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November 18, 2007

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Robert Clifton

Outwitted
He drew a circle that shut me out--
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!
Edwin Markham

Dr. Susan Maneck is a known quantity. She has developed a world view through her independent investigation as far as she wants it to go. She has stopped dead in her tracks at this age and this era in this perpetually unfolding school of God. Stopping as she did is authorized by the writings. Also as authorized by the writings she has been assured a reward in the next life. She has made her choice. She is not wrong, she is merely stopped. It is human nature to want the world to agree with you. That would not be unity - that would be conformity, but it is not as Miss Olsen describes as “blind faith”. Susan Maneck nor very many of the ‘other’ Baha’is have ‘blindly’ adopted a world view.
Megan writes eloquently of blind faith. She is right on many points, and she writes just as eloquently when she switches to the search for truth as the right basis for establishing a faith. Again, she is right on many points.
Megan’s treatise breaks down because she goes on to ‘establish’ her world view a few paces down the path from Susan, but alas, Megan too has stopped. Not unlike each other they stand firm with the assurance that “… (they) can never defeat the power we have in the truth”. That is probably true, unless each unfetters their mind.
In the Prayers book on page 40 ‘…the highest development of humanity…’ is discussed as an extremely future event. It would stand to reason then that stopping at any point along the path to God to “establish” an unassailable point of view as the truth to which all must conform would be rather against the purpose of the writings.
To paraphrase Markham’s poem, “All are his servants and all abide by his bidding.”

Robert

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