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The Baháʼí conception of God is of an "unknowable essence" who is the source of all existence and known through the perception of human virtues. The Baháʼí Faith follows the tradition of monotheism and dispensationalism, believing that God has no physical form, but periodically provides divine messengers in human form that are the sources of spiritual education.
The Baháʼí teachings, which are incorporated in the Baháʼí writings. [1] cover theological, ethical, social, and spiritual concepts which were established by Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Baháʼí Faith, and elucidated at his passing by his son, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, following whom, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s grandson, Shoghi Effendi.
Elizabeth Hindson was known as Betty Anderson in her early years. [1] As a child, she was raised by her grandparents on a cattle station in Queensland. [2] Hindson's first 14 years were spent in the countryside in the Queensland South Burnett area, and then in a small community supported by timber and forestry industries near Kilcoy.
In 1901 when the American Baha'i community numbered only roughly 2000 members, [49] they approached the US Ambassador to Persia Herbert W. Bowen in Paris concerning the situation of Baháʼís. [50] As an example of the persecution Baha'is faced (then and now) in Iran, even an American diplomat was murdered in 1924 by a mob on suspicion of ...
The Baháʼí Faith in Colombia begins with references to the country in Baháʼí literature as early as 1916, [1] with Baháʼís visiting as early as 1927. [2] The first Colombian joined the religion in 1929 [3] and the first Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly was elected in Bogotá in 1944 [4] with the beginning of the arrival of coordinated pioneers from the United States and achieved an ...
The Shaykhi movement was a school of theology within Twelver Shiʻa Islam that was started through the teaching of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsá'í.Shaykh Ahmad's teachings included that the Imams were spiritual beings and thus, in contrast to the widespread Shiʻa belief, that the Imams existed within spiritual bodies, and not material bodies. [9]
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The Baha'i Faith in America. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0742562349. OCLC 1244209170. McMullen, Mike (2000). The Baháʼí: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0813528366. McMullen, Mike (2015). The Baháʼís of America: The Growth of a Religious Movement. NYU Press. ISBN 978-1-4798-5152-2.