Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words to Kinney, Beede, Thompson party, spoken on 1909-07-04

200 words

Question:

It is the Fourth of July, the day we Americans celebrate our independence.

Translation:

Provisional translation

Yes, it is a good day in America, the day of your physical freedom. But today you celebrated your spiritual freedom…. The world is in prison and bondage, through the heads of religion who have captivated the spirit.

Translations (6)

PN. Pilgrim notes from the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Arranged by year with occasional additional identifiers. https://bahai-library.com/pilgrims- notes_us_archives_1898-1959

PN_1909 p008-009

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=8

PN_1909 p034

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=34

PN_1909B p015

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909B.pdf#page=15

PN_1909C p082

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909C.pdf#page=82

DJT. Thompson, Juliet. The Diary of Juliet Thompson. Kalimat, 1983. https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary

DJT.045-046

https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary

BLO. Bahá’í Library Online (www.bahai-library.com). Private, independent repository of Bahá’í-related resources including provisional translations (BLO_PT) and pilgrims’ notes (BLO_PN). Numbering follows the 16 Nov 2019 snapshot available at https://web.archive.org/

BLO_PN#027

https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary