Bahá’í Quotes

Expansion

The expansion phase, often a period of two weeks, demands the highest level of intensity.  Its objective is to widen the circle of those interested in the Faith, to find receptive souls and to teach them.  Although this phase might include some element of proclamation, it should not be seen as a time to hold a few events for this purpose or to undertake a set of activities that merely convey information.  Experience suggests that the more closely teaching approaches and methods are aligned with the capacity acquired from the study of the institute courses the more rewarding the results.

- Universal House of Justice, 27 December 2005 To the Continental Boards of Counsellors

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Idal 11 Mashiyyat 183 B.E.

...it is absolutely essential that the teachings should not be confused with the obscure ideas related to numerology . . . and the like. Individuals interested in them are free to believe in and credit such ideas and to make any inferences and deductions they desire from them, but under no circumstances are they expected to identify them with the principles and teachings of the Cause.

Shoghi Effendi – Spiritualism, Reincarnation and Related Subjects, pp. 9, 10