Letter of September 4, 1935

With regard to your question relative to the advisability of having

Baha'is join film companies. Although on principle there is no objection

if any believer wishes to become a cinema actor, yet in view of the

excessive corruption that now prevails along such a line of occupation,

the Guardian would not advise any believer to choose this kind of

profession, unless he finds this to be the only means of earning his

livelihood.

Concerning the passage in the Old Testament in which Abraham is reported

to have addressed his wife as his sister, the interpretation given it by

some Christians cannot hold, as it implies that the Messengers of God are

all sinners. A much more plausible explanation would be, that in doing so

Abraham wished to emphasize the superiority of the spiritual relationship

binding him with his wife to the purely physical and material one.

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