Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21

20 words

Question:

Do the Baha'i teachings renovate the individual private life, or are they only a set of principles for the adjustment of general relations between men, without the necessary requirement of personal regeneration?

Translation:

Provisional translation

The teachings of His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh are the breaths of the Holy Spirit which create man anew. Personal purity, both in private and public, is emphasized and insisted upon.

Translations (8)

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.1914-07-21

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=63

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_v08#08 p.103x

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_8

SW_v12#01 p.014

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_1

SW_v13#10 p.260x

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_10

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_1914 p005

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1914.pdf#page=5

PTF. Ives, Howard Colby. Portals to Freedom. George Ronald, 1990. https://archive.org/details/portalstofreedom032582mbp/page/n5

PTF.137x

https://archive.org/details/portalstofreedom032582mbp/page/n139

IHP. Wilhelm, Roy; Cobb, Stanwood; Coy, Genevieve. In His Presence. Kalimat, 1989. Three sets of pilgrim notes, originally published 1908-1921. https://bahai-library.com/wilhelm_cobb_his_presence

IHP.062x

https://bahai-library.com/wilhelm_cobb_his_presence

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#046x

https://bahai-library.com/wilhelm_cobb_his_presence