Scattering Angels

Guidance on Self Defence, Crime, Punishment, and Nonresistance

Today’s reading is from a long list of sources beginning with The Kitab-I-Aqdad by Baha’u’llah, pp 73, Some Answered Questions by Abdu’l-Baha, chapter 77, Guidance on Self-Defence by the Universal House of Justice written to the National Spiritual Assambly of the Bahá’ís of Canada dated 5-26-1969, a letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice fo an individual believer on 1-24-1993, Unfolding Destiny by Shoghi Effendi, page 427, Baha’u’llah and the New Era by J.E. Esslemont, pages 169-171. I continue reading The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah with the 7th and 8th Hidden Word from the Persian. I close with a prayer by Baha’u’llah from the Baha’i Prayer Book, page 236-237.

Food for the Soul

Today’s readings are from Paris Talks by Abdu’l-Baha pages 173-176 from an Address by Abdu’l-Baha at the Friends’ Meeting House, St Martin’s Lane, London, from Baha’i World Faith page 368 titled Prayer is Indispensable, and from The Kitabi-I-Aqdas by Baha’u’llah paragraph 149. I continue reading The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah with the 5th and 6th Hidden Word from the Persian. I close with a prayer from Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah page 222-223 CXXXV.

Universal Educators Part 3

Today I read from Some Answered Questions by Abdu’l-Baha, chapters 8 and 9. I continue reading The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah with the 3rd and 4th Hidden Word from the Persian. I close with a prayer from Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah on page 156-157, XCIII.

Universal Educators Part 2

Today I continue reading from Some Answered Questions by Abdu’l-Baha chapters 6 and 7. We continue reading The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah with the 1st and 2nd Hidden Word from the Persian. I close with a prayer for healing by Baha’u’llah on pages 94-95 of the Bahá’í Prayer Book.

Universal Educators

Today’s reading is from Some Answered Questions by Abdu’l-Baha, Chapters 3, 4, and 5. I continue reading The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah with the 71st Hidden Word from the Arabic. I close with a prayer by Abdu’l-Baha from the Bahá’í Prayer Book, pages 131-132.

The Attainment of Peace

Today I read the letter from the Universal House of Justice dated 18 January 2019. I continue our reading of the Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah with the 69th and 70th Hidden Word from the Arabic. I close with a prayer by Abdu’l-Baha from the Baha’i Prayer Book on pages 112-113.

Creatures of Habit

Today I read the chapter titled Habit from Prescription for Living by Ruhiyyih Khanum found on pages 119-125. I continue reading from The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah with the 67th and 68th Hidden Word from the Arabic. I close with a prayer by The Bab from the Baha’i Prayer Book pages 128-129.

The Dogmas of Materialism

Today’s reading is from The Promise of World Peace written by the Universal House of Justice in October 1985, pages 3-6. Also a short passage by Tahirih as quoted by Abdu’l-Baha in Star of the West, Volume 10, page 233. I continue reading The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh with the 65th and 66th Hidden Word from the Arabic. I close with a prayer for detachment by Abdu’l-Baha from the Bahá’í Prayer Book on pages 56-57

Work is Worship

Today I read several passages beginning with the 12th Glad Tidings from Tablets of Baha’u’llah Revealed After the Kitabi-I-Aqdas page 26, Bahá’í World Faith from the writings of Bahá’u’lláh, page 195, a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada dated March 22 1937, from a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer on June 30 1936, Bahá’í World Faith from the writings of Abdu’l-Baha page 375. We continue reading from The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh with the 63rd and 64th Hidden Word from the Arabic. I close with a prayer by Abdu’l-Baha from the Bahá’í Prayer Book on page 22-23.

Spiritual Proofs

Today’s reading is from Some Answered Questions by Abdu’l-Baha chapter 14. I continue reading The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh with the 61st and 62nd Hidden Word from the Arabic. I close with Visitation Prayer for Abdu’l-Baha in pages 327-329 of the Baha’i Prayer Book.