Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00481)

Paul,

First, to complete the cycle of sharing our backgrounds, my mother cane
from a mixed Lutheran, Baptist and Methodist background, my father from a
Congregational and Reformed background. In my youth I actively attended
the Reformed Dutch Church, became dissatisfied when I first read Darwin
at age twelve, broke with them at age fourteen, and found Mormonism at
sixteen. By big regret is that I didn't discover theosophy until so much
later.


Paul: In the early 70s, I was a naive teenage Baha'i 
> thinking that the world would turn to Baha'u'llah by the end of the 
> century. The Baha'i community of the 70s had a tremendous amount of 
> vitality, enthusiasm, and youth-- all gone now. 

What happened there? I had a good friend in college who joined the Baha'i
Faith and did many comparison studies with me. I was always amased at the
historical simularities between Baha'ism and Mormonism. My personal
observation was that while the Mormon have enjoyed strong central
leadership over the years, it seemed that the Baha'i community was
constantly watering down their central leadership. Was it somwthing
internal that slowed them down, did they simply saturate their market or
was it something else? 

Larry




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