement of the teachings of the Baháí Faith." ---------- Likewise, the first two paragraphs are also referred to in a compilation on "Science and Technology" put together by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice: http://bahai-library.com/compilation_science_technology And the source is again identified as: "(June 1933, from a letter written by Shoghi Effendi to the High Commissioner for Palestine)" ------------- The entire statement is also online, but without identification of its source, at: http://bahairesearch.com/english/Baha'i/Authoritative_Baha'i/Shoghi_Effendi/Summary%20Statement%20-The%20World%20Religion.aspx Possibly this rendering has its origins with the pamphlet that you found. ------------ John B. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-738670-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
