Re: Jerry's inner herring

>Tell me though, Steve, in your experience of herrings
>have you found the red ones to be better at spiritual
>discernment?  Or will any old herring do the trick?

M E M O R A N D U M

To: Steve Marshall
Date: 19 November 2003
From: Research Department 

Preferred Colours of Herring 

In an email message of 19 November 2003 to Steve Marshall, Mr. Hammond
requests clarification on whether "red [herrings are] better at
spiritual discernment". He explains that he has heard an
unsubstantiated view that only red herrings may be used and observes
that "this individual seems to give red herrings an authority greater
than that other colours of herring in matters of interpretation". His
queries were referred to the Marshall Research Department for study
and the following is our response.

We have been unable to find guidance in the Writings which refers
directly to the spiritual significance of the colour of herrings in
English-language Baha'i publications. It may be helpful to Mr Hammond
to note, however, that, in an incoming letter dated 2 September 1949
to the Guardian's cook, an English-speaking believer asked the
following question: 

"Quite recently, the writer, in guiding at the Temple has been asked
just what colour of herring Baha'is use. May we have your directive on
this, please?"

The response of the Guardian's cook appears in a letter written on his
behalf, where we read: 

Shoghi Effendi himself uses the red coloured herrings, both because
they make lovely kippers and because he lives near the Red Sea.
(28 October 1949 to an individual believer; published in "Baha'i
Cookery Weekly", no. 228, February 1950, p. 4).

http://bahai-library.org/uhj/king.james.bible.html