Kamál, 16 ‘Ilm (Knowledge), 179 B.E

Seen

Sunset on its way — followed soon after by little ghosts and goblins …

Done

Added the “Your Time for Your Basic Needs” graphic to the Narrative of the Twin Economies wiki. More on the way this week.

Tony Budak posted several documents about co-production to the Raising the Value of Learning (RVL) group on Slack. They will make excellent reference material for the wiki!

Started using the Record Friend Vinyl Record Cleaner by Big Fudge with my vinyl collection. As reported in the 29 October 2022 Daily Log a couple of days ago this is going to take a while.

And today is my daughter’s birthday — who will always be her mom’s “li’l pumpkin. HAPPY HALLOWEEN BIRTHDAY!!

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Quoted

In Los Angeles and San Francisco great interest was manifested in the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh by the newspapers, universities and churches. Our addresses were lengthy, the message of the Cause was proclaimed and arguments and evidences advanced. There was no dissent. All heard the glad tidings with complete acquiescence, and praise was unanimous, even including the ministers.

The friends in Los Angeles and San Francisco are very firm in the Covenant. If they sense the least violation on the part of anyone, they shun him entirely; for they know that such a person is engaged in extinguishing the lamps of faith ignited by the light of the Covenant, thereby producing weakness and indifference in the divine Cause. For instance, the firm ones teach a person. Then the violators go to him and instill suspicion until he becomes lukewarm. There have been violators here in Chicago for twenty years. What have they done? Nothing. Have they been able to teach anybody? Have they been able to speak in churches or address audiences elsewhere? Have they been able to make anybody firm in the Cause? They are doing nothing except extinguishing the lamps we ignite. The friends in San Francisco are exceedingly firm. They do not receive violators in their homes. Recently a violator went to that city. The Bahá’í friends turned him away, saying, “You are not with us; why do you try to come among us?” Today the most important principle of faith is firmness in the Covenant, because firmness in the Covenant wards off differences. Therefore, you must be firm as mountains. 1

  1. ʻAbduʼl-Bahá. The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by ʻAbduʼl-Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912. Edited by Howard MacNutt. 2nd ed. Wilmette, Ill: Baháʼí Publishing Trust, 1982, 381. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/promulgation-universal-peace/28#024103585 [return]