Description: Olive Fleming Liefeld, widow of the missionary Peter Fleming, relates her version of the events already familiar to readers of Elisabeth Elliot's Through the Gates of Splendor. Olive describes details of the fateful trip in 1956 during which
Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the
Description: This lavish and lyrical picture book based on the Tao Te Ching ponders the eternal question: How can we bring peace to the world? Radiating tenderness and reflecting the influence of eastern philosophies, a compilation of exquisite illustrat
Description: Satubday, January 4, 1913. This is written in the Pacific ocean, on the shipS onoma, two days out of Sydney, A ustralia, where we expect to land next Monday. We have been on the ship seventeen days, and the passengers and servants seem as fam
Description: Know thou of a certainty that Love is the secret of God’s holy Dispensation, the manifestation of the All-Merciful, the fountain of spiritual outpourings. Love is heaven’s kindly light, the Holy Spirit’s eternal breath that vivifieth the human soul. Love is the cause of God’s revelation unto man, the vital bond inherent, in accordance with the divine creation, in the realities of things. Love is the one means that ensureth true felicity both in this world an...
Description: This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends i
Description: CONTENTS: Excerpts from Will and Testament of 'Adbu'l-Baha; and Letters from Shoghi Effendi. PARTIAL list of keywords: death; holy will; cause made manifest; believers; love; kindness; martyrdom; tablet of Haha'u'llah; Khurasan; Persia; Holy Leaf; Adrianople; Akka; Mashriqu'l-Adkar; assembly; Bab; Exalted One; Bahdadi; Baghdad; Baghdad House; destiny; enemy; redemption of the world; russia; turkey; Baha'i World; Guard Cause of God; loyalty; recantation; renu...
Description: The purpose of this book is to offer the student of religion a compilation of Baha'i Sacred Writings which, in one convenient folume, discloses their universal range of themes, their direct application to modern life and their incomparable sp
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Description: In 1953 Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha’i Faith, included as one of the goals of his Ten Year Plan the preparation of a Synopsis and Codification of the Laws and Ordinances of the Kitab-i-Aqdas as an essential prelude to its translation. He himself worked on the codification, but had not finished it when he died in 1957. The task was continued on the basis of his work, and the resulting volume was released in 1973. That publication included, in addi...
Description: Franz Hartmann was a 19th century Bavarian physician, theosophist and writer. He emigrated to the United States, and became an American citizen, practicing medicine in the then-frontier areas of the Midwest, including Missouri and Texas. He became interested in Spiritualism, and joined the Theosophists in 1883 at their enclave in Madras, India, a refuge similar in spirit to the one he pictures in this book. He became somewhat disillusioned with Blavatsky, ho...
Description: This collection of prayers contains a selection of prayers for everyday use, originally revealed by the Bb, Bah??lh and ?bdu?-Bah, and comes with a durable soft dark green plasticized cover.