# Directives from the Guardian

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> Directives from the Guardian
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> Shoghi Effendi
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> Gertrude Garrida, compiler
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> Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1973
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> Contents
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> About Directives From the Guardian
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> 1 `ABDU'L-BAHÁ (Stories About)
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> 2 `ABDU'L-BAHÁ'S MINISTRY (Re: World Objectives)
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> 3 ADMINISTRATION--Attitude Towards (National Assembly's Statement Approved)
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> 4 ADMINISTRATION, BAHÁ'Í--(Rules and Regulations)
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> 5 ADMINISTRATION (Study and Apply)
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> 6 ADMINISTRATIVE MACHINERY (Related to America)
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> 7 AFRICAN STUDENTS AND VISITORS
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> 8 AGES AND EPOCHS (Define)
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> 9 ALLÁH-U-ABHÁ (Bahá'í Greeting)
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> 10 ANNUAL CONVENTION
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> 11 AQDAS (THE)--LAWS OF
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> 12 ARCHIVES (The Importance Of)
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> 13 ARCHIVES
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> 14 ASSEMBLIES--UNITY OF (Bahá'u'lláh's Promise)
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> 15 ASSEMBLY MEETINGS
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> 16 ASSEMBLY VACANCY
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> 17 ASSOCIATE COMMITTEE MEMBERS (Appointing of)
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> 18 ATTACKS FROM CHURCH MISSIONARIES
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> 19 BÁB, DECLARATION OF
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> 20 BÁB'S PHOTOGRAPH
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> 21 BAHÁ'Í DISPENSATION (Duration of)
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> 22 BAHÁ'ÍS (Destiny of)
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> 23 BAHÁ'ÍS--NEW (On Admittance of New Applicants)
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> 24 BAHÁ'ÍS--NEW (On Presenting the Master's Will to New Applicants)
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> 25 BAHÁ'ÍS--NEW (Qualifications of a New Believer)
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> 26 BAHÁ'ÍS--NEW (The "Two Extremes" in Bringing in New Bahá'ís)
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> 27 BAHÁ'ÍS (Two Kinds of)
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> 28 BAHÁ'Í WAY OF LIFE (The Strength of the Cause)
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> 29 BAHÁ'U'LLÁH (In accepting)
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> 30 BELIEVERS, NEW (Accept Cause Without Qualifications)
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> 31 BELIEVERS, REMOVAL OF
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> 32 BIBLE (Authenticity of the)
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> 33 CALENDAR (BAHÁ'Í)
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> 34 CALIPHATE AND IMÁMATE
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> 35 CATASTROPHE (The Apocalyptic Upheaval)
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> 36 CIVIL COURTS (Disputes)
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> 37 CIVIL ELECTIONS (Voting in)
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> 38 COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS (Assembly Members)
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> 39 COMMITTEES' RESPONSIBILITIES
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> 40 CONTRIBUTION
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> 41 CONTRIBUTIONS (Lifting the Burden of Misery from Mankind)
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> 42 CONTRIBUTIONS ARE VOLUNTARY
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> 43 COVENANT (Meaning of Bahá'í)
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> 44 COVENANT BREAKERS (Expulsion and Reinstatement of)
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> 45 COVENANT BREAKERS (Shun)
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> 46 CRIMSON BOOK (The)
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> 47 CRITICISM
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> 48 CRITICISM (On)
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> 49 DANIEL, THE PROPHECY OF
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> 50 DISPENSATION OF BAHÁ'U'LLÁH
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> 51 DISPUTES, INDIVIDUAL--(Consultation with Assembly)
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> 52 DRAMA--MANIFESTATIONS (Dramatic Works)
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> 53 DRAMA OF THE FAITH
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> 54 ECONOMIC TEACHINGS
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> 55 ECONOMICS--BAHÁ'Í
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> 56 ECONOMIC TEACHINGS
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> 57 EDUCATION (On Inability of Modern Education to Produce a Mature Mind)
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> 58 ELDERS (Four and Twenty)
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> 59 ELECTION (Acceptance of)
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> 60 ELECTIONS (BAHÁ'Í)
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> 61 ELECTIONS (BAHÁ'Í) (To Administrative Posts)
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> 62 ELECTIONS (Assembly Voting)
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> 63 ELECTIONS (The Character of Bahá'í)
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> 64 ELECTION OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES (Radical Changes Not Advised)
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> 65 ELECTIONS, REGARDING (In the United States)
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> 66 EMMANUEL, HIS HIGHNESS
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> 67 ESPERANTO (The Subject of)
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> 68 EVOLUTION, MAN'S
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> 69 FAMILY TIES, SPIRITUAL TIES (Vs.)
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> 70 FAST (Necessary Permission For)
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> 71 FASTING (The Ordinance of)
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> 72 FAST (THE)
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> 73 FEAST DAY (Changing Observance of)
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> 74 FEAST (Nature of)
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> 75 NAW-RÚZ FEAST (Observance of Feast Day Calendar)
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> 76 NAW-RÚZ, TIME OF CELEBRATION OF
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> 77 FEAST (Time for Holding)
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> 78 FEASTS (Attendance at)
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> 79 FEASTS AND ANNIVERSARIES--Bahá'í
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> 80 FUND (How Every Believer Can Test the Measure of His Faith)
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> 81 FUND (The Life-blood of these Nascent Institutions)
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> 82 FUND (National Fund, Chief Obligation of)
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> 83 FUND (We must be like the Fountain)
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> 84 FUND (The Sacred Obligation)
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> 85 FUNERAL (Bahá'í Funeral Service)
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> 86 GREATEST NAME (Translation of Symbol of)
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> 87 GROUP, BAHÁ'Í
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> 88 GUARDIAN (Infallibility of the)
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> 89 GUIDANCE, DIVINE (Of Guardian)
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> 90 GUIDANCE (Individual)
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> 91 GUIDANCE (Question of)
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> 92 HANDS OF THE CAUSE--INSTITUTIONS (Station and Function--When Mentioned in Writing)
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> 93 HAZÍRATU'L-QUDS (Functions of)
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> 94 HEALING
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> 95 HEROISM IS NEEDED
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> 96 HIDDEN WORDS (Arabic)
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> 97 HOLY DAYS--BAHÁ'Í
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> 98 HOLY DAYS OF OTHER RELIGIONS
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> 99 HOLY SHRINE (Believers turn to the)
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> 100 HOSTS OF HIS TESTAMENT (The)
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> 101 CORD (Meaning of)
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> 102 ILLNESS
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> 103 ILLNESS (Cancer)
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> 104 INHERITANCE (Division of)
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> 105 INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE (Whole question of)
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> 106 ISLÁM
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> 107 JESUS (Virgin Birth of)
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> 108 LIFE AFTER DEATH
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> 109 LOVE (Turn to Bahá'í Brothers and Sisters)
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> 110 LOVE, CUSTODIANS OF (World Exceedingly Dark)
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> 111 LOVE--UNITY (The Greatest Need)
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> 112 MANIFESTATION--IN 1000 YEARS (Organic Unity)
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> 113 MANIFESTATIONS (The Phrase--"His Holiness")
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> 114 MANIFESTATIONS (Return of the Qualities)
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> 115 MANIFESTATIONS (Significance of the Remains of the Prophets)
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> 116 MANIFESTATIONS (Station of)
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> 117 MARRIAGE, BAHÁ'Í
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> 118 MARRIAGE, BAHÁ'Í (Consent of Parents-- duty of Assembly to ascertain validity)
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> 119 MARRIAGE--(Consent of Parents--Non-Bahá'í Participants)
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> 120 MARRIAGE TO NON-BAHÁ'Í
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> 121 MARRIAGES, BAHÁ'Í--(Reporting to the NSA)
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> 122 MARRIAGE, BAHÁ'Í (re: Consent of Natural Parents)
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> 123 MARRIAGE OF BAHÁ'U'LLÁH
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> 124 MASONRY, FREE (Membership in)
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> 125 MEDICAL SCIENCE (Leaving bodies to)
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> 126 MEDITATION
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> 127 MEETINGS, BAHÁ'Í
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> 128 MEMBERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES, LSA (Residential Qualifications)
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> 129 MEMORIAL OFFERINGS
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> 130 MENTAL ILLNESS
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> 131 MILITARY DUTY (Status of Bahá'ís in relation to)
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> 132 MILITARY SERVICE
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> 133 MORMONS (Religious sects--Associate with all--Show tolerance and friendliness)
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> 134 MUNÍRIH KHÁNUM
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> 135 MUSIC
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> 136 NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES (Authority of)
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> 137 N.S.A. INVOLVEMENT (Appeals Prohibited)
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> 138 N.S.A.'s JURISDICTION OVER COMMITTEES (Authority of)
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> 139 NEW ASSEMBLIES (Formation of)
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> 140 NEW ASSEMBLIES (Residence Qualifications)
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> 141 NINE (Number)
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> 142 ORIENTALS
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> 143 ORIENTALS (Association with)
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> 144 PACIFISM (Bahá'í View of)
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> 145 PEACE
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> 146 PHOTOGRAPHS
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> 147 PILGRIM'S NOTES
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> 148 PIONEERING
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> 149 POLITICAL FIGURES (Non-Political Character of the Bahá'í Faith)
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> 150 POLITICS (Loyalty to World Order of Bahá'u'lláh)
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> 151 POLITICS (Non-Interference in)
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> 152 POLITICS (Remain Aloof from Political Affairs)
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> 153 POLITICS (Shun Politics Like the Plague)
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> 154 PRAYER (Five Steps of)
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> 155 PRAYER BEADS
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> 156 PRAYER (Bahá'u'lláh's in Dispensation)
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> 157 PRAYERS
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> 158 PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS (Book of)
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> 159 PRAYERS (Daily)
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> 160 PRAYERS (Daily Obligatory)
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> 161 PRAYERS (Healing)
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> 162 PRAYERS (To be Read as Revealed)
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> 163 PREJUDICES (Racial)
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> 164 PROPHETS (Many will appear)
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> 165 PSYCHIATRY
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> 166 PSYCHIC PHENOMENA
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> 167 PURE SOULS
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> 168 PYRAMID PROPHECIES
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> 169 PROMINENT FIGURES (Letters to Government Heads)
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> 170 QUR'ÁN (`Sales' Translation Recommended)
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> 171 QUR'ÁN--STUDY OF (Concerning School Program)
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> 172 QUR'AN, SURIHS OF THE
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> 173 RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS, NON-BAHÁ'Í
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> 174 RESURRECTION (Explains the Passage on page 231 of the Gleanings)
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> 175 RINGSTONES AND BURIAL STONES
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> 176 SUMMER SCHOOLS, BAHÁ'Í (Importance of)
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> 177 SUMMER SCHOOLS, BAHÁ'Í (Purpose of)
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> 178 SERVICE TO HUMANITY
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> 179 SEVEN LIGHTS OF UNITY
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> 180 SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE FAITH (A Single Divine and World-Embracing System)
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> 181 SPIRITUALITY (The Troubles of This World Pass)
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> 182 SUMMER SCHOOLS (The Bahá'í)
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> 183 SUMMER SCHOOLS (Bahá'í Atmosphere in)
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> 184 SUPREME TRIBUNAL
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> 185 TABLETS OF `Abdu'l-BAHÁ
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> 186 TEACHERS (Unqualified Loyalty)
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> 187 TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS (Can Serve as Both)
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> 188 TEACHERS, BAHÁ'Í (A Principle)
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> 189 TEACHING
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> 190 TEACHING (Love for Bahá'u'lláh)
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> 191 TEACHING
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> 192 TEACHING (Advent of Divine Justice)
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> 193 TEACHING, CONCENTRATE ON (Source of Joy and Consolation)
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> 194 TEACHING (The Concourse on High)
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> 195 TEACHING (Direct)
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> 196 TEACHING--Divine World Order--The Sole Panacea
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> 197 TEACHING (Duty of Every Believer)
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> 198 TEACHING (Give the Message)
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> 199 TEACHING (Greater Unity Among the Friends)
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> 200 TEACHING (Love and Unity)
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> 201 TEACHING--BAHÁ'Í FAITH (What the Cause Now Requires)
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> 202 TEACHING (Study Early History and Principles of the Faith)
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> 203 TEACHING (The Utmost Effort)
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> 204 TEACHING (In South)
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> 205 TEACHING METHODS
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> 206 TEMPLE, CHANTING IN THE
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> 207 TESTS AND PROBLEMS
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> 208 THEOCRACY
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> 209 TOMBSTONE, BAHÁ'Í SYMBOL ON
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> 210 TRANSLITERATION OF BAHÁ'Í TERMS
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> 211 UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE, MEMBERSHIP
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> 212 VACCINATION
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> 213 VISIONS
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> 214 VOTING--(Civil)
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> 215 VOTING RIGHT, The
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> 216 VOTING RIGHTS (Status of Individuals Deprived of)
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> 217 WORK, BAHÁ'Í
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> 218 WORK, DAILY--(Bahá'u'lláh's Command Concerning Daily Work)
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> 219 WORLD FEDERATION--(On Bahá'í Participation in International Conferences)
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> 220 YEAR NINE, The
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> 221 YOUTH
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> 222 YOUTH (Regarding the Age of Fifteen)
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> 223 BAHÁ'Í YOUTH IN SCHOOL
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> 224 YOUTH, JUNIOR (Do Great Deeds)
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