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Tag "Light"

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; Fire; Forces of light and darkness; Light verse (Quran); Mirrors; Sun

"Light" appears in:

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  1. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Encounter with Modernity during His Western Travels, by Wendi Momen. (2012) Abdu'l-Bahá's responses to the West's technology and innovations on the one hand, vs. its archaic racist and sexual philosophies on the other.
  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 between the subject and their surroundings. By sharing an environment and its relationships, members of a community define their values, attitudes, and "reality."
  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 soul and humanity’s spiritual education.
  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: the Oneness of God, the Oneness of Religion, and the Oneness of Humanity. Contains no mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
  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 instrument, desire for order and beauty, use of materials, element of light, principle of unity, balance of polarities, and mobility through faith.
  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 Bahá'í themes and how they are reflected in the making of art: man as an instrument; desire for order and beauty; use of materials; element of light; principle of unity; polarities and relationships; part and whole; energy and power.
  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 select Abrahamic, Bábí, Bahá’í, and religious and mystical texts. It will be seen that colours are related to the theology of the celestial Throne.
  12. Lawh-i-Hirtík (Tablet to Hardegg), by Bahá'u'lláh. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. (2024-08) Authorized translation of Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to Georg David Hardegg, co-founder of the German Templer Society, emphasizing devotion, fulfillment of prophecies, and the transformative power of the Word of God.
  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 Bahá'í Writings that their future is very great, and that they themselves best help to fulfill these promises by taking the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh to their own people.
  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, compiled from an email discussion group archive; the context of the questions and their answers against the background of Ishraqi philosophy.
  15. Qur'anic Kerygma: Epic, Apocalypse, and Typological Figuration, by Todd Lawson. (2022) Article contains no mention of the Bábí or Bahá'í Faiths, but includes themes of relevance to Bahá'í teachings on the typologies of proclamation and apocalypse.
  16. Tablet (Lawh) in Bahá'í Usage, by Todd Lawson. (2005) Meanings of the common Bahá'í terms lawh (tablet), ketáb (book), sahífa (treatise), resála (epistle), etc.
  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 Bahá'u'lláh's tablet Tafsir hurufat al-maqatt’ah. Includes List of disconnected letters in the Qur'an and Abjad values of the Arabic letters.
  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 Bahá'í theology; includes a brief compilation of Bahá'í Writings about the Lote Tree.

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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