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Besides reading regularly from Confucian, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian and Moslem texts and scriptures Tolstoy discovered late in his life the then still relatively new Revelation of Baha’u’llah, the Baha’i Faith, with its beginnings in 1844 in the Babi Faith. This was destined to happen as he had committed himself to seek out the wisdom of the world, near and far, new and ancient. In fact it was in 1844 at age 16 that he became a student of oriental languages. His encounter with the Baha’i Writings came much later, being in 1894. His interest in world religions was well known far and wide and a few early Baha’is either sent him Baha’i pamphlets or books or brought these to him in person. In 1902 Abdu’l-Baha, son of Baha’u’llah, Interpretor and Perfect Exemplar of the Faith, sent Mirza Aziz’u’llah Jadhdhab Khurasani to meet Count Leo Tolstoy and to bring him this message: “Act that your name may leave a good memory in the world of religion. Many philosophers have come, each one raising a flag, let us say five meters high. You have raised a flag ten meters high; immerse yourself in the ocean of unity, so that you may remain confirmed eternally.”
During that 1902 visit Tolstoy was asked what his opinion was concerning Baha’u’llah. With raised hands he replied: “How could I deny Him? […] Obviously this Cause will conquer the whole world. I myself have already accepted Muhammad.” Then he added: “Send me more writings.” These statements did not, however, necessarily mean that he was declaring himself a member of the Baha’i Faith nor that he had converted to Islam. More than likely he did understand though that Baha’is accept all the Prophet Founders of all the major world religions as being inspired by the One and Same Universal Creator of all that is. He just was not quite ready to give this new faith his total embrace. As he studied it more he continued to like and agree with its teachings but on occasion found something he disagreed with and tried to discount it. Those moments never lasted long as he soon took up the further study of its Writings again and would make statements like: “Very profound. I know no other so profound.” This vacillation continued thru his remaining eight years with each swing seeming to bring him closer to perhaps full acceptance. Of his own personal opinions he held them very strongly, sometimes too strongly. I believe he had sometimes become overly proud of his own power of reason and intellect and thus contradicting some of his own advice to others and to himself. Had he lived but only a few years longer and met a few more committed Baha’is he may well have declared himself a Baha’i, a faith committed to unity of thought and action within its own community, something not always easy to achieve or maintain but nonetheless understood by followers of Baha’u’llah as the only path to world peace and to the well being of all its people.
I like to think that Leo’s spirit sat with me in that theatre seat when I watched “Where Love Is, God Is” in my childhood with his knowing that I would eventually find the Baha’i Faith myself and embrace it. I believe he has embraced it in the next world. We live with our own convictions, me with mine, others with their own and there is no argument that can be made of it.
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