Cortaca Baha'i

The year of Badi

2011-08-12T16:47:00.000-07:00

This is my thirtieth year of being a Baha'i. This is the year of Badi. In the Quran the Word Badi means: Wonderful Originator.Almost 100 years ago Abdu-l'Baha presented The Promulgation of Universal Peace from April 11,1912 until December 5,1912.THE MOTHERS OF THE WORLD WILL PUT AN END TO WAR. This idea was expounded in the Promulgation of Universal Peace. The word Badi also means Beginning. "In the Beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth" "In The Beginning the two Spirits have declared their Nature". In the Beginning was the Word". In the Beginning was the relation.Bismillah is found at the Beginning of many of the Surahs of the Quran.Abdu-l'Baha came over on the RMS Cedric. The Cedric was one of the Great Four that predated the Olympic Liners: the Celtic,Baltic,Cedric and the Adriatic.Abdu-l'Baha had the option of coming over on the RMS Titanic,however,he didn't.Abdu-l'Baha's ideas: about the Spiritual Advancement of Women and the Promulgation of Universal Peace are the motivating factor as to why I have been saying for a year: Charice singing Diane Warren's song: If I wrote a note to God is a Hallmark in history. Charice was born in 1992. In 1992 the Baha'i Faith celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Ascension of Baha'u'llah. That was 19 years ago. !8 is a significant number in the Baha'i Faith. 19 is the Vahid, which means UNITY.Charice is influenced by the Covenant of Baha'u'llah

The 29nth Anniversary of being Baha'i

2010-08-01T10:17:00.000-07:00

Today is the first day of Kamal. It is also the first day of August. This Baha'i Year has gone real fast.I was in the hospital a few months ago. I experienced the same problem ten years ago at the same time. Twenty nine years ago I declared myself a Baha'i at John and Susan Mead's at 109 Drew Road. This is the only time of the year where the Gregorian Calendar and the Badi Calendar coincide.This is one of the major reasons the term Cortaca Baha'i evolved. Thirty years ago I discovered the Baha'i Faith in Cortland, twenty nine years ago I declared myself a Baha'i . At the time I joined the Baha'i Faith John wasn't a Baha'i even though I thought he was one.Sue said Baha'i Prayers and eventually he declared himself a Baha'i about two years latter. One of the other blogs here is titled:The Meads of Eternal Holiness.It is that time of the year where I'm preparing next years calendar. Cindy Escoba and I have been quoting Sir Ralph Waldo Emerson. I mentioned Cindy in my last blog. Cindy is a very good """"FRIEND""""".Ralph Waldo Emerson is a very important link in history,especially when viewing his concepts about fate:"THE BEST USE OF FATE IS TO BRING OUR CONDUCT TO THE LOFTINESS OF NATURE. Ala or Loftiness is the last month of the Badi Calendar.Sir Ralph Waldo Emerson,as Cindy calls him corresponds in idea with the Z Note of Traveller's Narrative and the Menok-I-Khrat. Sir Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas about fate and liberty corresponds with the writings of Robert Charles Zaehner.

Surah 57:3 and the Johari Window.

2010-02-09T15:58:00.000-08:00

A few months ago a friend of mine in the Philippines introduced me to a concept known aa Johari Window. Cindy Escoba is one of my friends from the Philippines. She introduced me to the Johari Window.The Johari Windows consists of four quadrants.One is the Arena,the other the Blind Spot,another the Facade and the last Unknown. The Arena is the one quadrant where ideas are known to self and known to others. In some ways this resembles what Stephen Covey calls the Four Paradagms of Interdependence: Win Win,Loose Win, Win Loose and Loose Loose. The Johari Window has been compared to the Myers Briggs Test to determine whether one is an introvert or an extrovert. Introvert and extrovert were terms coined by Carl Jung. He developed terms like the archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.The Subjective Psyche is the Ego Conscious while the Objective Psyche is the Collective Unconscious. The Sufis developed the idea of the inner and outer aspects of life,the inner being the spiritual and the outer the material.Carl Jung developed the idea of psychological functions. The four main ones were Intuition,Thinking,Feeling and Sensation. Buddha spoke about the Fiur Noble Truths and there are the four creatures in the book of Ezekiel.All this corresponds with Surah 57:3 of the Quran where we read : " HE IS THE FIRST AND THE LAST,THE SEEN AND THE HIDDEN AND HE KNOWETH ALL THINGS" Baha'u'llah speaks about Surah 57:3 in The Valley of Unity in His Book titled: The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys. The Four Valleys is derived from Surah 57:3 addressing the Four Wayfarer States of: The Intended One,the Praiseworthy One,the Attracting One and the Beloved.

Baha'i Spiritual Assembly an Enneagram Par Excellence?

2009-11-03T18:08:00.000-08:00

The month of Masa'il is known as the moth of Questions. It will soon be on us. One current question amongst many: Is the Baha'i Spiritual Assembly and the Future Houses of Justice an Enneagram Par Excellence. We are to offer the Baha'i Faith up when all else fails. Another question would be: "Was the Enneagram first developed by the Sufis or the Christians. In the Bundahishn Ohrmazd and Ahriman make a Pact to do battle for nine thousand years. In fact :"The Great Iranian Cycle" consists of twelve thousand years and nine thousand years respectively. Twelve thousand years,or "Time of the Long Dominion is the duration of finite time. Time comes from the Infinite goes through twelve thousand years which is finite and returns to the Infinite. This is like the Alpha and the Omega and there is a good possibility that the twelve thousand applied to each of the twelve tribes of Israel came from Zoroastrianism. Christianity is as much an heir to Zoroastrianism as it is to Jewish Tradition. Khwarrenah is like Time of the Long Dominion, since Khwarrenah comes from God Khwarrenah instinctively returns to God. This is synonymous with the idea:Onto Him shall we return. Another question would be: "Does archetypal evolution correspond with Progressive Revelation? It is time for a new posting of the Cortaca Baha'i. I have been investigating the correlation between the Enneagram and the Beatitudes. Baha'u'llah makes reference to the Sermon on the Mount in the second Tarazat.

2009-06-26T13:01:00.000-07:00

I can't believe I haven't posted a new Cortaca Baha'i since Ridvan. I have been chatting with Amina Zahrani from Rabat Morocco: I am posting a talk she will be giving in Meknes Morocco.This is the talk. It parallels what Abdu-l'Baha said in the Industrial Justice Tablet:

World economic crisis:

Which approach for a possible solution?

Our talk will contain four shutters:

1-The world situation, consequences of the deregulation,

2-The bases of a world society in which every human being could completely make a commitment and live comfortably,

3 - Guiding plan of a new world order: spiritual bahaïe approach.

4-Twelve laws allowing adjust disparities between the individuals and who will regulate the excessive fortunes, moderate and eliminate the extremes of wealth and poverty in the planet and with the aim is a social justice.

1-The world situation, consequences of the deregulation

In the difference with the previous economic crises namely:

- The real-estate crises in Europe and in Japan in 1929 then 1973 then 1987 and 1990,

- The crises financier international in 1994, 1997 and 1998

The crisis current 2008-2009 is at the same time real-estate, financial and banking global crisis; it affects a wider scale which include as well countries develop, emergent and developing country.

Cause

Main cause It is the renunciation by the state of the supervision of the credits and the banking activity so that it works by no administrative frame (supervision).

This situation is the result of a movement driven by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher under the name of deregulation.

As a consequence; the financial sphere by swelling excessively decoupled of the real economy then quickly by deflating it echoed on the real economy. So this fall touched millions of people who lost their savings and even their employment.

Given that the hindrances to traffic of the financial capital were abolished all over the world, the deregulated finance destroyed societies because it is the law of most hardly that dominated.

Origin

The crisis has begun in the United States; a simple need of the millions of poor households tries to acquire an accommodation without having the means of it. The brokers propose then credits, which, at first sight, seem very tempting. The rates of loans are "reasonable" during the first years, but are then brought to increase. It is in fact the organism who loans which fixes the rate of repayment.

But this last point is not explained in detail to the households which subscribe to these credits en mass .These loans at variable rates, the famous “subprime ", are then resold in investment funds.

From the end of year 2006, the households which had subscribed to "subprime" are victims of the brutal increase of the rates of loans and cannot pay off any more their banks. Their houses are then seized to be resold. But the American real-estate market, quickly flooded by the quantity of the offer and in front of few demands, collapsed. First consequence: the capital which had massively invests in "subprime" meets itself trapped.

The second consequence: in July, 2007 it is the beginning of the chain reaction which is going to get banks all over the world. This crisis about "subprime" results in a poly-sector-based global crisis. It is affects all the sectors and all the regions of the globe. It concerned at first the global financial sphere before widening irresistibly in the real economy. What takes place; it is the translation in the reality of the collapses of a system built on the freedom, the anarchy of the financial transactions Introduced by the deregulation of the activity of credit.

The levying of the statutory constraints provoked, thus, very grave speculative drift. Some are extremely destructive by the volumes of losses caused by the collapse of the system .THIS crisis asks the question of relationship of markets with States and their capacity to face their national responsibilities, and that of the relationship of the market with the globalization.

It doesn't much matter in which country it begins. In the modern conditions, the crisis will pass inevitably from a country to the other one, from a continent to the other one. This time, it began in the United States. Countries will be touched one after the other, as dominoes. The contagion will extend from a country to the other one as the unverifiable one epidemic.

It will seem evident that every country too much exported (that is, too much produced) and too much imported (too much traded). It will be evident that all deceived the credit and switched on the flames of the inflation and the speculation, which must be put out at the moment, even in the full price. In other words, we do not speak about such or such country, of such or such forks out either of such or such individual speculator, but of the system itself.

Consequently, we face a world phenomenon which is heavy of revolutionary involvements. The globalization shows itself as a world crisis of the capitalism.

“The international trade conceals a real paradox. The increasing prosperity of the industrialized nations kept pace with a massive poverty and the increase of the disparities between rich countries and poor countries. The world trade can become a powerful engine of the decrease of the poverty and the economic growth, but this potential is not turned to good account. The problem is not engendered by a fundamental opposition at needs and at interests of the poor countries, but the rules which govern the exchanges is falsified in favor of the rich countries. “This quotation is pulled by a report that Oxfam presented in April, 2002 in Hong-Kong. This report of Oxfam also reveals that the global cost of tariff barriers for developing countries amounts to 100 billion USD a year, what is double exactly of the help which the rich countries boast regularly to give to the poor countries. Besides, the report of Oxfam indicates that a 5 % increase of Exports from developing countries would get for them incomes about 350 billion dollars, is seven times more than the whole help which they receive.

Thus:

How to improve the environment and the living conditions?
How to fight against the exclusion and to insure the respect for the human dignity?
How to protect middle classes and public utilities in an economy of walking?
How to join the economic, the social, the competitiveness and the ethics within the economy?
So, it is necessary to understand that there are two faces of the globalization, the one which is purely technical, economic, based on the profit. And the other which prepares a global citizenship, and elaborates a consciousness of membership in a homeland which is the Earth. The consciousness which is in gestation through these movements elaborates international one citizen who should drive us to civilize the earth in a “society world ".

2-The bases of a world society in which every human being could completely make a commitment and live comfortably,

What are thus bases of a world society in which every human being could completely make a commitment and live suitably?

Baha ullah declares:

< < Soon the present order of things will be past and a new will replace it > >

Baha ullah adds:

< < Oh you who remain on the earth the distinctive line which marks the pre-eminent character of this supreme revelation consist of what we have, first, erase from pages of the book of God all which was able to be cause of conflicts, wickedness and damages among the children of the Men and, on the other hand, impose ' the indispensable prerequisites has the harmony, has the understanding and has a perfect and long-lasting unity. Happy those who observe my prescriptions. Powerful is the light of the unity that she can illuminate all the earth > >

3 - Guiding plan of a new world order:

SPIRITUAL BAHAIE APPROACH:

Main plan of a new world order: The spiritual and material dimensions of the existence are interconnected and strengthened mutually and are reflected the

One in the other one. The spiritual and material worlds are interrelated consequently; our material impoverishment is also the reflection of our spiritual impoverishment collective. The economic system, is, also, the reflection extern and solidifies of our collective life (the egoism, the greediness, the competitiveness and the apathy are the cause of the social injustice.

Thus an important effort of improvement in the moral tissue of the society must be supplied. The moral decline cost very much. The spiritualization is a divine call. Baha' u' llah called up to a complete restructuring of the social order of the world, getting all the aspects of the life, the individual morality in the economy and in the government, of the community development the religious practice.

A new international order becomes an imperative necessity. Its emergence has to allow to study above all the current economic disparities to decide on the way the resources of the world should be organized and how the sources of raw materials would be coverage and used to allow a renewal and a redistribution of its products overseen. This world crisis testifies of a deep movement of the very humanity. And only the link which, inevitably, unites the spiritual affairs of the human race with its practical affairs, which is only capable of breathing the life to any voluntary organization. It is not the momentary imbalance that we have to face; it is the quite whole structure of the civilization that we have the necessity of changing. Institutions and social bodies to which an age of variety and competition gave birth do not meet the needs any more of an age of cooperation and of peace.

A real transformation of society is necessary , the economic progress depends on the balance between the needs of the various members of the community. This will come true only in an evolved and spiritual humanity.

Consequently three objectives are necessary to achieve, to insure the stability of nations, the social progress of the local communities in the unity and the justice:

Establishment of an international government,
Regeneration of the local community
Spiritual Education of the man.

1-Etablissement of an International government:

The crisis is, really, a whole set, political, economic and religious, but the humanity possesses no responsible body - and invested with authority - to coordinate all the factors which establish this crisis and to arrive at a world plan which takes into account all these factors. In this body of government of the world, which is very urgent to create and which will be invested towards the human race of a supreme authority, will be subjected all the national States as provinces exercising only a local jurisdiction This world government differs from the national government, not only, by the geographical sphere of its jurisdiction, but also by the area of its social responsibility. Only he is capable of making the disarmament, of creating a healthy currency of reconciling the classes, of establishing an educational system in compliance with the fundamental needs of the humanity, and of spreading the danger which results from the opposition of the communist and capitalist theories.

2-Régénération of the local community:

In this community, indeed, occur the essential relations of the men. In its atmosphere that elaborates the quality of the human life. There practices on the moldable soul and without prejudices of the child, the education which will determine motives and reactions of the adult. There begin this cycle of social influence which ends in the war or in the peace.

The local community is at present a sick cell in a body in a mess. In a healthy voluntary organization, the individual is not only entitled to the vote and to the protection of the laws, he is also entitled to the existence, and it by virtue of a fundamental right and point by the effect of a simple charity.

It is only having discovered the spiritual principles of the association of the people that it will be possible to establish a social order corresponding to the divine reality.

3-Education spiritual of the man:

The human nature contains essentially two dimensions. That of the being physical on one hand, consisted of instincts of survival and of a need to acquire what is necessary for the life. Of other one quote the one who, by her qualities, differentiate the human race of all other forms of life and that we can call the human mind which knows how to transcend and expresses itself by its concern for the well-being Collective and by the need to find a sense in the life which exceeds the physical existence. The role of the individual is to develop this noble dimension and to participate so collectively in “the progress of a civilization always in progress ".

The social Progress can come true only on the deep understanding of the spiritual reality of The humanity - reality - which is the essence of our nature Today, it is necessary to understand that the spiritual education has to contain not only the private life and in group but also the collective progress of the humanity in general . The education (which is not the instruction) is to learn to lead a noble and useful existence, to love God of all his heart, has to devote himself to humanity (what is the highest purpose of l existence), develop his capacities at most for the good of all...

And so the humanity will be transformed when truth education will be understood well, and will become widespread, then the humanity will be transformed, and the entire globe will be as a paradise.

These three objectives - world government, regenerated communities, and spiritual education - are connected moreover strictly. Nobody would know how to exist without two others, and all three are in the latent state in the current society.

When the individual undergoes a true spiritual education the local community will be transformed and the national community will be transformed, in his turn, as a consequence and finally it is the same for the community of the peoples. In this approach happiness= to be and become: it is the internal search for a capacity in the happiness; it is the opening of the heart; the development, the availability, the freedom of the human mind and the Creativity and not the fight to have more wealth.

- The current tragedy of the unemployment could become the opportunity of a precious leisure for the culture and the development of the individual.

- The moral persons have no right to get into debt beyond their capitalization, that it is stock-exchange or not.

- The physical persons cannot either undergo of excessive debt.

- The responsibility of every generation is whole.

If it is evident that the creation of more wealth is the foundation of all the improvement of the material well-being of the society, it is important nevertheless to distinguish between the creation of true wealth and a simple accumulation of this wealth.

The first one occurs when a company creates a new product or a service for the profit of the members of the society because it satisfies a need, because it creates some work or because it develops an economic activity.

The second is not inevitably the fruit of a true production but he can be only the result of a financial manipulation which distributes the wealth to those who are already rich.

The Baha’is writings not condemn the personal wealth. On the contrary, they underline the necessity of being rewarded according to its efforts and its merit: the human beings are brought “to earn the keep by a profession ". But the excesses of wealth and poverty are condemned as symptoms of social injustice.

Which are the principles and the basic laws which can adjust between them the disparities between the individuals and will regulate the excessive fortunes of the planet with the aim of one moderation and the elimination of the extremes of wealth and poverty; thus of the elimination of the social injustice?.

Bahá' u' lláh brought principles and laws which adjust between them the fatal disparities between individuals. The economic resources of the world will be organized, all the sources of raw materials will be exploited at full capacity, all the coordinated and developed markets, and the distribution of products fairly settled.

These laws works successfully only when people are going to be honest and the plans of mutual profits depend on The trust and on the mutual willingness, it will come true when the need of justice and social equality will universally be recognized.

A- First law

The work has to be a spiritual act which follows code of honor We call

 the fact to consider the work as an act of service and faith, and to concentrate on the general good and to promote more services and public affairs.  

The quality of the information which we use in our decisions affects directly walking collective material needs of the society which we meet.

For example let us consider walking of second-hand cars. This work is dominated by a salesman caricature ' of "dishonest". The salesman is only interested to sell his product with the highest possible price. Whose purpose to arrive has its objective it is refreshed ' to lie, so he supplies has the buyer an inadequate information has comment of the quality of the car, for example, he does not introduce the history of the maintenance or the mechanical state of the car. The salesman uses the information to attract the buyer to steal him money ; that normally, the buyer should not announce if he had all the information about car. 


One walking of efficient transaction would be to exchange mutually profits and to practice the transparency in all the information of both parts.

Thus the importance of the honesty has potentially important involvements for the structure of the material well-being of the society.

The corruption of public utilities and commercial sectors are serious barriers to support a social economic development in the world. 


B-second law 

Law of consultation is the process of collective decision-making based on the search of a consensus. This system is very important in the community life.  


C-Third Law 

Salaries and payment 

It exists between the people a fundamental disparity;

All can have neither the same faculties nor the same skills.

It is the duty of the organization of the society to look has every individual the opportunity to acquire the necessary talents in the various occupations and also to use his talents for his personal comfort and of that of the community. The absolute equality is impossible because it would destroy the order of the affairs of communities.

Salaries should, then, be uneven and the People have to receive a corresponding salary has their capacity and varied resources. The accent is put on the principle of reward and remuneration and the link between clear payment and clear contribution.  


D-fourth law 

Shares profits 

The employees and workers will receive not only a salary but they will have another just part in the profits quite as one associate

The purpose of this law is to give to the manufacturers a moderate income and to the workers of the necessary livelihood, the safety and the future. Grace in this law the company would look to the capitalists of the moderate profits. There is cut of the relation productivity-salary So the well-being is maximizes ' when salaries will be put has equality with the marginal productivity of the supplied work. So the winner in salary should be pay ' in equivalent quantity of the additional contributions. The salary is thus winning. 


‘The court and the international government would check the distribution of profits in the company between salaries ' and the investors.  


E-fifth law 

Shares volunteer of the wealth it is a shape of voluntary contribution being a part of incomes of the local authority. The anxiety for his fellow men is essential.

The bahaie approach does not thus condemn the process of creation of wealth, because it is a means to eliminate the poverty, to insure the well-being of the most deprived of the society and to encourage the arts and the sciences. 

The nature of the man develops through its generosity in the prosperity that is by the use of the wealth, by its voluntary sharing and by the way of spending it our noble nature can make a success of its human development. 


Baha ullah recommends what follows:  


< O Friends! Do not abandon the eternal beauty for a perishable beauty and do not place your affections in this mortal world of dust >  


And the bab adds:

< All that you have sacrifices in the road of the only true God you will find it protect, intact has God's holy door >  


Because the rich Man will not enjoy by his luxury in comparison with the poverty around him; it is strength by its own happiness to spend its wealth to get the better conditions in the community where he lives.

The economic involvements of the voluntary donation are deep because are the source of incomes for the promotion of public affairs. 


F -the sixth law 

Taxes volunteer on the capital wins ' *this law is indicated to assure that each exists in the comfortable limits .Although that the absolute equality is impossible; the extreme poverty and of wealth must be eliminated.

* Anybody is entitled in require of base of the life but nobody has the right to have more wealth than he can use.

*the tax goes at the bottom international it is 19 % for any increase in the wealth which could be accumulated over a given period: the amount is tax  on the total of incomes less the necessary expenses has the life, let us note that this levy is left is conscious of every individual.  
 
 


G-seventh Law

System of finances bases on the agricultural industry and the financial support.

The agriculture is essentially the most important industry. Is for that reason that those who live on the earth (land) and exploit it will be the object of a particular care.

How has to work this system of finance bases on the agriculture?

Abd' ul baha gives an example as follows: The principle is the same in city and village but operating on a direct financial base: 


1-  Because the climatic conditions vary from one year to the next, a percentage of harvest has to be a guard in a warehouse for every village and will be under the control of the local authority. 


2-  The local authority will receive an income tax increase 


3-  The local authority will also receive a proportion of income of the mining operations of the region. 


4-  A financial support will be established is will be administers by the local authority in the following way: 


- A family incomes of which exceed needs, these incomes will be taxes; 


- A family is supported by the local authority if it does not win enough to satisfy its needs; 


- Every local community contributes to the national capital if she could make it but she could be supported by the national capital if it is necessary. 


- The same principle of contribution and support applies on an international scale. 


The way of functioning of this system will depend on the community and according to considered period.  


H- Eighth law

Respect for the human health. The medicine will have to be more human and less medicinal and the consumption should be healthier and more natural.

To realize it, the honesty is essential to realize the health for all. 

               I- Ninth Law 

                The respect for the future generations

For it, it is necessary:

  - create legislation and a world police for the environmental protection;

-To set up the adapted educational structures involved in companies;

  - establish the universal working right;

  - développe social institutions.

J-tenth Law 

Disarmament, in the name of the safety, it is necessary:

  - keep a minimal national armament for the maintenance of law and order;

   - create a world police preventing the conflicts between nation’s doors    in front of an international court. 


K-Eleventh Law 

Abolition of tariff barriers ,for it, it is necessary to:

  - create a weighty system and measure;

-Set up a world currency (change);

  - To fix an interest rate has a just level;

  - adopt a language international as an auxiliary language

   of communication.

The adoption of these measures will delete many difficulties which the less developed nations face today. 


L-twelfth Law 

System of inheritance adapts .The distribution of sharing of inheritance will prevent the accumulation of the wealth and will avoid making benefit a handle of persons.  


Will end us our talk by a quotation of Abd' ul baha:

< The real happiness depends on the spiritual good and requires a heart always opened to the divine generosity. If the heart turns away from blessings which offer God, for which happiness he can hope? 

If he does not place his hope and his trust in the divine mercy, where will he find the rest? Place your hopes in quite powerful God because he is infallible and his beauty will last never has>  


This talk was given during three corners (places) of fire side at Judith Hatcher, John Macleod and Shan by amina Zahrani Doctor in sciences and education on May 2nd, 10th and 15th 2009.



2009-04-22T12:39:00.000-07:00
First Day of Ridvan
                                                               Jalal 13,166 B.E. April 21,2009
        Today is the first day of Ridvan.Ridvan is a twelve day celebration going from Jalal 13 to Jamal 5 or April 21 to May 2. This is when Baha'u'llah declared His Mission in 20 B.E. or 1863 A.D. This is where He Declared Himself to be God's Manifestation for the age we live in This is the same year Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Abdu-l'Baha said the Collective Center of the Kingdom establishes relation between East and West. This happened in 20 B.E. and it is still happening in  166 B.E. here in Dryden ,New York. In the front window,on the sill there are two stacks of newspapers. On the west side of the sill is the Ithaca Journal. On the east side of the sill is the Cortland Standard. There is the Orenda of the Cortland Ithaca Spirit. The Orenda is a synonym for the Persian Word Khwarenah in the Avestan Language and Khwarr in the Pahlavi. This relation is worth studying in great detail.Ridvan has a teleological ramification to it because it implies : "The Final Cause of Creatures" which means Reunion with God. The Baha'i Faith is not just another Religion, the Baha'i Faith is the Final Consummation.
There are many terms Baha'u'llah uses to demonstrate this fact.


2009-04-20T15:39:00.000-07:00
As part of the Seven Valleys Four Valleys Teaching Project I have incorporated Industrial Justice. I found this passage on a Baha'i Library and I post it now. The Seven Valleys Four Valleys Teaching Project was listed in a previous post.
You have questioned me about strikes. This question is and will be for a long time the subject of great difficulties. Strikes are due to two causes. One is the extreme sharpness and rapacity of the capitalists and manufacturers; the other, the excesses, the avidity and ill-will of the workmen and artisans. It is therefore necessary to remedy these two causes.
But the principal cause of these difficulties lies in the laws of the present civilization; for they lead to a small number of individuals accumulating incomparable fortunes, beyond their needs, whilst the greater number remains destitute, stripped and in the greatest misery. This is contrary to justice, to humanity, to equity; it is the 281 height of iniquity, the opposite to what causes divine satisfaction.
This contrast is peculiar to the world of man: with other creatures, that is to say with nearly all animals, there is a kind of justice and equality. Thus in a shepherd’s flock of sheep, in a troop of deer in the country, among the birds of the prairie, of the plain, of the hill or of the orchard, almost every animal receives a just share based on equality. With them such a difference in the means of existence is not to be found: so they live in the most complete peace and joy.
It is quite otherwise with the human species, which persists in the greatest error, and in absolute iniquity. Consider an individual who has amassed treasures by colonizing a country for his profit: he has obtained an incomparable fortune, and has secured profits and incomes which flow like a river, whilst a hundred thousand unfortunate people, weak and powerless, are in need of a mouthful of bread. There is neither equality nor brotherhood. So you see that general peace and joy are destroyed, the welfare of humanity is partially annihilated, and that collective life is fruitless. Indeed, fortune, honors, commerce, industry are in the hands of some industrials, whilst other people are submitted to quite a series of difficulties and to limitless troubles: they have neither advantages nor profits, nor comforts, nor peace.
Then rules and laws should be established to regulate the excessive fortunes of certain private individuals, and limit the misery of millions of the poor masses; thus a certain moderation would be obtained. However, absolute equality is just as impossible, for absolute equality in fortunes, honors, commerce, agriculture, industry, would end in a want of comfort, in discouragement, in disorganization of the means of existence, and in universal disappointment: the order of the community would be quite destroyed. Thus, there is a great wisdom in the fact that equality is not imposed by law: it is, therefore, preferable for moderation to do its work. The main point is, by means of laws and regulations to hinder the constitution of the excessive fortunes of certain individuals, and to protect the essential needs of the masses. For instance, the manufacturers and the industrials heap up a treasure each day, and the poor artisans do not gain their daily sustenance: 282 that is the height of iniquity, and no just man can accept it. Therefore, laws and regulations should be established which would permit the workmen to receive from the factory owner their wages and a share in the fourth or the fifth part of the profits, according to the wants of the factory; or in some other way the body of workmen and the manufacturers should share equitably the profits and advantages. Indeed, the direction and administration of affairs come from the owner of the factory, and the work and labor, from the body of the workmen. In other words, the workmen should receive wages which assure them an adequate support, and when they cease work, becoming feeble or helpless, they should receive from the owner of the factory a sufficient pension. The wages should be high enough to satisfy the workmen with the amount they receive, so that they may be able to put a little aside for days of want and helplessness.
When matters will be thus fixed, the owner of the factory will no longer put aside daily a treasure which he has absolutely no need of (without taking into consideration that if the fortune is disproportionate, the capitalist succumbs under a formidable burden, and gets into the greatest difficulties and troubles; the administration of an excessive fortune is very difficult, and exhausts man’s natural strength). And, the workmen and artisans will no longer be in the greatest misery and want, they will no longer be submitted to the worst privations at the end of their life.
It is, then, clear and evident that the repartition of excessive fortunes amongst a small number of individuals, while the masses are in misery, is an iniquity and an injustice. In the same way, absolute equality would be an obstacle to life, to welfare, to order and to the peace of humanity. In such a question a just medium is preferable. It lies in the capitalists being moderate in the acquisition of their profits, and in their having a consideration for the welfare of the poor and needy; that is to say, that the workmen and artisans receive a fixed and established daily wage, and have a share in the general profits of the factory.
It would be well, with regard to the social rights of manufacturers, workmen and artisans, that laws be established, giving moderate profits to manufacturers, and to workmen the necessary 283 means of existence and security for the future. Thus, when they become feeble and cease working, get old and helpless, and die leaving children under age, these children will not be annihilated by excess of poverty. And it is from the income of the factory itself, to which they have a right, that they will derive a little of the means of existence.
In the same way, the workmen should no longer rebel and revolt, nor demand beyond their rights; they should no longer go out on strike, they should be obedient and submissive, and not ask for impudent wages. But the mutual rights of both associated parties will be fixed and established according to custom by just and impartial laws. In case one of the two parties should transgress, the courts of justice would have to give judgment, and by an efficacious fine put an end to the transgression; thus order will be re-established, and the difficulties settled. The interference of courts of justice and of the Government in difficulties pending between manufacturers and workmen is legal, for the reason that current affairs between workmen and manufacturers cannot be compared with ordinary affairs between private persons, which do not concern the public, and with which the Government should not occupy itself. In reality, although they appear to be matters between private persons, these difficulties between patrons and workmen produce a general detriment; for commerce, industry, agriculture and the general affairs of the country are all intimately linked together. If one of these suffers an abuse, the detriment affects the mass. Thus the difficulties between workmen and manufacturers become a cause of general detriment.
The court of justice and the Government have therefore the right of interference. When a difficulty occurs between two individuals with reference to private rights, it is necessary for a third to settle the question: this is the part of the Government: then the question of strikes—which cause troubles in the country and are often connected with the excessive vexations of the workmen, as well as with the rapacity of manufacturers—how could it remain neglected?
Good God! is it possible that, seeing one of his fellow-creatures starving, destitute of everything, a man can rest and live comfortably 284 in his luxurious mansion? He who meets another in the greatest misery, can he enjoy his fortune? That is why, in the religion of God, it is prescribed and established that wealthy men each year give over a certain part of their fortune for the maintenance of the poor and unfortunate. That is the foundation of the religion of God, and the most essential of the commandments.
As now man is not forced nor obliged by the Government, if by the natural tendency of his good heart, with the greatest spirituality, he goes to this expense for the poor, this will be a thing very much praised, approved and pleasing.
Such is the meaning of the good works in the Divine Books and Tablets.


2009-04-20T15:24:00.000-07:00
I found a publication of

Drawing on the Power of the Word
This book seeks to enhance the power of expression and explore the moral implications of speech and action. It consists of twenty readings, each of which is complemented by exercises in language skills. The readings begin simply, but gain in complexity both in terms of thought and language. The first reading introduces Diego and his youth group, who live in the small town of Alegrías. With the help of a tutor from the nearby institute named Elisa, the group thinks about the power of enlightened words and pure deeds to bring about social change. The book is designed for youth aged 14.
Author: The Ruhi Foundation Price: $5.00 the Ruhi Institute not included in the regular nine normally listed.

I find the title of this book very interesting as it reminds me of one of Baha'u'llah's Prayers. I believe our words must have depth to them in order that they make the inner core of the listener vibrate if they are to influence those people. I don't know if it is included in the series. I hope to purchase this book. My instincts say this book should be a prerequisite for all Ruhi endeavors.


New Post in Chinese
2009-04-20T09:18:00.000-07:00
我已经写了一些人在中国，所以我决定做Cortaca巴哈教的博客中。这一次似乎是低迷的时候我。我已经写了一些人，但是，由于corresponence很慢的困难。我已写信给两位年轻的女士们生活在中国。我一直使用的翻译服务。中国是我感兴趣的原因是多方面的。


2009-03-19T12:07:00.000-07:00
" Lament not in your hours of trial neither rejoice therein seek ye the
                      middle way which is remembrance of me in your inflection or reflection
                      of what may befall you in future. Thus informeth You. He is Onmipotent,
                      He is aware".


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                                   Heights of Righteousness, Depths of 
                                    Devotion and The Most Great Balance
        
        Being a cosmopolitan or a citizen of the world and then working on
the grassroots presents some difficulties at times. John Taylor a Baha'i
Blogger from Canada at badiblog.blogspot.com has addressed this issue in one of his more current posts. The Fast will be over tomorrow at sunset when Baha 1,166 B.E. will herald Naw Ruz.
        Last night I was reading the Kitab-I-Iqan. I was fascinated with the section where Baha'u'llah speaks of the Heights of Righteousness. A
Few years ago Bett Midler sang a song titled: From A Distance,during
the Gulf War with Iraq. As Mr Balluzzi said in his book titled: Baha'u'llah ,the Manifestation of God ia an Archetype. I was in the 
Heights of Righteousness last night Ala 18,165 B.E. because Ala is the
month of Loftiness.
        Baha'u'llah has also spoken of the "Depths Of Ignorance and the
Depths of Devotion. This idea reminds me of the writings of Paul
Tillich where Mr. Tillich speaks about going below the depths of the
Satanic to find the Divine. He calls this depth the Depth of the Ultimate
Depth of Saving Grace or the "Unconditioned Inexhaustible Ground of
Being in Depth Christendom. The Depth of Devotion in the Baha'i Sense
would mean Obedience to the Laws of Baha'u'llah
        Baha'u'llah also speaks of the "Most Great Balance". We must turn 
to Him to obtain the "Divine Wisdom" enshrined within" Baha'u'llah
instructs us in the Kitab'I'Aqdas:
                  "Lament not in your hours of trial ,neither rejoice
                    therein. Seek your rembrance of me in your afflictions
                    and reflection over what may befall you in future
                    Thus He is Omnipotent He is aware.
There are a number of Baha'i Prayers where Baha'u'llah Manifests 
the " Most Great Balance" There must be a Balance between exaltation
and piety. It is not spiritually healthy to go too far in either direction
without balancing our souls with Baha'u'llah's Super Soul.
        The conclusion I have today Ala 18,165 B.E. in the year of Ahad and
tomorrow at sunset it will be Baha 1,166 B.E. in the Vahhab is this: "In
the Heights of Righteousness we can say anything less than world 
unity is doomed to failure and in the Depths of Devotion  we must:
"Think Globally but act locally" "The Earth is but One Country and
Mankind is its Citizens" Is easily understood where the "Three Unities"
are in "Clear Focus". On the Grassroots "The Depths of our Devotion"
is surely tested as we try to take our neighbors from the "Depths of
Ignorance to the Depths of Devotion" We need the "Unerring Balance"
in our day to day struggles.




2009-03-04T10:57:00.001-08:00
Seven Valleys Four Valleys
                               Teaching Project In 
                                 Cortland ,New York
         
            The Seven Valleys Four Valleys Teaching Project was initiated by me
almost twenty years ago. The program consists of Seven Major Parts. The
main or central core speaks about writing a special edition of Baha'u'llah's book titled : The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys for the
people of Cortland ,New York. Cortland ,New York has seven geographical valleys. There are six converging on the seventh which is
the central valley. George Townsend ,a prominent Baha'i wrote a book
titled: The Heart of the Gospel. In the chapters titled: Ministers of Evolution Mr. Townsend speaks about the opening book of Genesis.God
created the world in six days and on the seventh He rested. This seven
fold rythm is carried throughout the Bible from the beginning in the
book of Genesis to the end in the book of Revelation. A few years ago I
heard Hossein Danesh speak about Baha'u'llah's book titled: The Seven
Valleys and the Four Valleys. Mr Danesh said :"Once you go through the
"Seven Valleys  you go through them over again.Since seven is a significant number in a number of religions this issue would be addressed also. There is a correlation between the "Seven Valleys" and
"The Lord of the Seven Spheres". In Sufism the Way has Seven Valleys.
In Taoism we encounter the "Valley Spirit" the mystic female,the gateway
between heaven and earth. Ironically the Bab describes Himself as "The
Maid of Heaven". Psaloms 23 is spoken in conjunction with the Seven
Words of Jesus on the Cross. "Yea though I walk through the Valley of
the Shadow of Death I will fear no Evil for Thou art with Me" Again the
Bab speaks of Himself as:God the Help in Peril the Self Subsisting.There
was a Way Movement in Cortland at one time. In the Way Bible ,Seven
Books of the Bible are suggested as starting points.
       Other parts of the Program ,for example would focus on Abdu-l'Baha'is Industrial Justice Tablet. Cortland,New York is an Industrial
City. Brockway Trucks used to be one of "THE SEVEN VALLEYS FINEST"
Brockway Truck Owners from all over come to Cortland,New York every
summer.
          At the time the "Seven Valleys Four Valley's Teaching Project was
introduced the Buffalo Baha'i Community sponsored Project LUA in
honor of Lua Getsinger. Teaching Blitzes were part of that program.
         I have been attending "Open Mike Nights" at the Blue Frog Coffee
House. One performer of interest is a person known as the "Poet"The
Blue Frog Coffee House inspired me to develope an idea known as the
CORTACA MUG in conjunction with GIMME COFFEE in Ithaca. Now
we have the Dryden Cafe.
         The 1890 House is another place of interest . It is the former home
of Chester Wickwire. He translated cloth weaving into wire weaving. The
1890 House is an example of the Victorian Era. There is a Baha'i Belief,
when a Manifestation of God dies nature is endowed with His Spirit. There is a video at the 1890 House that speaks of the Dynamics of the
1890s. Baha'u'llah died May 29 ,1892,so there is a connection here.
         Another aspect of this teaching program would be "Holy Spirit 
Workshops". Prior to presenting this program to the City of Ithaca Baha'is I had been engaged in a Lutheran Baha'i Dialogue at Saint Pauls
Lutheran Church in Cortland ,New York. Currently Nasrin Parvizi has
presented the Baha'i Faith at Saint Anthony's. Part of the Back to Bible
Study Program was a section "Recognizing the Holy Spirit" at Saint Pauls
Lutheran Church. Nancy and Glenn Blackburn, Baha'is from Pennsylvannia conducted "Holy Spirit Workshops" The name of Their
workshop: Attracting the Holy Spirit. They have thirteen was of attracting the Holy Spirit. There is a lot of similarities between the two
programs,the one conducted at Saint Pauls and the one conducted by
the Blackburns. Ironically besides CORTCA BAHA'I I have A HOLY
SPIRIT BLOG.
        Another part would be dealing with the establishment of a special 
program for teaching the Baha'i Faith to Christians. At the time I developed this program I didn't know about the "Seven Words of Jesus
on the Cross". One version done by the Plain Truth,originally established
by Herbert W. Armstrong, sounds very similar to the Seven Stages of the
Marathon. I have spoken with Christian Athletes and I have had some
very warm conversations on this matter. I found a book on the Seven
Words of Jesus on the Cross and it was published in 1949 the year I
was born.
        We have been doing the Ruhi Books at Nazrin Parvizi's and Robert
Baumeister's Home. I've developed : "The Seven Joys of Ruhi Teaching"
taken from the second Ruhi Book. The "Seven Joys Of Mary " were a
source of inspiration.
        The Industrial Justice Tablet has taken on greater significance after
writing to Elvie Dames. She is Pioneering in Phenom Penh, Cambodia. 
She has been exemplifying what Abdu'l-Baha speaks about in this tablet,
in fact she has been His Spokes Person in a very difficult situation where
she works. She and I have spoken about this teaching project and she has been very supportive. Thank You Elvie. She is a very significant Baha'i Friend who I met on "Two Doves"



I have been away for a while
2009-02-06T17:03:00.000-08:00
I haven't been blogging for a while. I haven't been behind the wheel of a vehicle for three months
and I haven't had computer access for two month. Adversity builds character. What is at the
foundation of the concept Cortaca Baha'i? A number of spiritual concepts contribute to this idea.
One is the Orenda of the Cortland Ithaca Spirit. This is the spiritual residue of the Cayuga and
Onondaga Indians. Another is Charles Dickens book titled:The Tale of Two Cities. The relationship between Ithaca and Cortland is similar to London and Paris in some ways. Tribute
must be given to Tompkins Cortland Community College, although my center has been the
distance on Bone Plain Road from 109 Bone Plain Road to 140 Bone Plain Road for the last three
months. I discovered the Baha'ai Faith in Cortland ,New York and declared in the Town Of Ithaca . Now I hope I can resume where I left off.


2008-10-21T14:04:00.000-07:00
TRANSPORTATION

     I am not currentyly working in transportation. I put transportation down as my
industry because of the condition of transportation at this time. For eight years I
worked from Saturdays to Wednessdays at Ithaca College. Finding help on the weekends
was difficult due to the lack of transportation. The TCAT only runs certain scheduals. This presents difficulties for people living outside of Ithaca. I worked
a swing shift and there was no way I could travel to work with mass transit. I used 
to go out of my way to take people home:Trumansburg,Enfield,you name it.My Grandfather Brotherton used to drive a bus for the Corona Typewriters. My Mon used to
go and meet him.The AARP has addressed the issue of establishing transportation
networks. When I was attending Corning Community College forty years ago gasoline was
twenty five cents a gallon and you could purchase a Rambler American for fifty dollars.Working the same shift helps with car pooling as well as well as increasing
the amount of parking places.


Vahidian Cycles
2008-10-14T13:59:00.000-07:00
Vahidian Cycles


Homogeneous Time Network: HOMOGENEOUS TIME NETWORK
2008-10-14T11:44:00.000-07:00
Homogeneous Time Network: HOMOGENEOUS TIME NETWORK


2008-10-12T08:51:00.000-07:00
Baha'u'llah's Voice In The
                                 Kitab-i-Aqdas
                                Indictments Against
                                   Intoxicants
                    Words Of Shoghi Effendi and Abdu'l-Baha'i

        "It is inadmissible that man,who hath been endowed with reason, should
    consume that which stealeth it away. Nay, rather it behoveth him to comport
    himself in a manner worthy of the human station, and not in accordance with
    the misdeeds of every heedless and wavering soul".K-119 page 62. Baha'u'llah.

        "It hath been forbidden you to smoke opium. We,truly,have prohibited this
    practice through a most binding interdiction in the Book. Should anyone par-
    take therof, assuredly he is not of Me. Fear God, O ye endued with under-
    standing." K-190 page 88 Baha'u'llah.

        "Beware lest ye exchange the Wine of God for your own wine, for it will
    stupify your minds, and turn your faces away from the Countenance of God,
    the All-Glorious, the Peerless, the Inaccessible. Approach it not, for it
    hath been forbidden unto you by the behest of God, the Exalted, the Almighty."
    Baha'u'llah
                                     Abdu'l-Baha

        "The Aqdas prohibits both light and strong drinks because alcohol
    leadeth the mind astray and causeth the weakening of the body.

        ""Shoghi Effendi, in letters written on his behalf, states that this 
    prohibition includes not only the consumption of wine but of "everything that
    deranges the mind", and he clarifies that the use of alcohol is permitted only
    when it constitutes part of a medical treatment which is implemented"under the
    advice of a competant and conscientious physician, who may have to prescribe it
    for the cure of some special ailment"".

        Note 144 pages 226 and 227  Notes The  Most Holy Book

         Gambling and the use of opium have been forbidden unto you. Eschew them
    both, O people, and be not of those who transgress. Beware of using any 
    substance that induceth sluggishness and torpor in the human temple and 
    inflicteth harm upon the body. We, verily, desire for you naught save what shall
    profit you, and to this bear witness all created things, had ye but ears to hear.

     K-155 page 75 Baha'u'llah The Most Holy Book.

         170. the use of opium...any substance that indceth sluggishness and torpor
     K-155

     "This prohibition of the use of opium is reinterated by Baha'u'llah in the final
paragraph of the Kitab-i-Aqdas. In this connection Shoghi Effendi stated that one of
requirements for "a chaste and holy life" is total abstinence ...from opium and from 
similar habit-forming drugs".Heroin,hashish and other derivatives of cannabis such
as marijuana ,as well as hallucinogenic agents such as LSD, peyote and similar
substances, are regarded as falling under this prohibition."page 238 Notes 
Kitab-I-Aqdas


2008-10-11T08:22:00.000-07:00
should read vibrating influence of Baha'u'llah's Magnificent New World Order.


2008-10-11T07:21:00.000-07:00
Nineteen Step and Vahidian
                               Recovery Program

    Since the Baha'i Calendar consists of nineteen days to the month and nineteen
months to the year, aa well as nineteen years to the Vahid and nineteen Vahids to the
Kull-i-Shay,it is "SELF EVIDENT" we need a nineteen step recovery system as well as
A Vahidian Recovery System. Kenneth Keyes has a program of a twelve fold pathway and
the seven spiritual centers. There is also the Ennagram ,which is a mandala consisting of nine people. The nineteen step recovery progam is based on the 19;20
vibrating of Baha'u'llah's Magnificent New World Order. It is also based on the Unity of the Manifestations of God. This idea is "Manifest" from the very beginning,
combining Yasna 30 with Surah 88.The Vahidian Recovery Program is similar to Ira
Progoff's Journal except the Vahidin year is included.The Ennagram is significant in
that it could help pave the way for an understanding of the "Spiritual Assembly" as
well as the "Future Houses of Justice". The Black Muslims also had a six step
recovery system. In a way the Black Muslims and the Baha'i Community have one thing
in common to deal with: they are being scrutinized by the "watchful public."
    My experience with the twelve step recovery progam is that it hasn't been very
effective in combating alcoholism. I was working a job and one of my co-workers was
in AA. He had had been enrolled in it for eight years and his drinking problem was
worse than when he started. He said he could identify with step one,however,step two
he couldn't relate to.
    What  did the authors of the Menok-i-Khrat understand that modern man doesn't?

                     "All the Adversity and Welfare that come to
                      Man and other creatures come through the
                      Seven and the Twelve. The Twelve Signs of
                      the Zodiac are said to be the Twelve Commanders
                      on the Side of Ohrmazd and the Seven Planets 
                      are said to be the Seven Commanders on the
                      Side of Ahriman and the Seven Planets Oppress
                      all creation and deliver it over to Death and 
                      all manner of Evil,for the Twelve Signs of the
                      Zodiac and the Seven Planets rule the Fate of the
                      World and direct it.
    
    There is another Pahlavi Book titled the Denkart.In this book the Religion of
Ohrmazd consists of ONE WORD the MEAN. The Religion of Ahriman consists of two words
"Excess and Deficiency":

                      The Usefulness of every action and everything is
                      from the Mean, this Usefulness is spoilt and made
                      of no effect by Excess and Deficiency.

Ridvan literally means "Reunion with God". How many people celebrating the twelve days of Ridvan? How many celebrate Christmas and how much are alcoholic beverages
conummed. There is a parallel between Ridvan and the "twelve step recovery" for the
twelve step recovery will return the alcoholic to God if he or she is faithful to it. The main promblem being:what Baha'u'llah calls the "Ahrimans Lurking in Ambush."
The coversion of satannic strength into heavenly power must be considered also.
    Think about the Bab, the Primal Point of a New Creation and his implemtation
of the Badi Calendar.The Badi Calendar is the Pro Type to the Vahidian Recovery and
Ninteen Step Recovery Programs. Ahriman's and illness share one thing in common. They can get between us and God.


Cortaca Baha'i
2008-10-07T17:12:00.000-07:00
CORTACA BAHA'I AND ABHA KINGDOM
A new relationship between Cortaca Baha'i and the Abha Kingdom has been firmly established.The Abha Kingdom is a new blog spot. The Cortaca Baha'i rests on the
belief that the Collective Center of the Kingdom establishes relationship between 
east and west. A parallel exists in the book of Matthew. You can come from the east
and come from the west and sit down in the Kingdom of God. The Cortaca Baha'i has 
developed from the Cortaca Mug. The Cortaca Mug is an answer to the Cortaca Jug. In
the Kitab-i-Aqdas Baha'u'llah enjoins His Followers not to partake of alcoholic
beverages. The arts are given special reverence in the Baha'i Faith. The Coffee Shop
is an alternative to the bar scene, it is also a place for a Baha'i to embrace the
arts,whether there is an open mike night or the exhibition of paintings a Baha'i is
participating in God's Creative Spirit and the "Universal Logos". The Baha'i discovers the hidden meaning in life and contributes to an "ever advancing civilization. The coffee house creates an atmosphere more conducive to Baha'i Ideals.
The Abha Kingdom is the Most Luminous Kingdom and has a very special relationship
with the "Final Consummation". There is a "Ladder of Significances synonymous with
Divine Knowledge (ILM).It is in this dimension that Science and Religion become One.
Ilm or Knowledge is one of the months of the Baha'i Calendar.Baha'is are enjoined to
use their minds to solve complex problems. The intellect is a gift from God. We are
not to destroy it. It would be an act of "Wrong Mindedness" and represent a negative
attitude towards God. This spells CORTACA BAHA'I


Abha Kingdom: Cortaca Baha'i
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Abha Kingdom: Cortaca Baha'i


Abha Kingdom: Abha Kingdom
2008-10-07T17:00:00.000-07:00
Abha Kingdom: Abha Kingdom


Bab the Primal Point: Cortaca Baha'i
2008-10-03T15:32:00.000-07:00
Bab the Primal Point: Cortaca Baha'i


Lord Of the Seven Spheres: Cortaca Baha'i
2008-10-03T15:30:00.000-07:00
Lord Of the Seven Spheres: Cortaca Baha'i


Lord Of the Seven Spheres
2008-10-03T15:27:00.000-07:00
Lord Of the Seven Spheres


Fork-Spoon-Knife: Coastal influences in Zoroastrian cuisine
2008-10-02T11:38:00.000-07:00
Fork-Spoon-Knife: Coastal influences in Zoroastrian cuisine


Meads Of Eternal Holiness: Cortaca Baha'i
2008-10-02T11:23:00.000-07:00
Meads Of Eternal Holiness: Cortaca Baha'i


Meads Of Eternal Holiness: Meads Of Eternal Holiness
2008-10-02T11:21:00.000-07:00
Meads Of Eternal Holiness: Meads Of Eternal Holiness


Meads Of Eternal Holiness: child of africa: full moon
2008-10-02T11:19:00.000-07:00
Meads Of Eternal Holiness: child of africa: full moon


The First Duty Prescribed By God: Cortaca Baha'i
2008-10-02T11:17:00.000-07:00
The First Duty Prescribed By God: Cortaca Baha'i


The First Duty Prescribed By God: Cortaca Baha'i
2008-10-02T11:15:00.000-07:00
The First Duty Prescribed By God: Cortaca Baha'i


Bab the Primal Point: Cortaca Baha'i
2008-10-02T11:14:00.000-07:00
Bab the Primal Point: Cortaca Baha'i


Balance OF Nations: Cortaca Baha'i
2008-10-02T11:13:00.000-07:00
Balance OF Nations: Cortaca Baha'i


Meads Of Eternal Holiness
2008-10-02T11:06:00.000-07:00
Meads Of Eternal Holiness


Lord Of the Seven Spheres
2008-10-02T11:00:00.000-07:00
Lord Of the Seven Spheres


The First Duty Prescribed By God: Cortaca Baha'i
2008-10-02T10:57:00.000-07:00
The First Duty Prescribed By God: Cortaca Baha'i


Menok-i-Khrat Capt 8 :12-14: Just Passing Through: Thinking for Oneself
2008-10-02T10:52:00.000-07:00
Menok-i-Khrat Capt 8 :12-14: Just Passing Through: Thinking for Oneself


Baha'u'llah's19:20 Vibrating Influence
2008-10-02T10:49:00.000-07:00
Baha'u'llah's19:20 Vibrating Influence


Bab the Primal Point
2008-10-02T10:46:00.000-07:00
Bab the Primal Point


2008-09-30T12:30:00.000-07:00
12 TRIBES OF ITHACA,NEW YORK
                            +7 VALLEYS OF CORTLAND,NEW YORK
                            19 KEEPERS OF THE FIRE
                             CORTACA BAHA'I
                             CORTACA BAHA'I
                             CORTACA BAHA'I
    Ithaca,New York is one of the places where the Twelve Tribes reside. Cortland,
New York is nestled amongst seven beautiful geographical valleys. The Nineteen 
Keepers of the Fire are mentioed in Surah 74 of the Koran. The idera of a "Firekeeper" comes to mind with the leaves turning to orange,yellow and gold.
                           The weather outside is fightful,
                           but the fire is so delightful,
                           and since there's no place to go,
                           let it snow,let it snow,let it snow.
In the age where we can turn the thermostst up it is hard to understand how we must
syncronize our bio-rythmic cycle with the burn cycle.The ancient Zoroastrians knew
this formula. The "Third Part of the Night" is found in both Islamic and Mazdean
Traditions. The Metonic Cycle is found in all cultures. Meton an ancient Greek 
Astronomer discovered there is an astonishing nineteen year cycle to the moon.Investigate this reality for yourself.The Nineteen Day Fast is approaching during the Baha'i Month of Ala (Loftiness)This year is a time to bear witness to
the fact that God is One, the Single. Next year God will be One,the Bountiful.


2008-09-22T15:02:00.000-07:00
It is time to post a New Cortaca Baha'i. Another Blogspot has been added to the ones
already existing. The purpose is still the same. Bring the Final Consummation to the
Multi Layered History of this area.We start out with the Longhouse Tradition. Then
we move on to the Cortland Ithaca Area. Deganawidah planted the Tree of the Long Leaves in Onondaga Territory. Cortland,New York was once part of the Onondaga Territory Ithaca the Cayuga. I'm part Cayuga on my mother's side of the family.The
Central Spiritualist Association of New York is the Golden Mean of Unitarian Universalism because the camp is half way beteen Cortland and Ithaca. The church in
Cortland was originally Universalist. Ralph Waldo Emerson visited at one time.The
church in Ithaca was Unitarian. They became Unitarian Universalist when both churches
in the whole United States merged in 1961. Cortland is of a higher elevation called
the "Crown City","The Seven Valley's finest. There are Nine Principles in the Spiritual Churches. This idea corresponds with the term Patman or the Mean employed
in the Bundahisnm,the nine milleniums of the war between light and darkness.The Cortaca Mug is an indictment towards the Cortaca Jug. Since Baha'is are not supposed
to consume alcoholic beverages the coffee house is seen as an alternative to the
bar scene. In the Baha'i World Faith Abdu'l-Baha said the "Collective Center of the
Kingdom establishes relation between East and West. This blog is being compiled at
Tompkins Cortland Community College, a cooperative effort between Cortland and 
Tompkins Community College. Being a Baha'i I'm also trying to combat racism in the
Cortland Ithaca Area. I have made links with other Baha'i Blogs. Baha'i Thought is
one of them. It is through my stillness and motion I know Baha'u'llah's Stillness and
Motion.


Living in Egypt Without ID: International Religious Freedom Report 2008
2008-09-22T13:57:00.000-07:00
Living in Egypt Without ID: International Religious Freedom Report 2008


Just Passing Through: Thinking for Oneself
2008-09-22T13:08:00.000-07:00
Just Passing Through: Thinking for Oneself


TangoDream: WIE7 Rant
2008-09-21T12:52:00.000-07:00
TangoDream: WIE7 Rant


2008-09-20T13:24:00.000-07:00
connection with other Baha'i Blogspots


child of africa: full moon
2008-09-20T11:54:00.000-07:00
child of africa: full moon


Kitab-i-Iqan Page by Page: Preview of Signs Saying Section Five (Paragraphs 74-85)
2008-09-20T11:26:00.000-07:00
Kitab-i-Iqan Page by Page: Preview of Signs Saying Section Five (Paragraphs 74-85)


Bahá’í Thought: When They Came For the Baha'is
2008-09-20T10:40:00.000-07:00
Bahá’í Thought: When They Came For the Baha'is


2008-09-05T05:57:00.000-07:00
DISCLAIMER STATEMENT
   Individual is a member of the Baha'i Faith
   This is not an official Baha'i Web Site


Cortaca Baha'i
2008-09-03T18:10:00.000-07:00
What was presented in the previous Cortaca Baha'i Blog was a Number of different
Baha'i Topics. Discussions are presented in my other Blog Spots. I have been a Baha'i
for twenty seven years.The last prayer at the end of Prayers and Meditations has been
of significance for many years. The Metonic Cycle has been equated with the Vahidian
Cycle in the Baha'i Faith. Baha'u'llah said;What has been hidden in man is being 
revealed today. He also speaks of the vibrating influence of His New World Order
Baha'u'llah is the twentieth letter of the living. He says I yield Thee such thanks
twenty times.In the Avesta God has twenty names. The Mayans had the Vegisimal numbering system. We have ten fingers and ten toes. That adds up to twenty.
The Cortaca Baha'i is a harmonic convergence of my stillness and Motion with 
Baha'u'llah's Stillness and Motion in the Cortand Ithaca Area. The Baha'i Faith is
not another Religion,the Baha'i Faith is the Final Consummation.Baha'u'llah is 
Trustee of the Lord of the Seven Sphere. Abdu-l'Baha said there would be souls who
would present the world with proofs of the Lord Of The Seven Spheres. These are the
Seven Pillars of Baha'u'llah's Consummate Wisdom. He is the Dayspring On High in a
multitude of Ways when He Manifests God's Magnificent Attributes. He is the Blessed
Beauty,the Blessed Perfection, the Abha Beauty, HE IS THE GLORY OF GOD.


2008-08-30T14:23:00.000-07:00
Baha'i Thought www.baha'ithought.com-70K
Baha'i Faith www.Baha'i.org/-24K


2008-08-29T16:26:00.000-07:00
BAHA'U'LLAH THE GLORY OF GOD


2008-08-29T16:25:00.000-07:00
UNITY OF THE MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD


2008-08-29T16:24:00.000-07:00
BALANCE OF NATIONS


2008-08-28T14:35:00.000-07:00
Establish Unity Between East And  West
Demonstrate 19:20 Vibrating Frequency Of Baha'u'llah's New World Order
Show Relationship Between the Vahidian Cycles and The Metonic Cycle


2008-08-28T14:32:00.000-07:00



Cortaca Baha'i
2008-08-16T14:40:00.000-07:00
Ralph W Shoemaker
39 with 20 years of experiece
in state of transition
Discovered the Baha'i Faith in Cortand New York
Declared in Ithaca New York
Engaged in Seven Valleys Four Valleys Teaching Project in Cortland
Cortland, New York one of the magnificent Cities of God nestled amongst seven valleys
Working on racial unity in Cortland Ithaca area
Cortaca Mug