Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-14
OOL 06 70393Phelps:ABU 2801
ABU 2801•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-14
70 words
Question:
Does material pursuit prevent spiritual progress?
Translation:
Provisional translation
Material affairs are of two kinds. The first kind are those concerns which have no direct
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
SW.Star of the West, 25 vols. (1910-1935). Periodical issued each Bahá’í month. Vols. 1-12 reprinted 1978 in 8 volumes by George Ronald. Each issue Includes a section in Persian. https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West