Perspectives on the Inseparable Twin Duties Prescribed in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas - Moane,Eamonn (Solas, 2003)
Religions differ in the balance of faith versus good works, the grace of God versus human strivings, and the scheme of salvation. To Bahá'ís, recognizing the Prophet and obedience to his laws are equal duties. For salvation, faith surpasses deeds.
See also a PDF of the complete issue of Solas 3. Mirrored from breacais.demon.co.uk/abs/solas.
Keywords: Buddhism; Christianity; Deeds; Ethics; Faith and works; Free will; Freedom and liberty; Hinduism; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); Laws; Manifestations of God, Recognition of; Philosophy; Religion (general); Salvation; Search; Soul; Steadfastness; Transformation; Twin duties

Petition from the Persian Reformers - Various (1867)
A petition sent by Bahá'ís in Baghdad and Shushtar, Iran, in 1867 to the US Consulate general, seeking assistance in getting Bahá'u'lláh released from imposed exile.
Two editions of this petition are online. The following are the original documents; see also a new translation and introduction published in World Order. See also discussion of this petition in Fifty Three Years In Syria, by H. Jessup.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Persecution, Other; Petitions; United States (documents); United States government

Peut-on réellement pardonner? - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2003)
Fireside talk.
Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.

Phenomenon of Religion, The by Moojan Momen: Review - Buck,Christopher (Baha'i Studies Review, 1999)
This review of The Phenomenon of Religion utilizes Buck's DREAMS paradigm: Doctrinal, Ritual, Ethical, Artistic, Mystical, and Social dimensions of religion, a refinement of the dimensional model of religion.
This review also available as PDF. The book has also been published under the title "Understanding Religion: A Thematic Approach" (2009).
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Religion (general)

Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond, ed. Jacoby Adeshai Carter and Leonard Harris: Review - Buck,Christopher (Baha'i Studies Review, 2012)
Mirrored with permission from academia.edu.
Keywords: Alain Locke; United States (documents)

Philosophical and Religious Contributions to the Emergence of Human Rights: The Bahá'í Perspective - Wheatley,Dan (Juxta Publishing Co., 2012)
While some forms of religious extremism are contemptuous of human rights, and human rights are sometimes considered a contemporary secular religion, Bahá'ís believe that religious faith and human rights are more synergistic.
From the series "Bahá'í-Inspired Perspectives on Human Rights"; see also Volume 1. Mirrored with permission from, and HTML version available at, perspectives.juxta.com.
Keywords: Human rights; Interfaith dialogue; Philosophy

Philosophical Statements by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Some Answered Questions - Abdul-Bahá (2019)
Quotations extracted from Ian Kluge's article "Some Answered Questions: A Philosophical Perspective" (2009), using the 2014 revised edition of "Some Answered Questions".
The original article is online here: kluge_saq_philosophical_perspective (Lights of Irfan, Volume 10, 2009). Also available in Microsoft Word format, which can be used to create versions in other languages. People are welcome to send versions in other languages, please contact us. For Some Answered Questions in different languages, see bahaiprayers.net/saq.
Keywords: Causality; Ethics; Evolution; Free will; God; Human nature; Humanity; Infallibility; Knowledge; Life after death (afterlife); Manifestations of God; Mind; Neoplatonism; Ontology; Panentheism; Philosophers; Philosophy; Philosophy, Greek; Philosophy, Islamic; Science; Some Answered Questions (book); Soul

Philosophy Special Interest Group Sessions at the 38th Annual ABS Conference, 2014: Conference Report - Kluge,Ian (Studies in Baha'i Philosophy, 2014)
Summary of four presentations: K. Naimi's "Thinking Sociologically About Independent Investigation," I. Kluge's "Insufficiencies of Secular Humanism," M. Sergeev's "Bahá’í Faith and Modernity," and J. Howden's "Unconscious Civilization."
See also the complete issue [PDF].
Keywords: Philosophy

Philosophy: Material and Spiritual - Terry,Peter (2005)
Compilation and commentary on matters relating to material and divine philosophy, and definitions of terms.
Keywords: Philosophy

Phoenix and the Ashes: The Bahá'í Faith and the Modern Apocalypse, by Geoffrey Nash: Review - Huddleston,John (dialogue magazine, 1988)
19th-century optimism, disillusionment with contemporary society, philosophy of history, political theory, Arthur Koestler and Aldous Huxley, and the future of humanity. Includes review of Jon Winokur's The Portable Curmudgeon, by Robert Ballenger.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: 19th century; 20th century; History (general); Literature; Literature, English; Philosophy; Politics; Promised Day is Come (letter); Sociology

Photo brochure of the Bahá'í Temple in Wilmette - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1965)
A booklet of color photographs, postcard-size and quality, with text and statistics about the Temple.
Title "Photo brochure of..." created for this posting of the brochure; original appears to have no title. See also The Bahá'í Temple, House of Worship of a World Faith (1942) and The Bahá'í House of Worship: The Meaning of the Temple (1975). See also an earlier brochure dated 1953.
Keywords: Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; United States (documents); Wilmette, IL

Photo of the Moscow Bahá'í Community, 1925 - Author unknown, compiler (1925)
Picture of Bahá'ís gathered to welcome Siyyid Mihdíy-i-Gulpáygání to Moscow, with identifications. Includes A. A. Furutan.
Two slightly different captions and identifications are given. The first one is possibly the more accurate, as it is given by Mrs. Izadi, the widow of one person pictured. Izadi is fairly certain that the photo was taken in Moscow, but the book Years of Silence: The Bahá'ís in the USSR 1938-1946 by Asadu'llah Alizad says that the place of gathering is Ishqabad in 1926, not Moscow in 1925.
Keywords: Ashgabat; Moscow, Russia; Russia; `Alí-Akbar Furútan

Photograph of Baha'u'llah on Website - Universal House of Justice (1999)
Source of a photo of Bahá'u'lláh publicly displayed on a non-Bahá'í website, and whether action can be taken to have it removed.
Transmitted by email. Name retained by permission of recipient.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Photographs of

Photographs of Bahá'u'lláh; William Miller - Universal House of Justice (1980)
Two questions and a short compilation occasioned by William Miller's book The Bahá'í Faith: Its History and Teachings: reading books by covenant-breakers, and viewing photographs of Bahá'u'lláh.
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. Posted with permission of recipients; original letters on file.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Photographs of; William McElwee Miller

Physical disability preventing genuflections of Long Obligatory Prayer - Universal House of Justice (2000)
How can a believer with physical disabilities say the Long Obligatory Prayer, which requires genuflections. Preceded by original question asked.
Transmitted by email. Submitted by and posted with permission of recipient. See also illustrations (prepared by an individual, not The House) showing the positions to adopt when reciting this prayer: bolhuis_prayer_positions.pdf.
Keywords: Disability; Exemption; Genuflections; Obligatory prayer; Obligatory prayer, Long

Physical Discpline of Children - Research Department of the Universal House of Justice (1994)
The Bahá'í concept of punishment within the overall context of justice and world order; the principle of reward in child-rearing; physical vs. moral and intellectual discipline.
Keywords: Children; Education; Family; Punishment; Reward and punishment

Picture Gallery of Early British Bahá'ís - Author unknown (United Kingdom Bahá'í Heritage Site, 1998)
Published in honor of the UK Bahá'í Centenary, 1998/99.
Original site defunct; preserved at archive.org. Reformatted for posting here.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Bahá'í history; Biography; E. G. Browne; Esslemont; Ethel Rosenberg; George Townshend; Kahlil Gibran; Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield; Malietoa Tanumafili II of Western Samoa; Mary Virginia Thornburgh-Cropper; Mishkin-Qalam; Painting; Portraits; Queen Marie of Romania; Shoghi Effendi, Resting place of (London); Souley-Cambell, Miss; Thomas Breakwell; United Kingdom; Zaynu'l-Muqarrabín (Mullá Zaynul-ʻÁbidín); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Pictures and portraits

Pilgrim Letter of Hooper Harris to Mr. Hoar - Harris,Hooper (1907)
Letter from a pilgrim to a friend back home in America, giving impressions of Akka and of Abdu'l-Bahá.
This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.

Pilgrim Notes - Phelps,Myron Henry (1917)
Notes taken by Phelps during his second visit to Acca, 1917, from the words of Abdul-Baha.
This document typed from a photocopy provided by Lovejoy, and an identical photocopy from the Seattle Bahá'í Archives. Parentheses are as per original. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: Animals; Myron Phelps; Philosophy; Pilgrims notes; Plants; Soul

Pilgrim Notes - Cardell,Ted (1952)
Notes from a visit with the Guardian, likely written in 1990 from journal entries taken while on pilgrimage in 1952 from a pioneering post in Kenya.
Exact date and provenance of these notes unknown, and missing sections unknown. See another set of recollections in the author's memoir One Person's Search for a Better World.
Keywords: House of Bahá'u'lláh (Mazraih); Kampala, Uganda; Mount Carmel; Nairobi, Kenya; Pilgrims notes; Ted Cardell

Pilgrim Notes Recorded after the Nightly Dinner-table Talks of the Beloved Guardian, Shoghi Effendi - Sabri,Isobel (1957)
Table-talk notes from April 19-28 1957.
See also Passing of Counselor Isobel Sabri (archive.org). Also available in Word format.
Keywords: Pilgrims notes; Table talks

Pilgrim's Notes - Author unknown (1953)
Anonymous notes from January 1953.
The author's name of this is unknown, but there may be clues in the notes. Contact us if you have information. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: Pilgrims notes

Pilgrim's Notes - French,Nellie (1952)
Notes from a pilgrimage in 1952.
See obituary of Nellie French, 1868-1959, in Bahá'í World, Volume 12, p. 699. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: Pilgrims notes

Pilgrim's Notes - Levy,Ben (1953)
Notes from a pilgrimage March 9-16, 1953.
Typos from original retained. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: Pilgrims notes; Shoghi Effendi

Pilgrim's Notes - Allison,William; Allison,Thelma W. (1957)
Notes from a 1957 pilgrimage; Allison was one of the last Bahá'ís to visit the Guardian in Haifa.
Notes found in the collection of a Jean Nicholson. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: Haifa, Israel; Pilgrims notes; Shoghi Effendi

Pilgrim's notes about Shoghi Effendi - Brown,Ramona (Memories of 'Abdu'l-Bahá: Recollections of the Early Days of the Bahá'ís of California, 1980)
Notes from a pilgrimage in 1954.
See also Brown's informal pilgrim's notes, Haifa Notes. Any errors from original retained. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: Pilgrims notes; Shoghi Effendi

Pilgrimage and Religious Identity in the Bahá'í Faith - Akerdahl,Per-Olof (Lights of Irfan, 2000)
Pilgrimage has been an important part in the creation of a religious identity. The meaning of pilgrimage in the Bahá’í Faith, and in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #18, London (August 21-24, 1998). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/18/akerdahl_pilgrimage.
Keywords: Axis Mundi; Bahji, Israel; Bahá'í World Centre; Christianity; Interfaith dialogue; Irfan Colloquia; Islam; Judaism; Mount Carmel; Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage in Baha'u'llah's Writings - Rabbani,Ahang (2010)
On pilgrimage to the Twin Shrines in the Holy Land and their Tablets of Visitation, to the House of the Bab in Shiraz, and to the House of Baha’u’llah in Baghdad. Includes provisional translations of several Tablets of Visitation.
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq; Bahji, Israel; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Báb, House of (Shiraz); Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Haifa, Israel; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Baghdad); Iran (documents); Iraq; Pilgrimage; Prayers for pilgrimage; Shíráz, Iran; Tablets of Visitation; Twin Shrines (Shiraz and Baghdad); Ziyarat (pilgrimage); Ziyarat-Namih (Tablet of Visitation for the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh)

Pilgrimage or Tourism at the Baha'i Gardens? - Religion For Breakfast (2018)
Transcript prepared by Doug Couper from video online at youtube.com/watch?v=ZXXdnrGNfB0.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Alan Coupe; Bahá'í World Centre; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel; Pilgrimage; Tourism

Pilgrimage to Haifa and Akka: Parts Two-Three - Sears,William (1954)
Notes on his pilgrimage in 1954 by American Baha'i and pioneer (and later Hand of the Cause) William Sears.
Posted with permission of Marguerite Sears. Obituary William Sears, Hand of the Cause of God, 1911-1992, see American Bahá'í, April 28, 1992. Below are Parts 2 and 3 of Sears' notes; if you have Part 1 please contact me.
Keywords: Pilgrims notes; William Sears

Pilgrimage: Notes by LeRoy Jones - Jones,LeRoy (1998)
Contemporary notes from a 1975 pilgrimage.
Written in February 1998 about a pilgrimage taken in November-December 1975. See also the author's essay Essential Mystical Nature of the Bahá'í Faith.
Keywords: Pilgrims notes

Pilgrims Notes - Sears,Marguerite R. (1953)
Pilgrimage to Haifa, Israel, February 26 to March 9, 1953.
I have three editions of these notes, presumably all copies of an original. Only one edition has the name of the scribe, Maxine Smith. All include excerpts from Ben Levy's notes. Each of the three editions of the Sears notes are virtually identical. The "Maxine Smith" edition is the most complete and indicates that the original notes of both Ben Levy and Marguerite Sears were "taken stenographically by his [Shoghi Effendi's] secretaries", although this may not be accurate as none of the other editions have that preface including Ben Levy's complete notes which actually had a preface indicating he was responsible for his notes. This online version of the Marguerite Sears notes is from the Maxine Smith edition without paragraph or page numbers. -R.S. This is a "Pilgrim's note," an individual's recollection of statements and actions of the Central figures. They are subjective and not authoritative. See an overview of Pilgrim's Notes.
Keywords: Pilgrims notes

Pilgrims Notes and the "Calamity" - International Teaching Centre (1984)
Status of Pilgrims' Notes and their discussion of the catastrophic events some Bahá'ís believe might occur around the turn of the millennium.
Keywords: Calamities and catastrophes; Cities; Expectations; Lesser Peace; Most Great Peace; Peace; Pilgrims notes; Prophecies; Speculation; Suffering; Teaching; World peace

Pilgrims' Notes - Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (Lights of Guidance, 1988)
Keywords: Eyewitnesses; Pilgrims notes; Pilgrims notes (general)

Pilgrims' Notes from U.S. Archives - Various (1898)
Pilgrim notes from the U.S. Bahá'í National Archives, organized by year, 1898-1959, unsorted, in 60 PDF and TIF files.
Keywords: Pilgrims notes; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá

Pilgrims' Notes Online - Universal House of Justice (1997)
No policy other than the exercise of wisdom currently exists regarding the publishing of pilgrims' notes on the internet.
Transmitted by email; posted and name retained with permission of recipient.
Keywords: Eyewitnesses; Pilgrims notes (general)

Pilgrims' Notes, Status of - Winters,Jonah (1998)
"Pilgrims' Notes" are unofficial records of meetings with central figures of the Bahá'í Faith, like 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi. They may contain inaccuracies, and are not considered authentic, but can be of help, guidance and inspiration.
Keywords: Authenticity; Eyewitnesses; Pilgrims notes; Pilgrims notes (general); Unofficial information

Pilgrims' Notes: Considerations for Sharing - Universal House of Justice (2013)
Some points to consider when sharing or publishing pilgrims notes.
Original PDF on file.
Keywords: Eyewitnesses; Pilgrims notes (general)

Pioneering - Walker,Penelope (2007)
Mirrored with permission from bahaimp3.narod.ru. No information is given about the context of the lecture, it might be part of the "Serving the Divine Plan" program; if you know, please contact us.
Keywords: Pioneering; Teaching

Pioneering - Universal House of Justice (2007)
Short letter to the Bahá'ís of the world.
Keywords: Pioneering

Pioneering in Latin America - Dunbar,Hooper (1994)
Experiences pioneering in Central and South America.
No information is given about the context of this talk; email me if you know.
Keywords: Hooper Dunbar; Latin America; Pioneers

Pioneering or Education? - Universal House of Justice (1968)
To Bahá'í youth in every land: deciding whether to pioneer or continue with higher education.
Keywords: Education; Higher education; Pioneering; Studying; Youth

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: A Century of Precursors: 1743-1843: Section VIII Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study in Autobiography, 2007)
There were four epochs from 1844 to 1944 and a precursor period which, here, I define as 1743 to 1843. The poetry in this document is related to that century before the declaration of the Bab.
Shaykh Ahmad was born at some time in the period 1743 to 1753 and he died in 1826 with Siyyid Kazim becoming the leader of the Shaykhi Movement until the Siyyid's death on the last day of December in 1843 five short months short of the Bab's declaration in Shiraz in 1844. The years 1744-1844 were a century of massive social, intellectual, religious and political change in western history. The following prose-poems bring together many of the happenings in that century focusing on these great precursors of the Bábí Revelation and integrating their lives into an understanding of that critical century, 1744-1844, as well as our own lives and times.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography: Part 2.1 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 2008)
This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, his projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, his life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account goes through to the year 2044. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography and biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries, as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of his personal experience and the teaching plans until at least 2036, when he will be in his 90s, and possibly until 2044, the end of the second century of the Bahá'í Era. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2500 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 2.1 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since 2003. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. This 8th edition is envisaged to be published in its final form somewhere in cyberspace, perhaps at BLO, in April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100 Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography since this work explores the author's personal experience and also connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1743 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period. That's a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography: Part 2.2 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 2014)
This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, his projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, his life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account goes through to the year 2044. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography and biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries, as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of his personal experience and the teaching plans until at least 2036, when he will be in his 90s, and possibly until 2044 when he will have reached the age of 100. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2500 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 2.2 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since 2003. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. This 8th edition is envisaged to be published in its final form, hopefully here at BLO in April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100, the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography since this work explores the author's personal experience and also connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1753 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period. That's a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study In Autobiography: Part 3.1 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 2009)
This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, his projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, his life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account goes through to the year 2044, the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography and biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries, as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of his personal experience and the teaching plans until at least 2036, when he will be in his 90s, and possibly until 2044 when he will have reached the age of 100. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2500 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 3.1 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since 2003. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. This 8th edition is envisaged to be published in its final form hopefully here at BLO in April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100, the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography since this work explores the author's personal experience and also connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1753 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period. That's a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study In Autobiography: Part 3.2 - Price,Ron (2014)
This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, his projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, his life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account goes through to the year 2044, and the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography and biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries, as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of his personal experience and the teaching plans until at least 2036, when he will be in his 90s, and possibly until 2044 when he will have reached the age of 100. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2500 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 3.2 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since 2003. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. This 8th edition is envisaged to be published in its final form hopefully here at BLO in April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100, the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography since this work explores the author's personal experience and also connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1753 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period. That's a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study: Poetry and essays - Price,Ron (1944)
Table of Contents for a memoir of six decades of teaching & international travel, an extensive personal account of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the 2nd epoch, 1944 to 1963, of the teaching Plans.
See all of Ron Price's work in the Ron Price Collection.
Keywords: Biography; Bipolar disorder; Pioneers; Plans; Ron Price; Teaching

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Eight Prefaces: Subtitle of document: A Study of Autobiography - Price,Ron (2010)
This autobiography of a Bahai over six decades of teaching and consolidation, travel-teaching and social activism is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the 2nd epoch of the Formative Age(1944-1963)
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, a projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, a life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account goes through to the year 2044. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography, biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of the teaching plans until at least 2036, when he will be in his 90s, and possibly until 2044 when he will have reached the age of 100. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2600 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. All of these Parts are kept updated in the author's computer file since the space available here at BLO makes additions to the content difficult. If he can find some means of publishing that 8th edition online he will do so. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 1.1 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since then. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. This 8th edition is envisaged to be completed in its final form in the author's computer directory and, hopefully, in cyberspace, in April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100, the end of the second century of the Formative Age, 1844 to 2044. Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography. Auto-ethnography explores the author's personal experience and connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1743 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period, a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Literary Work As Epic: Epic Poetry, Epic Narrative and the Epic of Bahá'í History - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2005)
In the ten year period September 1997 to September 2007 the concept, the organizing principle, the basis for my magnum opus Pioneering Over Four Epochs, as epic, found its first shaping.
My epic-opus includes: 6600 prose-poems, a 2600 page five volume autobiographical-narrative; a collection of 5000 letters, emails and internet posts; 400 essays, a 300 page study of the poetry of Roger White; an internet site of 3000 pages. This skeletal framework, these literary media and genres of writing could be seen as a single work in parts, a unity in multiplicity, a total oeuvre which came to be defined as epic by sensible and insensible degrees during the decade 1997 to 2007. This literary endeavour deals with aspects of the history and development, the ideas and ideals, the philosophy and sociology of a new polity. This polity is viewed through the lens of the life experience of a pioneer over the four epochs 1944 to 2021 & his opitcal and analytical integration, his take, on some of the insights of several thousand thinkers in the history of civilization. This concept of his prose and poetry, as epic, took shape from 1997 to 2007 after more than 50 years of association with what may well prove to be the greatest epic in human history, the gradual realization of the wondrous vision, the brightest emanations of the mind of the prophet-founder of the Bahai Faith and what Bahais believe will become, over time, the fairest fruit of the fairest civilization the world has yet seen. During these ten years, the author's final years of full-time teaching in a technical and further education college in Australia and the first years of his early retirement, this concept of my work as epic sensibly and insensibly evolved. By 2007 he had been writing seriously for at least 50 years and writing poetry for 45. The concept of his written opus as epic crystallized in some detail in that decade as the projects on Mt. Carmel and the garden terraces on that Hill of God were completed. With the increasing elaboration, definition and development of the structure and concept, the notion and framework, of his entire collected works as epic has come a conceptual home of memory, action and vision which readers will find described in the following Bahai Library Online document. No intelligent writer knows if he is any good, wrote T.S. Eliot; he must live with the possibility, the theoretical uncertainty,that his entire work has all been a waste of time. Ron Price finds this provocative idea of Eliot's has some truth. But write he must, whether for public utility or just for private pleasure, and the result is this epic work for good or ill. To approach this epic and read it certainly requires an effort on the part of readers. Ron Price likes to think that such an effort will be rewarded, that such an exercise will be worthwhile; of course, a writer can make no such guarantee.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Notebooks-Section IX: Autobiography: Section IX - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2005)
The Notebooks I now possess were collected over a thirty year period, 1980 to 2010, from the age of 35 to 65. This collection of some 300 Notebooks is in the form of two-ring binders, arch-lever files & plastic ring-bound booklets.
I began assembling Notebooks as early as the late 1940s and early 1950s in primary school and continued through the 1970s by which time I had become a teacher, a lecturer, a taxi driver and a worker in a tin mine. Very little remains from this first collection of thirty years. Beginning in the 1980s and continuing to the present time, 2010, I assembled a second and much more extensive collection of Notebooks from the humanities and the social sciences: quotations from my reading, photocopies from books, magazines and journals and, by the late nineties,resources from the Internet. Some of these notes were destroyed or given away when they seemed irrelevant to my future study, research and writing activities. Such a time arose when I retired in 1999 from FT teaching for the major cull of this thirty year period. My poetry Notebooks contain the sorts of notes that come from observations and experience as well as from reading. I have also accummulated many notes from these sources and they are found in my journals/diaries. By 2010 my Notebooks were found in 300 two-ring binders, arch-lever files and plastic covered binders. They were filled with notes for more than 6600 poems as well as many subjects and disciplines: ancient history, modern history, sociology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, media studies, personal/creative writing, post-graduate studies, literature, poetry, Baha’i files on many topics, essay writing, autobiography and biography, miscellaneous, letters, inter alia. There is some material in these Notebooks going back to the 1950s and 1960s, the beginning of my Bahá'í and pioneering experience but, for the most part, the Notebooks gradually assumed the form they now have from 1980 to 2010 and especially after I retired from FT employment in 1999, PT work in 2003 and most volunteer activity in 2005.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Part 1.1: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography - Price,Ron (2011)
Abstract: This autobiographical, memoiristic, work is that of a Bahai over 7 decades of teaching & international travel. It is one of the few extensive accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the 2nd epoch(1944-63)of the Formative Age
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, Ron Price’s projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, his life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account plans to go through to the year 2044, and the first nine years of the 3rd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography and biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries, as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of his personal experience and the teaching plans until at least 2044, when he will be 100. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2500 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 1.1 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since 2003. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. The 8th edition is envisaged to be published in its final form somewhere in cyberspace in or after April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100. Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography since this work explores the author's personal experience and also connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1753 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers, at least that is his current plan, through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period. That's a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist, researcher and scholar, is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Part 1.2: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography - Price,Ron (2014)
This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over seven decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
Part 1: This autobiographical study begins at the start of the first three North American and global teaching Plans of: 1937, 1946, & 1953, respectively. This study integrates a lifespan, his projected lifespan, 1944 to 2044, his life-narrative, into the context of the history of the Bahai community back to 1743, the year of the birth of that Bábí Faith's chief precursor Shaykh Ahmad. The author includes over 2000 references from the humanities and social sciences within the western intellectual tradition. His account goes through to the year 2044, and the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 2: This work draws on many studies of autobiography and biography, life-narratives, memoirs and diaries, as well as a broad range of experience, to analyse this author's society, his Faith, his community and himself in those critical first eight decades of organized and systematic teaching plans, 1936 to 2016. It is his hope that he will be able to extend this study of his personal experience and the teaching plans until at least 2036, when he will be in his 90s, and possibly until 2044 when he will have reached the age of 100. Time, of course, will tell. Readers will find here at Bahá'í Library Online(BLO) the introductory sections, Parts 1, 2 and 3, of the author's epic 2500 page five volume 7th edition. These three Parts, now sub-divided into 6 separate sections, are an abridged, truncated and necessarily provisional edition for BLO. This section, this post at BLO, is Part 1.2 and, as the title suggests, the entire work is a study of autobiography as a genre, an analysis of its process and its content, as much as if not more than, a study of the author's life, his society and his religion. The Office of Review of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States has given him permission to post this work in its current form on the Internet. Part 3: The 3rd edition of this document was originally posted at BLO in 2003. A hard copy was placed in the Bahá'í World Centre library also in 2003; that 3rd edition has now been edited and revised many times in the dozen years since 2003. The current edition, the 7th, was posted here at BLO in celebration of the 50th anniversary, in April 2013, of the first election of the Universal House of Justice in April 1963. This document is now in the early stages of an 8th edition. This 8th edition is envisaged to be published in its final form somewhere in cyberspace in or after April 2021 at the end of the first century of the Formative Age if, as the author points out, he lasts that long. In 2021 he will be 77, and in 2044 he will be 100, the end of the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era. Part 4: In some ways this autobiography is simply a form of self-reflection and writing known as auto-ethnography since this work explores the author's personal experience and also connects his autobiographical story to wider cultural & political, sociological & psychological meanings & understandings. This account differs from ethnography which is a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture. Auto-ethnography focuses on: (i) the writer's subjective experience in interaction with the beliefs and practices of others, (ii) research and writing, (iii) story and method. The author's aim, among many, is to connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. This is the core of auto-ethnography. Part 5: Analytical auto-ethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena; auto-ethnographers like this author also focus on narrative presentations that aim to open-up conversations & evoke responses from others. As part of the author's prefatory work, he takes his family history and his historical commentary on society, as well as on this latest of the Abrahamic religions, back to the century 1753 to 1844, the precursor period of the Bábí Revelation. He then continues into the century 1844 to 1944, the year he was born in Canada. He then takes his readers through the 2nd century of the Bahá'í Era, from 1944 to 2044. In putting this account together the author deals with some 15 generations of history, of his family, of the Babi-Bahá'í religions and the Bábí Faith's precursor period. That's a total of 300 years, from 1743 to 2044. This series of volumes attempts to integrate the experience of these generations into a coherent whole. After more than 30 years of working on this vast expanse of history and personal experience, he feels he has just begun. This is one of the many works which this author and editor, online blogger and journalist is now working on as he goes through his last years on Earth.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VI.1 Essays: Unpublished Essays - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 2003)
This is section VI.1 of my autobiography: unpublished essays. I wrote some 300 essays as a student, as a teacher-lecturer, as a Bahá'í-publicity officer writing items for the media, as a poet-writer and simply as a person with literary needs and interests
These essays at this site were written over the thirty year period: 1979 to 2009. I wrote essays which were not published as far back as about 1959, but only two remain from the period 1956-1978. In the 50 year period 1959 to 2009 in which I have been a member of the Bahá'í Faith writing unpublished essays has occupied much of my time.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII - Poetry - The Heroic Age: 3rd Epoch: 1892-1921 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2007)
Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
Abdul-Baha's ministry occupies the framework of this third epoch: 1892-1921. This prose-poetry has as its central theme the ministry of 'Abdu'l-Bahá,the events and history of these years, that fin de siecle and the first 21 years of the 20th century. My prose-poetry tries to integrate history, Bahá'í history, my own life and society into some cohesive whole. Readers will find here in this document a varied mix of content and theme around aspects of this final chapter of the Heroic Age in the history of the Bahá'í Faith.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII Poetry - The Formative Age: 1st Epoch (1921-1944) - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study in Autobiography, 2007)
Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
There were four epochs before I was born and there have been four during my life in the history of the Bahá'í Faith: 1844-2021. The first epoch of the Formative Age was just finishing in the month I was born in 1944. The prose-poetry here has as its focus the period 1921 to 1944 and the first epoch of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Plan was 1921 to April 21st 1963.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII: Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study in Autobiography, 2007)
Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
This poetry and prose was written over several years, years in which I have placed poetry at Bahá'í Library Online. Readers will find each of my poems introduced with a prose preamble an idea I found in the poetry of my poetic mentor, Roger White. The poetry here, toward the end of this lengthy thread, was written from the 9th to the 21st months of the Five Year Plan (2006-2011), that is from December 21st 2006 to December 31st 2007. the opening lengthy essay was written in the years 2008 to 2016. None of the poetry I wrote in my first 18 years of pioneering (1962-1980) has been kept. The intensity of my poetic experience seemed to come after more than thirty years of pioneering(1962-1992) and a dozen years of asking for the assistance of holy souls (1980-1992)(See: Gleanings, p.161) Some commentary on my poetic philosophy and the autobiographical evolution of this poetry is also found here. Much editing needs to be done on what is this second draft.
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Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII: Poetry 2006 - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2007)
Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
2006 was the 12th year of placing poetry at Bahá'í Library Online. It contains poetry written in the last four months of the Five Year Plan (2001-2006) and the first eight months of the following Five Year Plan (2006-2011). I wrote poetry as far back as the first year of my pioneering life in 1962. In 1980 I began to collect and archive my poetry.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section X.2 Diary or Journal: Section X.2 Journal - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2005)
I began the process of diary and journal making on January 19th 1980, nine years after my international pioneering life began, eighteen years after my homefront pioneering life began and twenty-seven years after my association with the Bahá'í Faith began.
Some diarists want to record the smallest impulses, what seem to me to be the most trivial details, of everyday life. Consequently their extant diaries come to occupy a great bulk if they keep at the exercise for many years. The banality, the indiscriminate agglomeration of daily detail, the constant repetition of physical, quotidian and psychological aspects of phenomenal reality, of everyday happenings, what for such diarists becomes a type of photograph of their lives, is impossible for me to record. It simply seems pointless and, more importantly, it is a cause of some angst just to write down such daily conventionalisms. I actually feel physically quite uncomfortable recording so much of this mundane material. To overcome this banality I give my diary context by means of prose-poems. This poetic medium allows my diary to sail on different oceans, wider journo-diaristic rivers and seas, more finely tuned and analytical rivers and estuaries with perspectives that enrich quotidian reality. I invite readers to come sail with me. By the time we sail together, though, I am inclined to think I will be beyond this mortal coil in that Undiscovered Country as Shakespeare refers to the afterlife in Hamlet. My diary-journal contains the most confessional of my writings and I leave the publication of the whole or a part of my journals in the hands of those Bahá'í institutions into whose hands, as my literary executors, I have reposed my trust.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Sections X.I Photographs and XI Memorabilia - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2005)
I have added some photographs going as far back as 1908 and a brief literary-historical sketch of my family history going back my great-great grandparents' lives in the 1830s and 1840s, the beginning of Babi-Bahá'í history.
I now possess a dozen albums of photographs. Photographs can represent a significant aspect of an autobiography or memoir. The essays and prose-poems in this document here try to put all these photographs in perspective. The photographs themselves are kept in my study, in hard-copy and in my computer for future reference if required. The photographs serve as a pictorial backdrop which both reveals and conceals. This visual backdrop also heightens the expression of my life, my family's and that of the Bahá'í community I have been a part of for nearly sixty years. These photographs paralyze (1) by their facticity and the absense of fact or (2) by what might be called the physicality of reality. In my writing I try to get behind and beneath this surface physicality. The memorabilia, of course, which will survive me and be of any relevance to the ongoing history of the Bahá'í Faith I would tend to think are not relevant, although only time will tell down the future's mysterious track. No photographs or memorabilia are included here. Given the importance to us on earth of these two physical forms, I have tried to place them in a long term perspective, a longue duree, as one school of historians calls the long haul.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: The Heroic Age: The 2nd Epoch: 1853-1892: Pioneering Over Four Epochs Section VIII: Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2007)
The prose-poetry in this document involves, in various ways, the Person of Bahá'u'lláh, His life and teachings. I try to bring that Life into my own time and life in this poetry by means of the metaphorical nature of Bahá'í history.
For this poet history, sociology, psychology and literature among other disciplines all combine in various ways to provide perspectives on the Founder of this Faith. This poetry has as its themes: events, ideas and experiences from the second epoch of the Heroic Age: 1853-1892.
Keywords: Ron Price

Pioneering Over Four Epochs: The Heroic Age: The First Epoch: 1844-1853: Section VII Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2007)
Autobiographical musings, unedited, as uploaded by the author.
My life has been lived within the time frame of four epochs (1944-2021) of the Formative Age. There were four epochs in Bahá'í history that preceded my life. They were the years 1844-1944. This poetry involves the Bab in the first of those epochs: 1844-1853. The prose-poetry in this document at Bahá'í Library Online focuses on themes from the six short years of the Bábí Revelation & the epoch 1844-1853. My prose-poems try to bring the themes, the facts, the events of this period and the wider society into my own life, my own time and society.
Keywords: Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Heroic age; Poetry

Pioneering, Language, Arts, Example of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Universal House of Justice (1998)
Pioneering; Serving parents; Serving where need is; Gardens; International Auxiliary Language; Arabic pronunciation; study of Persian; Some references in Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Folk art; External affairs; Daily living; Abdu'l-Bahá as divine exemplar.
Keywords: Advent of Divine Justice (letter); Arabic language; Arts and crafts; Clothing; Cultural diversity; Dawn-Breakers (book); External affairs; Flexibility; Food; Gardens; International auxiliary language; Language; Lifestyle; Parents; Persian language; Pioneering; Pronunciation; Service; Words and phrases; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Exemplar

Pioneria Internacional en le Plan de Cinco Años - Universal House of Justice (2002)
Keywords: Five Year Plan (2001-2006); Pioneering

Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy 1831-1896, by Abbas Amanat: Review - Quinn,Sholeh A. (Baha'i Studies Review, 1998)
Keywords: History (general); Iran (documents); Iran, General history; Nasirid-Din Sháh; Qajar dynasty; Shahs

Places named by `Abdu'l-Bahá in the Tablets of the Divine Plan - Walbridge,John, compiler (Baha'i World, 1981)
Map of the regions of North America named in Tablets of the Divine Plan, likely based on a 1912 geography book.
Scanned by Kinko's for John Conkling. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes.
Keywords: Maps; Tablets of the Divine Plan

Places Where the Manifestations of God Have Appeared; Equality of Men and Women - Universal House of Justice (1986)
The consistent portrayal of all known Manifestations of God as male and their historical emergence exclusively in the East; the equality of men and women; on soul mates.
First published in Messages from the Universal House of Justice: 1986-2001 as Equality of Women and Men. This text mirrored from bahai.org/library.
Keywords: Authenticity; Buddha; Children; Criticism and apologetics; East (Orient); Education; Equality; Gender; Guardianship; Hermes Trismegistus; Hud (Prophet); Idris (Prophet); India; Iran; Israel; Lesser Prophets; Levant; Manifestations of God; Manifestations of God, Places of appearance; Middle East; Prophets; Quotations from the Quran; Salih (Prophet); Saudi Arabia; Soul mates; Universal House of Justice, Membership on; Women

Planning Progress: Lessons from Shoghi Effendi, by June Manning Thomas: Review - Echevarria-Howe,Lynn (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2000)
See also Shoghi Effendi's Plans for Progress Practical Lessons (Thomas, 1997).

Platón, Leonardo y el sistema del Monte Carmelo - Fernandez,Ernesto (2012)
The symbolic systems of Plato and Leonardo da Vinci, and their modern architectural representation in the Shrine of the Bab and the slopes of Mount Carmel. Includes English essay "Leonardo and his Vitruvian Man."
Keywords: Architecture; Arts and crafts; Leonardo da Vinci; Mathematics; Philosophy; Plato; Science; Symbolism

Pledge of Allegiance - National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States (2002)
A short letter from the US Bahá'í National Center's Office of Public Information re a June 2002 ruling that the phrase "under God" violates the separation of church and state.
Transmitted by email.

Poems - Garrett,Leslie (2016)
Author Leslie Garrett, retired, is a Bahai who resides in Mexico. To view more of her work, see also poemsbylesliegarrett.com, obrasdeteatroporlesliegarrett.com, and obrasdeteatroparaninos.com.
Keywords: Poetry

Poems from a Misty Island - McLean,Jack (1997)
Poetry written while on a two-year stay on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.
See the author's essays from this period, published in Gulf Islands Driftwood, at jack-mclean.com/essays.
Keywords: British Columbia, Canada; Canada; Poetry; Salt Spring Island, BC

Poems Often Enrich My Spirit - Eskuche,Betty (2005)
A collection of a dozen poems and the Bahá'í quotes that inspired them.
Keywords: Poetry

Poems On the Afterlife: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VII Poetry - Price,Ron (2006)
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, as I approached the age of 40, I began to take a serious interest in the afterlife. This was largely the result of personal trauma and difficulties. I began to seek the assistance of holy souls by means of intercession.
For 30 years now I have been praying to those who have remained faithful unto the Covenant of God, those who can help the progress of the arts and sciences, those souls who have passed on to that Undiscovered Country. These poems are a reflection of my interest in the subject of the afterlife and, inevitably, in aspects of this life.
Keywords: Ron Price

Poetry About Philosophy: Section VIII: Poetry: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2005)
The poetry in this section is concerned with various aspects of philosophy in the western tradition and Bahá'í philosophy in particular. The concept of the manifestation of God is pivotal to Bahá'í philosophy and to this poetry.
My general approach to philosophy is one that places it within an essentially interdisciplinary and relativistic context. Readers will find in the poems which follow, then, a mix of content that covers a very wide field from the social sciences and humanities, life and personal experience blended, when appropriate, into a philosophical context. I am also indebted to those Bahá'ís who have ventured forth into the field of philosophy with their initial explorations, explorations on which I have drawn from time to time.
Keywords: Philosophy; Ron Price

Poetry and Self-Transformation - White,Roger (The Creative Circle, 1989)
Poetry is no longer very accessible to the average reader or widely read; serious poets are often in conflict with their times; the Bahá'í Writings provide a foundation for poetic expression and a renewed spiritual aesthetics.
From books.google.com.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Poetry; Robert Hayden; Roger White; Transformation

Poetry and the Arts in Rebuilding Society - Herrmann,Duane L. (The Creative Circle, 1989)
The status of poetry is exalted in the Bahá’í Revelation, starting from the writings of the Bab to the hymns of the contemporary community; even God is described as a poet. The arts allow us to arise to our divine nature.
See a portion of this book online at books.google.com.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Poetry

Poetry and Transformation - Murphy,Peter E. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2014)
A personal story of how the evolving attraction to and love of poetry transformed the author's life. Poetry, faith, and the revealed Word can have a dramatic effect on one's struggle for personal transformation in the midst of crisis and turmoil.
Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/168.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Poetry; Transformation

Poetry as Revelation: Introduction to Bahá'u'lláh's 'Mathnavíy-i Mubárak' - Lewis,Frank (Baha'i Studies Review, 1999)
On Bahá'u'lláh and the poetic tradition, Sufism, Sufi poetry, and Rumi; rhetorical orientation; date of the poem and history of the text; and interpretation and the translation process. Includes a provisional translation.
See also a translation of this tablet.
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq; Bahá'u'lláh, Poetry of; Dating of Writings; Interfaith dialogue; Iraq; Istanbul, Turkey; Kurdistan; Mathnavi; Mathnaviyi-i Mubarak; Mysticism; Poetry; Rumi (Mevlana); Sufism; Sulaymaniyyih, Iraq; Translation; Turkey

Poetry from dialogue magazine - Sousa,Gretchen; Chase,L. B.; Shamlu,Ahmad; Pershing,Susan (dialogue magazine, 1986)
Nine poems by six authors, published in various volumes of Dialogue.
The following poems are combined here in one posting, for ease of filing. See also a poem by Sheila Banani. See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Poetry

Poetry in 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Writings and Utterances - Savi,Julio; Mardani,Faezeh (Lights of Irfan, 2017)
'Abdu'l-Bahá mentions at least seven aspects of poetry: inspiration, beauty, eloquence, versified language, novelty, expressivity, depth, and loftiness. He also sets forth clear concepts on the purposes of poetry, which benefit any aspiring poet.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #138 (Acuto, 2016). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/138/savi_poetry.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Beauty; Inspiration; Metaphors and allegories; Persian language; Poetry; Words and phrases; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Poetry of; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Poetry of Loving: Family Therapy and the Bahá'í Faith - Bruwer,Michael J. (Baha'i Studies Notebook, 1983)
Psychotherapy and the family; the Bahá'í concept of the family; the role of models of the world.
See Bahá'í Studies Notebook 3.1 table of contents.
Keywords: Consultation; Family; Family consultation; Psychology

Poetry on the Seven Year Plan: 1937-1944: Pioneering Over Four Epochs Section VIII: Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, 2006)
The poetry in this section has a wide range of relationships with the first Bahá'í teaching Plan launched in 1937. I was born in the summer of 1944,when Shoghi Effendi celebrated the completion of that Plan with the publication in August of God Passes By.
My poetry here is based on: Bahá'í history, secular history and my own life. I try to draw various strands of experience together into a reflective, a reflexive, oeuvre in relation to this first Plan, a Plan Shoghi Effendi called our "preliminary task." The accomplishment of this task, wrote Shoghi Effendi, would enable my generation to fulfil its destiny in the century, 1944-2044.
Keywords: Ron Price; Seven Year Plan, US and CA (1937-1944)

Poetry on the Ten Year Crusade: 1953-1963: Pioneering Over Four Epochs: Section VIII Poetry - Price,Ron (Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and A Study in Autobiography, 2006)
The poetry here is related to the 10 Year Crusade: 1953-1963. I began my pioneering life during this period and this poetry brings together secular, Bahá'í and personal history.
Shoghi Effendi said, in one of his last letters during this Crusade, written in April 1957, that global society was "hovering on the brink of self-destruction." There was a certain urgency in this time period; there was Ike Eisenhower, rock and roll, Mr. Clean, Doris Day and luxury without stress. One of the greatest periods in the expansion of the Bahá'í Faith occurred at this time. The Kingdom of God on Earth began in this period--in 1953. These poems were written about themes and events, ideas and activities in the years of this Plan and the 2nd epoch(1944-1963) of the Formative Age.
Keywords: Ron Price; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963)

Poets, Guidance to - Universal House of Justice (1988)
Guidance on the responsibilities of poets; includes an overview of Tablets addressed to poets.
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. See also Compilation on Writers and Writing.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Poetry; Writing

"Point" and "Letter" in the Writings of the Báb - Afnan,Muhammad (Lights of Irfan, 2001)
In the Báb’s writings, the Point of Truth is the source of all existence in both the spiritual and the material world, and letters and words are given spiritual meaning. His system is distinctively different from that of the Hurúfís and Nuqtavís, however.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/afnan_point.
Keywords: Báb, Writings of; Huruf (letters); Hurufism; Iran (documents); Irfan Colloquia; Nuqta (Point); Nuqtavi

Police Forces Bearing Arms, Bahá'í Enlistment in - Universal House of Justice (Baha'i Studies Bulletin, 1995)
Two letters from the House on joining armed police forces, e.g. the Ulster Defence Regiment and the police force in Northern Ireland, and whether they would be allowed to bear arms. Also discussion of consummating marriage, and marrying an atheist.
First letter includes unrelated mention about the numbers of Bábí martyrs; see more on this topic at uhj_mazandarani_number_martyrs. Second letter includes unrelated topic: a couple does not have to literally "consummate" their marriage, as long as their intent is to establish a family relationship, and a Bahá'í cannot marry anyone, including an atheist, if he/she refuses to participate in the Bahá'í marriage ceremony. Both letters published in BSB with permission of recipient.
Keywords: Marriage; Martyrdom; Military; Military (armed forces); Statistics; Weapons

Political Divisions and Schisms - Ali,Syed Ameer (The Spirit of Islam: A History of the Evolution and Ideals of Islam, with a Life of the Prophet, 1902)
Three page excerpt, with two endnotes.
This text is from the 1923 edition. See both editions, in multiple formats, at archive.org: 1902 and 1923.

Political Non-Involvement and Obedience to Government: Compilation by Peter Khan with Cover Letter from Secretariat - Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2003)
Current world events can cause confusion and anguish among those seeking global peace. Rather than being drawn into prevailing attitudes and disputes, Bahá'ís must hold a broader long-term perspective.
Compilation first published in 1979 by the NSA of Australia. See also the PDF original, with a cover letter from the US NSA. Letter and compilation also posted in PDF format at uhj_avoidance_politics_disputes. See also Bahá'í Approach to Non-Involvement in Partisan Political Activity.
Keywords: Charity and relief work; Government; Obedience; Peace; Peter Khan; Politics; Questions and answers; Unity; War

Politics and Engagement in the Life of Society - Universal House of Justice (2010)
On which principles should guide Iranian believers in their participation in the life of society, and other themes related to political activism and social justice.
Mirrored from bahai.org, where it is also available in PDF and Word formats.
Keywords: Activism; Consultation; Demonstrations; Iran (documents); Persecution; Persecution, Iran; Politics; Protest; Public discourse (discourses of society); Youth

Politics, Text, and Context: In Search of the Bahá'í Revolution - Armstrong-Ingram,R. Jackson (dialogue magazine, 1986)
The rationale for Shoghi Effendi requiring Bahá'ís to disassociate themselves from other churches and political movements; the role of political science in Bahá'í theology; how best to work with non-Bahá'í groups to better society.
See also list of dialogue articles or image scans.
Keywords: Politics

Portals to Freedom - Ives,Howard Colby (George Ronald, 1983)
A collection of anecdotes and history of Abdu'l-Bahá's travels to the United States, as told by one observer.
See also the pilgrim's notes of Muriel Ives Barrow Newhall, the daughter of Howard Colby Ives. Posted online with permission of publisher and with permission of Ives' family. Proofread and formatted by Michelle Reid and Jonah Winters. Any older quotations contained in the text that have been retranslated are endnoted with the authorized translation; all footnotes placed as endnotes. Page numbers not retained. [-J.W., 1999]
Keywords: Howard Colby Ives; Pilgrims notes; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Second Western tour; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Portion of Tablet to Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí (Lawh-i-Hájí Mírzá Haydar-'Alí) - Bahá'u'lláh (Eminent Bahá'ís in the Time of Bahá'u'lláh, 1985)
Original published in Bihjatu’s-Sudúr pp. 96-7.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Edirne, Turkey; Hájí Mírzá Haydar-`Alí (Angel of Carmel); Lawh-i-Hájí Mírzá Haydar-`Alí (Tablet to Hájí Mírzá Haydar-`Alí)

Portrait of Abdu'l-Bahá: Selections From Memories of Nine Years in Akká - Afroukhteh,Youness Khan (2006)
Habits of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in His daily tasks and services, his concentration, the way he revealed verses, his manner of speaking, his bearing, interactions with governments, his burdens and tasks, and his love and generosity.
See also the complete book.
Keywords: Akka, Israel; Biography; Memories of Nine Years in Akka (book); Pen portraits; Youness Afroukhteh (Yunis Afrukhtih); `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Pen portraits

Posledneye Slovo Bekha-Ully [Baha'u'llah's Last Word] - Tumanski,Aleksandr Grigor'evich (Zapiski Vostochnago Otdeleniya Imperatorskago Russkago Arkheologicheskago Obshestva [Memoirs of the Oriental Branch of the Russian Archaeological Society], 1892)
Russian translation of, and commentary on, Bahá'u'lláh's "Kitab-i 'Ahdi" ("Book of My Covenant").
See also The Russian Publication of Bahá'u'lláh's Last Will and Testament. This PDF scanned by Google; also online at bahaiarc.org/collections/research, including a reprint (or standalone printing?) with different pagination, bahaiarc.org/images/Research/last-word.pdf. [-S.C., 2021]
Keywords: Alexander Tumansky; Kitáb-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant); Will and Testament of Bahá'u'lláh

Possibility of a Woman Being Designated a Manifestation of God - Universal House of Justice (1999)
No elucidation in the writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá or Shoghi Effendi has been found for the passage "...were He to pronounce one of the leaves to be the manifestation of all His excellent titles."
Title taken from last line of document. Shared by and name retained with permission of recipient.
Keywords: Future Manifestations of God; Gender; God, Will of; Suriy-i-Vafa (Tablet to Vafa); Women

Possible Topics for Research - Khan,Peter J. (Baha'i Studies Review, 1993)
List of research topics suggested by Dr. Peter Khan to the Association for Bahá'í Studies (Australia).
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Peter Khan; Research questions

Postmodernism and the Bahá'í Writings - Kluge,Ian (Lights of Irfan, 2008)
Whilst the Bahá'í Writings and postmodernism share a variety of ideas at a superficial level, on fundamental issues of ontology, epistemology, philosophical anthropology (theory of man), ethics and cultural theory, they are incompatible.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #79, Louhelen Bahá'í School, Michigan (October 11-14, 2007). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/79/kluge_postmodernism.
Keywords: Irfan Colloquia; Philosophy; Postmodernism

Potential Calamities and Ensuring Sustainability of Communities - Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2020)
Guidance on calamitous events and our response to them.
Keywords: Administrative Order; Calamities and catastrophes; Cities; Deepening; Economics; Expectations; Faith (general); Fear; Hope; Integration and disintegration; Materialism; Peace; Pilgrims notes (general); Prophecies; Social action; Speculation; Suffering; Teaching; Teaching; Tests and difficulties; Unity of humanity; Villages

Potentialities and their Manifestation: A Selection of Passages from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb and from the Writings and Talks of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Bookwalter,Wm. Keith, compiler (2024)
Compilation of quotations on one of the Bahá'í Faith's basic ideas, that Bahá'u'lláh calls upon us to "manifest the potentialities," the gems of our inborn nature via a "proper education."
Also available in Microsoft Word format.
Keywords: Anisa Educational Model

Pourquoi l'être humain veut-il la paix mais fait la guerre? - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2002)
Fireside talk.
Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.

Pourquoi s'appeler bahá'í? - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2008)
Fireside talk.
Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.

Pourquoi tenons-nous tellement à nos préjugés? - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2003)
Fireside talk.
Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.

Power and the Bahá'í community - Momen,Moojan (Lights of Irfan, 2018)
While Bahá'í social teachings may have sounded new and exciting a century ago, that is no longer the case today. The problem the world faces is not in the principles that would lead to a better society, but in their application.
Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/54/momen_power.
Keywords: Administration; Alienation; Authority; Business; Centralization and decentralization; Charity and relief work; Competition; Consultation; Corruption; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Crime; Education; Elections; Empowerment; Environment; Equality; Ethics; European Union (EU); Freedom and liberty; Fundamentalism; Gender; Individualism; Institute process; Institutions; Interpretation; Justice; Laws; Materialism; Maturity of humanity; Media (communication); Minorities; New Age; Obedience; Participation; Peace; Philosophy; Plans; Politics; Power; Promise of World Peace (statement); Punishment; Reflection; Reform; Revolution; Service; Social action; Spiritual Assemblies; Theology; Unity; Unity in diversity; Violence; War; Wealth and poverty; Women

Power of Divine Assistance - Dunbar,Hooper (2007)
From "Serving the Divine Plan Programme"; see mentions of this program in uhj_turning_point_1996-2006 pages iii, viii, and 223, and haifalife.blogspot.ca. Mirrored with permission from bahaimp3.narod.ru.
Keywords: Divine Assistance; Hooper Dunbar

Power of Prayer - Grossmann,Hartmut (2007)
From "Serving the Divine Plan Programme"; see mentions of this program in uhj_turning_point_1996-2006 pages iii, viii, and 223, and haifalife.blogspot.ca. Mirrored with permission from bahaimp3.narod.ru.
Keywords: Prayer

Powerpoints for Deepening - Troxel,Duane (2004)
26 presentations in Powerpoint format, on a variety of topics covering Bahá'í history, Central Figures, teachings, and relationship with Islam.
See also Videos for Deepening.
Keywords: Administrative Order; Agnes Alexander; Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í Faith, Sect, NRM or World Religion; Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; Báb, The; Christianity; Covenant; Criticism and apologetics; Day of the Covenant; Deepening; Disciples of `Abdu'l-Bahá; Hawaii, USA; Holy days; Interfaith dialogue; Introductory; Islam; Jesus Christ; Life after death (afterlife); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mongolia; Muhammad (Prophet); Naw-Rúz; Principles; Prophecies; Quran; Return; Soul; Tablets of the Divine Plan

Powerseeking and Ideology - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2008)
Good and evil are a potential that lie within the heart of each individual; but a believer in an ideology can feel morally justified in perpetrating cruelty towards others, because he sees himself as defending a higher value against an infidel.
Note: contact me if you know what this article is from. As it opens with "In the last chapter, we have seen..." it must be from a longer work, but I don't know what. [-J.W., 2011] Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.

Practical Economic Suggestions For Everyday Use - Shams,Badi (2021)
List of simple ideas for ways people can introduce spiritual values in their day-to-day economic activities.
See more at badishams.net. See this in Spanish translation, and see also Practical Suggestions for Community Service.
Keywords: Service; Tips and suggestions; Volunteering

Practical Suggestions for Community Service - Shams,Badi (2021)
List of ideas and ways that individuals can volunteer in their communities by finding time to serve in their fast paced lives.
See more at badishams.net. See this in Spanish translation, and see also Practical Economic Suggestions For Everyday Use.
Keywords: Service; Tips and suggestions; Volunteering

Prairies of Possibilities - Herrmann,Duane L. (iUniverse Inc., 2005)
Sample of poems from the published book, selected by the author — whom Midwest Quarterly celebrated as "one of the most recognized poets in Kansas" — for sharing with the Bahá'í Library,
Purchase the complete book from iuniverse.com or amazon.com.
Keywords: Poetry

Praise the King of Glory: New and Selected Poems - Herrmann,Duane L. (Buffalo Press, 2017)
9 poems, selected by the author, from a collection published to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Bahá’u’lláh. Many of the poems refer to events in the life of Bahá’u’lláh.
Purchase the entire volume at amazon.com.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh; Centenaries; Poetry

Prayer and Devotional Life - Báb, The; Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi (2019)
A compilation to assist Bahá'ís in a time when, as the House says in its cover letter, "devotional activities are everywhere multiplying and are increasingly being integrated into the core of community life."
Posted at, and also online in Microsoft Word format at, bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/compilations/prayer-devotional-life. See also the cover letter sent by the House which introduces the following compilation.
Keywords: Devotional gatherings; Health and healing; Institute process; Meditation; Obligatory prayer; Prayer; Spirituality

Prayer and Meditation - Hatcher,William S. (2003)
Talk at the Bahá'í Center in St. Petersburg.
Posted to Youtube by william.hatcher.org.
Keywords: Meditation; Prayer

Prayer and Meditation: Warwick Leaflets - Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop (1990)
Keywords: Introductory; Meditation; Prayer; Spirituality

Prayer and Worship - Walbridge,John (Sacred Acts, Sacred Space, Sacred Time, 1996)
An overview of devotional practices and prayers in Babism and the Bahá'í Faith.
Written for possible inclusion in The Bahá'í Encyclopedia. Posted with permission of both the author and of the editor of the Encyclopedia project.
Keywords: Dhikr (Remembrance); Obligatory prayer; Prayer; Recitation; Remembrance; Worship

Prayer for Fathers - Abdul-Bahá (Star of the West, 1921)
Tablet revealed for Albert Windust, first American publisher of the Bahá'í Writings and founder of Star of the West, on the occasion of his father's passing.
See also the translation in Bahá'í Prayers, p. 65 (1991 ed.).
Keywords: Albert Windust; Chicago, IL; Covenant; Covenant-breaking; Death; Family; Fathers; Life after death (afterlife); Names and titles; Parents; Prayer texts; Promulgation of Universal Peace (book); Soul; Star of the West; Tablets of `Abdu'l-Bahá (3 volumes); United States (documents)

Prayer for Illumination - Bahá'u'lláh (Ad'iyyih Hadrát-i-Mahbúb, 1999)
2-paragraph prayer from Ad'iyyih Hadrát-i-Mahbúb.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Illumination; Prayer texts

Prayer for Protection - Bahá'u'lláh (1996)
A short prayer, authoritatively translated on behalf of the Universal House of Justice.
Keywords: Health and healing; Prayer; Prayer texts; Protection

Prayer for Shaykh Kázim Samandar (Múnáját-i-Jináb-i-Samandarí) - Bahá'u'lláh; Universal House of Justice (2001)
Brief prayer revealed by Bahá'u'lláh to aid in making decisions. Translation and accompanying letter by the Bahá'í World Centre.
Keywords: Andalib (poet); Authenticity; Decision making; Meditation; Munajat-i-Jinab-i-Samandari (Prayer for Shaykh Kazim Samandar); Nineteen (number); Prayer texts; Repetition; Research Department, Questions and answers; Shaykh Kazim-i-Samandari

Prayer for Shaykh Kázim Samandar: Authorised Translation of Bahá'u'lláh's Prayers for Jináb-i-Samandarí - Bahá'u'lláh (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
Authorised translation of a prayer for decision making.
Originally posted at ojbs.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Andalib (poet); Authenticity; Decision making; Meditation; Munajat-i-Jinab-i-Samandari (Prayer for Shaykh Kazim Samandar); Nineteen (number); Prayer texts; Repetition; Shaykh Kazim-i-Samandari

Prayer for Steadfastness - Abdul-Bahá
Authorized translation of a short prayer, probably revealed for a Western believer.
This prayer is believed to have been given to Edward "Saffa" Kinney by 'Abdu'l-Bahá. The Research Department of the Universal House of Justice states that the original of the prayer does not bear the name of the recipient, though it is likely it was revealed for a western believer because the Master signed it in the roman alphabet. The original was published in Persian in "Muntakhabat-i-Matatib", vol. 2, Page 16, number 24. The translation below is an authorized translation. This prayer can therefore be considered and used as authentic and authoritative.
Keywords: Edward Kinney; Prayer texts; Steadfastness

Prayer for the Dead, Recitiation of - Universal House of Justice (1999)
Instructions on the correct way to recite this prayer.
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work's topic here.
Keywords: Burial (funeral); Death; Prayer; Salat-i-Mayyit (Prayer for the Dead)

Prayer "Make me a hollow reed," Source of - Universal House of Justice (1999)
The prayer "Oh, God, make me a hollow reed..." is neither by Abdu'l-Bahá nor George Townshend, and its author is unknown.
Transmitted by email. Submitted by and posted with permission of recipient.
Keywords: Authenticity; George Townshend; Hollow reed; Prayer texts; Reed; Research Department, Questions and answers

Prayer of the Bab "God Sufficeth...," Two versions of - Universal House of Justice (1996)
The original text of the prayer "God Sufficeth" has not been found, and there may be two versions.
Keywords: Báb, Writings of; God sufficeth all things (invocation); Prayer texts; Research Department, Questions and answers; Translation

Prayer Revealed by the Exalted Pen for Mírzá 'Abu'l-Fadl - Bahá'u'lláh (1995)
Authorized translation of a short prayer, with a short introduction from the BWC Research Department.
Submitted by and posted with permission of recipient.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani; Prayer texts

Prayer, Meditation, and the Devotional Attitude, The Importance of - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Báb, The (Compilation of Compilations, 1991)
Note: this compilation could use better HTML formatting, contact us to volunteer. Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Devotion; Meditation; Prayer; Spirituality

Prayers and Meditations - Bahá'u'lláh (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1988)
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers of; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Meditation; Prayer; Prayer texts; Prayers and Meditations of Bahá'u'lláh (book); Ziyarat-Namih (Tablet of Visitation for the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh)

Prayers and Meditations: Study Guide - Bayat,Ehsan, compiler (2024)
A lengthy study guide of the 184 passages from Bahá'u'lláh's writings selected by the Guardian, which combine prayers and meditative passages and offer the opportunity for personal reflection as well as conversation and communion with God.
Also available in Microsoft Word format.
Keywords: Outlines and summaries; Prayers and Meditations of Bahá'u'lláh (book); Study guides

Prayers and rituals in the Bahá'í Faith: Introduction to A Tablet to Jináb-i-Mullá 'Alí-Akbar fí Ardi'l-Álif - Savi,Julio; Mardani,Faezeh (Lights of Irfan, 2008)
A tablet of Bahá'u'lláh to one of the Bábís to renew his faith before He had revealed his mission; its recipient and circumstances of composition; a prayer of 'reunion' and its attendant rituals.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #76, Centre for Bahá'í Studies, Acuto, Italy (July 6-10, 2007). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/76/savi_prayers. See also proofread Microsoft Word version, prepared by Mike Thomas (2023).
Keywords: Ablutions; Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Clothing; Detachment; Fragrance; Genuflections; Hadith; Irfan Colloquia; Meditation; Mullá `Alí-Akbar-i-Ardistání; Mysticism; Obligatory prayer; Perfume; Prayer; Prayer texts; Qiblih; Rituals; Salat-i-Hajat or Salat-i-Liqá (Prayer of the Needs or Reunion prayer); Search; Tests and difficulties

Prayers from the 2002 edition of Bahá'í Prayers not included in 1991 edition - Author unknown, compiler (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 2002)
Compilation of prayers in the newer American Bahá'í Prayers book that are not included in older editions.
This file has been compiled from different sources, and may contain errors. Mirrored with permission from sites.google.com/site/akbweb.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers of; Báb, Prayers of; Cross-reference; Prayer; Prayer texts; `Abdu'l-Bahá, prayers of

Prayers of Shoghi Effendi - Shoghi Effendi (1994)
Why the Guardian's prayers are not translated into English.
Excerpts from three letters, all containing translations of prayers by Shoghi Effendi. While I received these postings in partial form and don't know their histories, the prayers of Shoghi Effendi included all appear to be from reliable sources. [-J.W.]
Keywords: Prayer texts; Shoghi Effendi, Prayers of; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Translation

Prayers, Tablets, Instructions and Miscellany: Gathered by American Visitors to the Holy City During the Summer of 1900 - Getsinger,Edward C.; Getsinger,Lua; Hoar,William; Hoar,Anna (Adair Press, 1900)
Around the time of Kheiralla's defection, Abdu'l-Bahá selected some texts on the Covenant which, along with pilgrim's notes of the second party of American Bahá'ís to visit Akka, were translated and published as this book.
See the original image scans at h-net.org.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Chicago, IL; Covenant; Prayer texts; United States (documents); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Precedentes de elementos de gobernanza en religiones: Aportaciones de la Fe bahá'í para la gobernanza futura - Perdu Honeyman,Nobel Augusto (Journal of the Sociology and Theory of Religion, 2022)
Agunos apuntes sobre el papel desempeñado por algunas religiones del pasado en el desarrollo y consolidación de lo que ahora se conoce como obernanza; los conceptos de las enseñanzas de la Fe bahá’í que pudieran relacionarse con la gobernanza global.
This article is online under CC license at revistas.uva.es/index.php/socireli/article/view/5476. See full journal Los problemas sociales, económicos y religiosos desde la perspectiva bahá’í.
Keywords: Governance; Interfaith dialogue; Religion (general)

Precious Glimmers: The Bahá'í Faith in New York, 1892-1932 - Ahdieh,Hussein (2020)
Highlights of the first forty years of the Bahá'í Faith in the City of the Covenant, 1892-1932. Includes chronology of meetings, conferences, activities, and milestones, and photographs.
Also available in Microsoft Word format. Also online at academia.edu.
Keywords: Arthur Pillsbury Dodge; Bahá'í history by country; Biography; Howard MacNutt; Juliet Thompson; Louis G. Gregory; Lua Getsinger; Martha Root; Mountfort Mills; New York, USA; Pilgrims notes; Roy C. Wilhelm; United States (documents); Visuals; `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents)

Précis Commentary on One Common Faith - Hatcher,William S. (William S. Hatcher Library, 2008)
Commentary on the statement ‘One Common Faith’.
Mirrored with permission from william.hatcher.org.
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; One Common Faith (commentary); Unity; Unity of religion

Preface - Kazemzadeh,Firuz (The Promised Day is Come, 1961)
The original introduction for the book. In editions after 1967, this preface has been replaced by a statement written to the UN Special Committee on Palestine by the Guardian himself.
Keywords: Promised Day is Come (letter)

Prejudice and Discrimination - Hoonaard, van den,Will C. (1993)
Prejudice is cultural. History shows no society is immune. U.S. Bahá'ís facilitated Racial Amity groups in the 20s and 30s, and found ignorance plus apathy are key factors in prejudice. Reducing it requires a universal commitment to the unity of humanity.
Written for possible inclusion in The Bahá'í Encyclopedia. Posted with permission of both the author and of the editor of the Encyclopedia project.
Keywords: Apathy and indifference; Discrimination; Ignorance; Knowledge; Prejudice; Race; Racism; Unity

Preliminary Analysis of the Bahá'í Concept of Mental Health - Herzog,Laura (1998)
A preliminary analysis of Bahá’í concepts of psychology, delimited to translated Scriptures and the author’s understanding of Divine Revelation, vis-à-vis the theories of Jung, Maslow, and Rogers.
A Clinical Research Project submitted to the faculty of the Illinois School of Professional Psychology/Chicago Campus in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology, Chicago, Illinois, May, 1998.
Keywords: Mental health; Psychology; Spirituality

Preliminary Bibliography of works in French making mention of the Babí or Bahá'í religions (1945–2000) - Linard,Thomas (Online Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2007)
See also Bibliographie des ouvrages de langue française mentionnant les religions babie ou baha’ie (1844-1944). Originally posted at ojbs.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Bahá'í studies; Bibliography; Bábísm; France; French language

Preliminary History of the Bahá'í Community of Samarkand, Uzbekistan - Herrmann,Duane L.; Shodiev,Hasan T. (Baha'i Vizier, 2004)
Since repression of religion ended in the USSR, Bahá'ís in former Soviet territories resumed practice of their faith and become curious about their history, most of which had been destroyed. This article is an early step at rediscovering this history.
This article written in English in 1997 and published in Dutch in 2004. Also at academia.edu, see this Word version.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Samarkand, Uzbekistan; Uzbekistan

Preparación para Vivir en Paz, el Papel de la Juventud - Bahá'í International Community (1985)
Declaración preparada en el Año Internacional de la Paz por la Comunidad Internacional Bahá’í para el Seminario de las regiones de Asia y el Pacífico y Asia Occidental. Bangkok, Tailandia, 20 al 24 de mayo de 1985.
Keywords: BIC statements; Bahá'í International Community; Peace; Statements; Youth

Preparación Para Vivir En Paz, La - Bahá'í International Community (1985)
Charla presentada durante el Seminario Regional de las Naciones Unidas para Latinoamérica y el Caribe, auspiciado por la Comisión Económica y Social para Latinoamérica y el Caribe (ECLAC) 26 de febrero de 1985
Charla presentada durante el Seminario Regional de las Naciones Unidas para Latinoamérica y el Caribe para el Año Internacional de la Paz (Tema 2 del programa), auspiciado por la Comisión Económica y Social para Latinoamérica y el Caribe (ECLAC). Organización de las Naciones Unidas, Nueva York. 26 de febrero de 1985.
Keywords: BIC statements; Bahá'í International Community; Peace; Statements; Youth

Preparación para Vivir en Paz, La Contribución de la Mujer - Bahá'í International Community (1985)
Declaración preparada por la Comunidad Internacional Bahá’í para el Seminario Regional Europeo para el Año Internacional de la Paz, Viena, Austria: 6 al 10 de mayo de 1985
Keywords: BIC statements; Bahá'í International Community; Peace; Statements; Women

Preparing Bahá'í Communities in the East and West to Embrace Gender Equality - Ma'ani,Baharieh Rouhani (Lights of Irfan, 2011)
The way Abdu'l-Bahá dealt with the matter of gender equality, some of his writings revealed in honor of the Bahá’í women in Iran and North America, and the practical ways he educated Bahá'í men to accept women as their equals.
Mirrored with permission from http://irfancolloquia.org/100/ma'ani_equality.
Keywords: Administration; Canada; Equality; Gender; Iran (documents); Social change; United States (documents); Wisdom; Women

Prescription for Living - Khanum,Ruhiyyih (George Ronald, 1950)
Thoughts on how to weave a happy individual life and a happy, united, world life: on love and marriage, death, work, habits, sorrow and trial, and the Bahá'í teachings.
This document is also available at archive.org; the e-book versions below are shared with permission of publisher at bahaiebooks.org.
Keywords: Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; E-books; Happiness; Life (general); Teachings; Tests and difficulties

Present Structure of Bahá'í Administration - Troxel,Duane (2005)
One-page illustration showing the full structure of the Bahá'í Institutions and their inter-connections.
Keywords: Administration; Covenant; Visuals; World order

Presentations on Various Topics of Bahá'í Teachings - Norozi,place (2024)
Eight presentations: references to the next Manifestation; equality in the writings of the Bab; listing Letters of the Living in order of conversion; Abdu'l-Bahá's love for Iran; Tablet of Unity; removal of the Sword with the Word; Ocean of Tenderness.
Keywords: Ark; Bible; Dreams and visions; Equality; Fourth heaven; Future Manifestations of God; Interpretation; Iran (documents); Jesus Christ; Lawh-i-Ittihad (Tablet of Unity); Lawh-i-Tabíb (Tablet to a Physician); Letters of the Living; Metaphors and allegories; Miracles; Muhammad (Prophet); Removal of the sword; Women

President Wilson and the Bahá'í Connection - Pearsall,Paul (Herald of the South, 1988)
Short overview of myths and facts on the Wilson-Bahá'í connection. Includes addenda on the League of Nations, by Vincent Littrell, and on the Fourteen Points, by Bahram Nadini.
Needs proofreading.
Keywords: Fourteen Points (Woodrow Wilson); History (general); League of Nations; Peace; Principles; United States (documents); United States, Presidents; War; Woodrow Wilson; World War I

Preuves bahá'íes basées sur le Coran - Spierckel,Pierre (2015)
Expose la compréhension bahá'íe des versets du Coran qui traitent de Sceau des prophètes, de Jour du Jugement et du Jour de Dieu.
Keywords: E-books (articles); Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Proofs; Quran

Prevención de Discriminaciones y Protección a las Minorías, 1988 - Bahá'í International Community (1988)
Declaración de la Comunidad Internacional Bahá'í en el cuadragésimo período de sesiones de la Subcomisión de las Naciones Unidas de Prevención de Discriminaciones y Protección a las Minorías. Sexto período de sesiones del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Poblaciones Indígenas. Tema 5 del programa: Actividades normativas: Evolución de las normas relativas a los derechos de las poblaciones indígenas. Ginebra. 1 a 5 de agosto de 1988.
Keywords: BIC statements; Bahá'í International Community; Discrimination; Human rights; Indigenous people; Minorities; Statements

Prevención de Discriminaciones y Protección a las Minorías, 1989 - Bahá'í International Community (1989)
PREVENCION DE DISCRIMINACION Y PROTECCION A LAS MINORIAS COMISION DE DERECHOS HUMANOS, 46º período de sesiones. Tema 20 del programa provisional, INFORME DE LA SUBCOMISION DE PREVENCION DE DISCRIMINACION Y PROTECCION A LAS MINORIAS SOBRE SU 41° PERIODO DE SESIONES. Exposición escrita presentada por la Comunidad Internacional Bahá'í. El Secretario General ha recibido la siguiente comunicación, que se distribuye de conformidad con la resolución 1296 (XLIV) del Consejo Económico y Social. 27 de diciembre de 1989.
Keywords: BIC statements; Bahá'í International Community; Discrimination; Human rights; Indigenous people; Minorities; Statements

Prière pour protéger des épidémies - Bahá'u'lláh (2020)
Une prière révélée par Bahá’u’lláh pour protéger des épidémies, publiée dans Bahá'í Prayers. Traduction provisoire.
Keywords: Health and healing; Prayer; Prayer texts; Protection

Prière révélée par Bahá'u'lláh le premier jour du Jeûne - Bahá'u'lláh (2020)
Provisional French translation by Daoust from an English rendering by Masumian of Bahá'u'lláh's prayer on the first day of the Fast.
See Ma'sumian's English translation.
Keywords: Fasting; Prayer texts

Prières bahá'íes: Un choix de prières révélées par Bahá'u'lláh, le Báb et 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Báb, The; Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá (2002)
Traduction de Bahá'í Prayers.
This is an "official" translation, prepared by the French Panel named by the Universal House of Justice and published by the French publishing trust, la Maison d'éditions bahá'íes. See also Bibliothèque baha'ie. See also English original.
Keywords: Prayer texts

Prières de 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Abdul-Bahá (2021)
Sélection de prières de ‘Abdu’l-Bahá préparée par le Département de Recherche de la Maison Universelle de Justice et publiée en mars 2021 en commémoration du centième anniversaire de Son Ascension.
Translation of Twenty-six Prayers Revealed by 'Abdu'l-Bahá. This is an "official" translation, prepared by the French Panel named by the Universal House of Justice.
Keywords: Prayer texts; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Prières et méditations: Choix de prières et de méditations révélées par Bahá'u'lláh, compilé et traduit en anglais par Shoghi Effendi - Bahá'u'lláh (2024)
French translation of Prayers and Meditations.
See English original.
Keywords: Prayers and Meditations of Bahá'u'lláh (book)

Prières supplémentaires révélées par 'Abdu'l-Bahá - Abdul-Bahá (2020)
Provisional French translation of "Additional Prayers Revealed by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá".
See English original.
Keywords: Prayer texts; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of

Prières supplémentaires révélées par Bahá'u'lláh - Bahá'u'lláh (2020)
Provisional French translation of "Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh."
See English original.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Prayer texts

Primary Source Texts Related to the Covenant - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (2021)
Collection of some essential writings central to understanding the Bahá'í Covenant.
This page was inspired by a bundle published by the Dutch Bahá'í community in November 2021. See also Texts for the Study of the Covenant (bahaibookstore.com). The contents of the below files were taken from bahai.org/library, edited by Arjen Bolhuis (exception: the compilation "The Covenant" is mirrored here without any layout changes).
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Station of; Basics; Báb, Station of the; Constitutions (Bahá'í); Covenant; Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh (letter); Guardianship; Kitáb-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant); Universal House of Justice (UHJ general); Universal House of Justice, Constitution of; Will and Testament of Bahá'u'lláh; Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Station of

Primary Source Texts, Access to - Universal House of Justice; Maneck,Susan (1998)
One scholar's query why the Bahá'í World Centre's copies of primary sources in Bábí and Bahá'í history are not available for study, followed by the House's response.
Transmitted by email. Submitted by and name retained with permission of recipient. Mirrored from bahai.org, where it is also available in PDF and Word formats.
Keywords: Access to primary sources; Archives; Bahá'í World Centre; Bahá'í studies; Criticism and apologetics; Manuscripts; Preservation and conservation (archives); Scholarship; Translation; Universal House of Justice

Primer for Bahá'í Assemblies - Gail,Marzieh (World Order, 1944)
Overview of the Bahá'í political system, and proposals for consultation, assembly functioning.
Keywords: Administrative Order; Consultation; Marzieh Gail; Spiritual Assemblies

Primum Non Nocere: Reflections of a Bahá'í Oncologist about Treating the Dying Patient - Alizadeh,Aaron (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2015)
Doctors must learn how to bring the topic of death into the physician-patient conversation. The Bahá’í Faith can help to address how death is perceived and discussed in the medical community.
Mirrored from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/175.
Keywords: Cancer; Death; Health and healing; Soul

Principios de Administración Bahá'í (Una compilación) - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi (Editorial Bahá'í Indo-latino Americana, 1961)
Spanish translation of Principles of Bahá'í Administration
See English original.
Keywords: Administration; Principles of Bahá'í Administration (book)

Principles and Practices of Curriculum Design and Development - Arbab,Farzam (2004)
Talk given by Dr. Arbab, member of the Universal House of Justice, at the Portals to Growth Conference, Australia, 2004. Mirrored with permission from ruhiresources.org.
Keywords: Curriculum; Education; Farzam Arbab; Institute process; Ruhi Institute; Training Institutes

Principles of Bahá'í Administration - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá; Shoghi Effendi (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1950)
A guide to procedure in the life and organic activity of the Bahá'í community, prepared from three main sources from the US National Spiritual Assembly: Bahá'í Administration, Bahá'í Procedure, and Bahá'í Community.
Keywords: Administration; Auditing; Badi calendar; Conventions; Conventions, National; Decision making; Elections; Funds; Holy days; Laws; Local Spiritual Assemblies; National Spiritual Assemblies; Pilgrims notes; Prayer; Prayer, Five Steps of; Principles of Bahá'í Administration (book); Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Tests and difficulties

Principles of Consultation Applied to the Process of Innovation in a Corporate Environment - Rosenfeld,Robert B.; Winger-Bearskin,Michael H. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1990)
Innovation is essential for industrial growth, but is obstructed when creative employees are unable to communicate ideas and the organization is unresponsive. The Bahá’í process of consultation can enhance communication to promote innovation.
Mirrored with permission from the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive.
Keywords: Business; Consultation; Innovation

Principles of Spiritual Economics: A Compilation from the Bahá'í Writings - Badee,Hooshmand, compiler (2015)
A book-length compilation, in 38 chapters, from the writings of Bahá’u’lláh, The Báb, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, and the Universal House of Justice on the relationship between economics and 33 sub-topics.
Purchase a copy at amazon.com. Principles of Spiritual Economics is the newer edition of The True Foundation of All Economics, first published in 1993.
Keywords: Agriculture; Alcohol; Consultation; Development; Economics; Equality; Ethics; Health and healing; Morality; Profit-sharing; Prosperity; Social and economic development; Spirituality; Wealth and poverty; Women; Work; Work ethics

Prison Memories of Mr. Amoui (Feb. 1984 - March 1989) - Amoui,Ramezanali (1989)
Memoirs of five years in an Iranian prison. Includes Persian original. The author's full name is not known — and the last name could be Amu'i — and the translator's name is not certain.
These documents were sent to me by friends in Iran. It is also online in a different format at scribd.com. See also the Persian original in Word format, and see also a scan of the original (PDF, 17MB; from personal copy of K. Raoufian, 2022).
Keywords: Biography

Pritam Singh - Author unknown (1998)
Short biography of the first Sikh Bahá'í (1881-1959).
Archived from bahaindia.org [archive.org].
Keywords: Biography; India; Pritam Singh; Punjab, India; Sikhism

Private Dowding: The personal story of a soldier killed in battle - Pole,Wellesley Tudor (Neville Spearman, 1966)
A record of a soldier in WWI allegedly "channeled" to Pole from the afterlife.
This book only tangentionally mentions the Bahá'í Faith; see pages 45-46. Read about the author at Wikipedia.
Keywords: Wellesley Tudor Pole

Problem Solving in the Family - Blumenthal,Erik (The Family: Our Hopes and Challenges, 1995)
How can we solve our problems or conflicts? We need to know and put 5 factors into practice: our attitude; mutual respect; understanding each other's motives; changing the 'present agreement' by conscious communication; and mutual cooperation.
This document is no longer available at its original host; mirrored from archive.org.
Keywords: Children; Collaboration and cooperation; Conflict; Conflict resolution; Consultation; Erik Blumenthal; Family; Family consultation; Parents; Psychology; Respect; Tests and difficulties

Problems of Chronology in Baha'u'llah's Tablet of Wisdom - Cole,Juan (World Order, 1979)
On the biographical section of the Lawh-i-Hikmat and its background in Islamic models.
Also available as a Microsoft Word document. Mirrored with permission from www.h-net.org.
Keywords: Criticism and apologetics; Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Philosophers; Philosophy

Problems of Scholarship in a Bahá'í Context - MacEoin,Denis (Baha'i Studies Bulletin, 1982)
Thoughts on "anti-intellectualism" and faith-based interpretations of history, by a self-described outsider scholar.
See follow-up discussions in Debates between MacEoin et al.

Proceso de la creación artística, El: Una manifestación espiritual - Alba,David Cerpa (La Pluma del Conocimiento, 2001)
La dinámica de la creación artística representa en todos los tiempos un vivo retrato de las aspiraciones espirituales que motivan a las personas. Este ensayo explora las fenomenológica de este proceso.
Sobre el arte como medio de expresión de la belleza espiritual de su autor. Author note: Estudiante de Economía. Miembro de la Comunidad Bahá'í de Arequipa. From bahaidream.com; see also bahaidream.com/lapluma/revista01/revista01.htm.

Process Philosophy and the Bahá'í Writings: An Initial Exploration - Kluge,Ian (Lights of Irfan, 2004)
An examination of the Bahá'í Writings in relationship to modern process philosophy (e.g. Whitehead, Hartshorne, Cobb, and de Chardin), and some of the issues related to the formulation a unique Bahá'í version of process thought; some relevant topics.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #46, Bosch Bahá'í School, California (May 1-4, 2003). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/46/kluge_philosophy.
Keywords: Alfred North Whitehead; Irfan Colloquia; Philosophy; Process philosophy

Processes of the Lesser Peace, ed. by Babak Bahador and Nazila Ghanea: Review - Collins,William P. (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 2004)
Originally posted at bahai-studies.ca/processes-of-the-lesser-peace [archive.org]. See also original scan.
Keywords: Lesser Peace; Peace

Proclaim the New Name - Herrmann,Duane L. (Twisting Topeka, 2014)
"When you take an actual historical time and twist it, the results can be rather interesting. What part is true, what part is not? That, the reader will have to decide." From the Twisting Topeka anthology of historical fiction.
Order a copy of the complete book from amazon.com.
Keywords: Fiction; Historical fiction; Stories

Proclamación de Bahá'u'lláh a los Reyes y Dirigentes del Mundo, La - Bahá'u'lláh (1978)
Spanish translation of Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh.
This document, and many more in Spanish, are online at Bahá'ís de Puerto Rico.
Keywords: Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh (book); Tablets to kings and rulers

Proclamation of Baha'u'llah - Zafar,Said
Date and context of this talk not given, and the correct spelling of the speaker's name not known; contact me if you know. Originally posted at bahaistudy.org, archived at archive.org.
Keywords: Tablets to kings and rulers

Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh - Bahá'u'lláh (Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1978)
Excerpts from Baha'u'llah's letters to the kings and leaders of the world.
Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh (book); Tablets to kings and rulers

Proclamation of Baha'u'llah sources - Bolhuis,Arjen, compiler (2000)
Cross-reference chart of passages published in Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh with Summons of the Lord of Hosts and other published sources.
Also available in PDF format. See also another version of this chart.
Keywords: Cross-reference; Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh (book); Tablets to kings and rulers

Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh: Cross-reference to the Leiden List and Editable "Wiki" Pages - Zamir,Brett, compiler (2003)
Cross-references of the Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh to the Leiden List bibliography and some editable Wiki pages
Keywords: Cross-reference; Leiden List; Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh (book); Tablets to kings and rulers

Procrustes' Bed: The Insufficiency of Secular Humanism - Kluge,Ian (Lights of Irfan, 2015)
Secular humanism’s inability to accommodate the universal presence of religion in human nature undermines its claim to be a viable world-view for mankind and diminishes its internal coherence.
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session [# ?]. Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/kluge_humanism.
Keywords: Humanism; Philosophy; Secularism

Professions - Bahá'u'lláh; Abdul-Bahá
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Arts and crafts; Economics; Education; Health and healing; Leadership; Professions; Work

Professor: A Tribute to Dr. 'Alí-Murád Dávúdí - Sobhani-Matejko,Farideh (2022)
Tribute by a young psychology student in the late 1960s to Dr. ‘Alí-Murád Dávúdí, a philosopher and intellectual giant of the Bahá’í Faith who was later kidnapped by the Islamic regime and never heard from again.
Keywords: Biography; Iran (documents); `Alí Murad Davudi

Profezie con Valore Scientifico - Avaregan,Hossein (Opinioni Baha'i, 1981)
L’autore illustra le quattro condizioni necessarie affinché a una profezia si possa dare valore scientifico e ciò grazie alla soluzione scoperta dal teologo tedesco Johann Funk (1518-1566).
"Scientifically-Sound Prophecies": Discussion of the four conditions necessary for a prophecy to be given scientific value, and thanks to the solution found by the German theologian Johann Funk (1518-1566).
Keywords: Bible; Christianity; Interfaith dialogue; Prophecies; Science

Profiles of Some Topeka Bahá'ís - Herrmann,Duane L. (1997)
Background for the author's research into Kansas Bahá'í history.
Mirrored from geocities.ws/dlherrmann. See also Profiles of some Enterprise Bahá'ís.
Keywords: Bahá'í history by country; Biography; Kansas, USA; United States (documents)

Program for the Activities of the Bahá'í Students in the American University of Beirut, 1927-1928 - Author unknown, compiler (1927)
The program of the weekly meetings of the Bahá'í students in the American University of Beirut during the Bahá'í year 84-95 (1927-1928), including presentations by A.Q. Faizi, H.M. Balyuzi, Hasan and Ali Dehgan, Eshagh and Abbas Eqbal, et al.
Original document is one large sheet of paper, 11"x22", printed on both sides. Images scanned by P. Afsharian, stitched together in Photoshop by J. Winters; list of full names below provided by Afsharian, with their contemporary transcription (e.g. Abbas Adib Eghbal for Abbas A. Ekbal, or Bagheroff for Bakeroff).
Keywords: Abu'l-Qasim Faizi; American University of Beirut; Beirut, Lebanon; Hasan Balyuzi; Lebanon; Universities

Programs for the Observance of Bahá'í Holy Days - Author unknown, compiler (2014)
Booklets from four devotional programs at the Wilmette House of Worship: 9th day of Ridván (2014), 1st day of Ridván (2017), martyrdom of The Báb (2017, and birth of Bahá'u'lláh (2021), with selections of relevant passages from the Writings.
Keywords: Bahá'u'lláh, Birth of; Báb, Martyrdom of; Chicago, IL; Holy days; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; Ridván; United States (documents)

Progress Bahá'í World Crusade 1953-1958 - Shoghi Effendi (The Bahá'í Faith 1844-1963: Information Statistical and Comparative, 1963)
Statistical information such as LSA incorporation, temple construction, etc.
Published as a pull-out in The Bahá'í Faith 1844-1963: Information Statistical and Comparative. Also published in Bahá'í World Volume XIII: 1954-1963. See also Index to Maps and charts in Bahá'í World volumes. The creases in the image existed in the original poster I used; I scanned the large original in ten separate scans and then collated them to produce this electronic image. [-J.W.]
Keywords: Maps; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963)

Progress of the Bahá'í Faith in South Africa since 1911 - Author unknown (Bahá'ís of South Africa, 2007)
Overview of the Bahá'í communities in South Africa, 1911-2007.
Originally posted at bci.org/southafrica; later appeared (without images) at www.bahai.org.za/cm/node/19.

Progress of the Faith in the United States and South Carolina - Universal House of Justice (2019)
While growth may not be always apparent in local regions, efforts of clusters country-wide are showing overall progress.
Transmitted by email and shared by recipient (name removed); original on file.
Keywords: Growth; Institute process; South Carolina, USA; United States (documents)

Progressive Revelation - Stockman,Robert (1995)
Written for possible inclusion in The Bahá'í Encyclopedia. Posted with permission of both the author and of the editor of the Encyclopedia project.
Keywords: Progressive revelation

Progressive Revelation and Oneness of Religion - Sears,William (1972)
A videotaped talk (possibly from 1972), along with a shorter animated 2018 presentation prepared by a graphic designer for the Bahá'í Journeys website.
The first video below (followed by the longer original video) is embedded from youtube.com. It was first posted at, and created for, bahaijourneys.org/principles (archived). If you know the date or place of this talk, please let us know; the date "1972" was provided as a "guess" by a commentor at youtube.com.
Keywords: Basics; Deepening; Interfaith dialogue; Introductory; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Manifestations of God; Mirrors; Progressive revelation; Reconciliation; Unity of religion; Visuals; William Sears

Progressive Revelation Poster - Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Teaneck NJ
One-page poster giving a visual representation of the Manifestations that have come to nine countries or regions of the world.
From the Emma Maxie Jones Collection. Date of original unknown (possibly 1940-1950s); digitized version prepared in 2005. See also a picture of my father, Walter Jones, teaching in the Gallup Bahá'í center during the 1960s, who likely used this chart as inspiration for his own chart for teaching the native People. [-E.J., 2021]
Keywords: Interfaith dialogue; Manifestations of God; New Jersey, USA; Progressive revelation; Teaneck, NJ; United States (documents); Visuals

Progressive Revelation: A Brief Circumstantial/Historical Contextualization - Wolf,Mehdi (2022)
Progressive revelation must be understood in the context of the twin purposes of a divine Manifestation, as well as the prevailing historical circumstances. The varying attitudes to law and science are used as test cases.
Also available in Powerpoint format.
Keywords: Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Laws; Progressive revelation; Science; Zoroastrianism

Progressive Revelation: The Bible and Bahá'u'lláh - Young,David F., compiler (2010)
A facilitator and a participant guide on studying The Bible and Bahá’u’lláh, prepared for the Core Curriculum for Spiritual Education program's "Fundamental Verities Courses."
The two guides below were based on a course prepared by D. Young, prepared for a program run on behalf of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Mirrored from core-curriculum.bahai.us [archive.org].
Keywords: Bible; Christianity; Interfaith dialogue; Progressive revelation; Prophecies; Statistics; Teaching

Prolegomena to a Bahá'í Theology - McLean,Jack (Journal of Baha'i Studies, 1992)
Groundbreaking and thorough essay on the basic concerns of scholarly Bahá'í theology.
Also available in Microsoft Word format. Also available in French translation [PDF] by Pierre Spierckel.
Keywords: Apophatic theology; Buddhism; Christianity; Cosmology; God; Hinduism; Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Judaism; Philosophy; Relativism; Sufism; Theology

Prominent People, Teaching - Shoghi Effendi; Universal House of Justice (Compilation of Compilations, 1991)
Also available as a nicely-formatted PDF, prepared by Romane Takkenberg. Add or read quotations or links pertaining to this work here.
Keywords: Teaching