Your email letter of 13 October 2009, seeking the source of
a passage from a talk given by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá on 2 May 1912 describing a
“spiritual consultation” that the disciples of Christ participated in after His
ascension, has been received at the Bahá’í World Centre and forwarded to the
Research Department for study.
The Research Department states that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá spoke
extemporaneously and did not refer to notes. His talks in The Promulgation of
Universal Peace were translated as He spoke and stenographically recorded into
English and Persian, but He did not have the opportunity to read and
authenticate all of the transcripts. Further, the passage in question appears
in a talk for which, to date, no original Persian transcript has been
identified. The talk remains unauthenticated, and the English text cannot be
taken necessarily to be his exact words.
Regarding the story in the passage in question, the Research
Department has not yet found a rendering of it in the Biblical and Christian
sources available to them.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 1 November 2009 written on
behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer)
