God’s Plan for Planet Earth
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Contents[edit]
- The End in the Beginning
- Why Bahá’í?
- A Personal God
- God’s Messengers
- Has God’s Intention Gone Awry?
- Progressive Revelation
- The Major and Minor Plans of God
- Two Stations for the Two Levels of Planning
- Human History as Religious History
- A Milestone in Both Plans
- Attaining Maturity
- Mature People Need a Mature Plan
2 / THE PLAN FOR THE BAHÁ’Í ERA
- What is the Bahá’í Faith?
- The “Time of the End” is the Point of True Beginning
- Signs of Global Coherence and Collaboration
- Signs of Coalescence
- Some Obvious Impediments to Progress
- Life in the “Half-Light”?
- The Choice that is No Choice
- Is There Virtue in Virtual Reality?
- The Inherent Loneliness of Contemporary Society
- Anxiety, Depression, Failure to Thrive
- A Utopia that is not a Dystopia
- What Will Be Different?
- God’s Plan All
- The Joy of Process
- The Past and the Present as the Foundation for the Future
3 / THE DAY WHICH SHALL NOT BE FOLLOWED BY NIGHT
- The “Day” of God
- The Inviolable Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh in Relation to the Plan of God
- The Dispensation of Bahá’u’lláh as Turning Point
- The “Ages” of this “Era”
4 / LINKS IN THE COVENANT OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH
- The Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh
- Succession and the Lesser Covenant
- The Uniqueness of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant
- Some Useful Metaphors for Understanding Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant
- The Usefulness of the Chain Metaphor
- Some Useful Metaphors for Understanding Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant
- The First Link
- The Second Link
- The: Guardianship
- Duties of the Guardian
- National Spiritual Assemblies
- The Hands of the Cause of God
- Twin Institutions—the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice
5 / THE CONTINUITY OF THE COVENANT OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH
- Two Branches of Administration
- Segue to the Future
- Where to Begin
- Thirty-Six Years of Ceaseless Labor
- The Third Link
- “Custodians” or “Hands of the Cause in the Holy Land”
- Chief Stewards
- The Fourth Link
- An Unexpected Test
- The Election and the Transfer of Authority
- The First World Congress
- Some Finishing Touches
- The Custodians Relinquish Their Authority
- Bahíyyih Khánum
6 / THE AUTHORITY AND INFALLIBILITY OF THE “TWIN INSTITUTIONS”
- Elucidating the Covenant
- The Guardianship and the Future
- "The “Tevitt Insti tition”
- Infallibility and Divine Assistance
- The Bestowal of Infallibility
- Infallibility as a Predictable Result of a Human Process
- Infallibility and the Electoral Process
- The Decision-Making Process Itself
- No Learning Cutve for Infallibility
- The Sphere of Infallible Authority
- Inevitable Conclusion about Infallibility
- The Distinct Scope of Authority for the “Twin Institutions”
- Elucidation versus Interpretation
- The Power to Create New Laws
- Further Strategic Issues
- Asks aind It Shall Be Givers
- The Status of Women and the Universal House of Justice
7 / THE CONTINUITY OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH’S “MINOR” PLAN OF GOD
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Instigates the Planning Process
- Tablets of the Divine Plan (1916–1919)
- The Plans of the Guardian (1921–1963)
- First, Transform Yourself
- Preparation for Plans (1921–1937)
- The Three Plans of the Guardian
- The Plans of the Universal House of Justice
- The Organic Nature of Planning
- Milestone Accomplishments
- Think Globally, Live Locally
- Sample Highlights from the Global Approach
- Consent of the Governed
- The Problem with a Top-Down Teaching Paradigm
- Predictable but Cozy
- Instant Depth of Friendship
- “Teach ye the Cause, O People of Bahá”
- The Wise Employment of Human Resources
- Systematic Teaching
- Receptive Hearts
- Could this Happen in America?
- Teaching and Consolidation Go Hand in Hand
- Waiting Souls in the Rural South
- Would You Like to Be a Follower of Bahá’u’lláh?
- What Do I Do with All these Cards?
- The “Year of Sunday”*
9 / HERE IS THE CHURCH, AND HERE IS THE STEEPLE
- Plans in Our Hands and Our Feet on the Ground
- Ordinary Folk with Busy Lives Doing God’s Work
- Meanwhile, in Iran
- Why Bahá’ís?
- Waiting for Armageddon
- Action in the Background
- Pearl Diving
- Coming Up for Air
10 / ADVANCING THE PROCESS OF ENTRY BY TROOPS
- Meanwhile, in the Background
- Clusters, Study Circles, Reflection Gatherings, and Other Unfamiliar Terms
- A Four Year Plan, a Five Year Plan, and Lots of Letters
- Promoting Entry by Troops
- Learning to Drive that Brand New
- It Matters Where Change Takes Place
- Changing Direction
- Change as a Sign of Vitality
- Major Change at the Top
- The Inadequacy of Flow Charts for an Organic System
- Reality from the Perspective of a Cell in the Body
- Some Features of Systematic Change—A Framework for Action and the Institute Process
- The Institution of the Learned
- The Cluster
- The Cluster Agencies
- The Cycle of Growth
11 / THE DYNAMICS OF AN IRREPRESSIBLE MOVEMENT
- The Dialogical Process and the Guidance from the Universal House of Justice
- Guidance and Change at the Local Level
- Initiating Global Change at the Local Level
- The Institute Courses and a Community of Learning
- Some Prominent Features of the Ruhi Institute Courses
- Completing the Learning Process
- The “Ruhi Style” of Study
- “Building Momentum”
- “Arising to Serve”
- “Frontiers of Learning”
- A Fundamental Paradigm of Community Building
- Beginning at the Beginning
- The Unfoldment of the Process of Growth in a Cluster
- What if We Stumble?
