This is an extended letter from Shoghi Effendi to the American Baha'i Community, outlining its challenges and opportunities. Its theme reviews the three vital spiritual prerequisites for establishing a federated world commonwealth: "moral rectitude, absolute chastity and complete freedom from prejudice." The directives in this letter have never been more applicable than they are in today's society.

This compilation of messages from Shoghi Effendi to the American Bahá'í community defines the essential principles on which the local and national institutions of the Bahá'í Faith are based. Written during the Formative Age of the Faith, the messages also offer insight into the Faith's growth and illustrate poignantly the great burden Shoghi Effendi shouldered as Guardian of the Cause of God while guiding the fledgling Bahá'í community. As part of the Faith's primary literature, these messages form a fundamental text and crucial guide to understanding and implementing Bahá'í Administration. This is important reading for every Bahá'í concerned with hastening the maturation of the institutions Shoghi Effendi laboured so tirelessly to establish.

At this critical point of events in the world, the international governing body of the Baha'i Faith, the Universal House of Justice, feels the need to again proclaim the meaning and purpose of the Baha'i message: a powerful read that is sure to affect you.

A collection of letters and cables from Shoghi Effendi provides a unique perspective on events and concerns of the American and the worldwide Baha'i communities between 1947 and 1957.

A Supplement to "Principles of Bahá'í Administration".

The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah is comprised of Shoghi Effendi's letter to the Baha'is of the West clarifying the roles of the Bab, Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha as well as features of the Baha'i Administrative Order.

Definitive survey of the outstanding events of the Baha'i revelation first century (1844-1944). Reviews birth and rise of Baha'i Faith, establishment of adminstrative institutions, and series of crisis & victories that stimulated its growth and consolidated its achievement in that period. The only book that Shoghi Effendi wrote, written as gift to the Baha'is of the West on 100th anniversary of the founding of the Baha'i Faith.

Light of Divine Guidance, is a collection of letters and telegrams from Shoghi Effendi to Baha'i institutions, communities, groups and individuals in Germany and Austria, chronicling their development from 1922-57. Light of Divine Guidance offers valuable historical information and lessons on weathering tests and trials which can prove to be extremely difficult without guidance.

Compiler: Iran Furutan Muhajir

Shoghi Effendi sent over 200 letters and 70 cablegrams to the Indian Subcontinent. They are all contained in this volume, plus others collected by the Archives Department of the National Spiritual Assembly of India.

Contains the communications from Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, to the Bahá'í communities of Australasia. "Messages to the Antipodes is much more than a historical record of letters... This book conveys a painfully realistic portrait of the development of the Australasian Baha'i community ... It provides insight into the complex dynamics of the growth of a Baha'i community in a Western society." Peter J. Khan

Contained in this book is Shoghi Effendi's letter explaining the reasons for the world's present moral and social chaos and providing assurance that God has not abandoned humanity. The work recounts Baha'u'llah's proclamation of His mission to the rulers of His time.

Within this compact publication, you will find a compilation of excerpts from Shoghi Effendi's The Advent of Divine Justice, The Promised Day is Come, and The World Order of Baha'u'llah, conveying Baha'u'llah's central teachings and His plan for a new, spiritually based world order.

In the seven letters collected in this volume, Shoghi Effendi deals with issues of world order, a paramount purpose of the Baha'i Faith. Boldly and clearly, he describes the causes that have brought humanity to its present plight, presents a clear vision of the Baha'i Faith's role in human social evolution and presents Baha'u'llah's teachings that alone have the power to usher in a new era of peace and unity.