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| AB01590
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310
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Growth of the Cause; Knowledge of self; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering; rejection of Christ
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| AB03249
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210
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Persian
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Critique of Western values; culture; Education of children; moral education; Knowledge of self; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation
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| AB03376
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200
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mixed
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Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Knowledge of self; Meditation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures
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| AB05049
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150
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Knowledge of self; Meaning; importance of dreams and visions; Mind as intermediary between soul and body; Predictions and prophecies
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| AB08379
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100
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mixed
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Exhortations and counsels; Idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others; Knowledge of self
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| AB08722
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90
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Persian
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Knowledge of self; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Symbolism of color and light
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| AB09643
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330
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mixed
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Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
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Tablet of Paradise
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Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Knowledge of self; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Primordial Covenant; the day of alast
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| AB09971
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70
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Persian
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Knowledge of self
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| AB10604
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60
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Persian
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Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Knowledge of self; Love of God; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge
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| AB11285
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40
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Attaining good pleasure of God; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Knowledge of self; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge
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| AB11545
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20
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Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Knowledge of self; Love of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness
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| ABU0263
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Words spoken on 1915-09-06 in Haifa
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790
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Persian
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Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Effort; striving; Knowledge of self; Mind as intermediary between soul and body; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering
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| ABU1414
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The Power and Value of True Thought Depend upon Its Manifestation in Action: Words spoken on 1911-10-18 in Paris
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230
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Paris Talks
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Divine philosophy and natural philosophy; Goodly deeds; actions; Knowledge of self; Mind as intermediary between soul and body; The mind's power of discovery; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness
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| ABU1482
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The Progress of the Soul: Words spoken ca. 1912-12-26 in London
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220
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Paris Talks
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Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge of self; Soul; spirit after death; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering
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| ABU1509
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Words to Wilson, Engelhorn, Stewart, Brittingham, spoken around 1909-10-23
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210
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Effort; striving; Knowledge; recognition of God; Knowledge of self; Two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight
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| ABU1808
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170
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Abdu'l-Bahá in London
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Knowledge of self; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity
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| ABU1833
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Words spoken on 1916-05-30 in Haifa
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160
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Persian
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Knowledge of self; Manifestation of God as mirror; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God
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| ABU1924
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Words to a visitor, spoken on 1913-05-21
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150
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Persian
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Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913
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Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Knowledge of self; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering
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| ABU2176
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Words to George Winterburn et al, spoken around 1904-02-06
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120
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Development of capacity and readiness; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Knowledge of self; Study; deepening
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| ABU3059
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Words to Marie Watson et al in Aug. 1921
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50
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Knowledge of self; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering
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| ABU3334
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Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905
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30
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Knowledge of self; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Existence; immortality of the human soul; The human soul; The human soul at midpoint of creation; the isthmus [barzakh]; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures
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| ABU3493
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Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-06
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20
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Knowledge of self; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause
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| ABU3603
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Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London
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10
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Abdu'l-Bahá in London
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Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge of self; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity
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| BB00004
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Kitab-i-Jaza' (Book of the Reckoning)
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>100000
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Arabic
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Selections from the Writings of the Báb; Bahá'í Prayers
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Absolute freedom; independence of God; Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Angels; Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Call to action; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Chastisement and requital; Cleanliness and refinement; Collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings; Continual renewal of creation; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Creation of the world; Day of Resurrection; Judgement; Declaration; advent of the Bab; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations; Eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness; Events in the life and ministry of the Bab; Exhortations and counsels; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Fire and light; fire and water; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Free will and predestination; fate; God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih]; God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Heaven and paradise; heaven and hell; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Imam 'Ali; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Knowledge; recognition of God; Knowledge of self; Laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas; Letters of the Living; Life and death; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Limits of the intellect; Love of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Muhammad; Islam; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Outward and inward meanings; Pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient; Personal instructions; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; One universal law; attractive power of love; Power of love; Power of prayer; Power of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for nearness to God; Prayer for parents; Prayer for praise and gratitude; Prayer for protection; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others; Predictions and prophecies; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Primordial Covenant; the day of alast; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Prophecy and fulfillment; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Purpose; goal of creation; Religion as reality; definitions of religion; Rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat]; Return of the Manifestations of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Soul; spirit after death; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Symbolism of color and light; Thankfulness; gratitude; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; The first and the last; the seen and the hidden; The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others; The Imamate; the Caliphate; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Unity in diversity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Word of God and human limitations; Word of God the cause of creation
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| BB00297
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Risala fi's-Suluk (Epistle on the Spiritual Path I)
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650
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Arabic
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Báb's Epistle on the Spiritual Journey towards God, The; Gate of the Heart
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Risala fis-Suluk I and II (Journey towards God)
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Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity; Four pillars; Knowledge; recognition of God; Knowledge of self; Love of God; Oneness; unity of religion; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcending the material condition; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness
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| BH00005
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Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhi'b (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf)
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28200
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mixed
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Bahá'í Scriptures; Epistle to the Son of the Wolf; Bahá'í Prayers
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Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Dhib (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf)
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His last major work and His third longest, calling on its recipient, a leading mujtahid, to repent of his role in the oppression and massacre of the Bahá’ís, quoting some of the most celebrated passages from His own writings, and adducing proofs establishing the validity of His cause.
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Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Being a source of light; guidance; Chastity and purity; Collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings; Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Contention and conflict; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; East and West; communication between East and West; Empty learning; false spirituality; Fanaticism and hatred; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; High station of learning; Holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Idle fancies; lust and passion; Incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal ; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Knowledge; recognition of God; Knowledge of self; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Manifestation of God does not act of own volition; Martyrs and martyrdom; Oneness; unity of religion; Piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa]; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for praise and gratitude; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Rebellion and sedition; disobedience; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Shrines and Holy places; Spiritual warfare; struggle; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Status of kings; future of monarchy; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause; Teachings as spirit of the age; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God; Theft; seizing the properties of others; The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others; The power of words; of speech; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal peace; world unity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; War and peace; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness
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| BH00210
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Lawh-i-Hadi - Re "He who knoweth himself..."
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2770
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mixed
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He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord (Man 'arafa nafsahú faqad 'arafa Rabbahú); Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
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Man ‘arafa nafsahú faqad ‘arafa Rabbahú (He who knoweth his self hath known his Lord); Lawh-i-Hadi (Tablet to Mírzá Hadi)
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Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Knowledge of self; Manifestation of God the only route to knowledge of God; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God
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| BH00249
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Lawh-i-Ahmad (Persian)
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2510
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Persian
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Bahá'í Scriptures; Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh; Provisional Translation of the Persian Tablet of Ahmad
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Lawh-i-Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad (Persian))
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Sets forth the conditions of spiritual search, with purity of heart being foremost; compares His revelation to that of an ocean which yields up its pearls in proportion to the eagerness of the search; and proclaims that ‘this fathomless and surging ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you’.
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Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge of self; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life
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| BH00386
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Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words - Arabic)
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1750
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Arabic
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Bahá'í Scriptures; Hidden Words
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Kalimat-i-Maknunih (Hidden Words)
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The Arabic portion of His foremost ethical work, consisting of 71 aphorisms spoken in the voice of the Divine and declaring themselves to be the ‘inner essence’ of what was revealed to ‘the Prophets of old’, affirming the essential nobility and divinity of the human soul, prescribing its intimate communion with its Creator, proclaiming the oneness of the human race, and declaring our consequent responsibility to fellowship, love, fair-mindedness, and mutual aid for one another, especially the poor and downtrodden.
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Bringing oneself to account each day; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf]; God's love for His own Essence; Human reality created in the image of God; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Knowledge of self; Love of God; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Soul; spirit after death
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| BH00640
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1190
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mixed
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Greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; Knowledge of self; Love as fire; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace; Universal peace; world unity
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| BH00680
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1130
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Arabic
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Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Development of capacity and readiness; Knowledge; recognition of God; Knowledge of self; Prayer for specific individuals; groups; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world
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| BH00779
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1020
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Persian
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Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
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Changing and unchanging parts of religion; Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Freedom of thought and action; Knowledge of self; Manifestation of God as divine physician; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Relativity of religious truth; Universal human capacity for spiritual recognition
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| BH02135
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410
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mixed
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Independent investigation of truth; reality; Knowledge of self; Manifestation of God as sun; Purpose; goal of creation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Transcendence; unknowability of God
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| BH02382
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370
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Persian
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Call of the Divine Beloved
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Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge of self; Mystical themes; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation
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| BH03958
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240
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mixed
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Chastisement and requital; Knowledge of self; Martyrs and martyrdom; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness
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| BH05830
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170
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Arabic
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Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge of self; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness
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| BH09215
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100
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mixed
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Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge of self; Mystical themes; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation
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| BH09305
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100
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mixed
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Effort; striving; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Goodly deeds; actions; Knowledge of self; Living waters; water of life; Manifestation of God as sun; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation
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| BH11229
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40
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Persian
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Knowledge of self; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness
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| BH11393
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30
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Arabic
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Excellence; distinction; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Knowledge of self; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life
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| BH11435
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30
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Arabic
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Humility; meekness; lowliness; Knowledge of self; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God
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| BH11778
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187
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mixed
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East and West; communication between East and West; Knowledge of self; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of example; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world
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