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LETTER TO THE THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO- NOVEMBER 1, 2022 (pdf)

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Spiritual Conquest of the Planet by Melanie Smith & Paul Lample (pdf)

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Tablets of the Divine plan for (Annotated for Virtual Study (pdf)

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Power of Divine Assistance - Inspiration from the Central Figures (pdf)

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20220616 NSA message to fourth ARISE conference (pdf)

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2021-2022 GUIDANCE

May 2022- Supreme Body to Baha'i World re Pioneer Call for 9 Year Plan (pdf)

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20220428_World_Centre- Readiness to Forget the Past (pdf)

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20220428_World_Centre- Explanation on the Pupil of the Eye (pdf)

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202204 Ridvan-Message-2022 (English) (pdf)

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Attachment 1 20220128 - Supreme Body to Individual on Racial Prejudice_Redacted (r) (pdf)

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Attachment 2 19420209 - S. Effendi to Individual IN 1942 ON RACE (pdf)

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The-9-Year-Plan-PDF-1 (pdf)

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UHJ-2022-01-04 (Letter to Bahais of the World) (pdf)

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JANUARY 4-2022 REFLECTION QUESTIONS ON UHJ LETTER (pdf)

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20210915 UHJ Announces Conferences to Launch NYP (English) (1) (pdf)

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20220103 UHJ to All ABMs throughout world on their role in next Plan (English) (pdf)

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20220101 UHJ to all NSAs on further development of training institutes (pdf)

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20211230 UHJ to Conference of Counselors Introducing Nine Year Plan (English) (pdf)

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AFFIRMATIONS FROM PARAGRAPH 4- OF THE 12-30-2021 LETTER TO COUNSELORS (pdf)

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framework-action (pdf)

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2021-Guidance from the Central Figures or the UHJ

The most recent guidance from the Universal House of Justice is here. We always interrupt what we are studying when we receive new guidance. Check back regularly, and if we don't have some new guidance, let us know!

20211230 UHJ to Conference of Counselors Introducing Nine Year Plan (English) (pdf)

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202104 Ridvan-Message-2021 (English) (pdf)

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STUDY Guide Ridvan 2021-1-22 (pdf)

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Compilation - The Universal House of Justice (pdf)

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20210402 NSA on the Acquisition of Training Institute Facility in the Triangle Cluster of North Carolina (2) (pdf)

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2021-02-26 - UHJ to an individual re social change and avoidance of partisan politics_Redacted (pdf)

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Enclosure - 2021-02-26 selected extracts (pdf)

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Re-sent in 2021 as an attachment to 2/26 Letter- 2013-03002 - UHJ-to-Friends-in-Iran-re-Partisan-Pol (pdf)

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Re-sent Feb 2021 as an attachment to 2/26/21 Letter- 20170427 - UHJ-to-Individual Believer-re-Social (pdf)

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20210226 - UHJ to a NSA re Coronavirus and Vaccination (pdf)

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20210211 - UHJ to Individual re Seeking Out Best Expert Advice (pdf)

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2021-02-10 UHJ-re-Baha'i-Activities-Held-Online (pdf)

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20201215 - UHJ to Individual re Vaccination final (pdf)

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20201208 - UHJ to Individual re Covid Vaccines (pdf)

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20200710 - UHJ to Individual re Obedience to Civil Law re Vaccinations final (pdf)

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2021 (Added) NSA Guidance and Suggested Study

20210802 NSA to All LSAs - Call to Action (pdf)

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20210624 NSA to Regional Bahá’í Councils and Training Institutes June 2021 (pdf)

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20210603 National Spiritual Assembly Call to Action June 2021 (English) (1) (pdf)

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Pilot Project_ The Elimination of Racial Prejudice and the Community Building Process-NC (pdf)

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20210617 To the participants in the ARISE Conference (1) (pdf)

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VISION OF RACE UNITY FORMATTED- (1991)- Friday Study (pdf)

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20210414 To the American Baha'i community - Supreme Body on the 2021 Annual Report (1) (pdf)

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US_NSA_Annual_Report_2021_With_Hyprlinks (pdf)

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20210407 NSA Message for Feast of Jalal '21 (pdf)

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November 17, 1993- NSA to Prejudice-free Forum about children (jpg)

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Bahi scholarship (pdf)

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20210729 UHJ to Indiv - Race issue in US_Redacted (pdf)

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2020 Guidance from the Central Figures or the UHJ

The most recent letters referring to the "most vital and challenging issue", that of the "eliminating of racial prejudice" from the Universal House of Justice in this section as well as Guidance from any of the Central Figures.

Companion Resource Document - Participating in the Discourses of Society (pdf)

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2020-12-03 UHJ to Individual re Material Sustainability of Communities (redacted) (pdf)

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DEC 3-2020- UHJ (pdf)

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DEC 2020 EXCERPTS (pdf)

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November 25, 2020- DAY OF THE COVENANT (pdf)

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November 24, 2020- UHJ to Individual on Contributing to the Betterment of Society (redacted) (pdf)

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September 2020 - BWC Universal Crisis Affecting Mankind (pdf)

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August 10- 2020- UHJ- Compilation on Social Action - (79 pages) (pdf)

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July 22, 2020-UHJ-to-Baha'is-of-the-US (English) (pdf)

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May 9, 2020- Final Year of FYP in Light of Pandemic (pdf)

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April 2020- Ridvan-Message- UHJ (pdf)

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March 19, 2020-UHJ-Naw-Ruz-English (pdf)

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Attachment 1 Compilation - UHJ on Race Unity 1996-2020 (pdf)

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Compilations/ Letters from the Institutions

The documents here are from the National Spiritual Assembly and perhaps local spiritual Assemblies when they pertain to race, the elimination of racial prejudice and social action leading to the Oneness of Humanity.

August 18-2020 - NSA Message for Feast of 'Asmá' '20 (pdf)

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20200818 NSA Message for Feast of 'Asmá' '20- (line numbers & highlights) (pdf)

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Addressing Race Class and Culture in DC- The LSA's 12-page report 8-18-20- Referred to in the 8/18/ (pdf)

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Power of Unity Compilation -- Abridged (pdf)

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JULY 18, 2020- KEN BOWERS ON SIGNATURES OF LETTERS (pdf)

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NSA Message for Feast of Kalimát dated July 11, 2020 (pdf)

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NSA Statement to the American People on the Elimination of Racial Prejudice (dated June 19, 2020) (pdf)

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Compilation - NSA on America and the FYP and Race Unity (pdf)

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To the Participants in the Second Pupil of the Eye Conference from the NSA dated June 18, 2020 (pdf)

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Compilation -UHJ on Race Unity 1996-2020 (pdf)

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USA NSA Letter to the First Pupil of the Eye Conference in Nashville 11/19 (pdf)

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Framework for Action Selected Messages of the Universal House of Justice and Supplementary Material (pdf)

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July 22, 2020- UHJ-to-Baha'is-of-the-US (English) (pdf)

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Ruhi Institute Statement of Purpose (1) (pdf)

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20200722 UHJ Shares News of Online Offering to Serve Portal (English) (pdf)

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Guidance from the Central Figures or the UHJ

The most recent letters referring to the "most vital and challenging issue", that of the "eliminating of racial prejudice" from the Universal House of Justice in this section as well as Guidance from any of the Central Figures.

Ridvan-Message-2020 - UHJ (pdf)

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March 19, 2020-UHJ-Naw-Ruz-English (pdf)

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Attachment 1 Compilation - UHJ on Race Unity 1996-2020 (pdf)

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UHJ- Compilation on Social Action - August 10- 2020 (79 pages) (pdf)

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Letter of April 12 Race Amity - Shoghi Effendi (1927)- numbered (pdf)

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April 2011 UHJ (1) (pdf)

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Letter of April 12 Race Amity - Shoghi Effendi (1927) (pdf)

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1927 National Committee on Interracial Amity letter (pdf)

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Ridvan 2008 (pdf)

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December 28- 2010- UHJ (pdf)

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March 26, 2016- UHJ (pdf)

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12-28-10 EXCERPT- PREREQUISITES FOR SUCCESS (UHJ) (pdf)

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Downloads for Our Virtual Study

These are the documents we have studied, are studying, or have been recommended.

Favoring the pupil of the eye with Rabi Musa (pdf)Download
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USA NSA Letter to the Pupil of the Eye Conference (pdf)Download
Centering The Pupil Of The Eye with Derik Smith (pdf)Download
Sadie Oglesby Convention Talk Transcribed from Scan (pdf)Download
5-Year Plan ( UHJ-29-dec-2015) (pdf)Download
June 4-2018- Uprooting Problem of Racism in America- Universal House of Justice (pdf)Download
April 27- 2017- UHJ on Politics (pdf)Download
March 26-2016 Universal House of Justice- Jubilation (pdf)Download
April 2011 UHJ (pdf)Download
December 28 - 2010- Universal House of Justice (pdf)Download
June 3-2007 House of Justice -African Americans (BMG) (pdf)Download
UHJ- Letter to the World's Religious Leaders (pdf)Download
USA NSA Letter to the Pupil of the Eye Confere (pdf)Download

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2021-0729 UHJ to Indiv - Race issue in US_Redacted (pdf)Download
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Remembering ‘Abdu’l-Baha

Glimpses of a Hundred Years of Endeavour

Glimpses of a Hundred Years of Endeavour

Glimpses of a Hundred Years of Endeavour

 In 1921, at the time of the passing of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a relatively small Bahá’í community, though grieving, looked to the future with faith and courage, focused on the instructions that had been left by Him, the Centre of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had provided clear guidance for how the Bahá’í community was to grow, develop and increasingly serve humanity. Since that time, the followers of Bahá’u’lláh have been striving, with unimaginable sacrifice, to implement that guidance, reaching the farthest corners of the globe. This film provides glimpses into a hundred years of endeavour and learning, carried out by a burgeoning Bahá’í community, and outlines the journey that has led to the community’s current efforts to contribute to the emergence of a world based on the principle of the oneness of humanity. 


Glimpses

Stories About ‘Abdu’l-Baha

Glimpses of a Hundred Years of Endeavour

Glimpses of a Hundred Years of Endeavour

 

‘Abdu’l-Baha (1844-1921), was the Perfect Exemplar of the Teachings of Baha'u'llah and Center of the Covenant. His humble life of service serves as an inspiration for those who aspire to a fuller spiritual life.

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239 Days Daily Journey

Glimpses of a Hundred Years of Endeavour

Promulgation of Universal Peace

 239 Days in America brings to light this important time in American history. It reconstructs ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s 1912 journey moment by moment, time-shifted to the present. You will encounter ‘Abdu’l-Bahá as Americans of the time did—little by little, day by day. 


https://239days.com/2012/09/15/documenting-a-luminous-journey/


 Director Tim Perry films a reenactment in Luminous Journey, a feature-length documentary on 'Abdu'l-Bahá's journey across America.  

239 Days

Promulgation of Universal Peace

Vignettes from the Life of 'Abdu'l-Baha

Promulgation of Universal Peace

 The Promulgation of Universal Peace is a collection of transcriptions of over one hundred talks delivered by ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá during the nine months in 1912 when He travelled across the United States and Canada. 

Promulgation of Universal Peace

'Abdu'l-Bahá in Their Midst

Vignettes from the Life of 'Abdu'l-Baha

Vignettes from the Life of 'Abdu'l-Baha

 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Their Midst is the story of the journeys of 'Abdu'l-Bahá
to Europe and North America over the period 1911 to 1913. Rather than focusing on the public talks he gave, inspiring though these were, it narrates how 'Abdu'l-Bahá affected and transformed the lives of those he met, described in their own words.


 

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Vignettes from the Life of 'Abdu'l-Baha

Vignettes from the Life of 'Abdu'l-Baha

Vignettes from the Life of 'Abdu'l-Baha

 Vignettes from the Life of 'Abdu'l-Baha is a unique collection of stories, sayings, and comments, providing a special insight into the life, character, and station of Baha'u'llah's eldest son. The book is divided into three main sections, His Pure Heart, His Kindly Heart, and His Radiant Heart; and for those not already acquaninted with the main events of His life, there is a brief factual introduction. The book is enhanced by a mixed selection of rare and well-loved photographs, and is itself dedicated to 'Abdu'l-Baha. 

Vignettes from the Life of 'Abul-Baha

12 Resources about Abdu’l-Baha

12 Resources about Abdu’l-Baha

12 Resources about Abdu’l-Baha

 Abdu’l-Baha, the eldest son of Baha’u’llah, led the Baha’i community after Baha’u’llah’s passing. Abdu’l-Baha is often referred to by Baha’is as ‘the Master’, but the title “Abdu’l-Baha” is Arabic for “Servant of Baha”, and He is considered the perfect example of how to live according to the Baha’i Teachings.


 So in honor of Abdu’l-Baha, and in the interest of helping us learn more about His wonderful personage, this useful list is a small selection of resources which may assist us in learning more about His fascinating life. (Please note that this list does not include the Writings or talks of Abdu’l-Baha, of which there are many, but rather aims to look at the personage and life of Abdu’l-Baha).  

12 Resources to Learn about Abdul-Baha

Portals to Freedom

12 Resources about Abdu’l-Baha

12 Resources about Abdu’l-Baha

 To me, (Howard Colby Ives)  a man of middle age, a Unitarian Clergyman, a student since youth of religions and philosophies, the experience had a disturbing quality somewhat cataclysmic. Why should this man be able so to upset all my preconceived notions and conceptions of values by His mere presence? Was it that He seemed to exude from His very being an atmosphere of love and understanding such as I had never dreamed? Was it the resonant voice, modulated to a music which caught the heart? Was it the aura of happiness touched at times with a sadness implying the bearing of the burden of all the sin and sorrow of the world, which always surrounded Him? Was it the commingled majesty and humility of His every gesture and word, which was perhaps His most obvious characteristic? How can one answer such questions? Those who saw and heard Abdu'l-Bahá during those memorable months will share with me the sense of the inadequacy of words to communicate the incommunicable. 

Portals to Freedom

Race Amity Conference

12 Resources about Abdu’l-Baha

Race Amity Conference

 This important and rarely seen video documents 'Abdu'l-Baha's efforts in establishing racial justice and race unity in America in the early 1900s, when the subject was seldom discussed in the U.S. and few had the courage to speak about it publicly. To that end, he instructed that Race Amity Conferences be held to encourage black and white Americans to collaborate with each other and gradually break down the social barriers that prevailed in the U.S. at that time.  For the first Race Amity Conference, 'Abdu'l-Baha intentionally chose Louis Gregory (a young black Baha'i attorney in Washington, D.C.) and Agnes Parsons (a rich, white Baha'i woman who wasn't entirely ready to accept blacks as equals) to work together to plan and hold this conference. Through deeds (not words alone), 'Abdu'l-Baha modeled racial equality to the American Baha'is and they soon followed his example in accepting the self-evident truth that blacks and whites were equal.  Senior Producer, Writer, and Narrator: 

Kathy Lee Executive Producer: Artis Mebane Production Date: 2003 

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Participating in the Discourses of Society

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January 4, 2020- Charli Smith

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Other Important Documents to Study

Whatever Happened to the Double Crusade? (Glenford Mitchell)

Derik Smith. Centering the “Pupil of the Eye”: Blackness, Modernity, & the Revelation of Bahá’u’lla

Whatever Happened to the Double Crusade? (Glenford Mitchell)

 "At the outset of America's systematic response to The Tablets of the Divine Plan, Shoghi Effendi challenged and urged the American Bahá'ís to pursue a Double Crusade. And what was this? He put it in these words. "First, to regenerate the inward life of their own community and next to assail the longstanding evils that have entrenched themselves in the life of their nation." The challenge is spelled out in clear detail in Shoghi Effendi's magnificent letter addressed in December 1938 to the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada and published under the title The Advent of Divine Justice.  

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Pupil of the Eye Compilation- Compilation by Bonnie Taylor

Derik Smith. Centering the “Pupil of the Eye”: Blackness, Modernity, & the Revelation of Bahá’u’lla

Whatever Happened to the Double Crusade? (Glenford Mitchell)

 

The Pupil of the Eye:
African Americans in the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh

by The Báb, Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, and Universal House of Justice

compiled by Bonnie J. Taylor.
Rivera Beach, Florida: Palabra Publications, 1998 


  The writings specifically about African Americans that are contained herein describe their crucial and indispensable role in the Cause of God. It is hoped that this compilation will serve as an assistance to them as they struggle to overcome the difficulties in their path, and attain their goal and destiny in the new World Order. 

Free PDF of Pupil of the Eye Compilation

Derik Smith. Centering the “Pupil of the Eye”: Blackness, Modernity, & the Revelation of Bahá’u’lla

Derik Smith. Centering the “Pupil of the Eye”: Blackness, Modernity, & the Revelation of Bahá’u’lla

Derik Smith. Centering the “Pupil of the Eye”: Blackness, Modernity, & the Revelation of Bahá’u’lla

 "As most observers of race matters in the Bahá’í Faith know, Bahá’u’lláh declared that black people were appropriately comparable to the “black pupil of the eye” through which the “light of the spirit shineth forth” (Shoghi Effendi, Advent 37).3  


This selection of metaphor, often referred to by Central Figures and Institutions of the Bahá’í Faith, effectively positions blackness at the epicenter of a “bold and universal” world-transformative project that involves nothing less than the “coming." Derik Smith  


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Derik's Essay on the Pupil of the Eye

Glenford Mitchell Task force Document on Teaching Negroes

Advent of Divine Justice- 18 week free online study course

Derik Smith. Centering the “Pupil of the Eye”: Blackness, Modernity, & the Revelation of Bahá’u’lla

   Abdu’l-Baha spoke about it repeatedly during his visit here in 1912, stressing the necessity of uniting whites and Negroes as an “assurance of the world’s peace.” His admonitions about the consequences of neglecting this challenge were unmistakable. The question of the union of the white and the black is very important," He warned, “for if it is not realized erelong great difficulties will arise, and harmful results will follow.” And again, “If this matter remaineth without change, enmity will be increased day by day and the final result will be hardship and may end in bloodshed.”  

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Advent of Divine Justice- 18 week free online study course

Advent of Divine Justice- 18 week free online study course

Advent of Divine Justice- 18 week free online study course

 Study of The Advent of Divine Justice should be a priority of every Bahá'í. ...Shoghi Effendi identifies the "most vital and challenging issue confronting the Bahá'í community," defines a "chaste and holy life," and delineates the "spiritual prerequisites of success" in teaching. He especially addresses the Bahá'í youth and places all the actions of the American Bahá'ís in the context of the destiny of America. Understanding and living by the standards set in The Advent of Divine Justice are fundamental to building an inclusive community based on virtue and holiness and to fostering the process leading to entry by troops." 

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Sadie Oglesby

Advent of Divine Justice- 18 week free online study course

Advent of Divine Justice- 18 week free online study course

Sadie Oglesby

 

‘Abdu’l-Baha also wrote to an African-American Baha’i: “Thou art dark in countenance and bright in character. Thou art like unto the pupil of the eye which is dark in color, yet it is the fount of light and the revealer of the contingent world.”


In 1927, Sadie Oglesby was the third person of African descent to make a pilgrimage to the Baha’i holy places in what is now Israel. Born in North Carolina, she was part of Boston’s Baha’i community and an elected member of its Spiritual Assembly, or governing council.  

Sadie Oglesby Inspired the Pupil of the Eye Gathering

Individual Rights and Freedoms

Individual Rights and Freedoms

Individual Rights and Freedoms

From the Universal House of Justice

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Souls of Black Folks

Individual Rights and Freedoms

Individual Rights and Freedoms

 "Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line. I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there.

I have sought here to sketch, in vague, uncertain outline, the spiritual world in which ten thousand thousand Americans live and strive."

Free Souls of Black Folks Book

James Williams Inspired Offerings

This section contains the documents related to the the Prayer Call and the Institution of the Mashriqu'l-Adkar.

Institution of the Mashriqul-Adhkar (pdf)Download
James Williams Founders Story (pdf)Download
Letter from the UHJ Praising Prayer Call- 12-1 (pdf)Download
The Virtual Mashriqul-Adhkar (pdf)Download
Biblical Prophecies With Narrative (doc)Download

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ABS Speech on Partisan Politics -Quotes -Layli Miller-Muro (pdf)Download
Philosophy of the Sea (pdf)Download
SOTE_The Double Cursade_ and inward reflection (pdf)Download
Ruhiyyih Khanum on RACE- 1961-03-09 (pdf)Download
Consultation, quotes 10.2 (pdf)Download

ADDITIONAL SHARING FROM APRIL 26- MAY 2020

May 13, 2020- Remarks from the Consultation

May 9, 2020- Universal House of Justice- December 28, 2010

MAY 10, 2020- from Dr. Derik Smith on Centering the Pupil

Where does it hurt?

 Civil rights legend Ruby Sales learned to ask “Where does it hurt?” because it’s a question that drives to the heart of the matter — and a question we scarcely know how to ask in public life now. Sales says we must be as clear about what we love as about what we hate if we want to make change. And even as she unsettles some of what we think we know about the force of religion in civil rights history, she names a “spiritual crisis of white America” as a calling of today. "


Dying of Whiteness 

With the rise of the Tea Party and the election of Donald Trump, many middle- and lower-income white Americans threw their support behind conservative politicians who pledged to make life great again for people like them. But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the right-wing policies that resulted from this white backlash put these voters’ very health at risk—and in the end, threaten everyone’s well-being. 

​

Physician and sociologist Jonathan M. Metzl travels across America’s heartland seeking to better understand the politics of racial resentment and its impact on public health. Interviewing a range of Americans, he uncovers how racial anxieties led to the repeal of gun control laws in Missouri, stymied the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and fueled massive cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. Although such measures promised to restore greatness to white America, Metzl’s systematic analysis of health data dramatically reveals they did just the opposite: these policies made life sicker, harder, and shorter in the very populations they purported to aid.  Thus, white gun suicides soared, life expectancies fell, and school dropout rates rose. 


MAY 10, 2020- from Dr. Derik Smith on Centering the Pupil

May 9, 2020- Universal House of Justice- December 28, 2010

MAY 10, 2020- from Dr. Derik Smith on Centering the Pupil

 

Logos and Civilization: Spirit, History, and Order in the Writings of Baha'U'llah


also

The Foundation of the House of Justice 

The various Assemblies, local and national, constitute today the bedrock upon the strength of which the Universal House is in future to be firmly established and raised. Not until these function vigorously and harmoniously can the hope for the termination of this period of transition be realized. It devolves upon us whose dearest wish is to see the Cause enter upon that promised era of universal recognition and world achievements, to do all in our power to consolidate the foundations of these Assemblies, promoting at the same time a fuller understanding of their purpose and more harmonious cooperation for their maintenance and success. 

Let us also remember that at the very root of the Cause lies the principle of the undoubted right of the individual to self-expression, his freedom to declare his conscience and set forth his views. If certain instructions of the Master are today particularly emphasized and scrupulously adhered to, let us be sure that they are but provisional measures designed to guard and protect the Cause in its present state of infancy and growth until the day when this tender and precious plant shall have sufficiently grown to be able to withstand the unwisdom of its friends and the attacks of its enemies.

Let us also bear in mind that the keynote of the Cause of God is not dictatorial authority but humble fellowship, not arbitrary power, but the spirit of frank and loving consultation. Nothing short of the spirit of a true Bahá’í can hope to reconcile the principles of mercy and justice, of freedom and submission, of the sanctity of the right of the individual and of self-surrender, of vigilance, discretion and prudence on the one hand, and fellowship, candor, and courage on the other.

Bahai Administration, Shoghi Effendi, US Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1974 edition, Pages:196

May 9, 2020- Universal House of Justice- December 28, 2010

May 9, 2020- Universal House of Justice- December 28, 2010

April 26, 2020- Virtual National Call - Studying Dr. Smith's Essay

Dr. Derik Smith offered these extra resources:

 A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929  By Behnaz A. Mirzai 


"In the 28 December message, the House of Justice explained that 

“A small community, whose members are united by their shared beliefs, characterized by their high ideals, proficient in managing their affairs and tending to their needs, and perhaps engaged in several humanitarian projects—a community such as this, prospering but at a comfortable distance from the reality

experienced by the masses of humanity, can never hope to serve as a pattern for restructuring the whole of society.” 


Even if such a community were to focus the entirety of its resources on the problem of racial prejudice, even if it were able to heal itself to some extent of that cancerous

affliction, in the face of such a monumental social challenge the impact would be inconsequential.


Therefore, the friends must effectively assess the forces at work in their society and, beginning in neighborhoods and clusters, contribute their share to the process of learning and systematization which, as their numbers, knowledge, and influence grow, will transform their lives, families, and communities. Only if the efforts to eradicate the bane of prejudice are coherent with the full range of the community’s affairs, only if they arise naturally within the systematic pattern of expansion, community building, and involvement with society, will the American believers expand their capacity, year after year and decade after decade, to make their mark on their community and society and contribute to the high aim set for the Bahá’ís by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to eliminate racial prejudice from the face of the earth."

April 26, 2020- Virtual National Call - Studying Dr. Smith's Essay

April 26, 2020- Los Angeles - Zoom -Discussing Glenford Mitchell's Task Force Letter

April 26, 2020- Virtual National Call - Studying Dr. Smith's Essay

HARVARD IMPLICIT BIAS TEST


Dr. Smith's Reference to 'Some Answered Questions' on Love and Unity and

 Equity and Justice

Likewise in this marvelous cycle the earth will be transformed, and the world of humanity arrayed in tranquillity and beauty. Disputes, quarrels and murders will be replaced by peace, truth and concord; among the nations, peoples, races and countries, love and amity will appear. Cooperation and union will be established, and finally war will be entirely suppressed. When the laws of the Most Holy Book are enforced, contentions and disputes will find a final sentence of absolute justice before a general tribunal of the nations and kingdoms, and the difficulties that appear will be solved. The five continents of the world will form but one, the numerous nations will become one, the surface of the earth will become one land, and mankind will be a single community. The relations between the countries -- the mingling, union and friendship of the peoples and communities -- will reach to such a degree that the human race will be like one family and kindred. The light of heavenly love will shine, and the darkness of enmity and hatred will be dispelled from the world. Universal peace will raise its tent in the center of the earth, and the blessed Tree of Life will grow and spread to such an extent that it will overshadow the East and the West. Strong and weak, rich and poor, antagonistic sects and hostile nations -- which are like the wolf and the lamb, the leopard and kid, the lion and the calf -- will act toward each other with the most complete love, friendship, justice and equity. The world will be filled with science, with the knowledge of the reality of the mysteries of beings, and with the knowledge of God.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, p. 62)

April 26, 2020- Los Angeles - Zoom -Discussing Glenford Mitchell's Task Force Letter

April 26, 2020- Los Angeles - Zoom -Discussing Glenford Mitchell's Task Force Letter

April 26, 2020- Los Angeles - Zoom -Discussing Glenford Mitchell's Task Force Letter

Iranian Expatriates, Letter to, following 1979 Iranian Revolution

by / on behalf of Universal House of Justice


 " ...Therefore there is no need for the Iránian friends to congregate in one place. Often such a congregation creates problems. For example, should the number of Iránians exceed the number of native believers in a community, they would inadvertently bring about such difficulties as might hamper the progress of the Cause of God, and the world-conquering religion of the Abhá Beauty might appear to others as a religion which is limited and peculiar to Iránians. This could but lead to a waste of time and the disenchantment of both Bahá'ís and non-Bahá'ís. Under such circumstances the dear Iránian friends would neither enjoy their stay in that place nor would they be able to serve the Faith in a befitting manner...."


Los Angeles, Living in by / on behalf of Universal House of Justice

1996-01-31 

" There are so many areas of the world, even within the borders of the United States, where the Faith needs to be taught, that there is always a call for Bahá'ís to pioneer for this purpose from those areas where there are dense concentrations of active believers to those where help is needed. However, the response to this call is a matter for the personal decision of each believer in light of his or her own circumstances, responsibilities and possibilities.


"..The United-Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept (“The Compensatory Code”) is a term that means, when expressed in practice, the sum total of everything that is thought, said, or done by one individual Non-White person, who is a Victim of Racism [Victim of White Supremacy] that is effective in helping to eliminate Racism (White Supremacy), and/or in helping to “make up” for the lack of justice and correctness, in any one or more areas of activity, including Economics, Education, Entertainment, Labor, Law, Politics, Religion, Sex, and/or War/Counter-War.

from here: https://producejustice.com/


"Dispersed"-  Sadie Oglesby's story in 

Lights of the Spirit"



April 29, 2020 (Wednesday) - Open Consultation Day

April 26, 2020- Los Angeles - Zoom -Discussing Glenford Mitchell's Task Force Letter

April 26, 2020- Los Angeles - Zoom -Discussing Glenford Mitchell's Task Force Letter

"As to thy question concerning the heavenly Scriptures: The All-Knowing Physician hath His finger on the pulse of mankind. He perceiveth the disease, and prescribeth, in His unerring wisdom, the remedy. Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

1.5. We can well perceive how the whole human race is encompassed with great, with incalculable afflictions. We see it languishing on its bed of sickness, sore-tried and disillusioned. They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy. They have conceived the straight to be crooked, and have imagined their friend an enemy.

1.6. Incline your ears to the sweet melody of this Prisoner. 


Arise, and lift up your voices, that haply they that are fast asleep may be awakened. Say: O ye who are as dead! The Hand of Divine bounty proffereth unto you the Water of Life. Hasten and drink your fill. Whoso hath been reborn in this Day, shall never die; whoso remaineth dead, shall never live.


--- Bahá'u'lláh, Tabernacle of Unity


Tabernacle of Unity

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April 23, 2020

April 23, 2020

April 23, 2020

X:1, 21 March 1919, page 16

Three kinds of martyrdom

Martyrdom has many explanations, of which the first is to stand bravely and meet death unflinchingly in the path of God, as those wonderful souls have recently done in Persia without wavering for an instant in constancy, nor, under the hands of torture, denying for a single moment their faith.

The second is to, little by little, detach one's heart entirely from this world, laying aside, deliberately and voluntarily, all vanities, worldly seductions, and devoting one's self to the Vineyard of God in whatsoever capacity he is fitted to serve, letting every action, word and deed become a telling monument, a fitting praise and an everlasting glory for His Holy Name!

The third consists in doing the hardest and most difficult things with such willingness and self-sacrifice that all behold it as your pleasure. To seek and accept poverty with the same smile as you seek and receive fortune. To make the sad and sorrowful your associates, instead of frequenting the society of the careless and gay. To dress in such a simple, plain manner that your appearance becomes a comfort to the poor and an example to the rich. "To yield to the decree of God and to be rejoiced at the most violent calamities, even when the suffering is beyond endurance." And he who can fulfil these last conditions becomes a martyr indeed. Then your good deeds will be your garments, your words of praise to God will be your jewels, and your purity of spirit will be your riches.

A portion of a letter from one of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's daughters, Munavvar Khánum, to a Paris believer.

(SOW -Star of the West, Star of the West -  5)

The Story of Stuff

April 20, 2020

April 23, 2020

April 23, 2020

 National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States and National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada- Letter to the United States and Canada on racism, 1961 by Ruhiyyih Khanum - 1961-03-09


"Bahá'u'lláh said the black people are like the pupil of the eye and sight is in the pupil:

     When Bahá'u'lláh likens the Negro race to the faculty of sight in the human body--the act of perception with all it implies--it is a pretty terrific statement. He never said this of anyone else. I thought the American Negro's humility, his kindness, friendliness, courtesy and hospitableness were something to do with his oppression and the background of slavery. But after spending weeks, day after day in the villages of Africa, seeing literally thousands of Bahá'ís and non-Bahá'ís, I have wakened up to the fact that the American Negro has these beautiful qualities not because he was enslaved but because he has the characteristics of his race."  (Full letter under Resources)


"... Du Bois and other early twentieth-century black historians who sought to make the memory of slavery into a point of pride rather than a mark of shame ."  Derik Smith

David Hawkins - Power vs Force (chart)

Videos of David Hawkins explaining the chart

Explanation of the Emotions of Power v Force


April 19, 2020

April 23, 2020

April 19, 2020

Derik expounded more on his essay,   Centering the “Pupil of the Eye”: Blackness, Modernity, and the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh 


Joyce Olinga shared these videos about Hand of the Cause Enoch Olinga

 

Ruhiyyih Khanum -1961-03-09 

 It is illogical to suppose that what we have now is either mature or right; it is a phase in the development of the Cause; when peoples of different races are incorporated in the world-wide community (and in local communities) who can doubt that it will possess far greater power and perfection and be something quite different from what we have now? And yet let us ask ourselves frankly if we do not believe that what we North American Bahá'ís have, is the real thing, practically a finished product, and it is up to the rest of the world to accept it? I think this is our mentality; it was mine up until a few years ago...The people of the world are tired of words, words, words. They don't really pay any attention to what we say about "oneness, unity world brotherhood" although many of them agree with this. What they need is to see deeds, to see Bahá'í communities, local and national, full of people of different races working together, in love, for their common belief. "

April 18, 2020

April 18, 2020

April 19, 2020

Derik Smith's Contributions

 Here is the link to the story that has Mr. Nakhjavani's reference to the POTE : https://news.bahai.org/story/246/

 

Mr. Nakhjavani: "And I said to myself, Ali, why did God make you white? Why didn't God make you black? Why weren't you born in Africa? Why were you born here, in Asia? I am telling you the truth; those were my thoughts when I realized the high, exalted station Baha'u'llah gave the African people.

"His words, dear friends, were not compliments but the truth for the world to see."

There's more about Max Kanyerezi here: https://bahaipedia.org/Max_Kenyerezi


NHC- New History of Capitalism

 "Capitalism scholarship revisits many traditional questions with the tools generated by the innovation of past decades, including the relationship between money and power, commerce and politics, exchange and social status. " 

Book suggested by Celeste D.

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix… by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi

Blacks as Lab Rats 

"Millions of white people have throughout history, maintained that they are the ‘chosen ones,’ and that blacks are not fully human..." 


April 17, 2020

April 18, 2020

April 17, 2020

EXCERPT: Dr. King's Speech, 'The Other America' added by Barbara T.

 "I want to discuss the race problem tonight and I, want to discuss it very honestly. I still believe that freedom is the bonus you receive for telling the truth. Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. And I do not see how we will ever solve the turbulent problem of race confronting our nation, until there is an honest confrontation with it and a willing search for the truth and a willing, a willingness to admit the truth when we discover it. And so I want to use as a title for my lecture tonight, ‘The Other America’. And I use this title because there are literally two Americas. Every city in our country has this kind of dualism, this schizophrenia, split at so many points and so every city ends up being two cities rather than one, there are two Americas.  

... One America is beautiful situations. In this America, millions of people have the milk of prosperity and the honey of equality flowing before them.  ,,, But there is another America, and this other America has a daily ugliness about it that transforms ebulliency of hope into the fatigue of despair. In this other America thousands and thousands of people, men in particular, walk the streets and search for jobs that do not exist..."


April 16, 2020

April 18, 2020

April 17, 2020

28 December 2010

To the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors


What should be apparent is that, if the Administrative Order is to serve as a pattern for future society, then the community within which it is developing must not only acquire

capacity to address increasingly complex material and spiritual requirements but also become larger and larger in size. How

could it be otherwise. 


A small community, whose members are united by their shared beliefs, characterized by their high ideals,

proficient in managing their affairs and tending to their needs, and perhaps engaged in several humanitarian projects—a community such as this, prospering but at a comfortable distance from the reality experienced by the masses of humanity, can never hope to serve as a pattern for restructuring the whole of society. That the worldwide Bahá’í community has managed

to avert the dangers of complacency is a source of abiding joy to us.

April 15, 2020

April 15, 2020

April 15, 2020

Century of LIght

 The loss of life alone has been beyond counting. The disintegration of basic institutions of social order, the violation—indeed, the abandonment—of standards of decency,... the invention and deployment of monstrous weapons of mass annihilation, the bankrupting of entire nations and the reduction of masses of human beings to hopeless poverty, the reckless destruction of the environment of the planet—such are only the more obvious in a catalogue of horrors unknown to even the darkest of ages past."


FIRE AND LIGHT "Indeed as a result of the outrages perpetrated by the wicked, ... those blessed souls have endured woeful tribulations and have borne dire sufferings and distressing calamities,... By reason of these tragic events 'Abdu'l-Bahá is assailed by despondency and anguish and is beset by bitter sadness and grief. "


THE TABERNACLE OF UNITY

 I am the royal Falcon on the arm of the Almighty. I unfold the drooping wings of every broken bird...”14  Bahaullah

April 14, 2020

April 15, 2020

April 15, 2020

QUOTES: Baha’i

 This question requireth the most careful investigation. The Báb hath said that the people of Bahá must develop the science of medicine to such a high degree that they will heal illnesses by means of foods. The basic reason for this is that if, in some component substance of the human body, an imbalance should occur, altering its correct, relative proportion to the whole, this fact will inevitably result in the onset of disease. If, for example, the starch component should be unduly augmented, or the sugar component decreased, an illness will take control. It is the function of a skilled physician to determine which constituent of his patient’s body hath suffered diminution, which hath been augmented. Once he hath discovered this, he must prescribe a food containing the diminished element in considerable amounts, to reestablish the body’s essential equilibrium. The patient, once his constitution is again in balance, will be rid of his disease. 

(Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 152)


Tablet to a Physician:

http://bahai-library.com/uhj_lawh_tibb

Find out more

April 13, 2020

April 15, 2020

April 13, 2020

Sean Combs presents

REVOLT Town Hall Meeting on the COVID19: State of Emergency in the Black Community


Nanosilver Video shared by James W.

 

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Vitamin C Doses shared by Sue S

Allostatic Load Video shared by Joyce O


Video from Headington Institute on

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Medical Medium: Anthony William

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 We make no medical claims or offer any advice. Seek a competent physician. Links offered were shared by our participants for all to do their own  research.

Resource Links Shared by Participants April 8-13, 2020

Monday, April 12, 2020

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Monday, April 12, 2020

"Any eye without a pupil is a blind eye."

Helen K. O.


MEANS SHOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH THE ENDS- Universal House of Jusice 

March 2, 2013


"....He has made it clear that it “must be the cause of love and fellowship. Should religion become the cause of contention and enmity, its absence is preferable.” So it is that Bahá’ís do their utmost at all times to heed the counsel of Bahá’u’lláh, “Shut your eyes to estrangement, then fix your gaze upon unity.”


 “That one indeed is a man”, He exhorts His followers, “who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race.” 

 In choosing areas of collaboration, Bahá’ís are to bear in mind the principle, enshrined in their teachings, that means should be consistent with ends; noble goals cannot be achieved through unworthy means. 


Specifically, it is not possible to build enduring unity through endeavours that require contention or assume that an inherent conflict of interests underlies all human interactions, however subtly."  


Sunday, April 11, 2020

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Monday, April 12, 2020

"Let it now be seen what your endeavors in the path of detachment will reveal. In this wise hath the divine favor been fully vouchsafed unto you and unto them that are in heaven and on earth. All praise to God, the Lord of all Worlds."

(Baha'u'llah, The Persian Hidden Words)


W.E.B. Dubois, Souls of Black Folks

 with Abdul-Baha in the Crisis Magazine


The Slave Bible (Museum video)

  The first Slave Bible was published in 1807, three years after the Haitian Revolution ended. That revolution was the only slave revolt in history in which enslaved people successfully drove out their European oppressors to formed a new nation, and it increased American and European paranoia that the people they oppressed would one day rise up against them. 

Anthony Schmidt, associate curator of Bible and Religion in America at the museum, says the first instance of this abridged version titled, Parts of the Holy Bible, selected for the use of the Negro Slaves, in the British West-India Islands, was published in 1807. 

 

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibrihim Kendi Video 

 book review


WHAT IS RACE VIDEO?


Saturday, April 11, 2020

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Black Labor, White Wealth: The Search for Power and Economic Justice by Dr. Claude Anderson

 Dr. Anderson's first book is a classic. It tracks slavery and Jim Crow public policies that used black labor to construct a superpower nation. It details how black people were socially engineered into the lowest level of a real life Monopoly game, which they are neither playing or winning. Black Labor is a comprehensive analysis of the issues of race. Dr. Anderson uses the anaylsis in this book to offer solutions to America's race problem. 


Derik Smith suggested this book. 

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism- Edward E. Baptist

 In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a sub-continental cotton empire. By 1861 it had five times as many slaves as it had during the Revolution, and was producing two billion pounds of cotton a year. It was through slavery and slavery alone that the United States achieved a virtual monopoly on the production of cotton, the key raw material of the Industrial Revolution, and was transformed into a global power rivaled only by England.   Dr. Baptist is Associate Professor of History at Cornell. 

1 Hour Video of Dr. Baptist

Friday, April 10, 2020

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Saturday, April 11, 2020

  

AU Ambassador To The U.S. Offers Masterful History Lesson Dissecting 'The Legacy Of Colonization'

 

IS FRANCE STILL EXPLOITING AFRICA?

 

Human zoos: When real people were exhibits


Bronx Zoo Cages African Pygmy


Haiti Forced to Pay France 21 Billion for Freedom


Story of Haiti- The only colony to free itself from colonization

Durham, NC: Black Wall Street

Hayti, NC- A Black Success Story Destroyed


The History of Hayti- The Anchor of Durham's African American 


The Congo- Leopold's Holocaust

King Leopold's Ghost- Amazon Prime Video

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Stand Up (Theme from Harriet Tubman) 

Song and Lyrics


Marianne Willliamson Apology to African Americans (Shared by Tanya)

Video of the Apology 

 

Prayer of Apology to
African Americans

On behalf of myself, and on behalf of my country, to you and all African Americans, from the beginning of our nation's history, in honor of your ancestors and for the sake of your children, please hear this from my heart...
I apologize, please forgive us.

With this prayer I acknowledge the depth of evils that have been perpetrated against black people in America.
From slavery, to lynchings, to white supremacist laws, to the denial of voting rights, to all the ways both large and small, that abuses have occurred — all of them evil, all of them wrong.

--Marianne Williamson

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

 Click here to register for Deanna's extended session. 

 CDC comprehensive articles on ACES 


ACEs Questionnaire for Measuring Childhood Trauma


Step Inside the Trauma 

 

Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 113 

Writings on Materialism

 

The Role of Race and Ethnicity on ACEs and Developmental Disabilities

June 14, 2019

My colleagues at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are expanding on studies of the intersection of developmental disabilities and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) by looking at the lives of children from minority populations, who until recently have been significantly under-represented in such research."

VERSES/POETRY/STUDY MATERIALS

MATERIALISM LINK FOR 4/8/2020 DISCUSSION

" If the people of the world persist, as they seem to be doing, in their blind materialism, they must bear the consequences in a prolongation of their present condition, and even a worsening of it."

Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 113 

Quotes on Materialism

Passage on Fear read by Clyde Herring on March 7, 2020

 

791. Fear Does not Solve Problems

"He does not feel that fear—for ourselves or for others—solves any problem, or enables us to better meet it if it ever does arise. We do not know what the future holds exactly, or how soon we may all pass through another ordeal worse than the last one.

"But what we do know is that all we can do as Bahá’ís is to teach and to exemplify the Faith. We cannot bear the burden of suffering of others, and we should not try to. All men are in God's hands, and even if they do get killed we know there is another life beyond this than can hold great hope and happiness for the soul.

"No matter what happens, nothing is as important as our feeling of trust in God, our inner peacefulness and faith that all, in the end, in spite of the severity of the ordeals we may pass through, will come out as Bahá’u’lláh has promised.

"He urges you to put these dark thoughts from your mind, and remember that if God, the Creator of all men, can bear to see them suffer so, it is not for us to question His wisdom. He can compensate the innocent, in His own way, for the afflictions they bear."

(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, September 30, 1950)

See other fear quotes

Poetry by Aliyah Ogbue'

 WE ARE THE PUPIL OF THE EYE

See us as if you would be blind without us. Get to know us as if your heart would stop beating not to. Learn to love us as if you were seeing the face of God for the very first time. Only then will you come to realize and appreciate our true station as the windows to the soul.

-Aliyah Ogbue'

NOTES: April 6, 2020 - Gene Marie Kennedy

Preface - Participants were asked to share insights (Aha's) and questions from the past two days with Derik Smith, author of paper published in The Journal of Bahá'í Studies (vol. 29, #1-2, Spring-Summer 2019, pp. 7-28) -- 

Centering the "Pupil of the Eye": Blackness, Modernity,  and the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh File: Derik-Smith-JBS-29.1-2-Centering-Pupil-of-the-Eye-pp7-28.pdf

April 6, 2020 Notes - Download entire transcript

Verse on Materialism

We spent the first part of the call discussing a question posed by James Williams on Materialism.

"Parallel with this, and pervading all departments of life -- an evil which the nation, and indeed all those within the capitalist system, though to a lesser degree, share with that state and its satellites regarded  as the sworn enemies of that system -- is the crass materialism, which lays excessive and ever-increasing emphasis on material well-being, forgetful of those things of the spirit on which alone a sure and stable foundation can be laid for human society. It is this same cancerous materialism, born originally in Europe, carried to excess in the North American continent, contaminating the Asiatic peoples and nations, spreading its ominous tentacles to the borders of Africa, and now invading its very heart, which Bahá'u'lláh in unequivocal and emphatic language denounced in His Writings, comparing it to a devouring flame and regarding it as the chief factor in precipitating the dire ordeals and world-shaking crises that must necessarily involve the burning of cities and the spread of terror and consternation in the hearts of men."

Citadel of Faith: Messages to America, pp. 124-25 (check downloads more more quotes)

More quotes on materialsim

Stand Up: Harriet Tubman Movie Theme Song

I been walkin' with my face turned to the sun
Weight on my shoulders, bullet in my gun
Oh, I got eyes in the back of my head just in case I have to run
I do what I can when I can while I can for my people
While the clouds roll back and the stars fill the night

That's when I'm gonna stand up
Take my people with me
Together we are going to a brand new home
Far across the river
Can you hear freedom calling?
Calling me to answer
Gonna keep on keepin' on
I can feel it in my bones

Early in the mornin' before the sun begins to shine
Gonna start movin' towards that separating line
I'm wading through muddy waters, you know I got a made-up mind
And I don't mind if I lose any blood on the way to salvation
And I'll fight with the strength that I got until I die

So I'm gonna stand up
Take my people with me
Together we are going to a brand new home
Far across the river
Can you hear freedom calling?
Calling me to answer
Gonna keep on keepin' on

And I know what's around the bend
Might be hard to face 'cause I'm alone
And I just might fail, but Lord knows I tried
Sure as stars fill up the sky

Stand up
Take my people with me
Together we are going to a brand new home
Far across the river
Can you hear freedom calling?
Calling me to answer
Gonna keep on keepin' on

I'm gonna stand up
Take my people with me
Together we are going to a brand new home
Far across the river
Do you hear freedom calling?
Calling me to answer
Gonna keep on keepin' on

I'm gonna stand up
Take my people with me
Together we are going to a brand new home
Far across the river
I hear freedom calling?
Calling me to answer
Gonna keep on keepin' on
I can feel it in my bones

I go to prepare a place for you


Cynthia Erivo

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