Word: baha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SEPARATING the mystical bliss of Maharishi and the doctrines of the Baha'i is a profound difference in essence and teaching. Where the emphasis of the Transcendental Meditators is on inner peace, Harvard Baha'is try to unify men. The Baha'is have a set of holy scriptures offering explicit, but vaguely worded, prescriptions for political and economic glory on earth, unlike followers of the Maharishi. A further difference between the two sects is size: the Baha'i community at Harvard numbers only half a dozen...
...Baha'i faith was destined by God to unite the world into one cohesive society, and mankind into one family...
...order to channel the new energies and apply his social teachings, an administrative order has been created by Baha'u'llah. It is unique in human history, providing for governing institutions on a local, national, and international level. In essence he wrote the constitution for a new political system which is being raised by the Baha'is in each of the 317 nations and territories where they now reside. The legitimacy and authority of this new system rest upon his words...
...world center of this new order is on Mt. Carmel in Haifa, Israel, as designated by Baha'u'llah himself. It is the seat of the supreme administrative body, the Universal House of Justice, whose nine members are elected without nominations and by secret ballot by delegates from the entire Baha'i world. Similar institutions exist on a national level in some 101 countries and territories and on a local level in thousands of communities, including Cambridge. Baha'is believe that as present-day institutions prove to be outgrown by man's evolving needs and crumble of their own unbalanced...
...Baha'i writings describe the era in which we live as an age of transition. Numerous crises are now accompanying the change and will continue to do so, as mankind struggles towards its own unification. The great grandson of Baha'u'llah once wrote: "Leaders of religion, exponents of political theories, governors of human institutions, who at present are witnessing with perplexity and dismay the bankruptcy of their ideas, and the disintegration of their handiwork, would do well to turn their gaze to the revelation of Baha'u'llah, and to meditate upon the World Order which, lying enshrined...