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An open letter to Baha’i leaders as individuals. May 2020 (Leaders here are defined in a wide sense of the term)
Dear Baha’i friends,
Given Baha’u’llah’s injunction that all avowed members of the Baha’i Faith consult on all matters affecting our religion, many of you are perceived by one community of interest, “which shares many ideals with the Baha’is”, as inveterately negligent for not consulting adequately on the fundamental Baha’i principle of a universal auxiliary language. Your recalcitrance retards enrolments! Whether wittingly or unwittingly, you are doubly in breach of the Covenant that you’ve entered into with God: You have covenanted in writing on joining the Faith to follow guidance from the Universal House of Justice, to abide by Baha’u’llah’s teachings and to obey his son, Abdul Baha. This sad saga is not about your perceptions of my lack of humility, obedience etc. It’s all about your influence and the example that you set for the average member of our Faith vis-à-vis the auxlang principle!
In reviews composed by doyens critiquing my latest book, * which are now free online for 2 million Esperantists on a high-quality platform, your inaction collectively, albeit as individuals un-named as in a flock, has been described as virtually criminal. The eminent Esperantists concerned, who aren’t members of our beloved Faith, are alluding in public to (1) your duty to consult meaningfully on the language principle, (2) Abdul Baha’s many directives to all Baha’is regarding Esperanto, (3) Shoghi Effendi’s interpreting of those instructions and to (4) your attested duty to obey Baha’u’llah’s Testament in which Abdul Baha is appointed Centre of the Covenant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Covenant_(Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD
https://bahai-library.com/buck_buck_ioannesyan_russian
* An abridgement of FB2B * as a pdf attachment is provided gratis on request for your perusal and comment.
Baha’i love. Paul (not the Apostle) Desailly. 20 Woocalla street. O’Sullivan Beach. 5166. Adelaide. Australia.
PS Referring to the duties of Baha’i administrators, Shoghi Effendi explains in chapter xxii of his tour de force, God Passes By: “…their no less vital task of demonstrating, through association, with all liberal and humanitarian movements, the universality and comprehensiveness of their Faith;” And, further, he, the sole Guardian of the Baha’i Faith, expands in the imperative in 1935, coincidentally on my birthday, 3rd August: “have the Cause well represented in all Esperanto Congresses and associations.”
THE ACHILLES’ HEEL OF BAHA’I LEADERS
(A BICENTENARY SCANDAL)
INACTION, OBFUSCATION AND A BREACH OF THEIR COVENANT WITH GOD ON JOINING THE FAITH ARE DAMAGING FAILINGS ON THE PART OF BAHA’I LEADERS
On the influence of leaders: The six million strong Baha’i world community (approximately 25,000 in Australasia and ten times that number in the USA) remains unmindful that we followers of Baha'u'llah are obliged as individual believers (i) to pay “the most urgent attention” to the fundamental Bahai principle of a universal auxlang for it is “the very first service to the world of man”, (ii) to engage widely with two million Esperantists in 125 countries, (iii) to study Esperanto as “a religious incumbency” and (iv) to “spread it as far as possible” irrespective of which language triumphs as the world’s auxiliary tongue for future generations.
Nescience concerning said obligations is a failing of rank and file believers in only a minuscule degree! Moreover, were they, or anyone else, to carefully examine official Baha’i documents on the language tenet all would see that the failings depicted here rest in no way with our primary institution per se, as distinct from individual officer bearers and advisers therein serving on Mt Carmel, Israel. As to clear and authoritative instructions on the language principle penned by Sir Abdul Baha Abbas KBE and the Oxford-educated Shoghi Effendi: inaction and-or obfuscation as exhibited long-term by Baha’i leaders despite Abdul Baha’s “repeated and emphatic admonitions”, impacts enormously on rank and file believers, hinders true consultation and retards enrolments!
Certain authoritative talks and texts composed by a central figure of the Baha’i religion to the effect that all believers as individuals (whether high ranking or low) must engage Esperanto, are long extant. Other, equally compelling instructions written originally in Farsi by Abdul Baha and distributed officially in the Faith’s name in that language, as noted also in various secondary sources, have surfaced in English – only in recent months.
Baha’is are devoid of clergy! Nevertheless, hundreds of our remunerated career-administrators, writers and editors, mostly in New York, Chicago, the Sierras, London, New Delhi, Sydney and Adelaide understandably wield much influence. As chronicled in a new volume titled From Babel to Baha’i * (FB2B), too many of them for decades have overlooked, missed or ignored instructions about Esperanto along with their duty to consult on the general principle of an international language itself, possibly because they are unaware, or they simply prefer the English language-Farsi status quo or because such consultations inevitably reveal the demonstrably damaging effects of their failure to consult, which are, reluctantly for my part, now chronicled in detail for posterity.
As FB2B’s documented proofs pertaining to censoring me – and to (a) a failure to investigate, a failure to consult, a failure to shed linguistic prejudices, a failure to obey Abdul Baha as Centre of the Baha’i Covenant, a failure to follow institutional advice in the Promise of World Peace and a failure to communicate on the part of religious leaders in their conspicuous and influential role as individual followers of Baha'u'llah and to (b) an Anglo-Persian subculture that verges on elitism – are of necessity detailed and a tad boring (as such exposés tend often to be) an abridgement consisting of 14 pages is available for your perusal on this website, copyright and fee free.
Available for your consideration, as proof of these weighty accusations with scathing observations in writing from acclaimed Esperantists in Australia, are two piquant articles that have recently appeared in print throughout Oceania for hundreds of Esperanto readers of a high-quality subscription titled # Esperanto sub la Suda Kruco, itself archived electronically for two million Esperantists worldwide. For those leaders who, wittingly or unwittingly, have caused a long-term shut down of virtually all serious discussion on the language principle, my widely distributed aforementioned two-part article, Consultation and obedience, is available gratis in English.
* FB2B: From Babel to Baha’i – https://gum.co/gDehr – San Franciscan professional platform named Gumroad.
# http://aea.esperanto.org.au/ftp-uploads/ESK-128-sep2017.pdf p21-24; http://aea.esperanto.org.au/ftp-uploads/ESK-129-dec2017.pdf p26-28
Sincerely with Baha’i love for the sake of language justice vis-a-vis “the progress and development of all races”
P. Desailly. 20 Woocalla st. O'Sullivan Beach 5166. Adelaide. Tel: 0448515234 08 - 81862245 pauljdesailly@gmail.com
As requested by the President of the Australian Esperanto Association (Sandor Horvath) I facilitated in Auckland, January 2020, a 90-minute presentation at the close of the Australian and New Zealand Congress of Esperanto attended by the president of the Universal Esperanto Association (Professor Duncan Charters Ph.D.). An English language transcript along with the Esperanto original was distributed to a score of attendees. See 18th January 2020: http://aea.esperanto.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Auklanda-Kongresa-Programo_2019-12-30.pdf. or contact this writer.
HOW IMPORTANT IS THE AUXLANG PRINCIPLE?
“Leaders of religion, in every age, have hindered their people from attaining the shores of eternal salvation, inasmuch as they held the reins of authority in their mighty grasp. Some for the lust of leadership, others through want of knowledge and understanding, have been the cause of the deprivation of the people.”
Bahá’u’lláh, Kitáb-i-íqan
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HIPOKRITECO EN RELIGIO. KIAL? HYPOCRISY IN RELIGION. WHY IS IT SO? Paŭlo (ne la Apostolo) Desailly (PD) Paul (not the Apostle) Desailly (PD) EN 1890 BAHA’U’LLAH JAM ESTIS ESPERANTISTO jam temp' está - por forigi hipokritecon en religio https://www.bandeeducation.com/baha-u-llah-was-an-esperantist IN 1890 BAHA’U’LLAH ALREADY WAS AN ESPERANTIST it’s about time – to end hypocrisy in religion!
Paul explains the history and current situation of the relationship between Bahá'ís and Esperanto. English: https://esperanto.org.au/lecture-series-zoom/ Bahaismo kaj Esperanto - tikla rilato Paul Desailly. Aǔstralio. 17 julio 2022. Paǔlo klarigas la historion kaj nunan situacion pri la rilato inter Bahaismo kaj Esperanto. Esperanto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRyfElihjU -----------------------------------------------------------
Paul (not the Apostle) Desailly. Adelaide. Australia. The Ides of March. 2022. Paŭlo (ne la Apostolo) Desailly. Adelajdo. Aŭstralio. La Iduoj Martaj. 2022. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE LIMBS OF MANKIND TO QUAKE LA MEMBROJ DE LA HOMO TREMI AND WHEN THE WAR IS OVER IN UKRAINE? https://bahaiforums.com/threads/and-when-the-war-is-over-in-ukraine.25509/ KIO POST LA BOMBARDADO, KANONADO KAJ MISILADO DE UKRAINIO?
“One day, while in Constantinople, [1863] Kamál Páshá [a high ranking Minister of State in the Ottoman court of Sultan ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz (1830–1876, reigned: 1861–1876, abdicated 30th May, murdered five days later)] visited this Wronged One [Bahá’u’lláh]. Our conversation turned upon topics profitable unto man. He said that he had learned several languages. In reply We observed ‘You have wasted your life
(1) THE PRESIDENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN ESPERANTO ASSOCIATION AND ADELAIDE CITY COUNCILLOR ARMAN ABRAHIMZADEH (OAM) OPEN AN ESPERANTO START-UP, 17 AUG 2021
Aŭstralia kaj Nov-Zelanda Hibrida Kongreso kaj Somerkursaro 2022
An independent investigation finds the truth depicted here by several central Baha’i figures (in reversed chronological order) and as follows by Shoghi Effendi (1897-1957), its sole Guardian:
Baha’i youth! Own ‘the very first service to the world of man’ and move it! To your parents from the House 37 years ago: “YOUTH CAN MOVE THE WORLD.” https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/the-universal-house-of-justice/messages/19840103_001/1#151924440 An open letter to independent thinking young followers of Baha’u’llah (March 2021)
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HOW IMPORTANT IS IT? WILL IT BRING WORLD PEACE? (1) The final page of Bahá’u’lláh’s primary work, Kitáb-i-Aqdas , adjures parliamentarians thus: “a single language for the use of all on earth…will be the cause of unity, could ye but comprehend it, and the greatest instrument for promoting harmony and civilization ” Akka, Israel. (*p.42) (2) “Therefore, the very first service to the world of man is to establish this auxiliary international means of communication . It will become the cause of the tranquility of the human commonwealth .” Abdu’l-Bahá addressing the Esperantists of Washington DC, 1912, Promulgation of Universal Peace (*p48) (3) “A fundamental lack of communication between peoples seriously undermines efforts towards world peace. Adopting an international auxiliary language would go far to resolving this problem and necessitates the most urgent attention . ” Universal House of Justice, The Promise of World Peace (*p53) (4) “…we encourage Bahá’ís who feel the urge to assist in this area (i.e. “the framework of their efforts for the promotion of peace”) to learn Esperanto.” Universal House of Justice 17-9-86 (*p89) CAN A LANGUAGE TEACH THE FAITH & HARMONIZE RELIGIONS TOO? (5) “Undoubtedly the activities of the Esperantists have become a vital channel for the proclamation of the Faith in important and often unreachable circles.” Universal House of Justice Haifa , Israel, 4 July 1995 (*p88) (6) “…it (Esperanto) will hasten that day, that millennial day, which has been prophesied by the past prophets and seers, that day in which, it is said, the wolf and the lamb will drink from the same fount, the lion and the deer graze in the same meadow. The signification of this Holy Writ is that the contesting races, warring nations, inimical religions, will come to each other in the spirit of love and amity…” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, 7 January 1913, Edinburgh, Scotland. (*pp 35, 36) (Vidu: FB2B pt1 , p50: “internacia helplingvo estas…kunligo de la popoloj kaj granda potenco por unuigi la religiojn.” Abdul Baha, Stutgarto. (7) On dispersing “misunderstandings that exist between different religions”: “They bring about warfare and strife, and it is impossible to remove them without this universal language being spread everywhere.” Abdul Bahá, Paris, Feb 1913, SOW, vol. 11,no17,19Jan1921 p290 http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_divine_philosophy&chapter=4 TGI, p104 (8) “…Shoghi Effendi, as you know, has been invariably encouraging the believers, both in the East and in the West, to make an intensive study of that language (Esperanto) , and to consider it as an important medium for the spread of the Cause in international circles. He has been specially urging the friends to have the Cause well represented in all Esperanto Congresses and associations …” Officially in the name of Shoghi Effendi, 3rd August 1935. Haifa, Israel (*p81) WHICH LANGUAGE YOU SAY? THE HOLY WRITINGS CITE FOUR TONGUES (9) “Therefore I hope that you will make the utmost effort, so that this language of Esperanto may be widely spread .” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Paris, France. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era, p.183. (*p45) (10) “All through America I have encouraged the Bahá’ís to study Esperanto; and to the extent of my ability I will strive in its spread and promotion.” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (Bahá’í Year Book 1925, p155) (11) “Therefore we have commanded all the Bahá’ís in the Orient to study this language very carefully, and ere long it will spread all over the East. Therefore I request you also, non-Esperantists and fellow-Esperantists, to put your utmost exertion into the spread and promulgation of this language… ” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Edinburgh ( Star of the West 1921 p299-306) (*p36) (12) “Bahá’ís shall consider the study of this language [Esperanto] as an incumbent duty upon them and it will be to them a religious duty. ” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (The Greatest Instrument, p15. GR. 2015; FB2B p58) https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Instrument-Promoting-Harmony-Civilization/product-reviews/085398591X Few sales! Only my comments! ALERT: The significance of these many clear directives penned by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi urging the Bahá’ís in the strongest terms to engage Esperanto is not interpreted by the Universal House of Justice for the Guardian himself in 1927 has expanded: “repeated and emphatic admonitions of 'Abdu'l-Bahá” (*p.62) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “The Cause will not attain its aim and order in the great reign of peace unless its principles are put into practise. We have to assist the different movements which have progressive ideas and are striving for an aim similar to ours. ” Shoghi Effendi, Bahá’í News no 10 1926 (13) (A Universal House of Justice letter (17 Sept 1986) addressed to the Bahá’ís of Europe, while notifying national Bahá’í bodies in English-speaking countries, states that the Bahá’ís “share many ideals” with the Esperantists.) (*p.89) (14) “One thing and only one thing will unfailingly and alone secure the undoubted triumph of this sacred Cause, namely, the extent to which our own inner life and private character mirror forth in their manifold aspects the splendor of those eternal principles proclaimed by Bahá’u’lláh.” Shoghi Effendi, 24 Sept 1924 Bahá’í Administration p66. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (15) “The Master says that Esperanto will spread and even went so far as to encourage all the friends who possibly can to study it.” Shoghi Effendi. 30 Aug 1928. (16) On studying Esperanto, “easy in spoken and written forms”: “Exert your utmost endeavour, then, in this praiseworthy undertaking…” Shoghi Effendi, 30 Jan 1926 ( TGI, p36; FB2B, p78)
Late in 1990, in Moscow’s Red Square in tumult, in the sick heart of atheistic Communism, as a newly-baked believer after decades as an ardent atheist, I witnessed and chronicled an historic event anticipated by few pundits — the implosion of the mighty Soviet Union and its sudden disintegration. (PROOF p.74) For egregiously unjust treatment of black people in the heart of Capitalism, as ignited by a crass materialism born in Europe and carried to excess in the North American continent, a fiercer fuse flares for this generation. (Shoghi Effendi Citadel of Faith, pages 125-126 America Passing Through Crisis) Notwithstanding many splendid Bahá'í efforts at tamping down ignition of racism’s consuming fire, an essential extinguisher, a language arranged with utmost care and good-will and far-removed from the tongues of slavery’s overlords, has shamefully gone largely untapped by Bahá'í scholars – for half a century. (See pages 74 - 77) This amateur is among few writers in English in any academic circles to buck groupthink on the fundamental Bahá'í principle of a universal auxiliary language vis-a-vis its Esperanto connection. Moreover, I see awareness of the language principle in general along with its many bounties, distinct from the presumably distant institutional question of official selection, as the means at hand right now for individual believers to upraise the standard of the oneness of humanity and I challenge any and all Bahá'í writers, academics and officials to refute the claim; it is their Bahá'í duty to try, otherwise, as stated by the Báb Himself, neither the words of admonishment will cease nor the proofs set forth will become void. (*p1) (*p45 (*p143 - Bio) (*p) See Making World Peace Real, approved NSA of Australia, 2003. https://gumroad.com/l/making_world_peace_real/
FROM BABEL (FB2B) PAUL DESAILLY, ADELAIDE. May 2020 TO BAHÁ’Í AN ABRIDGEMENT
PROOF–for the layperson https://gumroad.com/l/RRSCR $US2:50, $A3 eBook ISBN no:978-1-64316-007-8 SAY, BRAINY! https://bahaiteachings.org/human-consciousness-prove-higher-consciousness-exists PROOF: for the lay person Paul Desailly Humanity's spiritual welfare is under attack! We live in critical times that call for clarity and breadth of vision, and magnitude of purpose. God is thought dead or no longer reliable or worthy of investigation. But the court has reconvened and is now in session. Listen well to what the latest Divine Messenger has said about such matters and those who are in denial. Consider too the first law of thermodynamics and in physics the law of the Conservation of Energy. Whence cometh the energy for the Big Bang – pray? Like evolution, it just popped out of the void and self-perpetuates itself? No! Every building requires a builder! “IT’S ELEMENTARY MY DEAR WITLESS”, I TELL MYSELF: “GOD DESIGNED EVOLUTION.”
Agnostics and atheists! Let your vision be all embracing in 2020. “There was always something, there was never nothing. You have to have something, to make a bang.” B L Walker. https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/ ASSIGNING MINDFULNESS AND SPIRITUALITY MERELY TO BRAIN FUNCTIONS IS FOREVER DEBUNKED IN THE EXPOUNDING OF BAHA’U’LLAH (1817-1892) THE PROPHET AND FOUNDER OF THE BAHA’I FAITH. Baha'i evidence reveals that religion and philosophy are indivisible! The great ones of Greece 2,500 years ago acknowledged monotheism! Natural philosophy is the parent of modern science. True science and true religion are two wings of the same bird. Baha'is can prove that atheism is untenable! Christians! God withheld from Jesus the voicing of such proofs (John 16) because 2,000 years ago atheism was virtually non-existent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category : Atheists_by_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27u%27ll%C3%A1h HEY, BRAINY! https://bahaiteachings.org/human-consciousness-prove-higher-consciousness-exists MIRACLES! PHYSICS DEBUNKS THEM ALL? https://bahaiteachings.org/miracles-impossible-right PROOF: for the lay person Paul J Desailly Humanity's spiritual welfare is under attack! We live in critical times that call for clarity and breadth of vision, and magnitude of purpose. God is thought dead or no longer reliable or worthy of investigation. But the court has reconvened and is now in session. Listen well to what the latest Divine Messenger has said about such matters and those who are in denial. Consider too the first law of thermodynamics and in physics the law of the Conservation of Energy. Whence cometh the energy for the Big Bang – pray? Like evolution, it just popped out of the void and self-perpetuates itself? No way! Every building requires a builder! “IT’S ELEMENTARY MY DEAR WITLESS”, I TELL MYSELF: “GOD DESIGNED EVOLUTION!” http://bahaiteachings.org/skeptics-investigate-bahai-faith Religion forms civilization – not the other way around: http://bahaiteachings.org/stardust-religion-forms-civilization
After all these centuries living under the yoke and the curse of racism who’d have thought that structural racism is terminated by the Baha’i principle of a universal auxiliary language, sadly the principle most sidelined by Baha’u’llah’s followers! Please bear in mind that an auxiliary language usurps no tribal or national tongue. Wilberforce, Queen Victoria, Abraham Lincoln, Reverend King and Martha Root, have one and all done their bit well and truly, but as ever, it's apathy or the ensuing push back and undermining that atavistically take us back, back, back, Jim Crow-like, almost to a slave block mentality — most sadly! Nothing short of a transformation of society and a revolutionary rethink regarding the racist (and sexist!) languages of the slave traders is called for! That the victims’ most articulate champions — whether as intellectuals advocating in civil society, as academics in respected institutions, or among religionists and even in the African American and first nations’ communities now that their cultures and languages have largely been taken from them — one and all deploy, almost exclusively, those demeaned imperial languages instrumental in enslaving and disenfranchising their forbears strikes the two million strong diaspora of Esperantists as a grotesquely depressing and easily avoidable peculiarity On the term ‘manifest destiny’ and its effects: https://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/manifest-destiny As depicted by Tony Robinson for the Discovery Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUQrs4Xr5w In brief, for the global village, as distinct from the USA alone, racism is such a disgustingly destructive blight corrupting the minds of the impressionable that society totters on the brink of civil war. Love of course is the only solution, but a catalyst, a circuit breaker, is urgently needed for uniting humankind: “Unless the unity of language is realized, the oneness of the human world cannot be EFFECTIVELY organized and established; because the function of language is to portray the mysteries and secrets of human hearts. The heart is like a box and language is the key. We can open the box only by using the key, and observe the gems it contains.” Sir Abdul Baha Abbas KBE, (1844-1921) Washington DC, 1912. Beneficiaries of the world’s most ‘successful’ colonial language impact minimally the racist status quo in Australia, Britain, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, USA etc while de facto indifferent to the Baha’i principle of an auxiliary international language (whatever auxlang is eventually selected by a fully representative United Nations) or while down-playing advantages inherited as privileged native speakers of English, whose culture and history in the last three centuries are ruined by racist rants and cruel crimes in a continuum that props up structuralized racism so abhorred by all seekers of justice! http://bahaiteachings.org/unity-diversity-racial-identification - Cynthia Barnes-Slater 250 years since Captain Cook’s landfall on Australia its first peoples await any treaty: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-40024622 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-16/boyer-lecture-rachel-perkins-echoes-uluru-statement/11696504
After all these centuries living under the yoke and the curse of racism who’d have thought that structural racism is terminated by the Baha’i principle of a universal auxiliary language, sadly the principle most sidelined by Baha’u’llah’s followers! Please bear in mind that an auxiliary language usurps no tribal or national tongue. For our boys Edwin and Amin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frj2CLGldC4 “There’s nothin’ new under the sun, right?” https://www.gotquestions.org/nothing-new-under-the-sun.html “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” Ecclesiastes: 1:9 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1&version=KJV Well! Yes and no! Screen time’s pretty new and besides, Jesus revealed truths not known to Moses or Abraham and yet all 3 of those Manifestations of God possess the identical spirit found in Progressive Revelation that we couldn’t bear hearing about in the time of Christ’s ministry: John 16:12 http://bahaiteachings.org/religion-progresses-humanity "In order to facilitate complete understanding between all people, a universal auxiliary language will be adopted…In all the sacred books where do you find such a statement?” Abdul Baha. Now that is new! Ain’t no doubt about it, boys! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ZE4arxJwc https://www.bing.com/search PC=NR02&FORM=NRSBDL&q=norman+greenbaum+-+spirit+in+the+sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP9wms6oEMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZqnsMS5o9U
Baha'is can prove that Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Religion are one in that Judaism is the source of Aristotle’s learnings. As Natural Philosophy is the parent of Science it follows that true religion and true science form two wings of the same bird, i.e. science and religion in harmony. It's Baha'is who prove that atheism is untenable! Christ was withheld from revealing said proofs for atheism hardly existed 2,000 years ago: John 16:12-14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Atheists_by_century Am I right in thinking that more and more people distance themselves from religion because they see the brain and its electric emanations as the source of spirituality? A recent article by professor D. Langness at BahaiTeachings.org (USA) throws a new light: https://bahaiteachings.org/human-consciousness-prove-higher-consciousness-exists If I am right, it's possible that even my Baha’i friend David Langness is nescient as to the immense importance of his splendid new article vis-a-vis foiling the damaging effects of atheism, especially among the young. This amateur from the antipodes (Adelaide, Australia) expands in a new work: OVER-ASSIGNING MINDFULNESS AND SPIRITUALITY TO BRAIN FUNCTIONS IS FOREVER DEBUNKED IN THE EXPOUNDING OF BAHA’U’LLAH (1817 – 1892) THE PROPHET-FOUNDER OF THE BAHA'I FAITH. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27u%27ll%C3%A1h HEY, BRAINY! PROOF: for the lay person Paul Desailly Humanity's spiritual welfare is under attack! We live in critical times that call for clarity and breadth of vision, and magnitude of purpose. God is thought dead or no longer reliable or worthy of investigation. But the court has reconvened and is now in session. Listen well to what the latest Divine Messenger has said about such matters and those who are in denial. Consider too the first law of thermodynamics and in physics the law of the Conservation of Energy. Whence cometh the energy for the Big Bang – pray? Like evolution, it just popped out of the void and self-perpetuates itself? No way! Every building requires a builder! PROOF–for the layperson https://gumroad.com/l/RRSCR $US2:50, $A3 eBook ISBN no:978-1-64316-007-8 “IT’S ELEMENTARY MY DEAR WITLESS”, I TELL MYSELF: “GOD DESIGNED EVOLUTION.” Paul (not the Apostle) Desailly TEL: 0448515234 08-81862245 EMAIL: pauljdesailly@gmail.com