Bahá’í Quotes

Table Writing

Regarding your question in connection with...'s desire to be informed about 'table writing' and such things: Though there is no specific reference in the teachings to this particular thing, Shoghi Effendi feels very strongly that, in view of other statements about avoiding all psychic dabbling and exercise of psychic faculties, this should also be avoided by the Bahá’ís and such messages be disregarded.

- Shoghi Effendi, Spiritualism, Reincarnation and Related Subjects, p. 2

Quote of the Day

Jalal 5 Izzat 183 B.E.

No member may be required to leave the meeting, even though personally involved inthe matter to be discussed, although any member may ask permission to be absent from such discussion, and the decision whether or not to grant such permission rests with the Assembly itself.

Universal House of Justice – 18 Nov. 1973, cited in Hawaiian Bahá’í News, #82