John McConnel's Earth Day Flag cc. wikimedia commons 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. One of the most beautiful anthems to human unity begins with these words. The anthem comes from Rugby Union. Perhaps…
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…
In Cowra, the Peace Bell tolls a warning, And magpies caw their raucous and wry chorus in reply. Their voices reach a quiet graveyard, An unusual place, Here Japanese mothers and children sleep. So far from home - they are not forgotten. ANZACS sleep nearby -almost - almost - beside them. They too attract the living - not forgotten. How strange, the…
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…
