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God Passes By
by Shoghi Effendi
Edition 1, (September 2006)
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CONTENTS
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Foreword
FIRST PERIOD: THE MINISTRY OF THE BÁB 1844 1853
Chapter I: The Birth of the Bábí Revelation
Chapter II: The Báb's Captivity in Ádhirbayján
Chapter III: Upheavals in Mázindarán, Nayríz and Zanján
Chapter IV: The Execution of the Báb
Chapter V: The Attempt on the Life of the Sháh and Its Consequences
SECOND PERIOD: THE MINISTRY OF BAHÁ'U'LLÁH 1853 1892
Chapter VI: The Birth of The Bahá'í Revelation
Chapter VII: Bahá'u'lláh's Banishment to 'Iráq
Chapter VIII: Bahá'u'lláh's Banishment to 'Iráq (Continued)
Chapter IX: The Declaration of Bahá'u'lláh's Mission and His Journey to
Constantinople
Chapter X: The Rebellion of Mírzá Yahyá and the Proclamation of
Bahá'u'lláh's Mission in Adrianople
Chapter XI: Bahá'u'lláh's Incarceration in Akká
Chapter XII: Bahá'u'lláh's Incarceration in Akká (Continued)
Chapter XIII: Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh
THIRD PERIOD: THE MINISTRY OF 'ABDU'L BAHÁ 1892 1921
Chapter XIV: The Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh
Chapter XV: The Rebellion of Mírzá Muhammad 'Alí
Chapter XVI: The Rise and Establishment of the Faith in the West
Chapter XVII: Renewal of 'Abdu'l Bahá's Incarceration
Chapter XVIII: Entombment of the Báb's Remains on Mt. Carmel
Chapter XIX: 'Abdu'l Bahá's Travels in Europe and America
Chapter XX: Growth and Expansion of the Faith in East and West
Chapter XXI: The Passing of 'Abdu'l Bahá
FOURTH PERIOD: THE INCEPTION OF THE FORMATIVE AGE OF THE BAHÁ'Í FAITH
1921 1944
Chapter XXII: The Rise and Establishment of the Administrative Order
Chapter XXIII: Attacks on Bahá'í Institutions
Chapter XXIV: Emancipation and Recognition of the Faith and Its
Institutions
Chapter XXV: International Expansion of Teaching Activities
Retrospect and Prospect
FOREWORD
On the 23rd of May of this auspicious year the Bahá'í world will celebrate
the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh. It
will commemorate at once the hundreth anniversary of the inception of the
Bábí Dispensation, of the inauguration of the Bahá'í Era, of the
commencement of the Bahá'í Cycle, and of the birth of 'Abdu'l Bahá. The
weight of the potentialities with which this Faith, possessing no peer or
equal in the world's spiritual history, and marking the culmination of a
universal prophetic cycle, has been endowed, staggers our imagination. The
brightness of the millennial glory which it must shed in the fullness of
time dazzles our eyes. The magnitude of the shadow which its Author will
continue to cast on successive Prophets destined to be raised up after Him
eludes our calculation.
Already in the space of less than a century the operation of the
mysterious processes generated by its creative spirit has provoked a
tumult in human society such as no mind can fathom... Continue reading book >>
