Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-11
OOL 06 40005Phelps:ABU 1737
ABU 1737•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-11
170 words
Translation:
Provisional translation
The greatest prison is the material world. Prison is the antithesis of freedom. Now man is a prisoner of food, of sleep
DAS.Diary notebooks and letters of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Dec. 1912 – Jun. 1915. English and Persian diary notebooks and letters held in the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Often quoted in other sources such as SW. Catalog entries are indexed by date and include only the English notebooks and letters. Letters from 1 Jul 1913 through 19 Oct. 1914 found here: https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914