https://bahaiteachings.org/bahai-principles-the-parliament-of-man/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Mon, 28 Dec 2020 22:31:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://bahaiteachings.org/bahai-principles-the-parliament-of-man/#comment-3702 Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:24:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=12833#comment-3702 What a thing is learning! (One of Shakespeare’s characters, can’t remember who, said this in an ironic context. I don’t.) I love the scholarly work of connecting the “utopian dream of sages and poets” spoken of by Abdu’l-Baha with one of the most eloquent among them: thanks for Wordsworth! “Locksley Hall” reminds us that there were visionaries in the 19th century, WW prominent among them, who had at least vague senses of the “spirit of the age”, the direction in which the world was about to shift. Bitterly, as we have approached (agonizingly) closer to this new order of things, many have despaired of its possibility, and are less optimistic than Wordsworth in 1835. This is one of the greatest gifts of hanging around the Bahai’i teachings (and Baha’i Teachings): we see that Wordsworth did not dream in vain.

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