mani, baha'ullah and the search for the universal religion
It seems that deep down, firmly embedded in the spiritual DNA of the human being, there has always been the aspiration for a Universal Religion, a religion first envisaged in the third century by the Persian mystic Mani, founder of Manichaeism, and, sixteen centuries later, in 1863, by the Persian spiritual leader Baha'ullah, founder of Baha'ism.
But have these two faiths fulfilled that aspiration, or they are just two of the many steps that need to be taken along the long and winding road leading to a truly Universal Religion?
About the Speaker:
Marco is a long-time member of the Adelaide Theosophical Society with a keen interest for Comparative Religion. Born and raised a Catholic Christian in a Muslim country home to a large Jewish community, he was exposed since a very young age to a multi-religious environment, an environment which he later expanded by including religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Baha'ism as he visited India, South-East Asia and the Baha'i World Centre in Haifa, Israel.
