A Study of the “Secret of Divine Civilization”

Welcome to the homepage for an online course on the “Secret of Divine Civilization”.

This is a structured course at the undergraduate level, and this page provides pointers for all support material for the course. Since this page is intended for a private study by a class, relevant materials that are available online at other sites are mirrored at this site, with appropriate acknowledgements, for ease of reference and for the sake of completeness. Many more references exist that are either repetitive, technical or minor in nature and these have been omitted.

This page will be periodically updated as the course progresses. The course duration will be from September 6^th to November 28^h 2004. Participants are from Southern African countries. Some have local study groups while others participate individually.

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Course Home Page
The Course	Text of The Secret of Divine Civilization
Invitation Welcome List of Participants Personal Introductions by the Participants Introduction, Course description, Study Schedule, Paragraph numbers, Summaries of the Text and Study Questions	The Full Text The Full Text in MS Word
Reading Materials	Course Units and Comments about the Text
An Outline of the Text The Education of Nations, a book review by Barbara Casterline History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, by John William Draper Letter of the Universal House of Justice addressed to the Baha’is of Iran dated November 26^th 2003 The Writings of Abdu’l Baha, by Amin Banani An Introduction to Abdu'l-Baha's The Secret of Divine Civilization, by Nader Saiedi	Unit 1 Posting for unit 1 by Martin Konstant Unit 2 Posting for Unit 2 by Belinda Forsee Posting for unit 2 by Martin Konstant Unit 3 Posting for unit 3 by Iran Sohaili Posting for unit 3 by Martin Konstant Unit 4 Posting for unit 4 by Belinda Forsee Posting for unit 4 by Martin Konstant Posting for unit 5 by Martin Konstant Posting for unit 5 by Belinda Forsee Posting for unit 5 by Enayat Sohaili Posting for Unit 6 by Belinda Forsee
Final Projects and Contributions by the Participants	Answers to Exercise Questions Given by the Participants
One Small Candle, A Short Story by Martin Konstant	Response to questions 1 – 25 by Aazam Binazir Response to question 44 by Sharma Gopaul Response to question 45 by Sharma Gopaul Response to questions 101 – 121 by Iran Sohaili