Friday, October 24, 2008

Tahirih: Central to Tahiralogy by Starr* Saffa

TAHIRALOGY, also spelled TAHIRIHLOGY, is the study and application of the Message of Tahirih Qurratu’l-Ayn in the 21st Century.

Question:
The people of the twenty-first century might ask ‘who Tahirih Qurratu’l-Ayn is, and why Tahirihlogy would be relevant to us?’

Answers:
As we have seen in history the Sun rises in the East before setting in the Western world. Tahirih Qurratu’l-Ayn came to the world as a religious Leader who disturbed the status quo in Iran during the nineteenth century. She announced, with religious authority, the end of the past paradigm, the beginning of a new universal cycle of balance, opened the Portal for humanity’s connection to Source, and proclaimed the complete emancipation of women world-wide as a fundamental principle. In time, epic movies will be made about Her courageous endeavours.

Under oppressive leadership the people of Her day were not able to adopt or put into place the changes for which She called. However, the Spirit of Her Message, once released, was imprinted into the hearts of evolving humanity and the new paradigm slowly began to unfold. The Bab, who was also a religious Leader at the time, wrote:

“O QURRATU'L-`AYN! (Tahirih)
Stretch not Thy hands wide open in the Cause,
inasmuch as the people would find themselves in
a state of stupor by reason of the Mystery, and I
swear by the true, Almighty God that there is yet
for Thee another turn after this Dispensation.

Tahirih’s appearance marks the ending of the Dispensation of Prophets of old and opens up the Spirit made manifest to all humankind, thus Her Dispensation is for all peoples and generations into the future.

After Her mystical disappearance in 1852, Tahirih’s figure and teachings were subsumed into the Baha’i religion where they were obscured, downplayed, and rearranged to suit a patriarchal agenda. Instead of the full emancipation which Tahirih called for as a fundamental principle, women become secondary citizens, whose voices can not be heard in top community decision making bodies (Universal House of Justice) in the Baha’i religion, thereby ignoring Tahirih’s Divine Message to humanity.

It is now time to aright this travesty as humankind makes the Shift into the Cycle of Balance. Thus, in 2001 Her Voice began to be raised again through a living representative, namely, Starr* Saffa as well as others. One of the main messages of Tahirih is to convey to all that their hearts are the repositories of divine messages and in this Age they are co-creators; no longer are they under days of old where only Prophets brought Guidance.

Knowledge of Tahirih’s Divine influence of beginning the Shift physically and metaphysically puts the unfoldment we are witnessing into perspective and gives Guidance for people when formulating what is needed to move productively forward during transitory times. All will be influenced by the new Consciousness; however, it will be more productive once it is recognized as part of the over-all Plan for humanity. Thus the study of Tahirih’s teachings, in a way that makes them living for application in this day, is of the greatest importance and Tahirhlogy (Tahiralogy) is a gift of the Spirit to humanity.

The following is a recent short doucmentray about Her layed out in three parts totalling 24 minutes, entitled "TAHIRIH DIVINE VOICE". Enjoy!