Clouds and the Hiding God

COLLECTION	Published articles
TITLE	Clouds and the Hiding God: Observations on some Terms in the Early Writing of Bahá'u'lláh
AUTHOR 1	Moshe Sharon
DATE_THIS	2012
VOLUME	13
TITLE_PARENT	Lights of Irfan
PAGE_RANGE	363-379
PUB_THIS	Haj Mehdi Armand Colloquium
CITY_THIS	Wilmette, IL
ABSTRACT	Metaphorical usage of clouds and rain in the mystical Tablets Rashh-i-Amá, Lawh Kullu't-Ta'ám, and Qasídiyyih-Varqá'iyyih.
NOTES	This paper was first posted in Word format at Hebrew University of Jerusalem [archive.org], where the author is the Chair in Bahá'í Studies. It was later published in Lights of Irfan, and is mirrored here with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/sharon_clouds.
TAGS	- Metaphors and allegories; - Symbolism; Ama (cloud); Clouds (metaphor); Lawh Kullut-Taam (Tablet of All Food); Mysticism; Qasidiyyih-Varqaiyyih (Ode of the Dove); Rain (metaphor); Rashh-i-Ama (Sprinkling from the Cloud of Unknowing)

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