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Metaphor and the Language of Revelation

Author	Ross Woodman
Title of item	Metaphor and the Language of Revelation
Volume	8:1
Pages	1-27
Parent publication	Journal of Bahá'í Studies
Publisher of this ed.	Ottawa: Association for Bahá'í Studies North America
Date of this edition	1997
Language	English
Permission	publisher
Posted	2011-06-06 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Published Articles
URL	bahai-library.org/woodman_metaphor_language_revelation
Abstract	To enter the realm of metaphor as the language of the soul is to come into direct contact with the Word as the originating power of creation.
Tags	Afterlife; Allegories and metaphors; Arts; Bab, Grammar of; Bab, Trial of; Bab, Trial of; Bahaullah and the Bab; Bible; Birds; Breath; Bride (symbol); Christianity; Creation; Day of Judgment (or Day of Resurrection); Disconnected letters of the Quran; English literature; Flowers; God (general); God, Throne of; Henry Corbin; Houris (huris); Hurqalya; Islam; John Milton; Kitab-i-Iqan (Book of Certitude); Literature; Lover and the Beloved; Maid of Heaven; Manifestations of God; Mind, spirit, soul; Mirrors; Mount Carmel; New Jerusalem; Nightingales; Northrop Frye; Poetry; Prayer; Progressive revelation; Qayyumul-Asma (book); Quddus; Questions and answers; Quran; Resurrection; Return; Revelation; Ross Woodman; Self-knowledge; Shaykhism; Siyah Chal (Black Pit); Soul; Symbolism; Tahirih; Typology; Unity of religion; William Blake; Word of God; Worlds of God
Locations	Jerusalem
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Last edited	2022-04-02 01:41 EDT. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted between 2003-2012 had various slightly different URLs and sometimes can be found in archive.org with addresses like bahai-library.org/file.php5?file=woodman_metaphor_language_revelation.

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