Shoghi Effendi Through the Pilgrim’s Eye Vol 2

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Shoghi Effendi Through the Pilgrim's Eye  (2016) by Earl Redman Volume 2: The Ten Year Crusade, 1953-1963

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction
The Significance and Launching of the Ten Year Crusade

The ten-stage majestic process — Launching the Ten Year Crusade — Goals of the Ten Year Crusade — The Knights of Bahá’u’lláh

1953: Projects at the World Centre

Completing the Shrine of the Báb — The temple site on Mount Carmel

1953: Four Intercontinental Teaching Conferences

African Intercontinental Teaching Conference — All-American Intercontinental Teaching Conference — European Intercontinental Teaching Conference — Asian Intercontinental Teaching Conference

1953: Pilgrims, Visitors and Pioneers

Dorothy Baker, Elsie Austin and Matthew Bullock — Marcus Bach — Marguerite Sears — Ella Bailey — William Foster and the Collins Gate — First native African Bahá’í pioneers — Artemus Lamb, Gertrude and Alvin Blum, Curtis and Harriet Kelsey and other pilgrims — Raḥmatu’lláh and Írán Muhájir, and Violette Nakhjavani — Mohsen Enayat, pioneer to the Fezzan

1954: Helping Pilgrims Understand the Goals of the Ten Year Crusade

Land acquisitions — Marion Hofman — Pilgrims from four continents: Maud and Albert Reimholz, Irene Bennett, Loyce Lawrence, Hiroyasu Takano — William Sears — First official visits — Creation of the Auxiliary Board, and Crusade results at Riḍván

1954: Pilgrims and Pilgrim Knights

More on American materialism: Ramona Brown and Clara Edge — Edith McLaren — Ruth Moffett — Violet and Hugh McKinley — Ugo and Angeline Giachery — John and Valera Allen and family — Bernard Leach — Olivia Kelsey and Laura Davis — Ahmad Sohrab’s continued rebellion — Knights of Bahá’u’lláh

1955

The International Archives Building — Violence in Iran — Zebby Whitehead — John, Audrey, Patrick and Nina Robarts — Claire Gung, the Mother of Africa — Ethna Archibald — Dorothy Ferraby — Riḍván 1955 — Roberta and Kenneth Christian, Nureddin Momtazi, Fujita and Fred Schechter — Knights of Bahá’u’lláh

1956

The Roll of Honour — Marjorie Stee — Gayle Woolson — Ben Schreibman — Nahid Aschari and the Reyhani family — Brigitte Hasselblatt — Sheila Banani — Riḍván 1956 — More pilgrims — Infallibility of the Guardian — Knights of Bahá’u’lláh

1957: The Crusade Surges Ahead

Bill Washington and Habib Sabet — Charles Dunning — Enoch Olinga and Ursula Samandari — ‘Alí Nakhjavání — The passing of George Townshend — The codification of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas — Alice Dudley, John and Vera Long, Sally Saynor — Isobel Sabrí — Florence Mayberry — Riḍván 1957 — Completion of the exterior of the Archives Building

1957: Shoghi Effendi’s Last Visitors

Ian Semple — Anna and Hermann Grossmann — Ezzat Zahrai — Elmer and Gladys Beasley, and others — Shoghi Effendi’s last visitors, Thelma and Bill Allison — The final cleansing of Bahjí — The final call to the Americans — New Hands of the Cause — Knights of Bahá’u’lláh

1957: The Passing of the Guardian

The funeral — The Chief Stewards chart a course — The first Conclave of the Hands of the Cause — A monument for the Guardian

1958

Intercontinental Conference for Africa — Intercontinental Conference for Australasia — Intercontinental Conference for the Western Hemisphere — Intercontinental Conference for Europe — Intercontinental Conference for Asia — Riḍván 1958 — Audacious pioneers who were not Knights — Pilgrimage reopened — Monument to Shoghi Effendi — The Second Conclave of the Hands — The United States rises to the challenge — Knights of Bahá’u’lláh

1959

Persecution in Turkey — Riḍván 1959 — Pilgrims: Carol Bowie and William Maxwell — The Third Conclave of the Hands — Pilgrims: John and Rose Wade — Gathering the Guardian’s correspondence — Knights of Bahá’u’lláh

1960

Geertrui Ankersmit — Business at breakfast — Riḍván 1960 — Mason Remey declares himself second Guardian — Other activities at the World Centre — Persecution in Egypt — The Fourth Conclave of the Hands — John Kolstoe’s pilgrimage

1961

First Irish Bahá’í pilgrim — The Mother Temple of Africa — Rúḥíyyih Khánum takes up the Guardian’s banner — Riḍván 1961 — Election of the International Bahá’í Council — A schoolgirl’s life in Haifa — The Mother Temple of the Antipodes — Opening the International Archives — Conclave of the Hands 1961

1962

Pilgrims from the United Kingdom — Riḍván 1962 — Commemorating the Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh — Persecution in Morocco — The Covenant-breakers — The Custodians on the state of the Plan

1963

The Mother Temple of Europe — Election of the Universal House of Justice — Concluding the Ten Year Crusade

The Most Great Jubilee

The tenth stage of Shoghi Effendi’s majestic process

Appendix I: Knights of Bahá’u’lláh by Goal Area
Appendix II: Knights of Bahá’u’lláh by Name
Bibliography
References
Index