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A Miracle for Christmas Present
12/10/2007 11:16:43 AM
    When I became a Bahai about 37 seven years ago, I went to church with much enthusiasm during Christmas time. I had never enjoyed Christmas as a believer before, that is, as a believer in Christ. I was not a Christian. I just remember the many candle lights in those early mornings,  at 05 or 06 , when I and my fosterparents went to the old wooden church which had so many old paintings, devils and triangels with an Eye and angles .                                    But at that time ,upon becoming a Bahai I really did appreciate visiting any church. I was so touched and so filled with wonder and deep fashination that my eyes were filled with tears. Actually it's always like that, I get so deeply touched by the wonder that there is God, there is spirituality, there is this Reality, THE REALITY, a world beside and overshadowing this one, a spriritual mysterious dimension that can be experienced so fully, that it changes everything.Surely it has changed my lifeas a revolution. I am happy, and calm. Others being around,  woudn't imagine you are in heaven, being transported there inside your heart, in that Extra divine heart, you didn't know you had. Faith is such a cleverly hidden thing, a hidden treasure, a secret. It is hidden, I guess, so that others  too may have the chance to  choose the path to God. If a true believers faith was to be transformed into a fire in the world, the world would just be burned and vanish.
   By one's acts it is revealed,to some extent, and by your smiles, and who can help smiling when you are in love...                                                                     Surely the Creator is a Master. Being an artist I  think in terms of an artist, a sculptor or a painter, that we humans are like paintings which are divinely designed. We cannot create our beings= our paintings, through our own help,  but the  divine Master has created us, and He alone can give life to us  paintings. And when He does, we fall in love, receiving life. I was formerly a painting that had no life, it looked perfect but life in it was lacking. The Divine Master, Bahaullah conveyed life into it, with His Word for this Age.

O SON OF MAN!
I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore , do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.



   It is possible to hide such a tremendous mystery and be right there, among people in the market, look "as if it's raining" as we say, over here. They do not suspect a thing. They think you are thinking  like they do,  feel what they feel, about what to shop for dinner, that you have to wash clothes when you have come home , move things hither and thither, or planning a trip to somewhere, while in your heart you have already travelled into paradise. So it's a secret.
O SON OF BEING!
Thy Paradise is My love, thy heavenly home reunion with Me. Enter therein and tarry not. This that whioch hath been  destined for thee in Our Kingdom above and Our exalted dominion

   O SON OF BEING!
Thou art My lamp and My light is in thee. Get thou from it thy radiance and seek none other than Me. For I have created thee rich and have bountifully shed My favour upon thee.
                     


 
     That secret, the mysteriously enlightened heart is hinted at in the Bible as the "white stone" with a password on it. In the Book of Revelation. And which was to be given by Christ at His return. And none would know what is on the stone except the one who  gets  it. You know where that quote is. (Rev 2:17)              It means the seekers has to find out all by themselves, Him, Who speaks the Word of God. To know for one self. This means, each one of us must  again, anew , long for this confirmation, wholly turned to God  listen with his or her own inner ear, cause none can interpret for  you and say: believe me,this is the truth or that is the truth. And This is because we have reached the Age of fulfillment, or the Age of the Maturing of mankind.    Therefore, we , Bahais, just inform people about this Faith, show the texts, and people may partake of this if they wish to. The concept or rather the sensation  of Faith is something which takes place between the seekers heart and the Almighty. We, Bahais, are only trying to take away veils  of prejudices  and preconceived opinions that is like dust on  the hearts of men. They may have mistunderstood some things and when we come to know those misunderstandings, while having a chat with someone,  we can show what God says, present the facts in print. Like here below:


 O Son of Spirit!
  The best beloved of all things is Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou shalt see with your own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and shalt know of thine own knowledge and not through the knowledge of thy neighbour. Ponder this in thy heart; how it behooveth thee to be. Verily, justice is My gift to thee and the sign of My loving-kindness. Set it then before thine eyes.


I didn't know God would stand for Justice and I did not seek it. But I would come to know. It is fair enough to be allowed to shape your own spiritual opinion, not to be forced upon the opinion of somebody who shapes opinions for a living.
     I had no prejudice other than thinking that faith in a God is to believe in an old man with a beard, painted , badly even,on old church walls and whom people believed in during the medieval ages. I surely  didn't give much for the dead rituals at church. Drinking wine, believed to be blood!! In short,I was hindered to search the truth in Christianity because  the believers seemed to adhere to superstition.

I believe in two miracles only , the one I am describing below and that Jesus Christ was born by a Virgin. I will tell you shortly, giving you the gist of it.


    With time I realised more and more that my life was empty, I even became filled with fear in my very inmost hidden corner. A fear that meant I was afraid of becoming still more filled with fear. The psychologists didn't know what to do with me. In Swedish it is called the" existential anxiety." Understand?
I was indeed like one dead a long time ago. And on top of that I could feel that unknown fear.   In the Bible we learn that when He Who is promised to all mankind comes back He will resurrect you from death. But I was given life by that mysterious unit called the Holy Spirit and so I have been resurrected from the death of unbelief and ignorance of the spiritual reality, (which is the real death,)and  I also found spiritual truths in the Bible which I had not cared for all since my so called "confirmation" when 14 years of age. Well, hardly at that age  either. My book was filled with drawings and portraits of the other pupils.I was a wild child and youngster. BUT I do not regret that I was totally deprived of the knowledge of God. I  do withhold that I turned away for the right reasons, and it has turned out to be a good thing that I was for so many years roaming the desolated fields of unbelief and fear. Also a deep fear that all mankind would perish due to  lack of oxygen. It makes me understand people here, how to speak to people who have been there, where I was.
     Now, here is something new! Or, rather, in front of my regained vision, old truths were polished from the dust of centuries gone by. I found that   Bahaullah encourages us all to study the Bible, so that I would be confirmed in that He is supported in His claims by the Bible.That the Bible is really speaking of Him and His attributes, Consequently a Bahai is a true Christian. If you threw away Christ on becoming a Bahai, you aren't a Bahai.  I must mention this because there is an opinion floating around saying that "If you belong to one religion, automatically you think all others are false.   So encouraged by Bahaullah,         I threw myself into Bible studies for many months and I truly found that, when comparing with what I learned about His, Bahaullahs, Life and His Teachings, He really was supported that way by lots of texts in the Bible. I have written about it here at the Forum, that the Bible is flooded with His Name, "The Glory of God" or "the Glory of the Lord", in both parts of the Bible.And, this is the password, Bahaullah. He has fulfilled prophesies, none is sealed any more (since 1844), He has given true divine fruits=teachings and divine manners,(judge them" by their fruits "Jesus), by which we can judge who is false, who is not.                                    So therefore I was, as my studies  of the Bible widened, increasingly getting more amazed and fashinated by this old Book.  I even sought out the Christian sects of the town, I studied their history, especially about the enormous interest in the Holy Return there was in the 19th century around 1840ies. I found that all the so called sects had been founded for the sole reason that they wanted to welcome the Lord.  Unfortunately they had forgotten that He would have a New Name. So they did not look around to find out. A friend here among the Forums has mentioned the Great Disappointment,that followed the great expectations but one person here is indeed very interested in the year 1844, which was the year when the first stirrings  of the Bahai Faith took place, far, far from the western world, in Persia!!!!.You can see how it all started by pressing the blue link below  my text.
I also, very eagerly sought out the Christians at their cafées and libraries and tried to show them that the prophesies are true, and fulfilled, but none were interested in the old promises, for one thing,- they were satisfied with cooking their church- coffee and protecting  their little cookies from drying on their church- coffée tables, and they didn't  as much as lift an eye-brow.                    Guess, guess what I was experiencing ,...I experienced what the early Christians had experienced when meeting the doubters of the jewish society!Now it was the Christians who were the doubters! They, the believers in Christ whom I happened to met in Lund, the university town in southern Sweden, had turned "luke-warm". Knowing the Bible by heart, verses with numbers and all, they were lacking the keen interest in the ageold promises and prophecies that should have  set them on fire? I was utterly surprised, and much  frustrated at first. My friends in the Bahai Faith said," their cups are full." I came to see that there would be a so called "falling off" from faith and hearts would be cold. Actually I have learned about the "falling off" here at AdlandPro. As well as in the Scripts by Bahaullah .I mean I have come across that term here,                                  Again I am meeting Christians here, after a lapse of more than thirty years, and I, for my part, am still on fire. I have seen one person here at Adland who might be on fire. Therefore I present the Bahai Faith.
Bahaullah says regarding the falling off from the Faith:

 The vitality of men's belief in God is dying out in every land; nothing short of His wholesome medicine can ever restore it. The corrosion of ungodliness is eating into the vitals of human society; what else but the Elixir of His potent Revelation can cleanse and revive it?...The Word of God, alone, can claim the distinction of being endowed with the capacity required for so great and far-reaching a change.

I really became sad for their sake, for the sake of those people. I was filled with a love  and a vision that the world doesn't know and they were deprived of that.!!!! I am not one who is mistaken in this. I knew it is not just me being a lively person, quick and impatient , a curious and searching artist, eager to know new things, to try new methods and ways of developing myself and my art. No.    But,  they , those in Lund were really not interested in Christs Return at all, the Return of the Holy Spirit. And the new Name of Christ, mentioned- in Rev 3:12-13 nobody was interested in. I was truly shocked and I still am, that there is so little interest in the Main Theme of the Gospel. It, the holy return as I wish to call it, is mentioned at 250 places. Count yourself.

The New Name of God in English means "He is the Glory of Glories".

In the 19th century, especially in the 1840ies, there appeared, as I said,  a fresh revival of interest in the Return of Christ ,and  thousands upon thousands
of missionaries from all Christianity  were sent out to preach the Gospel in the whole world, themselves deliberately creating that very Sign that Christ would soon  return, but alas, when the interior of Africa, as the last spot to be introduced to the Gospel, had been reached by the 1844, most of the people thought that Christ would come flying on a cloud in this space of oxygen and H2O. What a an anticlimax. Many are they who try to repair this mistake in different ways.
WE MUST TURN TO THE EAST AGAIN  for MIRACLES                                     I and my friends in the Bahai Faith believe, that He  indeed came as a Thief from the Heaven of the love of God in a country, old Persia, which was not even Christian.The Holy Spirit carried by Jesus from Nazareth came to a dark and oppressed  country 2000 years ago. Persia  was also during the 19th century a very dark country, spiritually,socially, economically, politically, ruled by "religious"fanatics as has been reported by several western deputees and ambassadors. Most people were analphabetic, and all were dominated and oppressed by a clergy of  ayatollahs and mullas, swelling with selfpride, holding their sway over  ignorant masses with an unprecedented fanatiscism and ruthlessness. It was a most hostile climate, each religious sect hating and shunning all others in the most acrid way. It is well documented how deep Islam had sunk into  religious bigotry and superstition in Persia, a country though with a glorious past.
The atmosphere of hatred and stupidities that was holding its devastating grip of the people of Persia, also meant that Bahaullah and His Herald, the Báb were met accordingly. See the link below for glimpses of the early days of the Faiths Inaugurators. The Báb (meaning Gate) was shot in Tabriz 1850 and 20 000 of His adherents were mercilessly  tortured in the most beastly ways and percecuted for their belief  in the promised One. The Swedish Newspaper, Afton-Bladet wrote in 1850: Messias shot in Persia! Bahaullah was imprisoned as He was also  one of the Bábies and thrown into the dark pit of Teheran to die.. See the blue link below.
A Miracle
This spiritual drama of the East , which went unheeded for the most part in the West, witnessed how the Promised One of the Moslems, the Báb, Whose mission was to prepare the way for "Him Whom God would Manifest", was condemned to death, and shot by a firingsquad. The authorities, the clergy and the Iranian government well knew Whom they had condemned, so therefore they were planning to let a Christian regiment handle the execution, so that the old Moslem prophecy would NOT be fulfilled ---a prophecy that said that" the Promised One will be slain by His own people". The Christian squad, headed by a pious Christian man, Sam Khan was called. But he did not want to let his men kill the Báb, so he turned to the Báb saying." I confess the Christian Faith and I harbour no ill will against you. If your Cause is the Cause of truth, please make it possible for me do be released from the duty to spill your blood." Then Báb comforted him saying these words: "Follow your instructions  and if your intentions are upright, surely  the Almighty will make it possible to release you from your dilemma."
The bullets of the Christian squad were fired, but they all went through the rope with which the Báb was suspended against the wall. God had intervened. The Báb had disappeared. The place was filled with gunsmoke. All this was witnessed by the thousands and is counted as a miracle. In the end  the Báb was found, who was caught at the very minute when He had finished His last counsels to one of His adherents.
THEN A MOSLEM SQUAD WAS CALLED and so, then, the Promised One of the Moslem world was shot by His own people.
None can  avert the prophesies of either the Christian or the Moslem world.
I will again tell about this drama on a prison yard of Tabriz. This is the gist of it and is well documented.

A Christian  may  object and say that "not even the angles" will know "When the World Redeemer is to come, so who am, little Laila,  to tell. Why am I telling the execution of the Báb. Who was He?
For the time being look into the blue link below.
Now back to other prophecies, more familiar to the Christians.

Prophesies were indeed  sealed, it is said.To David for example .Yes, but not after the time of the end.  When they are unsealed it will be due to the Redeemer having come. He it is who unseals the prophesies. It happened in 1844. I have pointed that out at James Wrights Forum that by that year the three promises by Christ were fulfilled:. The return in 1844 by the Jews through the establishment of the Edict of Toleration and that by the year 1844 the Gospel had been preached all around the world. The third promise is based on a prophesy by king David, James explains that very elegantly.
So I believe...
He Who is the Quickener of all mankind is come in the person of Bahaullah, a name meaning "The Glory of God", the One Whom the Báb has predicted to come . I believe He came when the world was fast asleep, when engulfed by warfare, misery and unbelief,and in my opinion,the worst of all, religious superstition.It killed the Báb. Womens status was the lowest in history by that time, a clear indication of the low  mental state of mankind.  The West was starting off the industrial revolution while in the East people experienced a spiritual revolution. Old Persia saw the Babi movement, which you may see glimpses of on this link, and after 9 years of His, the Babs proclamation, Bahaullah made His, in Iraq,(old Assyria) in 1863. For this very exiting part of the history of this Faith see this link:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bahaullah+and+the+bahai+faith&search=Search

I have tried with my falthy English to present my way towards truth, received Faith although being quite illiterate in spiritual things. But, to reflect a little,
so where the early Christians, Peters and many of his friends. It's not so bad, really. I feel they like my way, because I am one of them, 2000 years later, it is again an apostolic age. Surely, but see for yourself. I will give texts but they are also to be found at   www.Bahai.org    and     www.Bahai.us.


Bye for now
Laila
"Earth is but one country and mankind it's citizens" "The source of arts and crafts is the power of reflection" Bahá'u'lláh.1817-1892 Founder of the Bahái'Faith
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