Ms. May Hofman-Ballerio
Presentations by Ms. May Hofman-Ballerio
May Hofman reviews the prodigious work accomplished by the Guardian, Shoghi Effendi Rabbani. She quotes extensively from his writings and discusses his development of the gardens and buildings on the Arc; his translations of Sacred Scripture; his development of the Administrative Order; the questions he answered by Divine Infallibility; the centrality of the Principle of the Oneness of Mankind; and much more.
This paper is part of a doctoral thesis John Paul Vader wrote in 1981 for the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. It is being read by May Hofman Ballerio. It was quite unusual for someone earning a medical degree at a French university to write about the persecutions of the Baha’is of Iran from the perspective of one of its most celebrated Swiss scientists, Dr. August Forel (1848-1931). Dr. Forel was honored with one of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s weightiest Tablets. In the 1920s there was a wave of persecutions against the Baha’is. Dr.