"We must take the teachings as a great, balanced whole, not seek out and oppose to each other two strong statements that have different meanings; somewhere in between, there are links uniting the two. That is what makes our Faith so flexible and well balanced. for instance there are calamities for testing and for punishment -- there are also accidents, plain cause and effect!"A letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer on 19 March 1946
It takes courage and commitment to find a process of collaboration, when there is a lot of miss-use of religious text. Interpretations cause all kinds of intellectual chaos.
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