The Baha'i Studies Listserv So is Shoghi Effendi saying that when the previous religions are reborn they remain recognizably distinct or is he saying they are all reborn as the Bahai Faith?
Or to mention a different kind of model, have you ever read Martin :Lings, "What is Sufism?" or any of the works of Frithjof Schuon like "Understanding Islam" or "The Transcendant Unity of Religions"? On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Larry Marquardt <lmarq...@rochester.rr.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv >>For example, Bahais sometimes may use the analogy that the >>Bahai faith is like graduate school while previous religions are >like being >>in college or high school or kindergarten. (Personally >Ifind that concept >>problematic, but ignoring that for now...) > > These divinely-revealed religions, as a close observer has graphically > expressed it, "are doomed not to die, but to be reborn... `Does not the > child succumb in the youth and the youth in the man; yet neither child nor > youth perishes?'" > (Shoghi Effendi: World Order of Baha'u'llah, Page: 114) > > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:gilberto.simp...@gmail.com > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to > mailto:leave-548991-68452.e157d5dc5efabb63696f251595c88...@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 > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-549044-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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
