Partial inventory: all items held at Bahá'í Library Online, details

All these things - the fish, the honeycomb etc, are symbols and were meant to be understood spiritually, just as the Resurrection itself was a spiritual resurrection.

SW_v07#11 p.108, PN_1909 p072, PN_1909 p104, PN_unsorted p022

@resurrection of Christ, @outward and inward meanings, @literal interpretation, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture

ABU3519

Words to Miss Rosenberg in 1902(?)

How could they (the Manifestations) teach and guide others in the Way if they themselves did not undergo every species of suffering to which other human beings are subjected.

SW_v07#11 p.108, PN_1909 p073, PN_1909 p105, PN_unsorted p022

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @suffering and imprisonment, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world

ABU1279

Words to Miss Rogers, spoken on 1909-07-05

250

This is the third time you have been here. It has been a great pleasure for you... Man must always associate with those from whom he can get light or be with those to whom he can give light.

SW_v07#18 p.188x, PN_1909 p009, PN_1909 p035, PN_1909C p083, DJT.049-050, BLO_PN#027

@consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @spiritual transformation, @bringing forth results; fruit, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU1351

Words to Miss Pearson in Akka, 1899-02-26

240

One thing I ask of you for your own good, and that you must do if you wish to gain the blessing.

SW_v12#14 p.236, PN_1899 p004

@power of faith; power of the spirit, @Mary Magdalene, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU1962

Words to Miss Ollie Gish, spoken on 1912-10-07

150

Good morning. Your whistling is wonderful, just like a bird. I have heard the songs of various birds

ECN.680+1004

@music and singing, @praise and encouragement, @prayer for specific individuals; groups

ABU2984

Words to Miss Fraser, spoken on 1913-03-29

Yes! But His sadness did not come from anything belonging to Himself. He desired to make a man illumined, but man preferred darkness

DAS.1913-03-29, SW_v16#11 p.713, ADP.073-074

@suffering and imprisonment, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2453

Words to Miss Fraser, spoken on 1912-12-16

You have written excellent articles in the papers in regard to the Cause, I will never forget

DAS.1912-12-16, SW_v03#19 p.003

@critique of Western values; culture, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @newspapers and the media; publications

ABU2488

Words to Miss Fraser and Miss Hodgeson, spoken on 1913-03-24

You are two good sisters. Bahá'í sisterhood is very precious. It is not like material sisterhood. Material sisterhood is forgotten and often changed into hatred.

DAS.1913-03-24, ADP.112-113

@the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @spiritual communication; connections of the heart

ABU2803

Words to Miss Fanny A. Knobloch, Paris, 1913-05-20

The Sunday School is very important; then why did the parents become indifferent? It is very essential

SW_v09#08 p.094-095

@spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @education of children; moral education

ABU1645

Words to Miss E. Goodall, Kheirallah et al in March 1899

190

It would be very difficult to speak of the spiritual Kingdom in any way... You will retain your individuality and will not be swallowed up in one vast spirit.

PN_unsorted p041

@soul; spirit after death, @immateriality; ineffability of soul; spirit, @symbolism

ABU2647

Words to Miss E. Goodall, Kheirallah et al in March 1899

Yes, everything was created in pairs but this earth is the flaming sword and sometimes even if affinities do meet they are not happy for various reasons

PN_unsorted p041

@soul; spirit after death, @pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @service to others; to the Cause of God

AB04609

Words to Miss Buckton

170

Bahá'í Scriptures

...To tamper with the psychic forces while in this world interferes with the condition of the soul in the world to come.

BSC.442 #806, SW_v10#19 p.344x, PN_1912 p110, BSTW#148, BSTW#356

@development of capacity and readiness, @occult sciences; psychic phenomena, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers

ABU1327

Words to Miss Boylan, spoken on 1908-10-02

240

Tell the believers I send them my greetings and love, that I love them very much; that they must occupy themselves with the thought of the eternal world

PN_1908 p002

@suffering and imprisonment, @love and unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love

ABU1131

Words to Miss Boylan, spoken around 1911-08-25

280

One day she [Tahirih] was sitting with our Lord (Abbas Effendi, who was five years old) in her arms, behind a curtain

PN_unsorted p093

@conference of Badasht, @stories; anecdotes

ABU2556

Words to Miss Boylan, spoken around 1911-08-25

‘Abdu'l-Bahá said that he had fulfilled that prophecy by building the Tomb of the Báb. He said, "The blessed and holy Tomb (of Baha'u'llah, May my soul be a sacrifice to its dust!) and the Tomb of the Bab on Mount Carmel was the first Mashraq'ul-Azkar…"

AIF.1911-08-23, SW_v11#01 p.015, PN_1912 p071, PN_1912 p120

@prophecy and fulfillment, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @Shrines and Holy places

ABU2579

Words to Miss Boylan, spoken around 1911-08-25

Christ healed by the power of his word, because the word of the Messiah was the Holy Spirit

SW_v08#18 p.231, PN_1920 p097

@the power of words; of speech, @miracles and their interpretation, @idle fancies; lust and passion, @The Holy Spirit, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU3389

Words to Miss Boylan and Edith Sanderson, spoken around 1911-08-25

When Jesus Christ came to this world, He planted a tree. I have come to see what has become of that tree. The branches are all turned toward the earth.

PN_1912 p071

@historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @Christ; Christianity, @call to action, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0767

Words to Miss Barney, spoken around 1900-10-19

390

Grace and welcome unto you. I wish you not the temporal strength of the passing body... Your faith comes like rain; the first drops are far between

SW_v07#16 p.149-150, PN_1900 p004, BSTW#181

@spiritual transformation, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @second birth, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @living waters; water of life, @spirit of faith [ruh-i-'iman]

ABU1057

Words to Mirza Youness Khan around 1904

300

Well there is a wisdom and I must be sometimes suffering... It is a mistake to think that the Glorious Cause may be better spread in peace and tranquility. There must always be change of position, movements, revolutions and calamities

PN_1904 p083

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @growth of the Cause, @universal peace; world unity, @suffering and imprisonment, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice

ABU2987

Words to Mirza Munir, spoken on 1912-03-26

Persian

Mahmúd's Diary

بیچاره گمنام شد و در ملک و ملکوت ذلیل گردید چه عزتی داشت ولی چون قدر ندانست

The poor man [Kheiralla] has become nameless and debased both in this world and in the Kingdom. What a high honor he had!

BDA1.011.01

MHMD1.016

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge

BBU0002

Words to Mirza Muhit-i-Kirmani

150

O Muhit! You regard yourself as one of the most outstanding figures of the Shaykhi community

DB.134-135

@honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @Shaykhis

ABU2467

Words to Mirza Muhammad Ali Khan, ca. 1906

Persian

ملاحطه نمائید که در سنهٴ ماضیه اعداء و بدخواهان این مظلوم بنهایت فساد برخاستند

Consider ye how in the bygone year the enemies and ill-wishers of this Wronged One arose with consummate mischief [3.5s]

ASAT5.110

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @Ottoman commissions of investigation

ABU0727

Words to Mirza Lotfullah, spoken on 1914-01-23

410

Now that thou hast decided to live in Aleppo, thou must act, speak and conduct thyself

DAS.1914-01-23, SW_v07#17 p.168-169

@cleanliness and refinement, @spiritual transformation, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @goodly deeds; actions, @material world a reflection of the spiritual, @characteristics and conduct of true believers

ABU3721

Words to Mirza Habibu'llah Afnan in 1896-1897

Recently, a Commission of Inquiry has arrived from Istanbul. Each day, I go to the government office and they interrogate Me

AFNAN.077

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @Ottoman commissions of investigation, @suffering and imprisonment, @rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU2185

Words to Mirza Fazlollah Khan, spoken on 1915-02-10

120

The confirmations of God are with those sanctified teachers who are calling mankind to the Cause of the Blessed Beauty. Through teaching the hidden forces of the hearts and the minds are unfolded.

DAS.1915-02-10

@spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the state of enkindlement in teaching, @zeal and fervor in teaching the Cause, @praise and encouragement

ABU2632

Words to Mirza Fazlollah Khan, spoken on 1915-01-29

All their theories and opinions have been useless and without result. They have made a trial of this, still they are not warned. They start in words and end in words. Their whole system of philosophy is based on speculations

DAS.1915-01-29

@empty learning; false spirituality, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @spiritual transformation

ABU1448

Words to Mirza Fazlollah and his wife, spoken on 1913-05-12

220

I am most pleased with your marriage. For this is a marriage between the East and the West. The more intermarriage between the Europeans, Americans and Persians the better

DAS.1913-05-12

@stories; anecdotes, @unity in diversity, @love and unity

ABU1408

Words to Mirza Ali Akbar

230

Thou hast been with me for a long time, and I have grown to love thee very much. When I love people

DAS.1913-10-31, SW_v05#01 p.006-007, SW_v07#10 p.095-096

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @methods of teaching the Cause, @exhortations and counsels, @high station of teachers of the Cause, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @characteristics and conduct of true believers

ABU0340

Words to McNutt, Getsinger and others

690

Muhammad Ali had a great opportunity given him, but through his ambitions he became false and lost it... Let us analyze this paragraph in the Kitab-i-Ahd.... Muhammad Ali has taken the Tablet and separated the pages... and then gilded the pages so as to make the trick invisible

BSTW#087

@corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @station of the Manifestation of God, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis

ABU0034

Words to Mayor Stitt Wilson of Berkeley, spoken on 1912-10-05

1810

I have always had the utmost longing to come to America and associate with the revered members of the societies of international peace

ECN.683+941

@the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @unity; oneness of humanity, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @war and peace, @religion as source of love and unity, @equality of men and women

ABU1529

Words to May Maxwell, spoken on 1898-02-17

210

You are like the rain which is poured upon the earth making it bud and blossom and become fruitful

AEP.012-013, MAX.076-077, BLO_PN#031

@spiritual transformation, @symbolism, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @exhortations and counsels, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @material and spiritual existence; two books

ABU0140

Words to May Maxwell et al, spoken on 1898-02-22

1060

If your hearts are turned always towards God, and filled with the love of God, that love will separate them from all other things, that love will be the wall

PN_1899 p004, AEP.021-022, NRMM.163, BLO_PN#031

@forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @prophecy and fulfillment, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0982

Words to May Maxwell et al, spoken on 1898-02-22

320

We can all serve in the Cause of God no matter what our occupation is. No occupation can prevent the soul coming to God. Peter was a fisherman

PN_1899 p010, AEP.020-021, NRMM.162, BLO_PN#031

@spiritual transformation, @work as worship, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU1283

Words to May Maxwell et al, spoken on 1898-02-22

250

once when the Blessed Perfection was travelling from one place to another with His followers He passed through a lonely country where, at some little distance from the highway, a hermit lived alone in a cave.

AEP.023-025, VLAB.023, BLO_PN#031

@stories; anecdotes, @love of God

ABU1324

Words to May Maxwell et al, spoken around 1898-02-25

330

Bahá'í Scriptures

Pray that your hearts may be cut from yourselves and from the world, that you may be confirmed by the Holy Spirit and filled with the fire of the love of God.... I say unto you that anyone who will arise in the cause of God... And now I give you a commandment which shall be for a covenant... This is the balance

BSC.503 #970x, SW_v08#05 p.057-058x, SW_v12#16 p.250x, AEP.039-040, NRMM.164-165x, MAX.080x, BLO_PN#031

T. Price, The Badasht Project, T. Nosrat, Juliet & Amelia, K. Porray, M. Levine [track 4]

@power of faith; power of the spirit, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @nearness and remoteness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

ABU1702

Words to May Maxwell et al, spoken around 1898-02-25

180

Bahá'í Scriptures

Now the time has come when we must part, but the separation is only of our bodies... Another commandment give I unto you! That ye love one another as I love you....Behold a candle and how it gives its light. It weeps its life away, drop by drop, in order to give forth its flame of light.

BSC.503 #969x, SW_v08#06 p.065x, SW_v08#12 p.144x, SW_v12#16 p.251+254x, PN_1899 p014x, AEP.041-042, VLAB.012, BLO_PN#031

Baha'i World Congress, B. Weber, S. Sunderland

@sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @unity; oneness of humanity, @love and unity, @spiritual transformation

ABU0893

Words to May Maxwell et al, spoken around 1898-02-23

340

All the sufferings you pass through in gaining the Kingdom of God will be obliterated when you attain its perfect happiness. It is as a man who has been ill and helpless

AEP.026-029, NRMM.166, BLO_PN#031

@Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator, @the soul as soil; cultivation of the soul, @The Holy Spirit, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @growth of the Cause, @spiritual transformation, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day

ABU3581

Words to Mason Remey around Sept. 1911

Bahá'u'lláh is the root, I am the Branch. The root of the tree does not bear fruit. The fruit is found upon the branches.

SW_v02#12 p.011

@Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1520