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Archival Collection of Talks on Various Bahá'í Subjects

Family Education for Equality

1988

Mrs. Elizabeth Rochester speaks about how to educate family members to achieve equality within the family. She explained why we need to learn how to be an equal marriage partners. The family’s equality learning influences the entire world to move towards equality. Education for equality in the Bahá'í Faith may be the most important task of family education. She recommends that each of us make it part of our goals for spiritual education. She quotes Bahá'u'lláh “The purpose of God in creating man hath been and will ever be to enable Him to know His Creator and to attain His presence". You understand why there are so many problems when you realize the world is not following Bahá'u'lláh’s guidance. In the Hidden Words He says: "O SON OF SPIRIT! I created thee rich, why dost thou bring thyself down to poverty? Noble I made thee, wherewith dost thou abase thyself? Out of the essence of knowledge I gave thee being, why seekest thou enlightenment from anyone beside Me? Out of the clay of love I molded thee, how dost thou busy thyself with another? Turn thy sight unto thyself, that thou mayest find Me standing within thee, mighty, powerful and self-subsisting." Rise then unto that for which thou wast created".