Abdul Baha's Grandson: Story of a Twentieth Century Excommunication
by Ahmad Sohrab.
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| "It was in the middle Twenties, only a few years after the Master's
departure from this life, that the Bahai community first became aware of
the fact that an administrative system was about to be fastened on to
the Cause. The majority did not take the idea very seriously; yet, when
lectures on the subject were announced, many attended because it was
understood that this was Mr. Holley's hobby. A little later, when the
existence of The New History Society had become an issue, the thoughts
of all Bahais were directed toward the newly created administrative
order; and presently the Bahai Cause, to all intents and purposes,
drifted into the discard. This substitution of *another* cause for the Cause itself necessitated some explanation, and it was to meet this requirement that the Bahai apologists were set to work. They did a good job of it is unquestionable. The believers have been induced to take a detour, on the understanding that it will eventually turn back to the great highway; and they are forging ahead at top speed on a road that leads into the dim and distant past. In their own times, the *stately apologists* of Christendom accomplished their mission most satisfactorily. The tomes of their Jesuitical writings may be heaped with the dust of centuries, yet their influence still goes on. It was in appreciation of the complicated structure of the Catholic Church, and with the ambition of gaining an even greater measure of temporal power, that the Bahai authorities converted the Ark of the Lord into a Theological Fortress, in the dungeons of which the living teachings of Baha-O-Llah and Abdul Baha are conserved as archives" ABG (161-162).
The entire book was DELETED from H-Net Bahai, as other books by him have Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. Abdul Baha's Grandson: Story of a Twentieth
Century Excerpts from Mirza Ahmad Sohrab's Broken Silence:
The Story of Today's Struggle
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