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Tag "Light"

tag name: Light type: General; Metaphors and allegories
web link: Light
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light; bahai9.com/wiki/Light; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=light
referring tags: Candles; Darkness; Fire; Forces of light and darkness; Light verse (Quran); Mirrors; Sun
bahaidata.org: Q5480     Links to Bahá'í wikis:   Expand

"Light" appears in:

1.   from the main catalog (20 results; expand)

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  1. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Encounter with Modernity during His Western Travels, by Wendi Momen (2012). — Abdu'l-Baha's responses to the West's technology and innovations on the one hand, vs. its archaic ra...
  2. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks, by Abdu'l-Bahá Bahá'í World Centre, trans. (2018/2024). — 209 selections, last updated August 2024.
  3. Architectures of Thinking, The, by Jordi Vallverdu Segura, Josuke Nakano (2022). — Sacred architectures play a role in shaping cognition — which results from the relationships betw...
  4. Bahá'u'lláh's Teachings on Spiritual Reality, Paul Lample, comp. (1996). — The quest for spirituality, the spiritual life, material and spiritual reality, the progress of the ...
  5. Concept of 'Light' in Iranian Religion, The, by Moojan Momen (2003-03-25).
  6. Cosmopolitan World of the Quran and Late Antique Humanism, The, by Todd Lawson (2021). — On the Qur'an's use of the themes of epic and apocalypse to reveal its most cherished sacred truths:...
  7. Effect of Revelation on Artistic Expression, The, by Otto Donald Rogers (1982). — The themes and processes of visual art are the same as those of constructive evolution: man as an in...
  8. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history, by Encyclopaedia Iranica Arjen Bolhuis, comp. (1982-2023). — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
  9. Function of Revelation in Artistic Expression, The, by Otto Donald Rogers (1976). — Overview of some Baha'i themes and how they are reflected in the making of art: man as an instrument...
  10. Immortality and the Human Soul: Lecture Series, by Hooper Dunbar (1989/1990).
  11. Kaleidoscope: Some Aspects of Angelology, Light, the Divine Throne and Color Mysticism in Bábí and Bahá'í Scripture, by Stephen Lambden (2004). — Miscellaneous notes relating to religious cosmology, angelology, color and “throne” symbolism in...
  12. Lawh-i-Hirtík (Tablet to Hardegg), by Bahá'u'lláh Bahá'í World Centre, trans. (2024-08). — Authorized translation of Baha'u'llah's Tablet to Georg David Hardegg, co-founder of the German Temp...
  13. Message to the Indian and Eskimo Bahá'ís of the Western Hemisphere, by Rúhíyyih Khánum (1969). — Letter to Native American and Inuit believers, about the assurance given in the Baha'i Writings that...
  14. Prophets of Mahabad, and Nature of Creation: The Two Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria, by Susan Maneck (2011). — Discussion of Baha’u’llah’s letters to Manakji Hataria as found in the Tabernacle of Unity, co...
  15. Qur'anic Kerygma: Epic, Apocalypse, and Typological Figuration, by Todd Lawson (2022). — Article contains no mention of the Babi or Baha'i Faiths, but includes themes of relevance to Baha'i...
  16. Tablet (Lawh) in Bahá'í Usage, by Todd Lawson (2005). — Meanings of the common Baha'i terms lawh (tablet), ketab (book), sahifa (treatise), resala (epistle)...
  17. Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters: What on earth is a disconnected letter? Baha'u'llah's commentary, by Alison Marshall (1999-07). — The meaning of the Arabic letters alif, lam, mim, as explained in Baha'u'llah's tablet Tafsir hurufa...
  18. Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters: Wilmette Institute faculty notes, by Stephen Lambden (1999).
  19. These Perspicuous Verses: A passage from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, by Robert W. McLaughlin (1982). — Detailed study of a section from Ishraqat and Epistle to the Son of the Wolf.
  20. Verse of Light, the Sadratu'l-Muntahá (Divine Lote Tree), and the Unfoldment of God's Plan, The, by Shirley Macias (1991). — Relationship of a key mystical Quranic verse, Súrih 24:35, to Baha'i theology; includes a brief com...

2.   from the Chronology (2 results; expand)

  1. 1922-04-21 — The Shrines of Baha'u'llah and the Bab were electrically illuminated for the first time. [PP69] ...
  2. 1953-04-21 — Bahji was lit for the first time by 99 four-branched wrought iron lamp posts. [GBF32; PP89–90]
 
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