Source Materials / **News and Magazines** # **Baha'i Celebrations in "This Stone With Seven Eyes" with the Promised Joshua** ##### *M. P. News* (Montana Prison News), April 1972, p. 21, 23. 📄 [↓ PDF](https://leland-jensen-info.netlify.app/1972-04-montana-prison-news-bahai-gatherings.pdf) --- ### Baha'is Have Joyous Gatherings   On Tuesday evening, March 21, of this year, the Baha'is here in prison celebrated Naw-Ruz, their New Year festival. On this occasion they had joined the Baha'is throughout the world (approximately five million) in observing this holy day. This was in compliance with the Baha'i calendar inaugurated by the Bab and ratified by Baha'u'llah (Glory of God), the prophet precursor and the prophet founder, or the twin manifestations, of the Baha'i faith. These are the ones promised to come in all the holy books of the past. Having the New Year fall on the first day of spring is very realistic, if you will consider for yourself the situation, for this is the vernal equinox, when the sun crosses the equator on its journey northward, when all living things are invigorated with a new spirit of life for the forthcoming year. The flowers start blooming, trees bud, grass grows greener, and the young are brought into the world. So it is appropriate to welcome the New Year when the world is taking on a new life. The celebration party for our Baha'i group fell on a regular Fireside night. Fireside is for the teaching and the discussion of the faith, for the people to bring on a new life for all of mankind; Baha'is consider this Revelation from God the new light to bring about a new life, a spiritual springtime for all of mankind. The Revelation of Baha'u'llah is the throne of God, promised, that ushers in a new dispensation, the "Kingdom of God" age on earth as the Adamic Cycle is about to DRAMA-tically come to an end. We had over twenty people participate in our celebration, each getting up and giving a short talk on some aspect of the Baha'i faith, and a larger number coming in to view or to get a piece of the exotic cake baked by our head baker, Ralph Best. The cake was a replica of the Montana State Prison with its "stone with seven eyes" and everyone eating a part of this structure that he possibly would probably like to get rid of. Ralph did a tremendous job and his artwork was delicious to say the least. There are six great religious civilizations in the world today, besides the Baha'i, each having their own calendar. These are the Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Jewish, Christian and the Muslim. Their calendars start for the most part with the inaugurator of their dispensation, their manifestation of God. For instance, the Zoroastrian calendar starts with Zoroastor, the Christian with the birth of Jesus, the Muslum with the entrance of Mohammad into Medina, and the Baha'i with the proclamation of the Bab in 1844, that he was indeed the promised one of whom all were awaiting, and that he was also the forerunner, and to prepare the way for the other promised one who was to immediately follow him — the Son of man in the glory of the Father (Mark 8:38) who was promised by Jesus and all of the other holy books. This brings us to another event, the most important of the Baha'i year, that the Baha'is will be celebrating this month — the date Baha'u'llah made his proclamation in the garden of Ridvan (Roses) claiming he was the universal manifestation of our age for which all people were awaiting. This declaration was made during a twelve-day period in this garden with the first day falling on April the 21st. This will be celebrated here on another Fireside day of April 20 as the Baha'i day starts at sundown. Also, the ninth of Ridvan, Aprıl the 29, is a Baha'i holy day of no previously known reason and will be celebrated at the prison. For the Baha'is at the prison it will be a day of remembrance, because of the important event which took place right here behind "This Stone With Seven Eyes," only one year ago on this date: the promised Joshua for today, the third one promised in the scriptures (Daniel 12:7, 11, 12 and in Zechariah 3:1-9), whose job is to establish the Baha'i faith — the throne of God — especially the guardianship, which is the fundamental aspect of the faith, made his proclamation. All are invited to attend Baha'i Firesides, and you are all cordially invited to celebrate these holy days with us.   --- **Sources** - M.P. News, April 1972, pp. 21, 23. Montana State Library, collection, digitized by Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/mpnewsapr1972mont **Note:** This article, "Baha'is Have Joyous Gatherings," *M.P. News*, April 1972, is provided as supplementary reference material for researchers, teachers, and students. This limited reproduction is presented for educational and scholarly purposes under fair use (17 U.S.C. § 107). 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