Tablet catalog
Words spoken on 1913-07-08 in Port Said
OOL 06 80133 Phelps: ABU 2949
ABU 2949•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1913-07-08 in Port Said
60 words
Notes:
A Research Department memorandum dated 27 Sept. 1992 reads: "This passage is from Ahmad Sohrab's diary and should be considered as interesting material, but not as scripture."
Translation:
Provisional translation
There is a power in this Cause, a mysterious power, far, far, far away from the ken of men and angels
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
DAS.1913-07-08
https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_02.pdf#page=18
BSC. Bahá'í Scriptures. Brentanos, 1923. Compilation of Writings and talks by Bahá’u’lláh and Abdu’l-Bahá. Early translations, some unreliable. http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/
BSC.304 #622
http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/
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
SW_v07#05 p.034
https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_5
SW_v11#14 p.243
https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_14
ABIE. Sohrab, Ahmad. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Egypt. New History Foundation, 1929. Based on DAS. https://afnanlibrary.org/abdul-baha-in-egypt (scanned), https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt (typed)
ABIE.039
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm
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#007
https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt