Baha’i Justice

In this third Fireside, the four-part, Golden Criteria learned in the second Fireside are applied to the prophecies of Christ’s return and includes at its starting point those prophecies for the return of His Forerunner.

This is a reaffirmation of the scientific method as it applies to religious scripture in the investigation of prophetic fulfillment. It demonstrates the repeatability of The Divine Standard method by empirically eliminating the infinite field of possibilities, the vast but finite array of all probabilities and reaching the single outcome to the event or The Advent. This process is elemental in the study of such an advanced science as High Energy Theoretical Particle Physics but has its origin in the study of prophetic scripture.

In the process of applying The Divine Standard to the set of prophecies concerning The Return of Christ and His Forerunner, the seeker becomes familiar with words and phrases of the languages which are and were native to the inhabitants of the lands referred to in Bible. This continues and broadens the seekers introduction to the field of Linguistics and the study of religious symbolism while leading them to the wellspring of knowledge and the solution to all of the ills of the human world whether physical/material, mental or spiritual.

This Fireside demonstrates how with the very logical process of deductive reasoning, we can clearly see how Jesus of Nazareth fulfills the prophetic criteria given prior to His advent which prove Him to be the first of two Biblical Messiahs prophesied in the text of the Old Testament.

This logical, scientific system gives four criteria which when combined, point irrefutably to only one possible individual as the solution to the equation. These criteria are the prophesied Name, Date, Address and Mission. Together these four steps are called the “Golden Criteria” and can be applied as The Divine Standard to determine if anyone at any point in all of recorded history to the present is an authentic Promised One sent by God.

This portion of the second Fireside teaches the foundation of critical thinking which is the basis of the entire study of Philosophy and logical thought. Beginning with this Fireside and in certain others to follow, the skills of basic mathematics are employed as part of the application of these Golden Criteria. Through this lens applied to all fields of investigation, the truth of all things may ultimately be discovered.

In the rest of this Fireside the history of the Christian Religion is unfolded and the corruption of its fundamental expression and promulgation is laid bare for the understanding of all who seek the truth no matter how distasteful it may be. This part of the second Fireside is an education in world history through religious example which uses the disciplines of Historical Documentation, Archeology, Anthropology, the study of Languages, Literature and Symbolism as well as the methods and process of investigative research. The result brings the seeker conclusively to the understanding of how this world came to be in the condition we find it in at the present moment.

In the first Fireside entitled “Why Life”, the most basic questions of existence are both asked and answered. In the collection of his table talks entitled Some Answered Questions, Abdu’l-Baha builds a foundation for an understanding of the creation and purpose of the existence of all the levels or kingdoms within the natural world. These explanations actually form the basis for the study of the planet earth and all life upon it.

The first is the mineral kingdom which forms the most elemental atomic/energetic level, the study of which encompasses Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy and Geography and crosses over into areas of learning such as Archeology and Paleontology among others.

The second is the plant or vegetable kingdom. From the understanding given by Abdu’l-Baha, the student can find their way into Botony and a wealth of other’s such as Horticulture, Herbology and the study of Herbal Medicine for example.

Third in the hierarchy of earthly realms as explained by Abdu’l-Baha is the animal kingdom. Learning about the animal kingdom and its dependency upon the plant and mineral kingdoms respectively is the beginning of knowledge in the schools of Zoology, General Biology, Ecology and Animal Husbandry or true stewardship of our God-given earthly resources, an art and science which mankind is, especially today, badly in need of deepening understanding.

The fourth kingdom is that of the human. The explanation of this kingdom given by Abdu’l-Baha opens the door to the study of all Social Sciences, the Arts and Psychology, Anthropology, Archeology and History to name only the most basic. Further advancement from this is made into the deeper study of Philosophy and Religious Thought.

With this as the foundation for understanding the structure of creation, answers to questions and proofs of the reality of God are given and expounded upon. Proofs for the Divine Plan and those who revealed it to humanity are provided which open the door to the study of religious, cultural and literary History as well.

The first Fireside, “Why Life”, encompasses much more than these schools of study and is yet only the beginning of a true Baha’i education. The complete Fireside series is always given free of any price by any Baha’i acting under the Provisions of the Covenant of Baha’u'llah as given on page ten of the Will and Testament of Abdu’l-Baha.

As I stated in the posts on Television and Education in the Kingdom, The Firesides as taught by The Establisher of the Baha’i Faith will become the foundation of the public educational curriculum throughout the Baha’i world. It must also be noted that these Firesides were also taught in their earliest form by Abdu’l-Baha and are in fact contained within the sacred text of the writings of Baha’u'llah. They are absolutely authoritative.

Additionally, as mentioned earlier these firesides have enfolded within them, paths which lead into all educational schools of study as offered in all of the Universities the world over from ancient times to the present. The following series of posts will offer an introduction to each fireside in general and an explanation of how they expand into all areas of study.

As the Establisher of the Baha’i Faith taught, there is far more to proclaiming and teaching the message of the Baha’i Faith that continues to occur long after one has been through the Firesides twice. Once that has been accomplished there are deepenings and personal and community research beyond measure which would certainly be greatly enhanced by the audio visual medium and this is well established by much practical experience by many teachers in the Cause to date.

As the number of educated young adults increases there will be a corresponding increase in the number of educated children raised under the Provisions of the Covenant in Baha’i households. Parents will eventually become the primary educators of their own children after as well as before the age of responsibility assisted by the supportive Baha’i community under the Provisions of the Covenant.

Soon the Firesides as taught by The Establisher of the Baha’i Faith will become the foundation of the public education curriculum as they include all the major disciplines from art to literature to history, science, math, linguistics and much more. Audio visual education tools will be used far more effectively in the Kingdom than they are today to increase learning in all these schools of thought from the Baha’i perspective. This is not to say that they won’t remain supplementary as that would naturally be more effective than to rely heavily upon them as an educational mainstay.

Dr Jensen, the Establisher of the Baha’i Faith stated 

that television and the internet were created for the 

purpose of proclaiming the Baha’i Revelation to the entire planet. 

Since there is no end to that we
could have truly awe inspiring broadcasts going
around the world and out into space for  the duration
of the Baha’i dispensation. There are however many individuals 

who see these two mediums as inherently 

worthless or even downright evil. I think what is too 

commonly done today is to see
the tools of modern technology as being evil in and
of themselves. Rather what should be done is, as the
prophecy states, beat the swords into plowshares by
simply transforming our values to the point where we
will not use these same tools for making war. If you
were to chop the sword up into shards of metal you
wouldn’t have anything to plow the field with. It’s
a process of heating, hammering, bending and cooling
the sword which transforms it into a useful tool of
agriculture, not simply destroying or discarding the
sword. This is what the Baha’i writings tell us is
the process of transforming satanic strength into
heavenly power and that does not imply destruction.
So to advocate the destruction of the wondrous tools
which the Revelation of  Baha’u'llah has directly
inspired the human mind to invent for a heavenly
purpose during these first two centuries of it’s
dispensation would be irresponsible. Through
education in the
Baha’i Revelation, we will elevate our spiritual
development so it keeps pace with our technical
ingenuity and all invention will be utilized to
advance our spiritual civilization rather than to
destroy it. That’s what will happen to the world
order of the beast as well. It will be transformed
into the world order of the Glory of God,
Baha’u'llah, with the transformation of the four
beast nations into the four living creatures. Like
the sword, this requires the application of fervent
heat (nuclear), hammering (meteor impact and
earthquake), bending (earth’s shifting crust), and
the tempering or cooling process which would be the
spiritual change the  human race experiences as a
result of education before, during and after these
transformational catastrophes.

Interesting thing this “global warming” phenomenon.

Funny thing about the melting polar ice both north and south; it’s not melting from above, it’s melting from underneath. This is due to the many areas of greatly increased volcanic activity far beneath them in recent years/decades, undersea in the north and under the icecap in the south. Since Mt. St. Helens blew it’s stack there’s been a steadily increasing frequency and intensity of volcanic/tectonic activity worldwide right up to the present day, mostly undersea, which has been steadily warming the oceans worldwide. The warmer waters pool in certain geographic regions (mostly in shallow seas) which then produce the evaporation patterns and air currents that cause the increasing frequency of ever more powerful storms and erratic weather patterns. Oceanic currents are also altered confusing and threatening many species of marine wildlife with a corresponding effect upon non aquatic species as well due to the changes in overland air currents. This also causes drought and severe rainfall in other regions as part of the overall imbalance and these will remain and increase until tectonic/volcanic and thus climatological stability is restored. Another effect of this is the decrease of friction between the mantle and the crust of the earth as the mantle looses it’s viscosity which will make the crust more likely to slide around the molten earth beneath wildly when struck by a bolide of sufficient mass.

All of these eventualities have been prophesied of in great detail by more cultural traditions than I care to list and certainly more than I CAN list not to mention an increasing number of scientific minds (see Einstein, Hapgood, Velikovsky et. al.) inspired in every case ancient to modern, wholly by the prophecies of each Manifestation from Adam to Baha’u'llah whether consciously or otherwise. The elders of the Indian Nations have been saying that these things were coming for a very long time, since the time of Enoch’s travels throughout the Americas, ca. 3434 BCE. He’s the one who told them about it but that’s another part of the story.

What I know from the elders who spoke to me throughout my formative years (18-28 mostly) of what Enoch told their ancestors is that these changes would come about as a result of natural cycles that the earth itself passes through from time to time much as the human body and society goes through periods of growth, activity, rest, illness and health and other cycles as yet unnoticed. Where the earth is concerned, it, no more than our own bodies is a closed system so of course it is effected by the cycles of the sun and many other spacial, stellar and celestial factors. The wild card, so to speak, is the degree of human spiritual evolution at the time of each of these global cycles which for all life on the planet at the time will tend to either ease or intensify the conditions or symptoms that accompany these transitional periods. As their seers and prophets foresaw through their connection to Adam’s Revelation, the technological advancements coming their way via the advent of Baha’u'llah and the inventive inspiration born of His Revelation and industrialized by the “older white brother” would make these next transitions much more perilous if the people of the world failed to embrace the teachings of Baha’u'llah en mass while still carrying scientific invention to extremes. This is exactly what has happened, so the failure of the majority of humanity to embrace the Revelation of Baha’u'llah has exacerbated the inevitable transitional vicissitudes inherent in the closing of one age of six thousand years (Adamic) and the opening of another even greater age to last five hundred thousand years (Baha’i). This is made all the more difficult by our misuse of a wide variety of relatively recent technological inventions. This is why the Indian elders said this one would likely be more intense than all the others before by many magnitudes.

What we currently observe in the human social arena is the sad spectacle of the politicizing of these circumstances by a wide variety of subgroups within the global population for a correspondingly wide variety of motivations. Ball of confusion. Static. No invention, solution, plan, accord, resolution, dogma, tradition or “green” movement hatched from a mind or a collective of minds of men will be of even the slightest aid in this or any other crisis unless and until such minds and hearts turn directly to face and embrace the Revelation of Baha’u'llah. Then and only then will the people of the world collectively move toward the singular remedy for all the worlds ills both human (spiritual and other) and ecological.

A little over two years ago, I was able to meet Madeline Albright while she was visiting Aspen with her sister. At this meeting I was able to serve her the indictment which appears in a link on www.bupc.org

I had written the links to www.uhj.net and www.thekingofterror.com on the manilla envelope in bold marker. After drawing her attention to the website addresses  and her opening the envelope to look at the contents briefly, she stated that she was familiar with the websites and the BUPC as well, that she would definitely be reading the document and then thanked me very sincerely with a smile.

This meeting happened soon after her newly discovered family history from which she had learned that she was in fact Jewish. Prior to that she actually did not know what a large part of her true heritage was. Our meeting took place privately after a book signing in Aspen, Colorado for her book which was about that very subject of personal discovery.

Sometime later she made statements while being interviewed which have denoted a considerable broadening of her views on religion in general as well as a reference to the person who would solve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict needing to be “a Solomon”. While this can be written off as a simple, old adage pertaining to great wisdom, I’m not so inclined to make light of it. In my view, given the sequence of events here recounted and the historical and ongoing juxtaposition of the Baha’i Faith Under the Provisions of the Covenant to the people and circumstances related to the broader context of the mideast, Madeline Albright’s comments indicate that she has indeed spent some time reflecting upon the message which is contained on the websites of the BUPC and the indictment with which she was served on that day.

We can be fairly certain that she has in fact seen the Genealogy of the Manifestations (The Tree of Life) as well as many other enlightening pieces of information both before and after my meeting with her. The question which remains for me is when will one of the many globally public figures of whom there have been several throughout the last century, see The Light and publicly point to The Lamp? Of course the answer is exactly when and if God wills it.                                                                                                            KP

Baha’u'llah on justice:

“He hath appeared with that Justice wherewith mankind hath been adorned, and yet the people are, for the most part, asleep.”

Bestir yourselves, O people, in anticipation of the days of Divine justice, for the promised hour is now come.

Abdu’l-Baha’ on justice:

“The canopy of existence resteth upon the pole of justice, and not of forgiveness, and the life of mankind dependeth on justice and not on forgiveness.”