Messages to America by Shoghi Effendi

About this eBook

Author

Shoghi, Effendi, 1897-1957

Title

Messages to America Selected Letters and Cablegrams Addressed to the Bahá'í's of North America 1932–1946

Language

English

LoC Class

BP: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Islam, Bahaism, Theosophy, Other and new beliefs

Subject

Bahai Faith -- North America

Category

Text

eBook-No.

19277

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19277

Release Date

September 17, 2006

Copyright

Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details.

Contents

1. 1.Baha'i Terms of Use — Contents — [Frontispiece] — NABÍL’S NARRATIVE — IMMORTAL SPIRIT — UNITED WILL, CONCERTED ACTION — NON-PARTICIPATION IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS — PERSONALITIES SUBORDINATED — MOMENTOUS CONVENTION — AN EMINENT RANK — POTENTIALITIES OF MAJESTIC EDIFICE — THE VOTING RIGHT — UNPRECEDENTED IMPETUS — SEPARATION FROM OUTWORN CREEDS — THE NATIONAL FUND — THE NEW HOUR HAS STRUCK — THIS IS TRULY PROVIDENTIAL — ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ’S HISTORIC APPEAL — FRESH CONQUESTS AND UNPRECEDENTED TRIUMPHS — INTENSIFY TEACHING WORK A THOUSANDFOLD — THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UNDERTAKING — A COMPLETE REDEDICATION — INSTITUTION OF GUARDIANSHIP NOW FURTHER REINFORCED — DUAL GIFT — THE CALL HAS GONE FORTH ... THE PATH IS CLEAR — CONVENTION DELEGATES INCREASED — ALL SHOULD ARISE — ARCHBREAKER OF COVENANT — CERTAIN VITAL REQUIREMENTS OF SEVEN YEAR PLAN — A YEAR HAS ALMOST ELAPSED — DRAW NIGH UNTO BAHÁ’U’LLÁH — MARCHING TOWARD THEIR GOAL — UNBROKEN SOLIDARITY, UNQUENCHABLE ENTHUSIASM — LOYALTY TO WORLD ORDER OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH — NINE HOLY SOULS — THE RAREST PRIVILEGE EVER CONFERRED BY PROVIDENCE UPON THE AMERICAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY — GOD’S CREATIVE PLAN — APPROACH OF FINAL ERUPTION — GRATITUDE TO PIONEERS — MY PLEA, MY SUPREME ENTREATY — PENETRATION OF LATIN AMERICA — PROVE THEMSELVES ... WORTHY OF THAT PRICELESS HERITAGE — OFFICIAL INAUGURATION OF WORLD MISSION — FULFIL THE REQUIREMENTS — THE MOST FATEFUL HOUR — IMPERILLED HUMANITY — IN GALAXY OF BAHÁ’Í IMMORTALS — MANDATE CONFERRED BY ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ — THE SPIRITUAL POTENCIES OF THAT CONSECRATED SPOT — THE SEAL OF COMPLETE TRIUMPH — DUAL, VITALLY URGENT OBLIGATION — BELOVED HANDMAID — THEIR GOD-GIVEN TASK — BAHÁ’U’LLÁH’S SPIRITUAL SOVEREIGNTY — SECTION OF ORNAMENTATION — CONTINUOUS CONSECRATION — EMERGENCE OF SPIRITUAL WORLD ORDER — SUPREMELY CHALLENGING HOUR — CHAOS AND REDEMPTION — TORCHBEARER OF WORLD CIVILIZATION — THIS VETERAN WARRIOR — THE ANGER OF GOD AND HIS CORRECTION — FATE-LADEN WORLD ORDEAL — ELIZABETH GREENLEAF — UNCONQUERABLE POWER — THE PROCESS OF INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION — THE CRUCIBLE OF WORLD CONFLAGRATION — A TRULY WORLD-EMBRACING CRISIS — IMPELLED TO DEPUTIZE FIVE MEMBERS — THE SEVEN YEAR PLAN — CONSECRATED TO TEACHING TASKS — A BEFITTING CLIMAX — ACCLAIM WITH GRATEFUL HEART — THE IMMORTAL LUA — THE UNFINISHED TASKS — COMPLETION OF TEMPLE EXTERIOR — HIS SERVICES UNFORGETTABLE — ALL-AMERICA CENTENNIAL CONVENTION — FOUNDATION STONE LAID BY THE CENTER OF THE COVENANT — BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITIES OF EAST AND WEST — THE CROWNING CRUSADE — PREPARATIONS FOR THE CENTENARY — THE BELOVED FAITH IS SURGING FORWARD — A STILL MORE COMPELLING DISPLAY — THE AUSPICIOUS YEAR — ADDITION TO ENDOWMENTS — PARTICIPATION OF LATIN AMERICAN BELIEVERS — BEFITTINGLY CONSUMMATE THE ENTERPRISES — TURNING POINT IN BAHÁ’Í HISTORY — INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT — MESSAGE TO CENTENARY CONVENTION — CONSOLIDATION OF NOBLY-WON VICTORIES — A SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY IN EVERY REMAINING REPUBLIC — THE SEAL OF SPIRITUAL TRIUMPH — FAITHFUL PIONEER — PASSAGES IN “GOD PASSES BY” — THE SUCCEEDING STAGE IN THE EVOLUTION OF THEIR WORLD MISSION — THE ADMISSION OF PERSIANS — STAUNCH PIONEER — THE ONE MESSAGE THAT CAN EXTRICATE HUMANITY — MY HEAVY-LADENED HEART — NATIONWIDE, INTERCONTINENTAL PLANS — A SINGLE, ORGANICALLY-UNITED WORLD COMMONWEALTH — A NEW PHASE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION — HEARTS UPLIFTED IN THANKSGIVING — THE WORK OF REHABILITATION — THE GERMAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY — EXEMPLARY PIONEER — LYDIA ZAMENHOF — HISTORIC DECISIONS — MOMENTOUS RESPONSIBILITIES — INAUGURATION OF SECOND SEVEN YEAR PLAN — SPIRITUAL CONQUEST OF THE OLD WORLD — THIRTY NEW ASSEMBLIES — A GOD-GIVEN MANDATE — THE UTMOST VIGOR, VIGILANCE AND CONSECRATION — DISTINGUISHED SERVANT — THIS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CRUSADE — THE FORCES MYSTERIOUSLY RELEASED — THE PIVOT ON WHICH HINGES SUCCESS — FIFTH YEAR OF PLAN MESSAGE TO 1941 CONVENTION — Footnotes

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