Tuesday, May 25, 2021

The Baha'i New World Order

I find it funny that conspiracy theorists (or similar) haven't jumped at this yet:


(I'm not entirely sure but Baha'i's might have actually coined that term, which later emerged curing the Cold War era)


I've very rarely see it ever brought up.

The Baha'i "New World Order" and it's future legislative court, the "Universal House of Justice" (the group of old senile men staring at a wall), have an interesting kind of relation to both the Sunni Caliphate idea and the Catholic Papacy idea. Baha'i's have basically created a mishmash of both ideas, but leaning towards the Catholic idea in terms of religious authority but leaning towards the Sunni Caliphate in terms of how it will comprise unified territory across countries (aiming for the entire world, like both prior systems hoped to achieve but didn't).


In terms of Baha'i strategy they both play the Jewish/Christian card of 'pity us, we're persecuted' (which was a historical reality for Shia Muslims and Bayanis/Babis but we didn't make that historical reality the pillar of our faith) and try to nudge their way into the United Nations and European Union area of politics, as both provide good room for expansionism when things start to go to turmoil. 



From Kitab Aqdas (also appearing as chapter 70 of Gleanings From the Writings of Baha'u'llah):



Of that, while he has fluffy language, he doesn't have the eloquence of the Qur'an. What takes Baha'u'llah a whole paragraph to express, the Qur'an can express in two phrases. In the Qur'an, a single word can be a universe in itself, in The Bab via his extreme Ta'wil, there can be a tendency towards this through the way his works esoterically relate to the Qur'an.
But in Baha'u'llah, he is always overcompensating for what are usually very basic, straight-forward sentiments. 
The Qur'an has no fluff, neither The Bab, but Baha'u'llah really does. His fluff does appeal towards the kind of vague sentimentality people have towards the poetics (rather than the theology and experience) of Sufism et al.

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