Education, need

Month, Day: 181, Honour, Names (Grace) 

Some Answered Questions (pg 10): 

But education is of three kinds: material, human, and spiritual. Material education aims at the growth and development of the body, and consists in securing its sustenance and obtaining the means of its ease and comfort. This education is common to both man and animal.

Human education, however, consists in civilization and progress, that is, sound governance, social order, human welfare, commerce and industry, arts and sciences, momentous discoveries, and great undertakings, which are the central features distinguishing man from the animal.

As to divine education, it is the education of the Kingdom and consists in acquiring divine perfections. This is indeed true education, for by its virtue man becomes the focal centre of divine blessings and the embodiment of the verse “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness.”1 This is the ultimate goal of the world of humanity.

Remarks: 01/07/2025

01/07/2025 --   

Handel's Messiah

Month, Day: 181, Honour, Words (Beauty) 

This is the report, directly copied from Wikipedia (the links should work). 

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's stay in Edinburgh was covered by The Scotsman newspaper.^{[171][172][173][174]} The newspaper coverage lead to a stream of visitors and speaking engagements on 8 Jan; he spoke at the Edinburgh College of Art, and the North Canongate School.^{[nb 7]} Later in the evening he spoke at Rainy Hall, which is part of New College, which was followed by a viewing of Handel's Messiah in St Giles' Cathedral. Visitors again came on the 9th, and in the evening he gave a talk with the Theosophical society hosted by David Graham Pole. That night and or early the next morning ʻAbdu'l-Bahá wrote a letter to Andrew Carnegie.^[178][179] The letter commented on reading The Gospel of Wealth.^[180][181] ʻAbdu'l-Bahá again sent a letter to Carnegie in 1915.^[182] 

Reading about this was a nice surprise for me. In fact, it was in England where the Master first witnessed a dramatic arts event which was a story of Christmas. 

But, Handel's work? I heard it the first time in my late teens in the early '60s with two superb performers. The first was the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performing in the major auditorium in downtown Los Angeles. They were backed up by the LA Philharmonic. The striking thing was that they had added extra Basses which gave more than the usual resonance to me, having been a brass player: Baritone and Sousaphone. 

Remarks: 01/05/2025

01/05/2025 --   

Middle Way

Month, Day: 181, Honour, Mercy (Glory) 

Kitáb-i-Aqdas (#43) 

Lament not in your hours of trial, neither rejoice therein; seek ye the Middle Way which is the remembrance of Me in your afflictions and reflection over that which may befall you in future. Thus informeth you He Who is the Omniscient, He Who is aware.

 Remarks: 01/04/2025

01/04/2025 --   

Afflication

Month, Day: 181, Speech, Will (Majesty)

 ‘The Tabernacle of Unity, Bahá’u’lláh’s Responses to Mánikchí Sáhib and Other Writings’

Lawḥ-i-Maqṣúd (Tablet of Maqṣúd): 

• O God, my God! I testify to Thy unity and to Thy oneness. I beseech Thee, O Thou Possessor of names and Fashioner of the heavens, by the pervasive influence of Thine exalted Word and the potency of Thy supreme Pen, to aid me with the ensigns of Thy power and might, and to protect me from the mischief of Thine enemies who have violated Thy Covenant and Thy Testament. Thou art, verily, the Almighty, the Most Powerful.

Remarks: 12/05/2024

12/05/2024 --    

Learning and Wisdom

Month, Day: 181, Speech, Will (Perfection) 

Lawḥ-i-Maqṣúd (Tablet of Maqṣúd): 

• The Great Being saith: The man of consummate learning and the sage endowed with penetrating wisdom are the two eyes to the body of mankind. God willing, the earth shall never be deprived of these two greatest gifts. That which hath been set forth and will be revealed in the future is but a token of this Servant’s ardent desire to dedicate Himself to the service of all the kindreds of the earth.

Remarks: 12/02/2024

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