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Knowledge is as wings to man’s life . . .

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Welcome to Thames Valley Bahai Community’s regular ‘thought for the month’ Bahai webpost.

Each thought is taken from the Bahai Reference Library.

Here’s October’s ‘thought for the month’: “Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man’s life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth, and not those which begin with words and end with words….

“In truth, knowledge is a veritable treasure for man, and a source of glory, of bounty, of joy, of exaltation, of cheer and gladness unto him. Happy the man that cleaveth unto it, and woe betide the heedless.”  (From Epistle to the Song of the Wolf , pp 26-27)

Glorious message of unity from ‘Abdu’l-Baha

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It’s just over 100 years ago – September 1911 – that ‘Abdu’l-Baha arrived in London for a four-week stay as part of his historic Western travels.

At His first ever public talk – given at the City Temple church six days after His arrival in the city – He told the congregation: “The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion.”

In Reading on 10 September Baha’is gathered with their neighbours to study the words that He had spoken at the City Temple exactly 100 years earlier. One participant, of Nepalese origin, commented on ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s “glorious message of unity.”

Read here how groups of friends around the UK have been using the centenary to consider how to apply lessons from ‘Abdu’l-Baha to their own lives.