Suprareligious

It may be asked whether the religion of the Bab would have taken this universal and in a sense suprareligious turn had their leader not been exiled and forced to flee from Iran and whether this evolution is due to its estrangement from Iran and the Western influences.

Among the number of specialists the scholars and intellectuals of the House of Life should be included. We will later have occasion to study in detail what we know of these suprareligious institutions; let us say simply that these were the rooms near the temple where the liturgical books necessary to the cult were written, among others, and where the elements of the sacred body of knowledge were worked out.

The rules of the game based on such a suprareligious and supranational morality would seriously conflict with many of our current habits in living.

We may believe that narrative preaching remains the most appropriate vehicle for the witnessing of the Name in our day. Much that generally annoys the systematician remains indispensable if one is to do even partial justice to the suprareligious character of preaching.

A new suprareligious and supraphilosophical moral elite of people full of concern and sacrifice for the problems of the entire humanity is growing in the whole world. Many governments are today working to avoid common dangers (contamination, starvation, overpopulation) threatening the whole humanity.

In 1968, I came very close to death, to suicide, and giving myself up in that sense. But after that I found a suprareligious way for myself. I didn't think of myself any longer as a member of a particular social group.

Some recent events like the Kisan agitation led by Chaudhry Mahendra Singh Tikait and the several Gujjar gatherings commandeered by Rajesh Pilot have made it clear that these are suprareligious occurrences.