Re: Edict of toleration

2004-11-28 Thread John Bromberek
of what I wrote, there, at that time. John B. --- From: John Bromberek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Re: Edict of toleration Newsgroups: soc.religion.bahai Date: 2001-12-02 06:46:03 PST On 28 Nov 2001 14:17:44 GMT, in soc.religion.bahai Geoff [EMAIL

Suratu'l-Haykal W.O.B. p. 117

2007-01-14 Thread John Bromberek
Greetings, I'm wondering whether anyone can enlighten me as to the reason for the absence from the 2002 translation of the Suratu'l-Haykal of the two lines Shoghi Effendi quotes on page 117 of the World Order of Baha'u'llah: I am not apprehensive for My own self, Bahá'u'lláh still more

Re: peaking of realiy and meaning ang geometry

2008-08-05 Thread John Bromberek
At 04:25 PM 8/4/2008, firestorm wrote: mark, excuse mu lack of clarity, it was at, i thought, bahai-library.com It sounds like you are referring to this graphic: http://www.bahai-library.com/visuals/evolution.txt.html also at:

Re: peaking of realiy and meaning ang geometry

2008-08-05 Thread John Bromberek
At 04:53 PM 8/5/2008, I wrote: I have a copy that I got somewhere back in 1971, but it didn't have any attribution other than that of having been printed by Kurtis Kelsey... I'll have to take that back. I see, now, that the attribution is within the written introduction to the explanation.

Re: peaking of realiy and meaning ang geometry

2008-08-05 Thread John Bromberek
At 08:54 PM 8/5/2008, Ben wrote: I don't know if you noticed this before, and you can pass the info on to whomever it matters, but there is a discrepancy between the two drawings; on the 'original' drawing, the grades in the spiritual kingdom, which are infinite in series and progression, at

Re: give away the sister in the Bible

2009-01-22 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv -Original Message- From: Hasan Elias hasanel...@yahoo.com Sent: Jan 21, 2009 11:56 PM On other side, Christian dates seems wrong, I, myself always ask how it is possible Jesus born on december 24th? and (at the same time) believe Immacualte Conception is on

A Calendrical Curiosity

2009-06-08 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv I thought perhaps some of you might find this amusing. Last month I was playing with the new factoid engine wolframalpha.com and entered the search criteria: total solar eclipse shiraz iran to see if maybe there would ever be a total solar eclipse there. It

Re: A Calendrical Curiosity

2009-06-08 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv At 07:52 PM 6/8/2009, I wrote: It spit out the particulars of a total eclipse that will happen on March 20th, 2036 AD. That should have read 2034 AD. John B. __ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as:

Re: A Calendrical Curiosity

2009-06-09 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv -Original Message- From: Dean Betts fdbe...@mindspring.com Sent: Jun 9, 2009 12:49 AM How can we determine when (in the 19th Century) the prior solar eclipses occurred in Iran? Dean, The two pages I included toward the end will let you do that, the latter

Re: Rv: possibilites of remembering Shoghi Effendi's birth or passing or some date related to his work?

2010-07-23 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv At 09:33 PM 7/23/2010, It was written: WHY? lo mismo pregunto yo :) I think that reading the quote in the context of the adjoining text makes it a little more clear. I've copied that below this. On the whole, though, I think that the best way to honor the

Re: If you are sleep, wake up; if you are awake, sit up; it you are sitting, stand up; .....

2010-07-26 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv At first glance it looks like a case of misattribution. By whom is hard to say. The only Baha'i source I see on the google for it is in a blog by an unknown person in Idaho. http://mynahbird.wordpress.com/tag/world-order-of-bahaullah/ He or she says that `Ali

Re: If you are sleep, wake up; if you are awake, sit up; it you are sitting, stand up; .....

2010-07-26 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv OK, I see that there is a more direct source of this possible misattribution - an online book available in .pdf format: http://lafedebahaiinitalia.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/shoghi-effendi-author-of-teaching-plans-ali-nakhjavani.pdf Once ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said: ‘If

Re: If you are sleep, wake up; if you are awake, sit up; it you are sitting, stand up; .....

2010-07-26 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Oh, I just typed the first few words into Google along with some of the more prominent latter ones. Later, I added Baha'i to the search, and finally Nakhjavani, which brought up the book I had never heard of. JB -Original Message- From: Larry Marquardt

Re: Out of the fusion of two souls a third subtle entity is born;...

2010-08-21 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Larry, It looks like this quote was misattribution. I found a .pdf file that attributes it to (Rosemary Sala, The Bahá'í World, Volume 7, Marriage in the Bahá'í Faith, p. 763): http://bahaimarriage.net/DevotionalGathering-Marriage(General).pdf

Re: Baha'is in My Backyard (Movie)

2010-11-10 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv At 02:53 PM 11/10/2010, Matt wrote: I found it to be somewhat of a satirical mockumentary. I'm not sure if that was their intention starting out, but that's how it came together imo. I had a somewhat similar reaction. It's been a long time since I watched it but I

Re: The `ulama' in the Bahai community

2012-04-19 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv At 08:57 AM 4/19/2012, you wrote: Those divines [`ulama'], ... who are truly adorned with the ornament of knowledge and of a goodly character are, verily, as a head to the body of the world, and as eyes to the nations. The guidance of men hath, at all times, been and

Re: Cloning, other soul in the same body

2012-05-14 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Sure, in the same way that all of today's clones are akin, which is to say siblings. Today's clones are called identical twins. They don't seem to share a single soul, though. John B. -Original Message- From: Hasan Elías hasanel...@yahoo.com Sent: May 14,

Re: Steven Greer

2013-06-21 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv At 06:19 PM 6/21/2013, Mike wrote: Hmmm. I got to the page through a Google search. Not sure why it's not working. It comes from an old Delphi forum called planet bahai. The link did work for me. A pretty goofy conversation, there. ...there's a compilation from

Re: “The World Religion A summary of Its Aims, Teachings and History by SHOGHI EFFENDI

2014-01-25 Thread John Bromberek
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

Ancient Curiosity Accidentally Revisited

2014-04-07 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv This morning I was paging through photographs in the book What is Life? (Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, 1995-2000) when Plate 17 caught my attention. Some of you might recall a minor curiosity that came up in one of the Baha'i listservs or Newsgroups around 15

Re: Deputization funds

2014-04-15 Thread John Bromberek
The Baha'i Studies Listserv At 01:46 AM 4/15/2014, David wrote: We now have regional deputization funds, which can support living costs for pioneers. My suspicion is that sooner or later the system will be abused, prompting more scrutiny in how funds are distributed... If there is anything