- Moojan Momen. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Commentary on the Qur'ánic Verses Concerning the Overthrow of the Byzantines: The Stages of the Soul (2001). Commentary on the first few verses of the Quranic Sura of Rum; nine esoteric or mystical interpretations of the word al-Rum, transl. "Rome" or "Byzantium"; different types of soul; the soul's progress through the realms of creation.
- Rodney H. Clarken. Absolute Poverty and Utter Nothingness (1997). Bahá’u’lláh’s ideas of poverty as detachment, and nothingness as selflessness. Cites some commonalities in concepts of detachment and nothingness from Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, Muhammad and Socrates as five of the greatest philosophers or prophets.
- Lil Osborn. Alice Buckton: Baha'i Mystic (2014-07). Buckton, a central figure in the re-establishment of Glastonbury as England's spiritual centre, visited Abdul Baha in Egypt and received him at her home in Surrey, and visited the U.S. to help spread the Bahá'í movement.
- Lil Osborn. Alice Buckton's Glastonbury Pilgrimage (2020). Buckton's spiritual awakening and pioneering activities in Glastonbury, including her setting up a womens' and pilgrims' hostel, and the Pilgrimage of Avalon.
- Julio Savi, Faezeh Mardani. Ancient Poems as Means of Revelation, in an Early Tablet by Bahá'u'lláh (2018). On the importance of poetry in the history of the Faith and in its Writings, and absolute detachment as a prerequisite for attainment unto the Divine Presence. Includes translation of a Tablet by Bahá’u’lláh.
- Vahid Brown. Andalusí Theosophy: A Recontextualization (2006). The role of interconfessionalism in the emergence of Islamic and Jewish theosophical movements in 10th- to 13th-century Spain.
- Ross Woodman. Arc of Ascent: The Purpose of Physical Reality II, by John S. Hatcher: Review (1994).
- Jean-Marc Lepain. Peter Terry, trans. Archeology of the Kingdom of God, The (2015). Analysis of the spiritual worlds as depicted in philosophical and religious texts, from ancient the Greek to Jewish, Christian and Muslim thought, contrasted with the theosophy, metaphysics, anthropology, and hermeneutics of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
- John S. Hatcher. Ascent of Mount Carmel, The: Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Birth of the Báb (2019). "From the Editor's Desk": Symbolism of the terraces on the shrine of the Bab; St. John's poem "Ascent of Mount Carmel"; overview of the articles in this issue of the Journal.
- Todd Lawson. Báb's Epistle on the Spiritual Journey towards God, The (2002). A preliminary translation and discussion of the Bab's Risála fi's-Sulúk, one of his earliest extant compositions. It provides a brief discussion of the mystic quest, and sheds light on the Báb's relationship to the Shaykhi movement and to Sayyid Kázim.
- Julio Savi. Bahá'í Faith and the Perennial Mystical Quest, The: A Western Perspective (2007-12). Mysticism is an intrinsic aspect of the Bahá'í Faith and mystical experience as formulated by William Ralph Inge and as expounded in the Bahá'í writings, emphasizing its practical and logical aspects; criticisms of mysticism; a Bahá'í mystical path.
- Lil Osborn. Baha'i Faith and the Western Esoteric Tradition, The (2015). The importance of individuals seeped in the mystical, the occult, and esoteric to the early 20th-century creation of Bahá'í perspectives on modernity and mysticism.
- Robert Stauffer, comp. Bahá'í Studies Bulletin: Index by volume (1998). List of articles in all issues of Bahai Studies Bulletin, 1982-1992.
- Jack McLean. Baha'is as a Mystic Community, by Moojan Momen, The: Response (2006). The meanings of mysticism in the writings of Bahá'u'lláh and Shoghi Effendi.
- Francis Henry Skrine. Bahá'ísm, the religion of brotherhood and its place in the evolution of creeds (1912). An outsider's sympathetic portrayal of the Bahá'í history and teachings, written with "express approval" of Abdu'l-Bahá.
- Juan Cole. Bahá'u'lláh and the Naqshbandi Sufis in Iraq, 1854-1856 (1984). The interplay of Bábí themes of messianism and the Sufi mystical emphasis on internal spirituality; analysis of an early poem by Bahá'u'lláh which hints that by the 1850s he began to see his mission of reform to carry out in the Bábí community.
- John S. Hatcher, Amrollah Hemmat, Ehsanollah Hemmat. Bahá'u'lláh's "Ode of the Dove": A Provisional Translation (2019). A lengthy dialogue between Bahá'u'lláh (as persona/narrator) and the Huriyyih — the Maid of Heaven (a personification of “the Most Great Spirit”).
- Bahá'u'lláh. Juan Cole, trans. Baha'u'llah's Notes to His "Ode of the Dove" (1997).
- Julio Savi. Bahá'u'lláh's Persian Poems Written before 1863 (2012). Overview of the mystical early writings of Bahá'u'lláh, 1852-1863. Includes extensive bibliography, and a brief summary of each of the major works from this period.
- Bijan Ma'sumian. Baha'u'llah's Seclusion in Kurdistan (1993 Fall). Reconstruction of parts of this mostly undocumented period in Bahá'u'lláh's life.
- John S. Hatcher, Amrollah Hemmat, Ehsanollah Hemmat. Bahá'u'lláh's Symbolic Use of the Veiled Ḥúríyyih (2019). Analyzing some of the meanings behind the appearance of the Veiled Maiden, as alluded to by Bahá'u'lláh in His letters.
- Moshe Sharon. Clouds and the Hiding God: Observations on some Terms in the Early Writing of Bahá'u'lláh (2012). Metaphorical usage of clouds and rain in the mystical Tablets Rashh-i-Amá, Lawh Kullu't-Ta'ám, and Qasídiyyih-Varqá'iyyih.
- Dianne Bradford. Comparison of Islamic Religious Modes with the Four Valleys of Bahá'u'lláh (1998-01). Comparison of stages in The Four Valleys with three approaches from Islam: Theologians, Muslim Philosophers, and Mystics.
- Jack McLean. Confessions of a Child of the Half-Light (2022). Philosophical essays; recollections of 'Abdu'l-Bahá by Laura Dreyfus Barney, Curtis Kelsey, and other Europeans; recollections of Shoghi Effendi by ten individuals; dreams and visions; eulogies of the author's parents; travel teaching across Russia.
- Jack McLean. Correlating Mystical Experience to the Knowledge of God (2000-10). Mysticism, "the experience of God," and theology, "the knowledge of God," are both expressions of one symbiosis. This paper characterizes mysticism, debunks objections to it, and explores a Bahá'í context through the Four and Seven Valleys.
- Marzieh Gail. Dawn over Mount Hira and Other Essays (1976). A collection of essays on various topics of interest to Bahá'í studies and history. Most of these were first published in Star of the West and World Order between 1929 and 1971.
- Justice Hagan. Desert Enlightenment: Prophets and Prophecy in American Science Fiction (2013). On the pivotal role in the development of the central characters the narratives of the novel Dune, the comics The Rise of Apocalypse, and the film Star Wars. Contains a few passing mentions related to the Bahá'í Faith.
- Stanwood Cobb. Essential Mysticism, The (1918). Clarification of some of the spiritual problems of humanity; the real value of Oriental mysticism; the mystery of the soul of man in terms not of psychology but of daily life; the value of spirituality in daily life.
- Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Fact and Fiction: Interrelationships between History and Imagination (2000). On the tension between "fact" and "fiction," between objective history and our relative and subjective stories, between art as the representation of reality and faith based on the Word of God. We inherited a responsibility to resolve this tension.
- Theo A. Cope. Firm Cord of Servitude, The (2001). A call for a revisioning of mysticism's claims of "union with God" in light of the Bahá'í Teachings as well as Jungian psychology.
- Bahá'u'lláh. Shoghi Effendi, trans, Juan Cole, trans. He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord (Man \'arafa nafsahú faqad \'arafa Rabbahú): Commentary (1996). Translation by Shoghi Effendi, completed by Cole. Themes include Islamic mysticism and the meaning of detachment, the meaning of the hadith about knowing one's self, the meaning of Return, and the hadith "The believer is alive in both worlds."
- Daryl Lowery. Hidden Words: Allusion to Progressive Revelation in Persian HW #77 (1999). Student paper, exploring one of the longest and more mystical Hidden Words.
- Alison Marshall. How to get out of it: Faná' and baqá' in the Early Writings of Baha'u'llah (1999-01). Annihilation and the self in the Hidden Words and the Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys.
- Julio Savi. Hymn to Love (Sáqí, bi-dih ábí), A (2015). A ghazal, a mystical song of love about The Beloved, meaning God or a Manifestation. One of eight Persian poems Bahá'u'lláh signed "Dervish" and revealed in Kurdistan, circa 1854-1856.
- Betty Hoff Conow (published as B. Hoff Conow). "'In the Beginning Was the Word': Apocalypse and the Education of the Soul," by Ross Woodman: Commentary (1995).
- Juan Cole. Individualism and the Spiritual Path in Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i (1997-09). On Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i's criticisms of aspects of Sufism, and whether he could be considered a "mystic" despite his anathemas against Sufism.
- Julio Savi. Inebriation of His Enrapturing Call (mast-and bulbulán), The (2014). Translation of the early mystical Tablet "Nightingales Are Inebriated" and an analysis of its themes of ecstasy, Mount Sinai, eschatology, dhikr, sama, and fana`.
- Ismael Velasco. Ineffability in Scripture: A Conversation with 6 Medieval Mystics (2006). On how the experience of six 13th- and 14th-century Christian mystics was shaped by their language, environment, and background; how that process illuminates Baha’i scripture; implications for the conduct and direction of Baha’i scholarship.
- Jianping Wang. Influence of Bábí Teachings on Ling Ming Tang and Nineteenth-century China, The (2002). A possible historical linkage between the followers of Bábí and Bahá'i Movements in Iran and the believers of a Qadiriyya Order (the Ling Ming Tang) in China.
- Susan Maneck. Islam, the Baha'i Faith and the Eternal Covenant of Alast (2009-02-09).
- Jack McLean. Knowledge of God, The: An Essay on Bahá'í Epistemology (1978 Spring). Knowledge of the divine is the beginning of all things. This can come through the investigative faculty, the path of reason, or through intuition and mysticism, the path of the heart.
- LeRoy Jones. Knowledge, Certitude and the Mystical Heart: The Hidden Essence of God's Word (2002). Bahá'u'lláh equates Truth with divine knowledge and requires that we must first be cleansed of worldly things if we are to attain divine knowledge and true understanding. The elusive and transcendent nature of divine knowledge.
- Bahá'u'lláh. Pierre Daoust, trans. Les Quatre Vallées, publié dans The Call of the Divine Beloved (Centre mondial bahá'í - 2018) (2022-08). La traduction des Quatre Vallées de Marzieh Gail contient beaucoup de passages exquis et inspirés, mais quelques changements ont été nécessaires pour la clarté et l'exactitude.
- Christopher Buck. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org (2020). List of online essays and articles by Christopher Buck since 2014.
- Brian A. Miller. Lover's Way, The: A Critical Comparison of the Nazm al-Sulúk by Ibn al-Fárid with the Qasídih-yi Varqá'iyyih by Bahá'ulláh (2000). Link to document offsite.
- Bahá'u'lláh. Frank Lewis, trans. Mathnaviyí-i Mubárak (1999). Provisional translation
- LeRoy Jones. Mystic Cup, The: Essential Mystical Nature of the Bahá'í Faith (2001). Although the Bahá’í Faith is fundamentally mystic in character, American Bahá’ís often do not even understand what mysticism is. Heart-centered mystic oneness is crucial in individual, societal, and adminstrative spiritual transformation.
- Gul Afroz Zaman. Mystic Journey of the Soul, The (1998). On the journey a soul must make to attain union with the Eternal from the confines of material life on earth; Christian and Sufi esoteric traditions vs. Bahá'í mysticism; the central theme of attaining a "Heavenly Homeland" and closeness with the Creator.
- Jack McLean. Mystic's Flight, The: The Parable of Majnún and Laylí (2001-07). This classic love tale of the Middle East, quoted by Bahá'u'lláh in the Seven Valleys, is prized by Sufi mystics as a spiritual allegory of the soul's search for union with God. A literary-critical analysis of the text yields theological clues.
- LeRoy Jones. Mystical Aspects of the Baha'i Faith as presented in the Seven Valleys (1998-03). Mystical aspects of the Bahá'í Faith are of paramount importance and may sometimes get overlooked in favor of its social aspects.
- David Langness. Mystical content and symbology of Bahá'u'lláh's Four Valleys (1997). Symbology of the Four Valleys, and a brief overview of a four-stage spiritual growth model.
- Annemarie Schimmel. Mystical Dimensions of Islam (1975). Detailed history of Sufism and its thought, Islamic theosophy, and Persian and Turkish mystical poetry. Book includes no mention of the Bahá'í Faith, but is quite relevant.
- Kavian Sadeghzade Milani. Mystical Dimensions of the Bahá'í Administrative Order, The (2002). The Bahá'i Administrative Order can be seen as a mystical entity, and there are some parallels between it and Sufism. For Bahá'is the encounter with the Administrative Order is critical to the mystical path.
- Moojan Momen. Mysticism and the Bahá'í Community (2002). The five characteristic features common to mystical orders in Buddhism, Christianity or Islam. Bahá'u'lláh's attitude to these characteristic features. Bahá'u'lláh turns the whole of the Bahá'í community into a mystical fellowship.
- Farnaz Ma'sumian. Mysticism and the Bahá'í Faith (1995 Spring). An examination of the Bahá'í Faith's relation to mysticism and mystic themes and ideas present in the Bahá'í Faith.
- Fargang Jahanpour. Mysticism East and West (2007). The meaning and nature of mysticism and some of the leading ideas in Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, and Bahá'í mysticism, exploring some of their similarities and differences.
- Enoch Tanyi. Mysticism in African Traditional Religion and in the Bahá'í Faith: Classification of Concepts and Practices (2002). Both African Traditional Religion and the Bahá'í Faith originate from God, but at different times in the evolution of humankind. Owing to this common origin, the two have much in common. Both are essentially mystic in nature.
- Glenn A. Shook. Mysticism, Science and Revelation (1953/1976). The essence of true religion is that feeling which unites man with God. Some mystics believes that man may become one with the Absolute, but this is not scientific. Differences between mystical experience and prophetic religion.
- Julio Savi. "Newly born babe of that Day", The: Mysticism in the Age of the Maturity of Humankind (2006). The dynamic historical processes impacting mysticism. As the Bahá'í Revelation is the revelation of the maturity of humankind, it is free from certain flaws that in the past implied an early development of certain spiritually unacceptable behaviors.
- Bahá'u'lláh. Juan Cole, trans. Ode of the Dove (1997). Translation of Qasídiy-i- Varqá'íyyih.
- Frank Lewis (published as Franklin Lewis). Poetry as Revelation: Introduction to Bahá'u'lláh's 'Mathnavíy-i Mubárak' (1999). On Bahá'u'lláh and the poetic tradition, Sufism, Sufi poetry, and Rumi; rhetorical orientation; date of the poem and history of the text; and interpretation and the translation process. Includes a provisional translation.
- Julio Savi, Faezeh Mardani. Prayers and rituals in the Bahá'í Faith: Introduction to A Tablet to Jináb-i-Mullá 'Alí-Akbar fí Ardi'l-Álif (2008). A tablet of Bahá'u'lláh to one of the Bábís to renew his faith before He had revealed his mission; its recipient and circumstances of composition; a prayer of 'reunion' and its attendant rituals.
- Moojan Momen. Psychology of Mysticism and its Relationship to the Bahá'í Faith (1984-03). Contrast of theories of mysticism and its physiological components from the perspective of 20th-century psychology.
- Steven Scholl. Remembrance of God, The: An Invocation Technique in Sufism and the Writings of The Báb and Bahá'u'lláh (1983-12). Dhikru'lláh, the invocation or "remembrance" of God, is a Sufi technique of chanting or repeating prayers, divine names, or mantras to achieve heightened spiritual consciousness or a sense of mystical union. Includes commentary by Moojan Momen et al.
- Asadu'llah Fadil Mazandarani (published as Jinab-i-Fadil Mazandarani). Seven Cities in the Spiritual Journey to God: Gems of Divine Mystersies (Javáhiru'l-Asrár) and Seven Valleys (1923-02). Address given to an American audience in 1923, probably translated by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, who accompanied Fadl's second tour of the USA and Canada.
- Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Seven Cities of Bahá'u'lláh, The (2002). This is a compilation of only those passages from Bahá'u'lláh’s Gems of Divine Mysteries that relate to the journey through "Seven Cities," which has similarities to Bahá'u'lláh’s Seven Valleys.
- Bahá'u'lláh. Adib Masumian, comp, Daniel Azim Pschaida, comp. Seven Valleys and Four Valleys: Interlinear Translation Comparison (2019). New 2019 translation, side-by-side with the 1945 translation and the Persian original.
- Sheila Banani. Seven Valleys of Bahá'u'lláh and Farid ud-Din Attar (2000). An overview of the similarities between the Seven Valleys by Bahá'u'lláh and the Conference of the Birds by the Persian Sufi Farid ud-din Attar.
- Frank Lewis. Short Poem by "Darvísh" Muhammad, Bahá'u'lláh: Sáqí az ghayb-i baqá burqa' bar afkan az 'idhár, A: An Introduction and Three Versions of Provisional English Translations (2001). Three alternative renderings of a translation of one of Baha’u’llah’s early poems, writing during his sojourn in Kurdistan; comments on his poetic work.
- Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Some Themes and Images in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (1976-04-21). Exploring the relationship between the Creative Word, particularly its expression in language, and the journey of the human soul to its Creator.
- Abdu'l-Bahá. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans. Tablet to Ismael on Annihilation in God (Lawh-i-Ismael) (2002). Short mention of faná', the mystical annihilation of the self, "which is none other than being a total sacrifice in His Lordship."
- Bahá'u'lláh. Juan Cole, trans. Tablet to Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Concerning the Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria: Baha'u'llah on Hinduism and Zoroastrianism (1995). Introduction to, article about, and translation of the Tablet to Maneckji.
- Todd Lawson. Tafsir and the Meaning of the Qur'an: The Crucifixion in Muslim Thought (2010-10-23). Using Qur'án 4:156-7 as an example, classical tafsīr, “scholastic" exegesis, has not always taken account of the way all Muslims understand the Quranic text. Other understandings may be found in poetry, philosophy, mysticism and even historical writing.
- Julio Savi. Towards the Summit of Reality: Table of Contents and Bibliography (2003). Front- and back-matter only of Savi's book Towards the Summit of Reality: An Introduction to the Study of Bahá'u'lláh's Seven Valleys and Four Valleys, which provides a snapshot of scholarship into these Writings of Bahá'u'lláh.
- Adib Masumian, trans. Translation List: Provisional Translations of Baháʼí Literature (2009-2023). Index to talks, letters, and other items translated from Persian and Arabic to English by Adib Masumian; listed here for the sake of search engines and tagging.
- Ismael Velasco. "What I Want to Say is Wordless": Mystical Language, Revelation and Scholarship (2001). If the Word of God transcends words and letters, what point is there to Scripture, let alone to scholarship; the paradox of a history of writers penning volumes on a subject which they assert cannot be grasped by language; the relevance of mysticism.
- Roberta Law. What is Baha'u'llah's Message to the Sufis? (1998-02). Nature of Sufism and Bahá'u'lláh's teachings for the Sufi community, especially as contained in the Seven Valleys.
- Julio Savi. Will, Knowledge, and Love as Explained in Baha'u'llah's Four Valleys (1994). Exploration of some of the "seemingly abstruse" concepts of the Four Valleys.
- Richard Hollinger. "Wonderful True Visions": Magic, Mysticism, and Millennialism in the Making of the American Bahá'í Community, 1892-1895 (2004). The early growth of the American, and especially the Chicago, communities was more gradual and eclectic than previously thought, and Kheiralla's influence was less crucial.
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