THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH

                                                            Washington, D.C., April 19, 1918.   To the Members of the Baha'i Convention-Congress Committee of 1918.   Dear Friends:               Very good responses are being received from the believers in various parts to whom the Committee of Investigation sent copies of the report of their findings regarding the recent violation in Chicago.   Through the study of the Revealed Words the people now seem to be   understanding the reality of the Chicago affair, so that it would seem as if we need not trouble ourselves too much over this par...

THE MASTER’S LAST TABLET TO AMERICA  O ye friends of God! ‘Abdu’l-Bahá is day and night thinking of you and mentioning you, for the friends of God are dear to Him. Every morning at dawn I supplicate the Kingdom of God and ask that you may be filled with the breath of the Holy Spirit, so that you may become brilliant candles, shine with the light of guidance and dispel the darkness of error. Rest assured that the confirmations of the Abhá Kingdom will continuously reach you. Through the power of the divine springtime, the downpour of the celestial clouds and the heat of the Sun of Reality, the tree of life is just beginning to grow. Before long, it will produce buds, bring forth leaves and fruits, and cast its shade over the East and the West. This Tree of Life is the Book of the Covenant. In America, in these days, severe winds have surrounded the Lamp of the Covenant, ho...

TABLET OF THE BRANCH Bahá’u’lláh He is Eternal in His Abha Horizon! Verily, the Cause of God hath come upon the clouds of utterances and the polytheists are in this day in great torment! Verily, the hosts of revelation have descended with banners of inspiration from the heaven of the Tablet in the name of God, the Powerful, the Mighty! At this time the monotheists all rejoice in the victory of God and His dominion, and the deniers will then be in manifest perplexity. O ye people! Do ye flee from the mercy of God after it has encompassed the existent things created between the heavens and the earths? Beware lest ye prefer your own selves before the mercy of God, and deprive not yourselves thereof! Verily, whosoever turneth away therefrom will be in great loss. Verily, mercy is like unto verses which have descended from the one heaven, and from them the monotheists drink the choice wine of life, whilst the polytheists drink from the fiery water; and when the verses of...

O THOU GLORY OF THE MOST GLORIOUS Office of Fifth Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith     To the Believers in Baha’u’llah in the East and the West all to note:   The present Guardian of the Bahá’i Faith announces that the elective members of the Universal House of Justice are not limited to persons having male sex organs. The alteration made by the erring ex-Hands of the Faith in the evolution of the embryo of Universal House of Justice, formed by the First Guardian, in early January, 1951 was one of the blunders the group of the then ex-Hands of the Faith committed, following the death of Shoghi Effendi, in early November, 1957.   Subsequent to the death of Shoghi Effendi, First Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith, the management of the worldwide Bahá’í community was taken by unauthorized members of the Institution of the Hands of the Cause after November 4, 1957, in Haifa, Israel, the Holy Land. The Hands of the Cause repudiated the Will and T...