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'What is in that box?' young Baha'u'llah asked the puppeteer. 'Where is the King and all the men?' 'He is folded up in this box, with all his finery, and so are all the rest of them', answered the puppeteer. At that moment Baha'u'llah clearly saw that a real king and all his ministers were exactly the same as those little puppets. They too would parade in splendour for a short while on the earth, and then would be folded away in a wooden box under the ground.

Sue Podger is descended from the early Dutch settlers of the Cape of Good Hope, known as Afrikaners. She is the first of this people to become a Baha'i and her maiden surname is Hofmeyr. She was trained at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town. An accomplished watercolourist, she uses a range of styles to portray a sensitive and accurate picture of the years when Baha'u'llah was amongst us. The images of one set of her paintings shown on this website were painted for a hard cover book, 'The Incomparable Friend', a history of the life of Baha'u'llah told in stories, which sold out and was out of print for some years. Shirin Sabri, it's author, and Sue, wishing to see it more widely available, have published it as a free...