Baha'u'llah November 12, 1817

[ulli]

Today is Baha'u'llah's birthday.
Up until 12 years ago I would have been celebrating together with other Baha'is at this time.
In May 2000 I visited the Baha'i World center for the second time in my life, in Haifa, Israel.
Soon after that I became convinced that the Baha'i faith had been hijacked by the same PTB that we are talking about a lot here.
Yet the original message still holds truth for me, and his prophecies are still unfolding, the way he foretold they would, so many years ago.

In view of his message all the current events make sense. We are marching into a golden age, and as the old structures are crumbling they cause a lot of fall-out and dust.
All I can say, people, hang in there. It's all good.
The more you hold this trust the more you will be protected.

Today I am considered a dissident, although I still hold Baha'u'llah's message as one of the most profound messages ever given to the world.


Bahá'u'lláh

In the middle of the last century, one of the most notorious dungeons in the Near East was Tehran's "Black Pit." Once the underground reservoir for a public bath, its only outlet was a single passage down three steep flights of stone steps. Prisoners huddled in their own bodily wastes, languishing in the pit's inky gloom, subterranean cold and stench-ridden atmosphere.

In this grim setting, the rarest and most cherished of religious events was once again played out: mortal man, outwardly human in other respects, was summoned by God to bring to humanity a new religious revelation.
The year was 1852, and the man was a Persian nobleman, known today as Bahá'u'lláh. During His imprisonment, as He sat with his feet in stocks and a 100-pound iron chain around his neck, Bahá'u'lláh received a vision of God's will for humanity.

The event is comparable to those great moments of the ancient past when God revealed Himself to His earlier Messengers: when Moses stood before the Burning Bush; when the Buddha received enlightenment under the Bodhi tree; when the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, descended upon Jesus; or when the archangel Gabriel appeared to Muhammad.

Bahá'u'lláh's experience in the Black Pit set in motion a process of religious revelation which, over the next 40 years, led to the production of thousands of books, tablets and letters--which today form the core of the sacred scripture of Bahá'í Faith. In those writings, He outlined a framework for the reconstruction of human society at all levels: spiritual, moral, economic, political, and philosophical.

more here:
http://www.bahaullah.com/index.html

[ulli]

Here is a quote from his revelation writings:
He that riseth to serve My Cause should manifest My wisdom, and bend every effort to banish ignorance from the earth. Be united in counsel, be one in thought. Let each morn be better than its eve and each morrow richer than its yesterday. Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches. Take heed that your words be purged from idle fancies and worldly desires and your deeds be cleansed from craftiness and suspicion. Dissipate not the wealth of your precious lives in the pursuit of evil and corrupt affection, nor let your endeavours be spent in promoting your personal interest. Be generous in your days of plenty, and be patient in the hour of loss. Adversity is followed by success and rejoicings follow woe. Guard against idleness and sloth, and cling unto that which profiteth mankind, whether young or old, whether high or low. Beware lest ye sow tares of dissension among men or plant thorns of doubt in pure and radiant hearts.

[misericordia]

Thanks for the post ulli.

I went to a Baha'i school when I was very young and it played a great part in making me aware at a very young age that no matter the differences between us we are all one. Every morning all the classes in the school would come together to welcome the day by holding hands in a circle and singing the schools anthem of unity/world citizenry. Very poignant memories for me. :)

[ulli]

Thanks and blessings. Are you still an active believer? I was originally Lutheran Christian, then lost my faith.
At 28 I had a powerful experience which sparked an obsessive search, which led to astrology, Krishnamurti,
Yogananda and finally in 1983 the Baha'i Faith. I served on assemblies as treasurer as well as several national committees.
It became harder and harder for me to attend stuff as I became convinced that some dark power had derailed the movement.
The original teachings were presented only on the pamphlets, but not upheld inside the communities.
It was a sad moment when I decided to drop out.
Baha'i friends knew Dr. Steven Greer and so I investigated the Disclosure Project from the beginning.
I still think he was the first wave that brought in the tide of worldwide unity.
Even Osho and that Moonie guy Sun Yun Moon attended meetings in their youth and took the teachings and built their organizations, plagiarizing Baha'u'llah.
He was the first. He deserves to be given more credit.

Here are some more quotes from his revelation:
Nuclear power
Bahá'u'lláh wrote:
"Strange and astonishing things exist in the earth but they are hidden from the minds and the understanding of men. These things are capable of changing the whole atmosphere of the earth and their contamination would prove lethal."
Bahá'ís later pointed to this as a statement about the discovery of nuclear energy and the use of nuclear weapons.

Transmutation of elements

In 1873 Bahá'u'lláh wrote in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas about the signs for the coming of age of the human race.
The second sign refers to the emergence of a "divine philosophy" which will include the discovery
of a radical approach to the transmutation of elements:
“Consider the doubts which they who have joined partners with God have instilled into the hearts of the people of this land.
“Is it ever possible,” they ask, “for copper to be transmuted into gold?” Say, Yes, by my Lord, it is possible.
Its secret, however, lieth hidden in Our Knowledge. We will reveal it unto whom We will.
Whoso doubteth Our power, let him ask the Lord his God, that He may disclose unto him the secret, and assure him of its truth.
That copper can be turned into gold is in itself sufficient proof that gold can,
in like manner, be transmuted into copper, if they be of them that can apprehend this truth.
Every mineral can be made to acquire the density, form, and substance of each and every other mineral.
The knowledge thereof is with Us in the Hidden Book.”

Life on other planets

"Thou hast, moreover, asked Me concerning the nature of the celestial spheres.
To comprehend their nature, it would be necessary to inquire into the meaning of the allusions that have been made in the Books of old to the celestial spheres and the heavens, and to discover the character of their relationship to this physical world, and the influence which they exert upon it.
Every heart is filled with wonder at so bewildering a theme, and every mind is perplexed by its mystery.
God, alone, can fathom its import.
The learned men, [divines] that have fixed at several thousand years the life of this earth,
have failed, throughout the long period of their observation, to consider either the number or the age of the other planets.
Consider, moreover, the manifold divergencies that have resulted from the theories propounded by these men.
Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute."~Baha'u'llah

[misericordia]

Blessings to you too and thank you for providing further information.

Well I wouldn't say I was ever a believer in the first place. My mother enrolled me there as she believed that at the time it stood as one of the best schools in Brasilia, adding to that, she also strongly agreed with the philosophy it espoused.. however she has never been a follower. In fact my next school was to be Roman Catholic. But my foray into the world of religious doctrine was short lived, and my conflict with such molding culminated when at the age of 13 I refused to carry out my confirmation to the great disappointment of my mother who although being very spiritual has never been able to/wanted to shake of her catholic programming.