'Abdu'l-Baha, The Master

by George Townshend
A pen-picture of 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
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Introduced and annotated by David Hofman
Here is a pen-picture of 'Abdu'l-Bahá by an author whom Shoghi Effendi called
'the best writer we have . . . the pre-eminent Bahá'í writer.'
This collection, which was published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of
'Abdu'l-Bahá's journey to the West, brings together in one volume the various
writings of George Townshend to and about 'Abdu'l-Bahá, so that his own
portrait of the Master emerges, with fitting reverence to the Centre of the
Covenant, the Exemplar, the Mystery of God. George Townshend dwells with
emphasis on 'Abdu'l-Bahá's historic journey to the West in his essays on 'The
Master' and 'The Exemplar'.
In 'A Study of a Christ-like Character', 'The Letters of 'Abdu'l-Bahá' and 'The
Fire of the King's Love', he leads the reader into a fuller realization of that
divine love and spirituality exemplified in the Master's life.
'To live today in deed and truth the kind of life that Jesus of Nazareth led
and bade his followers lead, to love God wholeheartedly and for God's sake to
love all mankind, even one's slanderers and enemies, to give consistently good
for evil, blessings for curses, kindness for cruelty . . . to preserve one's
courage and sweetness and calm faith in God - to do all this and yet to play
the man in a world of men, sharing at home and in business the common life of
humanity, administering when occasion arose affairs and small, handling complex
situations with foresight and firmness . . . to how many men is such an
achievement given as it has been given in this age of ours to 'Abdu'l-Bahá?'
George Townshend.
ISBN: 978-0-85398-253-1
80 pages
19.8 x 13 cm (7.75 x 5 in)