if you told people that you had the cure for cancer, do you think people would listen?
we had a really good workshop over the weekend, and one of the participants noted that if someone were to say that they had the cure for cancer, people would definitely be more than interested in listening. they would give you full attention for as long as you needed it, or until they realized you were just making things up.
what relevance does this have to our workshop? well, we believe that the Baha'i Faith is the answer to the travails of humanity today. here are some excerpts from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh:
"Regard the world as the human body which, though at its creation whole and perfect, hath been afflicted, through various causes, with grave disorders and maladies. Not for one day did it gain ease, nay its sickness waxed more severe, as it fell under the treatment of ignorant physicians, who gave full rein to their personal desires, and have erred grievously. And if, at one time, through the care of an able physician, a member of that body was healed, the rest remained afflicted as before."
"That which God hath ordained as the sovereign remedy and mightiest instrument for the healing of the world is the union of all its peoples in one universal Cause, one common Faith. This can in no wise be achieved except through the power of a skilled, an all-powerful, and inspired Physician."
"The All-Knowing Physician hath His finger on the pulse of mankind. He perceiveth the disease, and prescribeth, in His unerring wisdom, the remedy. Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements."
here are some of the principles of the Faith, which were formulated more than 150 years ago:
The oneness of mankind
Universal peace upheld by a world government
Independent investigation of truth
The common foundation of all religions
The essential harmony of science and religion
Equality of men and women
Elimination of prejudice of all kinds
Universal compulsory education
A spiritual solution to the economic problem
A universal auxiliary language
are these revolutionary? in some senses yes, in some senses no. humanity has grown to accept many of them, without even knowing the original influence of it. but I would say that even though many of them are widely accepted, there is only one within the Bahá'í Faith that they are coherently put together, based on a realization of the spiritual nature of man and humankind. read more about the Bahá'í Faith here.
we had a really good workshop over the weekend, and one of the participants noted that if someone were to say that they had the cure for cancer, people would definitely be more than interested in listening. they would give you full attention for as long as you needed it, or until they realized you were just making things up.
what relevance does this have to our workshop? well, we believe that the Baha'i Faith is the answer to the travails of humanity today. here are some excerpts from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh:
"Regard the world as the human body which, though at its creation whole and perfect, hath been afflicted, through various causes, with grave disorders and maladies. Not for one day did it gain ease, nay its sickness waxed more severe, as it fell under the treatment of ignorant physicians, who gave full rein to their personal desires, and have erred grievously. And if, at one time, through the care of an able physician, a member of that body was healed, the rest remained afflicted as before."
"That which God hath ordained as the sovereign remedy and mightiest instrument for the healing of the world is the union of all its peoples in one universal Cause, one common Faith. This can in no wise be achieved except through the power of a skilled, an all-powerful, and inspired Physician."
"The All-Knowing Physician hath His finger on the pulse of mankind. He perceiveth the disease, and prescribeth, in His unerring wisdom, the remedy. Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements."
here are some of the principles of the Faith, which were formulated more than 150 years ago:
are these revolutionary? in some senses yes, in some senses no. humanity has grown to accept many of them, without even knowing the original influence of it. but I would say that even though many of them are widely accepted, there is only one within the Bahá'í Faith that they are coherently put together, based on a realization of the spiritual nature of man and humankind. read more about the Bahá'í Faith here.
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