doris wrote:
Of course he interpreted! He has interpreted those passages to mean what he wants it to mean – that those words apply to a specific group of people right here and now in the present
That’s correct Doris. Here is the authoritative interpretation of that Tablet:
“Concerning the Tablet of the Holy Mariner, it is one of the most significant Tablets revealed by Bahá’u’lláh during the last days of His stay in Baghdad, and His arrival in Adrianople. Its main significance lies in the fact that in it Bahá’u’lláh clearly foreshadows the grave happenings, which eventually led to the defection of Subhi-Azal, and to the schism which the latter thought to create within the ranks of the faithful.”
(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, August 10, 1934)
(Compilations, Lights of Guidance, p. 483) Susan