The Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh Unit 2 The Guardian of the Faith PRE - PUBLICATION EDITION MATERIAL IN DEVELOPMENT VERSION 1.1.1.PP 22 June 2012 Ruhi Institute Copyright © 2009 by the Ruhi Foundation, Colombia All rights reserved. Version 1.1.1.PP June 2012 Ruhi Institute Apartado Postal: 402032 Cali, Colombia Tel: 57 2 828-2599 Email: [email protected] Web site: www.ruhi.org Transcribed into eBook & PDF by Ramin Marghi Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 4 SECTION 1.................................................................................................................................................. 6 SECTION 2.................................................................................................................................................. 7 SECTION 3.................................................................................................................................................. 8 SECTION 4................................................................................................................................................ 10 SECTION 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47.............................................................................................................................................. 91 REFERENCES .......................................................................................................................................... 93 INTRODUCTION The Ruhi Institute is an educational institution functioning under the aegis of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Colombia. Its purpose is to develop human resources dedicated to the spiritual, social and cultural progress of the Colombian people. Over the decades its materials have increasingly been used by national Bahá'í communities in all parts of the world. The approach to curriculum development followed by the Ruhi Institute differs significantly from the traditional one of design, field-testing and evaluation, carried out in a linear fashion. The first step in writing any set of materials is taken, rather, when an experience is created at the grassroots in performing some act of service in response to the exigencies of the development of a community. Materials emerge out of this experience and become an expression of it. They are, on the one hand, a record of the learning that occurs in applying the teachings of the Bahá'í Faith in a particular area of service and, on the other, an instrument for the systematization of that learning. The approach has been described in the following terms in the small volume Learning About Growth: The story of the Ruhi Institute and large-scale expansion of the Bahá'í Faith in Colombia: Once an educational need is identified, a small group of people, working at the grassroots, consult among themselves, develop a set of ideas for educational activities, and put them into practice. The results of this practice are reviewed, evaluated and consulted upon;