2012
“The First Voyage of Easterners to America”
The reason and significance of His journey was a recurrent subject addressed by the Master during the long crossing of the Atlantic. It was customary for ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to casually walk on the deck every morning and evening. Mahmúd recounts how […]
On Board the S.S. Cedric
On March 30th, the S.S. Cedric left Naples on its journey to America, leaving behind a heart-broken boy of fifteen who always “remembered this episode with sadness”. Aboard the ship ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s heart ached — one can hardly imagine how much […]
Biography: Thornton Chase
Thornton Chase was designated by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá as “the First American believer”. He was the first to embrace the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh in the West after following a friend’s recommendation to meet Ibrahim Kheiralla, a Lebanese immigrant who claimed that God […]
2012
Paris Talks Revisited: The Four Kinds of Love
What a power is love! It is the most wonderful, the greatest of all living powers. Throughout several of His discourses ‘Abdu’l-Bahá talks about love, explaining to us that all the Manifestations of God have brought us the message of […]