ABBREVIATED TABLE OF CONTENTS

              Preface                                  VII
              Acknowledgements                          XV
              The Sources                                3
              The Allegorical Method                     6
              Gematria                                  11
              Number Symbolism                          13
              Astrological Symbolism                    20
              Geometric Symbolism                       28
              Further Literary Devices                  30
              The Time and Space of the Apocalypse      30
              Future Scholarship                        31
              The Notes                                 34

       Chapter One  The Greatest Name                   43
            Two  Letters to Ancient Faiths              65
          Three  Letters to Recent Faiths               79
           Four  The Invisible Zodiac                   87
           Five  The Book of Seven Seals                99
            Six  The Book is Opened                    107
          Seven  God's Servants are Sealed             115
          Eight  The Fate of the Early Church          129
           Nine  The Fall of Christendom               135
            Ten  Interlude                             143
         Eleven  The Course of Islam                   147
         Twelve  The Travail of the Word               157
       Thirteen  The Rise of the Caliphate             165
       Fourteen  The World-Stage is Set                177
        Fifteen  His Name Revealed                     187
        Sixteen  The End of the Age                    197
      Seventeen  Mysteries Revealed                    207
       Eighteen  Encomium of Victory                   213
       Nineteen  The Triumph of Baha'u'llah            219
         Twenty  Satan Bound                           225
     Twenty-one  The Holy City                         231
     Twenty-two  Epilogue

  Appendix A  The Number of Baha' in the Apocalypse    261
           B  Correlation of Some Dates in the
              Book of Daniel                           263
           C  Origins of Gematriot and
              Number Symbolism                         267
           D  The Hebrew and Arabic Gematriot          271
           E  Glossary of Symbols                      273
           F  Chronological Table                      289
           G  Some Baha'i Apocalyptic Writings         295
              References                               307
           H  Late Errata and Changes                  A-1
     Indexes
             Index of biblical verses cited
             Subject index

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                            Appendix A

             The Number of Baha'a' in the Apocalypse


There can be little doubt that the name of the Manifestation of
the last days is Baha'u'llah.  Besides revealing His name three
times in 15:8, 21:11, and 21:23, there are many expressions and
numbers that refer to Him, His City, His Law, or His Seal that
have the archetypal value of 9, the number of Baha'.  These are:

        _Expresions           _Frequency of        _Chapter
        and Numbers_         Occurrence of 9_     and Verse_

Alpha (and) Omega                   4        1:8, 11; 21:6; 22:13
Jerusalem                           3           3:12; 21:2, 10
New name                            2             2:17; 3:12
144,000 (Seal of God)               3            7:4; 14:1, 3
Faithful and True (Name)            1                19:11
The Word of God (Name)              1                19:13
Dimensions of the Holy City         6                21:16
144 cubits (Wall of the City)       1                21:17

Besides these clearly significant occurrences of 9, there are
other occurrences that are probably significant.  These are the
references to Glory as a name of God in 14:7, 16:9, and possibly
in 4:9, 4:11, 15:4, and 19:1.  The Greek word for Glory has an
archetypal value of 9, identical to the value of Baha' (Glory) in
Arabic.  The 1260 years, given seven times in 11:2,m 11:3, 11:9,
11:11, 12:6, 12:14, and 13:5, also has an archetypal value of 9.
The Almighty "Pantocrator" appears 9 times in the Apocalypse,
verses 1:8, 4:8, 11:17, 15:3, 16:7, 16:14, 19:6, 19:15 and 21:22.
This appelation occurs only once elsewhere in the New Testament,
II Corinthians 6:18.

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There are still other uses of the 9 that are possibly
significant.  For example, the number 666 in 13:18 has an
archetypal value of 9.  Furthermore, there are 9 chapters (14-22)
that are devoted to the last days
and the Advents of the Bab and
Baha'u'llah.  The 142,794 days* of     *Or the 142,731 days.  See
9:15 have an archetypal value          Chapter 11, Note 4.
of 9.  The Greek word "Apocalypse"
AãOKá^ç@IäÅ, which means               Å[The @ symbol here
"Revelation," has a literal value      indicates the Greek letter
of 1512 and an archetypal value of     Psi, which is unavailable
9.                                     in the character set.]

We now consider the possibility that the occurrence of nines is
entirely a matter of random chance.  Fortunately, it is a simple
matter to estimate the proability that the nines result from
chance.

For each number and verbal expression, the probability that the
archetypal valuee will be 9 is about 1/9.  The probability that
the dimsnsions of the Holy City will contain nines is 1/3 (Ch.
21, Note 4.)  Considering only those expressions and numbers that
are given by the Table, the probability that all eight
expressions and numbers will have archetypal values of 9 by
random chance is approximately:

        1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/3

The answer is 0.00000006969.

In order to appreciate how small the probability is, its
reciprocal 14,348,907 is equal to the number of seconds in 5
months and 2 weeks.