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Bahá'í Administration

Chapter 170: Footnotes
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A compilation of authoritative excerpts and letters that lays out the organizational framework, guiding principles, and practical procedures for a faith community's institutions. It explains the purposes and duties of local and national administrative bodies, methods of election and representation, financial arrangements and funds, plans for communal projects such as worship centers, and strategies for coordinated action and growth. Interwoven are reflections on the community's spiritual obligations, responses to persecution and hardship, and the moral foundations of service, consultation, and unity, offering both legal-administrative directives and pastoral guidance for maintaining cohesion and advancing collective aims.


Footnotes

1.

Descendants (feminine) of Bahá’u’lláh.

2.

Bahíyyih, sister of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.

3.

Published in the booklet “Prayer of Bahá’u’lláh: Prayers and Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.”

4.

These translations, with others received later, were published as a pamphlet by the N.S.A.

5.

Published in the booklet “Prayer of Bahá’u’lláh: Prayers and Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.”

6.

The complete list of terms is to be found in Bahá’í World, volume VII.

7.

See previous footnote on transliterations.

8.

Published in “The Star of the West” during the year 1923.

9.

Published in the Bahá’í Magazine, Star of the West.

10.

Bahá’í Scriptures, New York, 1923; replaced by Bahá’í World Faith, 1943.

11.

Published in “The Star of the West.”

12.

Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era, by J. E. Esslemont, London, 1922; Bahá’í Publishing Committee, New York, 1927.

13.

This enclosure consisted of a copy of an article by Queen Marie in her newspaper syndicated series entitled “Queen’s Counsel.” Since the queen’s first public reference to the Cause in this series, two additional references have appeared, one on September 26 and one on September 27, 1926.