BISMI'LLAH 'IL-BAHIY'I'L-ABHA!
(In the Name of God, the Glory of the All-Glorious)
Welcome!This blog will be an occasional post of quiet but persistent analyses of current world events, a what's-behind-the-curtain, so to speak. It also contains notes, holy Tablets, and readings pertaining to the online courses, Kitab-I-Iqan, and the divine Qur'an.
The position of this blog is unabashedly seeking to discover the Hand of God in these terrible and unprecedented in scale and chaotic troubles affecting the world. It takes as given that the Ancient Being, the Creator of all things has not for one instant abandoned mankind to its desired self-destructive fate, but has rather intervened at set times in history to alter the course of events.
This has been accomplished by the instrumentality of the divinely chosen human being acting as God's Mouthpiece, His divinely chosen Manifestation, Messenger or Prophet, appearing among His own people, to broadcast that which He Hears from the Holy Ghost, the Ray of the revelation of God, the angel Gabriel, or Jibrail, whispering into the inner and outer ear of the holy Messenger. After the set time, so that those people can either accept or reject the truth from God, the divine Fragrance of God's new Revelation is wafted over the entire earth, to actuate the changes necessary in human society so that it grows, matures, and stage by stage, carries on an ever-advancing civilization.
Troubles of the present magnitude occurring all over the world are a sign that mankind has outgrown the current set of structured solutions and requires a new, more dynamic and inclusive structure, prophesied in previous divine Messages, but latent, until the appointed Hour, when their full force and potency can be revealed to a disheartened and distracted mankind.
From this can be gathered that the present author is convinced by all available evidence which he has investigated that there is only one God; that this Ancient Being has had a purpose in creating us; that there is a distinction to be made in all events between the why and the how, that the instrumentality is not synonymous with the purpose or underlying reason for the happening of any particular event or set of events; and that the author is convinced by the Writings of His Holiness Baha'u'llah that He is indeed the promised One of all previous divine Revelations--even as each previous divine Messenger was the fulfillment of all previous divine Messages, that He it is Who has been given authority of God to unseal the divine Seal of the Qur'an; and that all previous divinely revealed Prophets and Messengers of Allah have prayed to witness this Day of God, the Day when all mankind will be gathered under His shadow, the Day when "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven."
Thus, the task at hand is to understand and pry apart the how from the why of all those what's that we see all around us.
The sailing schooner shown above is an appropriate metaphor for this blog. The sailor uses all experience and available knowledge to chart a course across the traceless expanse of the ocean, with its hidden treasures and dangers, surrendering will and ego to whatever the heavens may stir up. Wind precedes rain and sun follows storm. In this way does the Master of all things test and try us, to see what inside of our hearts promotes strength and hope, rather than weakness and despair, until our allotted time runs out and we return to our final home.
Kind regards to all of you,
Dalton DeGaris
