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Portals To Freedom By HOWARD COLBY IVES With Four Portraits of
Abdul-Bahd and a picture of The Bahdi House of Worship Issued in
Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of Abdul-Bahas Visit to the
United States of America April to December, 1912 New York E. P.
BUTTON COMPANY Publishers Abdu 1-Bahi Washington, D. C., 1912 To
SHOGHI EFFENDI The Grandson of ABDUL-BAHA By Him Appointed Guardian
of the Bahai Faith and Head of the International House of Justice
This book is lovingly dedicated TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction PAGE
13 Chapter One Chapter Tivo Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five
Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Retrospect. Spiritual
Bankruptcy. A Dawn ing Hope. The Golden Silence 1 8 The Glance that
saved the World. A Divine Sincerity. The Masterly Teaching Method.
34 True Wealth, Power and Freedom. The Table of Abdu 1-Baha. Very
Great Things. Are you interested in Renunciation . . 50 The
Attraction of Perfection. The Boys from the Bowery. A Black Rose
and a Black Sweet 60 A Leaf in the Breeze of the Will of God. My
Throne is My Mat. Inscription in The Seven Valleys. 69 The Reality
and Essence of Brotherhood. Cannot you serve him Once True
Brotherhood due to the Breaths of the Holy Spirit. O, you should
have Seen Him . 80 An Eternal Bond. The Wedding. The need for
Reformation of Laws pertaining to Di vorce. The Laws of BahaUllah.
Four Kinds of Love. The Children of the New Day 92 The Most Perfect
Gentleman I have ever known. The Master Teacher. The Spir itual
Warrior. A Fable. It behooves you to manifest Light. The Gift. The
First Tablet 114 7 Table of Contents PAGE Chapter Nine Chapter Ten
The American Itinerary. The Power of the Spirit. Her Highness the
Cow. TrueGreatness. The Divine Teaching Method. 132 The Universe of
BahaUllah. The Evolu tion of Man. The Glory of Self-sacrifice. 149
Chapter Instruction in the Way of Life. What is Eleven Authority
The Science of the Love of God. . 167 Chapter The New World Order.
A Divine Civili-Tivelve zation. The Kingdom of God on Earth. . 175
Chapter Some Divine Characteristics. The Humil-Thlrteen ity of
Servitude. The Station of True Man hood 192 Chapter Abdul-Bahas
Last Words in America. Fourteen Seven Distinctive Characteristics
of the Teachings. Evidences of the New World Order 211 Chapter By
their Fruits shall ye know them. Four Fifteen Tablets 229 Chapter
Conclusion 250 Sixteen ILLUSTRATIONS ABDUL-BAHA, WASHINGTON, D. C,
1912 Frontispiece ABDUL-BAHA, WASHINGTON, D. C, 1912 Facing Page 84
THE BAHAI HOUSE OF WORSHIP AT WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, ON LAKE MICHIGAN
Facing Page 190 ABDUL-BAHA IN THE GARDEN OF BAHJI Facing Page 211
ABDUL-BAHA STANDING BEFORE HIS HOME HAIFA, PALESTINE Facing Page
248 Portals To Freedom INTRODUCTION I ask Thee, O Ruler of
Existence and King of Creation, to transmute the brass of existence
into gold by the elixir of Thy Revelation and Wisdom then reveal
unto men by a comprehensive Book that which will enrich them by Thy
Riches. BahaUllah. WHAT is that mystery underlying human life which
gives to events and to persons the power of mutation, of
transformation If one had never before seen a seed, nor heard of
its latent life, how difficult to believe that only the cold earth,
the warm sun, the descending showers and the gardeners care were
needed to cause its miraculous transformation into the growing
form, the budding beauty, the intoxicating fragrance of the rose Or
who can understandthe reason why a chance perusal of a book, the
presence of a friend or the meeting with a stranger often alters a
determined course of action, profoundly affects our attitude toward
life, and, not seldom, so nearly reaches the roots of being and the
springs of action that never after is life quite the same It is as
if some super-Luther Burbank had, by that 13
A unique account of 'Abdu'l-Baha's visit to America by one of
American disciples.
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