tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16607511.post4200465916653644545..comments2008-04-24T05:16:16.002-03:00Phillipe Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18342490962831946701noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16607511.post-32708931489058750742008-04-24T05:16:00.000-03:002008-04-24T05:16:00.000-03:00Hey anonymous. Sweet quotes. Thanks for sharing them!Phillipe Copelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18342490962831946701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16607511.post-642526343413109442008-04-24T02:55:00.000-03:002008-04-24T02:55:00.000-03:00In this great Tablet [of Carmel] which unveils divine mysteries and heralds the establishment of two mighty, majestic and momentous undertakings -- one of which is spiritual and the other administrative, both at the World Centre of the Faith -- Bahá'u'lláh refers to an "Ark", whose dwellers are the men of the Supreme House of Justice, which, in conformity with the exact provisions of the Will and Testament of the Centre of the Mighty Covenant, is the body which should lay down laws not explicitly revealed in the Text. In this Dispensation, these laws are destined to flow from this Holy Mountain, even as in the Mosaic Dispensation the law of God was promulgated from Zion. The "sailing of the Ark" of His laws is a reference to the establishment of the Universal House of Justice, which is indeed the Seat of Legislation, one of the branches of the World Administrative Centre of the Bahá'ís on this Holy Mountain ....<BR/><BR/>(Naw Ruz 111-1954 to the Bahá'ís of the East -- translated from the Persian; published in "The Bahá'í World", vol. XIV, p. 438)<BR/> (Compilations, The Compilation of Compilations vol. I, p. 341)<BR/><BR/>"Call out to Zion, O Carmel, and announce the joyful tidings: He that was hidden from mortal eyes is come! His all-conquering sovereignty is manifest; His all-encompassing splendor is revealed.... Ere long will God sail His Ark upon thee, and will manifest the people of Baha who have been mentioned in the Book of Names."<BR/><BR/> (Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 15)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16607511.post-24371988296421579682008-04-24T02:27:00.000-03:002008-04-24T02:27:00.000-03:00The admitted evils inherent in each of these systems being rigidly and permanently excluded, this unique Order, however long it may endure and however extensive its ramifications, cannot ever degenerate into any form of despotism, of oligarchy, or of demagogy which must sooner or later corrupt the machinery of all man-made and essentially defective political institutions.<BR/><BR/> (Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Baha'u'llah, p. 154)<BR/><BR/>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.<BR/><BR/> (Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 212)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com