Abdu’l-Baha in the City of Angels

A comprehensive record of Abdu’l-Baha’s trip to Los Angeles with transcripts of his talks and later letters to the community. It includes an early history of the community with rare photos and a bibliography of early press accounts.

Tablets of the Divine Plan

Tablet to the Bahá’ís of the Western States

Revealed on February 15, 1917, in Bahá’u’lláh’s room at the house of ‘Abbúd in ‘Akká, and addressed to the Bahá’ís of the eleven Western States of the United States: New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, California, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

“During My journey and traveling in those parts, I beheld wonderful scenes and beautiful panoramas of nature, orchards and rivers; national parks and general conclaves; deserts, plains, meadows and prairies; and the grains and fruits of that region greatly attracted My attention; even to the present moment they are in My mind.

Particularly was I greatly pleased with the meetings in San Francisco and Oakland, the gatherings in Los Angeles, and the believers who came from the cities of other states. Whenever their faces cross My memory, immediately infinite happiness is realized.”