"There's a dream, I feel So rare, so real All the world in union The world as one. Gathering together One mind, one heart Every creed, every color Once joined, never apart ..." The are lyrics from one of the most beautiful anthems to human unity ever written. It is the anthem of the Rugby Union World Cup. Perhaps this…
At 3.00 am on 29 May 1892, Bahá’u’lláh left this mortal world. He had lived 75 years. Abdu'l Baha, his eldest son, immediately sent a telegram to the Ottoman Sultan Abdu'l Hamid: "... the Sun of Baha has set". On the night of 28 or 29 May, depending on the Baha'i calendar, Baha'is around the world, gather in the middle of…
As many know, Cowra once held a Japanese prisoner of war camp. The tragedies that happened there when the prisoners tried to break out, has become the stuff of Australian legend. Less well known is that Japanese civilians were also interned in Cowra during the war. Some never left Cowra. A World Peace bell, donated by the World Peace Bell…
Innumerable metaphors for Bahá'u'lláh appear in his writings. They enrich our understanding of who Bahá'u'lláh is. One of the most striking such metaphors appears in the Lawh-i-Maqsud. He that hath Me not is bereft of all things. Turn ye away from all that is on earth and seek none else but Me. I am the Sun of Wisdom and the Ocean of Knowledge. I cheer the faint…
