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Stephen, need I remind you that you voluntarily chose to join the Baha'i Faith,
and as part of this choice, agreed to certain things? Prior to making that
choice, you were free to explore your own reality, picking and choosing the
sources of your beliefs. Once
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Dear Stephen,
Your Auxiliary Board Member for Protection is:
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Note that my previous posting was found in CHAPTER XXVBAHÁ'U'LLÁH'S JOURNEY TO KARBILA
(Shoghi Effendi, The Dawn-Breakers, p. 581)
and that it is Nabil's recording of the words of the Blessed Beauty, not the Bab.
It is a beautiful passage, and was used by the Spiritual Assembly in Milwaukee,
"Be thankful to God for having enabled you to recognize His Cause. Whoever has received this blessing must, prior to his acceptance, have performed some deed which, though he himself was unaware of its character, was ordained by God as a means whereby he has been guided to find and embrace the
