Re: A Dream
Marc Sacco (e9002693@antares.linf.unb.br)
Thu, Jan 12 1995 15:11:22 GMT
Dear David,
Your e-mail was one of the most touching I have recently read, and I
thank you for sharing with us your 'dream' (and I apologize for this
letter being so tardy...). Anyway, in the history of the Baha'i
(actually, Babi) Faith there are many references (I have none written
down, other than recommending that you read the 'Dawn Breakers'...) to
personal dreams. The most notorious to me was the dream in which
Tahirih, the only woman letter-of-the-living (kind of like an apostle)
of the Bab's, dreamt of the Bab and thus recognized Him and became a
Babi through a dream, without ever having met Him. If you read the Dawn
Breakers the references of your dream may become clearer.
As to your last question, "How does a person come to have faith that
Baha'u'llah is who [He] claimed to be?", the simplest answer is, pick up
any of His writings, or study His life (even by the enemy's or impartial
historian's side's accounts), and try to fit Him in ANY POSITION OTHER
than the one He claims. Hard, isn't it? It seems the only two
alternatives are: a mad man, in which case he would live in a world of
His own, would be overly proud, and wouldn't have worried about the
future problems of the world (which He predicted with unmatched accuracy
as one may find out looking at today...) and lucidly implement the
solutions despite His Faith being decimated everywhere He looked. Of
course, so far I have attempted a proof by refuting the opposite theory.
However, don't permit yourself to be content only with rational proof,
which is only part of the reality within you: investigate the SPIRIT of
Baha'u'llah, a spirit so GREAT that NO hatred, suffering, judgement
could hinder, a LIGHT so world-embracing that no corner is left without
feeling the effects of the urgency of UNITY, the pregnancy of the His
New World Order which is being born before a very eyes through suffering
and fascination at the acceleration of the advances of mankind in every
field. Last, but not least, pray, or at least go to a meeting and try
to feel the yearing of the people of Baha for the complete fulfilment of
the prophecies of all religions, the joy of working together for a
better world, the exhiliration of freeing oneself from this material
world and mind-traps much harder to break than any of the prison where
He stayed, yet felt freer than a bird.
Well, I think I better stop here and let you practice His first
principle: independent search for truth. Salam, and thanks for your
patience in reading this.
Most Sincerely,
Marc