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Lights of Carmel 


Issue: Volume 6, December 2003

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Recent Bahá'í News

South surges towards success
NASHVILLE, United States, 17 December 2003 (BWNS) -- Participants at the biggest Baha'i conference held in the United States since 2001 prepared themselves for increasingly focused efforts to expand the Faith in their country. > GO TO STORY

Celebrating with music and dance
LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, 17 December 2003 (BWNS) -- Classical Spanish dances and melodies entertained participants at the 50th jubilee celebrations in the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands. > GO TO STORY

Double blessing for Cook Islands
RAROTONGA, Cook Islands, 14 December 2003 (BWNS) -- Two women -- from different countries but with the same aim -- brought the Baha'i Faith to these remote islands half a century ago. > GO TO STORY


Wearing traditional dress at the jubilee was Sandra Marrero, who sang folk songs of the Canary Islands.

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Published Articles

On Good and Evil
In contrast to a number of other religious doctrines and philosophies, the Bahá'í Faith does not teach that the physical desires of human beings are "evil" or "bad." Everything in God's creation is regarded as essentially and fundamentally good. In fact, the very purpose of the human body and its physical faculties is to serve as a proper vehicle for the development of the soul . As the energies of the body are gradually brought under the conscious control of the soul, they become instruments for the expression of spiritual qualities. It is only undisciplined physical passions that become causes of harm, and hinder spiritual progress. > GO TO ARTICLE

Bahá'í Youth: "A New Kind of People"
The crises affecting all of society always have a particularly devastating impact on its youngest members, who are still in the process of forming the attitudes that will guide their lives. At this turning point in history, when the forces of disintegration are accelerating and the forces of integration still too little understood, many youth feel caught in a maelstrom, unsure of how and why they should respond with hope when their experiences are so fraught with pain. > GO TO ARTICLE

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Poetry

Changes in Humanity
By Laili Fink
Another look at the past and the future. > GO TO POEM

Centres of Interest
By Ron Price
For the Baha'i who lives in Australia or indeed in any one of many of the countries of the world and who writes a great deal of poetry, there are four places or centres of interest to which they can turn: Iran, Israel, America and a disparate array of sites across the surface of the earth. > GO TO POEM

The Promised Day is Come
By Sandra Karusky
A poem prayer to honor the Blessed Beauty at this time of world events. > GO TO POEM

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Review

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The promoters write "Every tutor or participant involved with a Book 1 study circle or extension course should get a copy of this fun CD" and we have to agree. > GO TO REVIEW

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