Description: A critique of the key global issues confronting us today, which challenges a number of contemporary myths about human nature and presents an argument for a new, spiritual approach.
Description: In this compact work, Esslemont comprehensively yet succinctly sets forth the teachings of Baha'u'llah, the Prophet and Founder of the Baha'i Faith. He outlines the religion's early history; explains its theology; incorporates extracts from Baha'i scripture; and provides information on Baha'i spiritual practices. This is essential reading for students of comparative religion.
Description: I: LAUDED AND GLORIFIED ART THOU, O LORD, MY... Lauded and glorified art Thou, O Lord, my God! How can I make mention of Thee, assured as I am that no tongue, however deep its wisdom, can befittingly magnify Thy name, nor can the bird of the human heart, however great its longing, ever hope to ascend into the heaven of Thy majesty and knowledge..
Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...in his behalf, because I am earne
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: The Baha'i Children's Workbook is designed to assist children to learn about essential Baha'i teachings and community life. The workbook supports children's growing understanding and love of the Baha'i Faith through child-oriented learning ac
Description: How-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova. With all of Bukowski's trademark humor an...
Description: In this 1891 publication, Edward Granville Browne (1862-1926) offered a translation of The Episode of the Báb into English. Volume one is the original Persian text, and volume two the English translation, complete with notes and a substantial appendix.
Description: May 29, 1992 marked the centenary of the passing of Bahá'u'lláh. His vision of humanity as one people and of the earth as a common homeland, dismissed out of hand by the world leaders to whom it was first enunciated over a hundred years ago
Description: Although The Secret of Divine Civilization was written in the nineteenth century regarding the question of the modernization of Irán, it offers a novel perspective for social and economic development based upon the vision of a new world order. This article locates 'Abdu'l-Bahá's treatise in the context of both the Iranian social and political situation and the overall message of the Bahá'í Faith. It explicates the organization of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's text and diff...
Description: This edition of Selections from the Writings of the Bab is available for the first time in pocket-size, and the first printing since the 1976 edition from the Bahá' World Centre. The faithful endeavor at translation form the Arabic and Persia
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: 2011 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Joel Goldsmith was a Christian spiritual healer in the 20th century who repeatedly taught about the importance of prayer and meditation. Goldsmith explains that God is within us; we need merely try to make contact. If we believed that the kingdom of God is within us, he says, we should be willing to leave the world for a season, until such ...