The principle of the equality between women and men, like the other teachings of the Faith, can be effectively and universally established among the friends when it is pursued in conjunction with all the other aspects of Bahá’í life. Change is an evolutionary process requiring patience with one’s self and others, loving education and the passage of time as the believers deepen their knowledge of the principles of the Faith, gradually discard long-held traditional attitudes and progressively conform their lives to the unifying teachings of the Cause. (25 July 1984 to an individual believer) [121] VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY Bahá’u’lláh. “The Hidden Words”. London: National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles, 1949. Bahá’u’lláh. “Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas”, Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 1978. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. “Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá”. Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 1978. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. “The Promulgation of Universal Peace”. Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1982. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. “Paris Talks”. London: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1961. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. “‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London”. London: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1982. Shoghi Effendi. “Messages to the Bahá’í World, 1950–1957”. Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1971. Shoghi Effendi. “Citadel of Faith”. Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1980. “Bahá’í Education, a compilation”. Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 1976. “Family Life”, 1982 U.K. Publishing Trust, p. 8 “‘Abdu’l-Bahá on Divine Philosophy”, compiled by Isobel F. Chamberlain, Boston: The Tudor Press, 1917. Esslemont, John Ebenezer. “Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era”, Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1976. Revised July 1990 FOOTNOTES 1 This Tablet was addressed to one Mrs. Pocohontas in Washington. According to Fádil Mazandarání, the recipient of the Tablet was a black woman. See “Tárí-i-Zuhúu’l-Ḥaq”, vol. 8, part 2, p. 1209 (Ṭihrán: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 132 B.E.). Additional information provided by the Archives of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States indicates that Mr. Louis Gregory, in a history of the Washington, D.C. Bahá’í community, mentions a black Bahá’í, Mrs. Pocohontas Pope, who is likely the same person. Mrs. Pope learned of the Bahá’í Faith through Alma and Fanny Knobloch and Joseph and Pauline Hannen. There is, at present no other information on Mrs. Pope. 2 From other extracts it is evident that the limitation of membership to men applies only to the Universal House of Justice, and not to the National and Local Houses of Justice. 3 This passage appears in the present compilation under Section IV., page 21. 4 The quotation in the original letter which was taken from “Paris Talks”, p. 182, has been replaced by this revised translation. 5 Qur’án 49:13. 6 Qur’án 23:14. 7 Qur’án 55:2.