TAGS: Canada; Greenland; Maps; Tablets of the Divine Plan; United States (documents)

Abstract:

Maps of the five regions of North America as published in an American geography book in 1912 and known to have been read by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Haifa/'Akka while writing Tablets of the Divine Plan.

Notes:

See also a map of the Places named by Abdu'l-Bahá in TDP and a letter from the NSA of Canada on a Canadian question.

See the entry for this book at amazon.com; also an article by Dale Lehman on the Tablets of the Divine Plan.

Crossreferences:

https://bahai-library.com/map_places_named_tdp

Maps of the regions of North America

Ralph Stockman Tarr
and Frank Morton McMurry
John Conkling, comp.

published in Complete World Geography

The Macmillan Company, 1912

A copy of this book was sent to the US NSA by Ahmad Sohrab, who indicated that 'Abdu'l-Bahá had seen and read the book (source: personal email to John Conkling from Roger Dahl, archivist at the US Bahá'í National Center; date unknown). The significance of this is that the five regions into which Abdu'l-Bahá divided North America when writing Tablets of the Divine Plan — Northeastern states, Southern states, Central states, Western states, and Canada/Greenland — parallel the regions of this book.

Other than rotating these images and converting them from TIF to JPG, I did no digital editing. See an earlier edition of the entire book at archive.org. [J.W., 2010]

Northeastern States, east half (this map is missing)
Northeastern States, west half
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Southern States, east half
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Southern States, west half
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Western States, north half
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Western States, south half
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Central States (right-hand map missing, will post end of Sept 2010)
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Canada
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