Could anyone else tell me, what stands out in your mind about why you converted. What was the thing that grabbed you adn convinced you.
I was raised as a Catholic, and had no interest in changing my religion,
at the time I first heard of the Baha'i Faith. A friend in my college dormitory
told me
SC: To my way of thinking to deny the Power of God to
express His Will through a human Mouthpiece, as were all His
Manifestations, is to deny all Creation.
RS: How so?
Inspite of all our [human] observations and subsequent
replications of principles in Creation it only serves to
remind us of
Dear Brent,
On this point I would disagree with you...; if you are saying
Baha'u'llah did not see a Maiden and I believe that is what
you are saying.
Shoghi Effendi does not say the images were symbols conjured
up by the Manifestations to relate Their experience. He says
the images were
for
instance, the famous passage where Bah'u'llah sees tablet in His mind,
i do nopt thhink He actually 'sees a Tablet but He chose that phrase
and image to try to communicate His reality to us.
There is an interesting record of a conversation in one of Stanwood Cobb's
books, I don't recall
Could anyone else tell me, what stands out in
your mind about why you
converted. What was the thing that grabbed
you adn convinced you.
I was raised
in a mainstream Protestant church, and never found it satisfying. I spent many
years exploring various religions. I was a Quaker for
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:00:35 -0600, Mark A. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, Gilberto,
Mark:
However, I have often found that what strikes me as plausible is
greeted with astonishment by many others. To me, Thelema (Crowley) is
plausible.
Gilberto:
I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Even
Hi, Dave,
At 08:42 AM 12/30/2004, you wrote:
I was a Quaker for many years, and I spent about ten years in the Foundation
Faith of God, a church which is a fringe group and in many of the cult
books, but which I found to contain some of the truest Christians I have ever
met.
When you were
Brent,
At 06:50 AM 12/30/2004, you wrote:
There is an interesting record of a conversation in one of Stanwood Cobb's
books, I don't recall which, where the Master was asked Do you know
everything to which He replied No, but when I need to know something it
appears before me as on a moving
Hi, Gilberto,
At 08:55 AM 12/30/2004, you wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Even with the few thelemites I've
communicated with, I wasn't sure if they were realists when it came to
their own beliefs. Are you saying it is plausible that Crowley really did
have some kind of spiritual
Could anyone else tell me, what stands out in your mind about why you
converted. What was the thing that grabbed you adn convinced you. The other
thing I keep wondering about is certainty. I freely admit, I have little
certainly about anything. I really am amazed at the degree of certainty
In a message dated 12/30/2004 1:46:10 P.M. Central Standard Time,
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is one other condition which should be mentioned. There arecertain
former Bah whose actions do not necessarily constituteCovenant-breaking,
but are seriously destructive. Where such
If I'm not mistaken, a similar thing is reported in Dr. Afrukhtih's Nine years
memoirs of Akka.
Are any of Cobb's books on-line?
Regards,
Ahang.
--- Brent Poirier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for
instance, the famous passage where Bah'u'llah sees tablet in His mind,
i do nopt thhink He
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Mark wrote:
When you were in it, did they still have similar quasi-Gnostic teachings
(re: Satan, etc.) to when they were the Process Church of the Final
Judgement?
As I recall, their teachings were pretty traditional. We didn't talk about
Satan much. The focus was on service.
Dave Lambert
Two of Cobb's books are on line, The Unity of Nations and Islamic
Contributions to Civilization.
http://bahai-library.com/etc/author.html
Brentcito
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:28:08 -0600, Mark A. Foster
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Hi, Gilberto,
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Gilberto:
I think the picture gets more complex than that. I think in Judaism there
actually may be a date where they say the canon is closed and no more
prophets are coming.
Mark:
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Brentcito
'Little' Brent?
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RS:
Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to assume that Abdul Baha used an
interpreter becuase he could't understand English well without one?
Why else would Abdu'l-Baha use an interpreter
?
Dear
I remember reading a statement from the Universal House of Justice in which it
said that the rank of the Trustees of the Huquq is higher than that of the
Counsellors. I can't locate it, and wonder if any of you know where it is.
Thanks
Brent
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Susan,
At 04:50 PM 12/30/2004, you wrote:
I think Abdu'l-Baha's knowledge of English may well have been adequate to
understand people without an interpreter much of the time, at least by the
time He left America. I suspect speaking English back to them may have been
more of a problem. But
My friend, the late Ruhiyyih McComb (originally, Muset Montana Jones), who
was named by `Abdul-Baha when she was 8 or 9 years old, said that
`Abdu'l-Baha spoke with her in English several times.
Yes, He had at least a decent amount of conversational English. There are
several instances of
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