Tablets of the Divine Plan
Read online at https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_tablets_divine_plan
There is also an older translation with pilgrim's notes at https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_tablets_instructions_explanation
The Tablets of the Divine Plan Are the Charter for Teaching[edit]
(See also Advent of Divine Justice for another "Charter of Teaching")
"As you are no doubt aware, the Tablets of the Divine Plan, which were revealed by Abdu'l-Bahá during the First World War, are the Charter for the teaching of the Faith. All the teaching plans launched by the beloved Guardian, as well as those subsequently directed by the Universal House of Justice, are stages in the implementation of this master plan conceived by the Centre of the Covenant for the diffusion of the Message of Bahá'u'lláh."
- (From a letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer, September 29, 1977, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1628)
Tablets of the Divine Plan, one of three impulse-producing charters, is for the propagation of its Administrative Order[edit]
"It is indeed my fervent and constant prayer that the members of this firmly-knit, intensely alive, world-embracing Community, spurred on by the triple impulse generated through the revelation of the Tablet of Carmel by Bahá'u'lláh and the Will and Testament as well as the Tablets of the Divine Plan bequeathed by the Center of His Covenant--the three Charters which have set in motion three distinct processes, the first operating in the Holy Land for the development of the institutions of the Faith at its World Center and the other two, throughout the rest of the Bahá'í world, for its propagation and the establishment of its Administrative Order--may advance from strength to strength and victory to victory."
Importance of reading[edit]
“In the arena of teaching, your indispensable terms of reference and the unerring resource to which you have ready access are the Master’s Tablets of the Divine Plan. They invest your community with extraordinary powers shared by your sister community in Canada. It is in reacquainting the American friends with the special mission, both at home and abroad, assigned to them in these seminal and timeless documents, and in relating their contents to current conditions that you will find the key to the revitalization of the teaching work and the winning of outstanding victories on the home front. In this effort you will be powerfully aided by the explanations provided in the letters of our dear Guardian, such as “The Advent of Divine Justice,” “The Challenging Requirements of the Present Hour,” [in Citadel of Faith, p. 4] “American Bahá’ís in time of World Peril.” [in Citadel of Faith, p. 122] We have every confidence that, together with the Continental Counsellors and the Auxiliary Board members, you can discover the way further to release the enormous energies of the friends and to intensify the zeal which they have so splendidly displayed in the teaching field on so many occasions in the past.”
- (Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States, May 19, 1994)
References[edit]
Study Guides[edit]
- http://www.education.usbnc.org/a_themes/pdfs/TDPstudyguide.pdf archived PDF (or Word) (study questions, outlines, and themes)
