Re: MISSING PARAGRAPHS FROM NEW ERA

Obviously, that passage would have been written before the Will and
Testament and revised later in accord with that Testament.  I assume that
would have occurred under the supervision of Shoghi Effendi.

I was not aware that there were changes from an earlier edition.
Interesting...

Jeffrey


"Randy Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Robert Arvay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > The paper trail left by the Baha'is of yore is damning.
> > The response by the Baha'is of today is a deafening silence.
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> Not necessarily.  The original passage read as follows:
>
> "Baha'u'llah further arranged that after the death of Abdu'l-Baha an
> international spiritual assembly (Baytu'l-'Adl), representative of all
> Baha'is throughout the world, should be appointed to take charge of the
> affairs of the Cause, to control and co-ordinate all its activities,
prevent
> divisions and schisms, and preserve the teachings from corruption and
> misrepresentation.
>
> "Moreover, Baha'u'llah expressly forbade interpretation of the teachings
by
> anyone but Abdu'l-Baha, and after him the International Baytu'l-Adl.  In
the
> Book of Aqdas he declared that all explanations or interpretations of the
> sacred texts contrary to the obvious sense thereof are forbidden.  In a
> 'thousand or thousands of years' another Manifestation will appear, under
> the shadow of Baha'u'llah, with clear proofs of His Mission, but until
then
> the words of Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha and the decisions of the
> International Baytu'l-Adl constitute the authorities to which all
believers
> must turn for guidance.  No Baha'i may found a school or sect based on any
> particular interpretation of the teachings or any supposed divine
> revelation.  Anyone contravening these injunctions is considered a
> 'Covenant-breaker' or 'Naqiz.'
>
> This passage above is from the original Baha'u'llah and the New Era by
> Esselmont, the first US edition of 1927, mostly reviewed by Abdu'l-Baha
and
> Shoghi Effendi, before the passages about the Guardian that Barbara quoted
> were inserted. In other words the passages that Barbara quoted were
> themselves interpolations.
>
> Cheers, Randy
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barbara) wrote in message
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> > > "The spiritual or Providential character of the Faith...is further
> > > exemplified in the continuance, after  'Abdu'l-Baha, of the office of
> > > interpreter of the Sacred Writings in the person of the successive
> > > Guardians provided in 'Abdu'l-Baha's Testament.  The Faith, therefore,
> > > throughout  its era will never suffer the disintegrating influence of
> > > schisms resulting from differences of interpretation, nor the
> > > deterioration which follows when generally prevalent materialism
> > > substitutes  lower values for those revealed by the Founder.  In
> >
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