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Tag "Light" details:

tag name: Light type: General; Metaphors and allegories
web link: Light
references: bahai9.com/wiki/Light; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=light
referring tags: Candles; Darkness (metaphor); Fire (metaphor); Forces of light and darkness; Light verse (Quran); Mirrors (metaphor); Sun (metaphor)

"Light" appears in:

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

  1. Wendi Momen. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Encounter with Modernity during His Western Travels (2012). — Abdu'l-Baha's responses to the West's technology and innovations on the one hand, vs. its archaic ra...
  2. Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks (2018/2023). — 167 selections, updated August 2023.
  3. Jordi Vallverdu Segura, Josuke Nakano. Architectures of Thinking, The (2022). — Sacred architectures play a role in shaping cognition — which results from the relationships betw...
  4. Paul Lample, comp. Bahá'u'lláh's Teachings on Spiritual Reality (1996). — The quest for spirituality, the spiritual life, material and spiritual reality, the progress of the ...
  5. Moojan Momen. Concept of 'Light' in Iranian Religion, The (2003-03-25).
  6. Todd Lawson. Cosmopolitan World of the Quran and Late Antique Humanism, The (2021). — On the Qur'an's use of the themes of epic and apocalypse to reveal its most cherished sacred truths:...
  7. Otto Donald Rogers. Effect of Revelation on Artistic Expression, The (1982). — The themes and processes of visual art are the same as those of constructive evolution: man as an in...
  8. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history (1982-2023). — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
  9. Otto Donald Rogers. Function of Revelation in Artistic Expression, The (1976). — Overview of some Baha'i themes and how they are reflected in the making of art: man as an instrument...
  10. Hooper Dunbar. Immortality and the Human Soul: Lecture Series (1989/1990).
  11. Stephen Lambden. Kaleidoscope: Some Aspects of Angelology, Light, the Divine Throne and Color Mysticism in Bábí and Bahá'í Scripture (2004). — Miscellaneous notes relating to religious cosmology, angelology, color and “throne” symbolism in...
  12. Bahá'u'lláh. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Lawh-i-Hirtík (Tablet to Hardegg) (2024-08). — Authorized translation of Baha'u'llah's Tablet to Georg David Hardegg, co-founder of the German Temp...
  13. Ruhiyyih Khanum. Message to the Indian and Eskimo Bahá'ís of the Western Hemisphere (1969). — Letter to Native American and Inuit believers, about the assurance given in the Baha'i Writings that...
  14. Susan Maneck. Prophets of Mahabad, and Nature of Creation: The Two Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria (2011). — Discussion of Baha’u’llah’s letters to Manakji Hataria as found in the Tabernacle of Unity, co...
  15. Todd Lawson. Qur'anic Kerygma: Epic, Apocalypse, and Typological Figuration (2022). — Article contains no mention of the Babi or Baha'i Faiths, but includes themes of relevance to Baha'i...
  16. Todd Lawson. Tablet (Lawh) in Bahá'í Usage (2005). — Meanings of the common Baha'i terms lawh (tablet), ketab (book), sahifa (treatise), resala (epistle)...
  17. Alison Marshall. 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 (1999-07). — The meaning of the Arabic letters alif, lam, mim, as explained in Baha'u'llah's tablet Tafsir hurufa...
  18. Stephen Lambden. Tablet of the 'Light Verse' (Lawh-i-Áyiy-i-Núr), also known as Commentary on the Disconnected Letters: Wilmette Institute faculty notes (1999).
  19. Robert W. McLaughlin. These Perspicuous Verses: A passage from the Writings of Baha'u'llah (1982). — Detailed study of a section from Ishraqat and Epistle to the Son of the Wolf.
  20. Shirley Macias. Verse of Light, the Sadratu'l-Muntahá (Divine Lote Tree), and the Unfoldment of God's Plan, The (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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