November 28 - 30, 2008

Introducing  F.I.R., The Foundation for the Investigation of Reality

(*The knowledge gained from the index resulted in a number of personal transformation and deepening courses written by Marian Crist Lippitt who learned the indexing scheme from early believer, H. Emogene Hoagg.)   

2008 Ridvan Message:  

"Sustaining growth … will depend on the qualities that distinguish your service to the peoples of the world.  So free must be your thoughts and actions of any trace of prejudice – racial, religious, economic, national, tribal, class, or cultural – that even the stranger sees in you loving friends.… Only if you demonstrate the rectitude of conduct to which the writings of the Faith call every soul will you be able to struggle against the myriad forms of corruption, overt and subtle, eating into the vitals of society.  Only if you perceive honor and nobility in every human being – this independent of wealth or poverty – will you be able to champion the cause of justice.…" 

(Ridvan 2008 Message, Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the World)