Some Answered Questions (2015)
INDEX
References to the text of Some Answered Questions are by chapter and paragraph numbers; references to the Foreword and Authors Preface are by roman numeral page numbers.
Aaron, God's rebuke to, 44.4,44.8-10
'Abdu’l-Bahá, xi-xii, xiii, xiv-xv, xvi, xix, xx Abel, 64.4
Abraham, 4, 30.10, 18.2
descendants of, 4.4, 57.6
as Educator, 4.4, 4.6
exile to the Holy Land, 4.2-5
proofs of station as Manifestation, 4.1
religion of, 11.7, 43.5
sign of, 14.13
Abú Sufyán, 13.6
Adam, 11.7
cycle beginning with, 41.5
descendants of, 30.8, 30.11
lacked parents, 18.2-5
man's material nature inherited from, 29.2, 29.4, 29.7-8
sin of, 29.9, 30
Adrianople, 4.5, 9.4n11, 9.5, 9.13, 9.16n13
Afnán, Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-Taqí, Vakilu'd-Dawlih, 11.36n48
Africa, cannibalism among tribes of, 3.3, 29.5, 77.13
'Akká, 4.5, 9.4, 9.5, 9.13-16, 10.2, 48.6-7
'Ali, Imam, 11.12-23, 11.26-30, 37.2nm, 37.8n113.
See also Imams
Alpha and Omega (Revelation of John), 58.5, 80.7
Alteration. See Change(s)
Amity. See Fellowship; Unity
Amnesty. See Forgiveness
Ancient Beauty. See Bahá'u'lláh
Angels, 11.1, 11.3, 11.35
Anger, 11.45, 57.10
Animal kingdom, 15.3-6, 32.2, 46.6, 49-3, 73-6, 78.3, 82.17
as captives of nature, 48.9-10
degrees and stations in, 32.6,62.1
distinguishing man from, xiv-xv, 3.3-4, 3.6, 29.5-6, 47.10-11, 48, 49.4, 55.5
existence in, 17.4,49.3, 57.4, 82.11
inability to comprehend, 59.6
need for training, 3.1, 3.3, 57.8
perfections of, 64.1, 70.5
senses of, 48.2, 48.4, 48.5-7, 55.4, 58.2
spirit of, 36.2, 36.3, 48.11, 55.2, 55.4
Anthropomorphists, 37.5
Antioch, Peter's tomb in, 34.4
Apostle of God. Sec Muhammad
Apostles, Christ's, 10.3, 11.36, 18.3-4, 23.6, 45.10, 60.3, 63.3.
See also John (Apostle), visions of;
Peter (Apostle) Holy Spirit's descent on, 24, 25.2-3
Appearance through emanation, 53.3, 53.5, 54.2, 54.4, 82.16-18
through manifestation, 53.3-4, 54.2-3, 54.5-7, 82.16-17
Arab tribes, Muhammad's education of, 7.3-8, 7.11, 7.13-16, 11.14, 11.18-19, 13.11-12
Arabian Peninsula, 7.11, 7.16, 11.14, 13.10-12
Arc of ascent, 81.6, 81.9
Arc of descent, 81.6, 81.9
Arguments. See also Proofs
rational, 3.2, 3.17-18, 10, 41.3, 50.1, 50.6, 60.7, 61.4, 83.3-5, 83.7
traditional, 3.17, 10, 83.6
Aristotle, 5.5, 82.2
Ark of God's Testament, 11.44
Artaxerxes, edicts of, 10.11, 10.12, 10.16
Arts, 3.4, 3.6, 7.16, 48.4, 58.3.
See also Crafts
Asia, 4.4, 20.5
Assistance, divine, 70.6-8
Assyrian Empire, 6.2
Astrologers, 69.3
Astronomers and astronomy, 7.14, 14.12-13, 35.6, 83.3.
See also Solar system
Atoms, 1.2, 47.6, 50.2
Atonement, 29
Attributes, 33.6-9
divine, 11.7, 11.35, 81.12
human, 16.3, 74.2
knowledge of, 45.2, 59.3-4
of nature, 19.6
Autumn, 14.9
Báb, the, 8
advent of, 10.15-17, 10.20, 11.6, 13.12-13, 43-5
Bahá'u'lláh as follower of, 9.3
descended from Abraham, 4.4, 57.6
Dispensation of, 11.7, 11.28-34
martyrdom of, 11.32-3
proofs of station as Manifestation, 8.3
prophecies regarding, 11.6,11.28, 11.34, 13.5-13
titles of, 8.1n9, 13.5
Bábís, persecution of, 9.3
Baghdad, Bahá'u'lláh's exile to,-4.5, 9.4n1l, 9.5-6
Baha'i Faith, xi, xix-xx, 9.13, 9.15, 10.2, 11.7
Bahá'u'lláh, 9
advent of, 10.15, 10.18-22, 12.6, 43-5
the Bab's proclamation of, 8.2
chosen ones of, 11.36-7
Covenant of, 11.44-5
descended from Abraham, 57.6
Dispensation of, 11.35, 11-42, 12.4-8, 19.8
exiles of, 4.5, 9.4-6, 9.13-16, 10.2
as follower of the Báb, 9.3
greatness of, 9.13, 9.20, 9.21, 10.1, 37-13
imprisonment of, 4.5, 9.4, 9.13-16, 10.2
knowledge possessed by, 9.5-6, 9.11
laws of, 12.4
Most Great Infallibility of, 45
passing of, 9.4n1l
peace brought by, 12.4, 12.7
and performance of miracles, 9.6-9, 9.19, 9.22, 10.3-5
persecution of, 9.4, 9.12-16, 9.23
proofs of station as Manifestation, 9.5-10, 9.17-18, 9.22, 10
prophecies regarding, 9.15, 10, 11.34-45, 12
renewal brought by, 36.9
Revelation of, 10.22, 11.34-45, 16.8, 37.11, 38.8n116
rod of Jesse applies to, 12.1-2, 12.7
titles of, 9.1n10, 9.25n17
transformation of the Persians by, 84.12
unity brought by, 12.6
as universal Manifestation, 30.7,41.5
Writings of
Book of the Covenant, 11.44-5
epistles to kings and rulers, 9.16-18, 9.22, 16.8, 39.6, 58.5
Hidden Words, 47.9
Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book), 12.4, 45.1,65
Kitáb-i-íqán (Book of Certitude), 26.1, 26.6, 33.2, 33.10, 81.15
Súriy-i-Haykal (Súrih of the Temple), 9.16-18, 9.22, 16.8, 39.6, 58.5
Balance (scale), 60.7, 83.6
Baptism, 19, 20, 58.5
Barbara, Saint, 34.8
Barney, Laura Clifford, xi-xii, xv-xvi, xix-xx, 62.6n147
Beast (Revelation of John), 11.20-1
Being. See Essence(s), Existence
Belief. See Faith and faithfulness
Bible. See also Gospel;Torah
concept of return in, 81.13-14
day stands for year in, 10.12, 10.20, 11.5, 11.23, 13-12
verses from
Acts 15:20, 20.2
Dan. 8, 10.17
Dan. 8:13, 10.16
Dan. 9:25, 10.13-4
Dan. 12:6, 10.19
Dan. 12:11-12, 10.21
Deut. 3:26, 44.9
Deut. 5:8-9, 43.9
Exod. 13:21-22, 16.6
Exod. 20:4-5, 43-9
Ezek. 4:6, 10.12, 11.5
Ezek. 30:1-3, 11.34
Ezra 1,10.11
Ezra 6,10.11
Ezra 7,10.11
1 Cor. 15:22, 29.1, 29.4
1 Thess. 5:2, 26.5
Gen. 1:26, 3.7, 3.11, 49.8
Gen. 2:7, 18.4, 54.1
Gen. 2:16-17, 30.2
Gen. 3:5, 30.2
Gen. 3:11-15, 22, 30.2
Isa. 11, 12
Isa. 11:1-9, 12.1
Isa. 43:1, 44.7
Isa. 48:12, 44.7
John 1:1, 39.7, 42.3, 54.5
John 1:12-13, 18.3, 18.4
John 1:13, 60.3
John 1:19-21, 33.3
John 1:33, 19.5
John 3:5, 60.2
John 3:6, 22.6
John 3:13, 23.3, 26.2
John 6:26, 21.3
John 6:33, 21.3
John 6:35, 21.5
John 6:38, 23.3
John 6:42, 6.1, 21.3, 23.3
John 6:50, 29.12
John 6:51, 21.1, 30.9
John 6:63, 21.4
John 10:38, 16.7
John 12:39-40, 22.7
John 14:10-11, 54.7
John 14:11, 38.8
John 16:12, 25.7-8
John 17:5,28.1
John 17:21,38.8, 54.7
Luke 1:26-8,17.3
Luke 3:16, 19.5
Luke 3:22,16.6
Luke 11:2, 39.7
Mark 1:8,19.5
Mark 1:10-11,16.6
Mark 9:11, 33.4
Matt. 3:11,19.5
Matt. 3:13-15,19.1
Matt. 3:16-17,16.6
Matt. 5:39, 77.7
Matt. 6:9, 39.7
Matt. 8:22, 22.6, 30.12, 79.4
Matt. 12:31-2, 31.1
Matt. 13:14-15, 22.7
Matt. 16:18, 34.1
Matt. 17:13, 33.4
Matt. 19:16-17, 44.12
Matt. 22:14, 32
Matt. 23:34-6, 33.7
Matt. 24:3, 10.17
Matt. 24:29-30, 26.1
Matt. 26:26, 21.9
Neh. 2,10.11
Num. 13-14, 44.4
Num. 14:34, 10.12
Num. 20:13, 44.8
Num. 20:23-4, 44.8
Rev. 11,11
Rev. 11:1-2, 11.1-3
Rev. 11:3, 11.12
Rev. 11:4, 11.13
Rev. 11:5, 11.15
Rev. 11:6, 11.16, 11.17, 11.18
Rev. 11:7, 11.19, 11.20, 11.21
Rev. 11:8, 11.22
Rev. 11:9, 11.23
Rev. 11:10, 11.26
Rev. 11:11, 11.28
Rev. 11:12, 11.30, 11.31
Rev. 11:13, 11.32, 11.33
Rev 11:14, 11.34
Rev. 11:15, 11.35
Rev. 11:16-17, 11.36
Rev. 11:18, 11.38-41
Rev. 11:19, 11.42-5
Rev. 12, 13
Rev. 12:3-4, 13-6
Rev. 12:4, 13.7
Rev 12:5,13.8-9
Rev. 12:6, 13.10-12
Rev. 21, 13.1-4
Rev. 22:13, 58.5
Rom. 9:21, 70.5
Rom. 14:14, 20.2
2 Pet. 3:10, 26.5
Titus 1:15, 20.2
visions recorded in, 71.9
Blasphemy, 31
Blessed Beauty. See Baha'u'liah
Blindness, 3.8, 31.4, 50.3,74.4
Blood, 11.17,20.2,21.2, 30.9
Body, human, 29.5, 36.3,67.3.
See also Human kingdom; Man; Mind, human; Spirit, human
beauty and perfection in, 32.4, 46.2-3, 46.6-7, 47.9-11
healing of, 72.4, 73.3-5
in sleep, 2.5, 16.8, 61.2-3, 71-8
spirit's connection to, 39.6, 52, 61.4-6, 66, 67.5, 80.4, 81.11
time and place encompassing, 61.1-2
Body politic, responsibility for punishment, 76.6, 77.2-6, 77.10-11, 77.14
Book(s). See Bible; Scriptures
Book, people of. See Christianity and Christians; Jews
Born again, true meaning of, 60.3
Bounties, 76.1, 76.4
Brahma, miracles of, 10.3, 22.4
Brain, human. See Mind, human
Branch, 12.1, 12.7-8
Bread and wine, 21
Buddha, 43.8, 43.11
Caiaphas, 64.4
Cain, 64.4
Caliphs, 7.9, 11.20, 11.22, 13.6-7, 77.9
Canaan, 57.7
Candlesticks (Revelation of John), 11.13, 11.29
Cannibalism, 3.3, 29.5, 77.13
Capacities, human, 57.3, 57.9-12, 81.10
Catafago, César, 9.16
Catholicism, baptismal rite of, 20.5
Cause of God. See Baha'i Faith
Cephas. See Peter (Apostle)
Certitude. See Bahá'u'lláh,Writings of, Kitáb-i-íqán; Faith and faithfulness
Chaldeans, Israelites' captivity under, 6.2
Change(s). See also Evolution
in comprehension, 83.3-5
of fate, 68.2-3
in humans, 57.9
Manifestations bring, 3.14, 11.10, 20.3-4, 20.6-8, 43.8-9, 43.12
in physical world, 2.7, 20.2
spiritual reality unchanging, 11.7, 11.11, 11.42, 16.10, 38.8, 54.7, 58.5
Character, human, 57
Children, 7.3-8, 20.5, 57.4-5, 62.6, 66.7-8, 78.8
Chosen ones, 11.36, 71.4
Christ. See Jesus Christ
Christianity and Christians, 12.3, 30.10, 84.9-10
Bahá'u'lláh's teaching of, 9.6
baptismal rite, 20.5
Dispensation of, 11.8, 12.8, 34.3
Muhammad's treatment of, 7.9
original precepts not followed, 43.9, 43-12
spread of, 9.25
tales about Muhammad by clergy, 7.1-2, 7.10
Civilization
of Arab tribes, 7.3-8, 7.11, 7.13-16, 11.14, 11.18-19
through education, 3.4, 3.6, 57.8
governed by law of nature, 78.2
Manifestations of God establish, 34.10, 49.8-9
true progress of, 77.13, 84.2, 84.9
Clergy. See Divines
Commandments. See Law(s)
Common faculty, 56.2-4. See also Man, powers of
Compassion, 57.10, 76.4, 78.9. See also Poor, the, care of
Composition, 1.1, 53.7. See also Elements, composition and combination of
Comprehension. See Knowledge; Understanding
Conceptualization, 40.3, 48.6, 71.3
Concourse on high, 3.11
Conditions, transformation of, 20.6-7
Confucius, 43.8, 43.11
Conscience, 75.1, 84.10
Consciousness, xv, 1.3,1.5,61.3
Constantine, Emperor, 3.13
Constantinople, 4.5,9.5,9.13
Contemplation, 37.5, 71.3, 80.7
Copernicus, 7.14n5
Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh, 11.44-5
Crafts, 1.4, 3.4, 36.4,48.4,71.6. See also Arts
Creation. See also Elements, composition and combination of; God, as creator; World, contingent
completeness of, 46.3, 47.8
degrees in, 32.2, 32.5-6, 59.6, 62.1, 84.4
divine, 39.1, 47.5
existence of, 47.2, 79.3, 80.7
goodness innate in, 57.10-11, 74.6
Holy Spirit as mediator between God and, 36.7
of man, 18.4, 64.4
material, 42.2, 74.1
mysteries of, revealed, 12.4-5
order in, 47.5-8
perfections of, 15.2, 62.1
rational soul in, 58.3
renewal of, 14.2, 14.6
as signs of God, 27.5, 64.4
spiritual, 74.1
Sufi concept of, 82.17
weaknesses of, 2.3,27.4
Criminals, punishment of, 76.6, 77
Cycles, 14, 36.7, 41. See also Dispensations, Manifestations' founding of
Cyrus, edict of, 10.11
Daniel, prophecies of, 10.10-17, 13.13. See also under Bible, verses from
Darius, edict of, 10.11
Darkness, 16.5, 18.2, 74.6
David, 43.5
Dávúdí, Siyyid, 9.19
Day of God, 11.35
Day of judgement, 11.39, 26
Dead, the, 11.21-9, 11.39, 14.7, 22.6-7, 30.12, 60.4, 79-4
Deafness, 50.3, 74.4
Death, 1.1, 2.5, 29.8-9, 30.12, 53.7, 74.4, 74-6, 84.9
soul's progress after, 62, 64, 66
Decomposition, 1.1, 53.7
Deeds, good, 30.12, 65, 66.6, 70.4, 76.1, 78.13, 84, See also Ethics; Morals
Degrees. See Animal kingdom; God, kingdom of; Human kingdom; Man, existence of, degrees of; Mineral kingdom;Vegetable kingdom
of created things, 32.2, 32.5-6, 46.3, 59.6, 62.1-2, 84.4
of existence, 37.2, 46.2, 52.2, 53.7, 57.4, 60.4, 62.1, 64.3, 81.10
God transcends, 27.3-4
of man, 47.9, 51.3, 57.3, 58.2, 64.2
of perfections, 64.2, 64.5, 66.4
of servitude, 62.3
of the spirit, 16.4, 81.10
Delusion, 71.3,71.8,71.9
Destiny, 35.1. See also Fate
Detachment, 67.7
Discoveries. 3.4, 3.6, 3.10, 36.4. See also Inventions; Spiritual disclosures
man's power to make, 48.4, 48.6-7, 58-3-4
scientific, 71.3
spiritual, 67.2, 71.4
Diseases. See Illnesses
Dispensations, Manifestations' founding of, 11.10, 43.3, 43.5. See also Cycles
Disposition, human. See Character, human
Divines, 7.1-2, 7.10, 7.14, 8.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.6-14, 9.17, 9.22, 11.8
Divinity, 47.2, 59.7, 62.1. See also Essence(s), divine; God; Reality, divine
perfections of, 50.1, 59.8
Dove, descent of Holy Spirit in form of, 16.6, 38.9
Dragon (Revelation of John), 13.5-7
Dreams, 61.2, 71.3, 71.4, 71.8
Druze, beliefs of, 81.13
Ears. See Hearing, sense of
Earth
creation of, 17.6-7, 51.5
curvature of, 48.6-7
cycles of, 41.2-3
existence of, 38.5, 47.7
new, 13.1, 13.2
nurtured by the sun, 50.2, 53.2
perfections of, 15.2
renewal of, 16.9
Earthquake in Shíráz, 11.32-3
Edirne. See Adrianople
Education
character acquired through, 57.2, 57.8
regarding crime and punishment, 77.3. 77.7, 77.11-13
human, 3.6, 3.8-10, 3.15
material, 3.5, 3.8-10, 3.15
need for, 3, 64.4
spiritual, 3.7, 3.8-9, 3.11, 3.15, 29.5
of the wicked, 11.18-19
Educators, true
Abraham as, 4.4, 4.6
the Báb as, 8.2-3
Bahá'u'lláh as, 9.25-6
Christ as, 3.17, 6.5, 29.10
Manifestations as, 3.16-17, 11.37, 39.1, 45.8, 64.2, 64.4-5
man's need for, 3
Muhammad as, 7.3-8, 7.11, 7.13-16, 11.18-19, 13.11-12
Egypt, 11.22, 13.6
Elders, four and twenty (Revelation of John), 11.36-7
Elements, composition and combination of, 36.1-3, 39.2, 46.7, 47.4-8, 48.2, 53.7, 55.4, 82.11
Elias (Elijah)
appearance at Christ's transfiguration, 71.7, 71.9
inspiration received by, 37.11
return of, 10.8, 34.2
John the Baptist as, 33.3-6, 33.9, 81.14
Emanation, appearance through, 53.3, 53.5, 54.2, 54.4, 82.16-18
Embryos, human, stages of development, 47.7-11, 49.6-8, 51.2-4
Equality, 78.3,78.5-7
Equilibrium, 48.2, 73.3-5
Equity, 12.4, 70.3, 78.2, 84.9
Essence(s), 33.6, 82.8, 82.17
divine, 27.5, 27.7,27.8, 37.2-7, 54.4-7, 82.5-6, 82.16
of human species, 47.10-11, 49.2, 49.4, 49.8, 50.1
infallibility in, 45.2-5
knowledge of, 45.2, 59.3-7
of Manifestation, 16.10, 39.3, 40.6, 81.14
transformation of, 47.10-11, 81.8
Ether, the, 16.3, 37.12, 48.12
Ethics, 5.5. See also Morals
Eucharist, 21
Europe, 4.4, 7.1, 20.7
Eve, 30.2, 30.4-6. 30.8, 30.11
Evil, 57.9-12, 74. See also Knowledge, of good and evil
Evolution, xiv-xv, 46, 47, 48.3, 49, 51-4
Existence, 1.5, 2.4, 3.10, 15.1, 32.2, 46.6, 47, 63.1, 77.8, 79, 82, 84.4. See also Animal kingdom; Essence(s), Human kingdom; Mineral kingdom; Non-existence; Pre-existence;Vegetable kingdom; World, contingent
accidental, 82.8-9, 82.11-12
causes of, 47.4, 80.3
common, 82.7-8, 82.12
of creation, 47.2, 79.3, 80.7
degrees of, 37.2, 46.2, 52.2, 53.7, 57.4, 60.4, 62.1, 64.3, 81.10
evil not innate in, 57.11, 74.6
evolution of, 51.4
human, 1.6, 48, 49, 57.4, 67.3, 67.9, 80.5-6
motion in, 63.1-2, 69.3
necessary, 50
need for an educator, 3
no beginning to, 47.1, 47.3
perfections of, 46.2-8, 50.3-4, 62
positive, 74.3, 74-5-7
relative nature of, 80.5-7
renewal of, 81.8
spiritual, 16.4, 22.7
true, 22.7, 82.3, 82.12, 82.16
unity of, 82
world of, 38.5, 42.2, 47.6, 79.2, 80.6
Eyes, 37.12, 49.5, 61.4, 74.2, 83.2. See also Sight, sense of
Ezekiel, 37.13, 43.5
Fairness. See Equity
Faith and faithfulness, 32.5, 67.7. See also Spirit of faith
in God, 67.8
lack of, 32.7, 84.11
and works, 65
Falsehood(s), 60.3, 64.4, 71.3, 75.1, 76.3
Families, 57.5, 57.6, 62.6
Fasting, 11.24-5
Fate, 68. See also Predestination
Felicity, 6.3, 15, 16.4, 78.4
Fellowship, 3.13-14, 11.37, 12.3, 12.6, 84.4.
See also Unity
Figures of speech, xix, 16.4-9, 24.2, 34.3
Fire, 1.3, 16.6, 19.6
First Intellect, 53.5-6, 58.4
Flowers, 54.3, 62.2, 63.1, 67.4. See also Plants
Followers and promulgators, 43.4, 43.5-6.
See also Prophethood and prophets
Food, 21.6, 73.2, 73.5, 73.7
Forgiveness
Christ's teachings on, 76.1, 77.10
of God, 31.5, 54, 62.3-7, 65.3, 76.4-6, 77.8
human, 77.2, 77.5-6
prayers for, 62.3-7
Forms. See Intelligible realities; Sensible realities;Things
Fornication, 20.2
Founders of religions. See Manifestations of God
Free will, 35, 70
Friend of God. See Abraham
Fruit, 3.2, 14.3, 73.2, 73.7.
See also Seed(s);Tree(s), fruit of
Galen, 5.5, 84.9-10
Galileo, 7.15
Gate, the. See Báb, the
God. See also Grace, of God; Holy Spirit; Manifestations of God; Reality, divine; Trinity
assistance from, 70.6-8
attributes of, 3.11, 7.13, 37.2, 37.5-8, 47.2, 50.3, 59.7, 60.3, 81.12
belief in, 65.2-4, 67.8
bounties of, 3.11, 34.10, 59.9-10, 60.4, 65.3, 66.6, 84.3
Christ's relationship to, 12.2, 16.7, 27.7, 38.8-9, 54.7
as creator, 2.1, 2.6-7, 18.4, 36.7, 52.3, 53, 80.7, 82.17
eternity of, 47.3
existence of, 50, 79.2-3, 80.6-7
proofs of, 2, 20.8, 46.6, 81.5-6
forgiveness from, 31.5, 62.3-7, 65.3, 76.4-6, 77.8
guidance from, 11.13, 11.28-29, 45.3-4
human spirit's procession from, 53.1-5, 54, 82.18
indifference towards, 75.1
justice of, 76, 77.8
kingdom of, 30.12, 33.3, 60.2,65.4, 67, 82.17
knowledge
about, 11.24, 12.3-4, 19.6-8, 37.7, 45.2, 59, 82.6, 84.2-3, 84.7-12
possessed by, 35.1-4, 82.5-6, 82.13-14
laws of, 11.7, 11.10, 13.2, 20, 34.3, 47.9, 51.3-5
love of, 11.20, 11.24, 19.6-8, 24.3-4, 44.5, 67.7, 84.3-5, 84.7-13
man in image and likeness of, 3.7, 3.11, 49.8, 64.4
Manifestations' relationship to, 37, 44
mercy of, 76, 77.8
names of, 3.11, 37.5-8, 47.2, 50.3, 81.12
nearness to, 62.4
oneness of, 4.1-3, 5.3, 27.10, 43.8, 43.11, 81.6
perfections of, 2.3,2.6, 7.13, 27.4, 35.2, 37.6-7, 62.1
Holy Spirit manifesting, 31.2, 54-5
man partaking in, 50.1-4, 82.18
in Manifestations of God, 37.5
as pillar of fire, 16.6
power of, 2.3, 3.12-13, 3.18, 4.1, 6.5, 9.13, 11.15, 15.8, 36.6, 45.2, 70.5, 70.8
pre-existence of, 53.5-6, 80, 82.13-14, 82.16
recognition of, 65.2-4
signs of, 27.5, 37.3, 38.5, 50.3, 64.4
sovereignty of, 1.5, 1.7, 11.37, 30.9, 70.8
spirit of, 12.1
veiled from, 60.3, 65.3, 66.1-4, 67.8, 67.10, 75.2
will and purpose of, 32.5, 70.5
wisdom of, 11.13, 20.8, 47.5, 47.8
worlds of, 60.2, 81.12, 82.17
Goodness, 30.5-6, 57.10-11, 74
See also Knowledge, of good and evil
Gospel, 83.6, 84.12.
See also under Bible, verses from
the Báb prophesied in, 10.17
miracles recorded in, 10.3,10.5, 71.7
Muhammad's defence of, 7.12, 11.12
prophecies regarding Twin Manifestations, 10.8
Governments, 3.6, 3.13-14, 7.16, 78.10-12.
See also Body politic, responsibility for punishment
Grace, 36.3, 82.17, 84.3
of Christ, 21.3-4,21.7-8,21.10, 29.12
of God, 19.6-7, 21.2-4, 25.2, 25.3, 27.8, 29.3, 30.9, 32.5, 36.6, 37.11, 58.4, 60.3, 62.2, 62.7, 66.6, 67.3, 80.7, 81.8, 81.10
heavenly, 11.16,40.6
of Holy Spirit, 19.6-7, 27.8, 29.2, 31.2, 31.5, 67.4, 83.8
of the Manifestations, 38.4, 39.4, 42.3, 43.3, 45.3
Gravity, 48.12
Greece, 6.2, 43.11
philosophers of, 5.3, 5.5, 82.2
Greed, 29.5-6, 57.10, 78.1, 78.11
Grief. See Sorrow
Growth, power of, 37.13, 64.1, 82.17
Guidance, 11.13, 29.12, 34.10, 39.1, 43-4, 45-4
Hagar, 4.4
Happiness. See Felicity
Harmony. See Unity
Hasan 'Amú, Mullá, 9.6, 9.10
Healing and health, 2.5, 10.7, 72, 73
See also Illnesses; Medicine; Physicians
Hearing, sense of, 48.5, 50.3, 56.1, 56.4, 61.1, 83.2, 84.7
Hearts, 42.3, 57.8, 67.6
Heaven, 3.11, 11.30, 11.42-3, 13.-2, 21.3, 23.4-5, 26.1-3, 67, 81.3
Hell, 29.9, 30.10, 60.2, 81.3
Hermes, 46.2n128
Hindus, and miracles of Brahma, 10.3
Hippocrates, 5.5
Holiness, 36.7, 37.2, 67.7, 82.18. See also Sanctification/sanctity
Holy City
as material law, 11.11
religion as, 13.1, 13.3-4
Holy Land
Abraham's exile to, 4.2-5
Bahá'u'lláh's manifestation in, 4.5, 9.15
Jews returning to, 12.7-8
Holy of Holies, 11.3-8, 11.11, 11.42
Holy Spirit, 2.8,25, 36.7-8, 55.2.
See also God;Trinity
blasphemy against, 31
breaths of, 3.11, 18.4, 29.3, 36.6, 67.3
Christ born of, 6.1, 17, 18.5, 29.4
descent of, 16.6, 24, 25.2-3, 38.9, 58.5
grace of, 19.6-7, 27.8, 29.2, 31.2, 31.5, 67.4, 83.8
manifestational appearance of, 36.8, 38.4, 54.5-6
power of, 24.3, 36.9, 72.7
Human kingdom, 34.10, 49.4, 78.4, 84.4. See also Body, human; Man; Spirit, human
degrees in, 32.7, 70.5, 81.10
existence in, 1.6, 49, 79.2
forgiveness in, 77.2, 77.5-6
motion in, 16.8, 70.6
perfections in, 32.2, 84.7
true happiness in, 15.3, 15.7-9
Ibn-i-Nawfal,Varaqih, 10.22
Ibnu'l-'Arabi, 82.1n161
Idols. See Images, worship of
Ignorance, 2.4, 34.11, 64.4, 74.3, 75.1, 77.13.
See also Knowledge
darkness symbolizing, 16.5, 18.2
as imperfection, 37.7
Illnesses, 2.5, 61.5. See also Healing and health; Medicine
in animals, 73.6
causes of, 73.2-4, 74.4
Illusions(s), 71.5, 71.8
Images, worship of, 37.10, 43.8, 43.9, 43.11
Imagination, 25.3, 56.2, 56.3, 56.4, 71.2, 71.3, 71.8
Imams, 9.6n12, 11.36, 13.4, 37.2n111, 37.8n113
Imperfection. See also Weaknesses
in contingent world, 2.3, 27.4, 46.3-4
human, 32.4, 64.2
ignorance as, 37.7
material nature as source of, 29.2-3, 29.6, 29.8
substance of, 81.8
as torment, 75.1
Income. See Wealth, disparity between poverty and
Industry, 3.6
Inequality, 78.2. See also Equality
Infallibility, 45
Infanticide, 7.3
Iniquity, 70.3-4, 75.1, 76.3, 77.10. See also Evil; Sin(s)
Injustice, 70.3, 70.7,78.4. See also Justice
Inspiration. See Revelation, divine; Understanding; Vision(s)
Intellect, First, 53.5-6, 58.4
Intelligence, 3.10, 48.2, 57.3, 83.3-5 See also Mind, human
Intelligible realities, 16, 25.3-5, 48.4, 74.1-3, 82.6
Intention, goodly, 84.6, 84.10. See also Deeds, good
Intercession, 62.4-7
Interpretation, 11.7, 13.13-14, 16.9, 26.1, 30.4
Inventions, 7.15, 17.5, 48.4, 58.3, 71.3, 71.6. See also Discoveries
Iran. See Persia and Persians
Isaac, 57.6
Isaiah, 22.7, 37.11,43.5. See also under Bible, verses from
prophecies regarding the Messiah, 26.4
visions of, 71.2, 71.9
Ishmael, 4.4, 57.6
Islam. See also Muhammad; Muslims
decline of, 11.26, 11.28
Dispensation of, 11.5-6, 11.25, 13.4-7
prophecies regarding Twin Manifestations, 10.8
traditional medicine in, 20.4n80
Israel and Israelites. See also Jews
Christ's renewal of, 6.2-3
descended from Abraham, 4.4, 57.6
God's rebukes to, 44.4,44.7-10
ingathering of, 12.7-8
Moses as, 5.2-3, 6.2
prophets of, 37.11, 37.13
rejection of Christ by, 6.4
twelve tribes of, 11.36
Istanbul. See Constantinople
Jacob, 4.4,44.7
Jeremiah, 34.2, 37.11,43.5, 71.2
Jerusalem
conquest of, 11.4-6
Orthodox patriarch of, 7.9
rebuilding of, 10.10-11, 10.14, 10.16, 11.6
religion as new, 11.22,13.1, 13.3-4
Temple in, 11.3-8, 11.11, 11.42
Jesse, rod of, Bahá'u'lláh as, 12.1-2,12.7
Jesus Christ, 6, 21.6, 30.9, 36.8, 60.6, 64.3, 76.4. See also Trinity;Word of God
advent of, 10.10-15, 10.16, 11.8, 20.5, 26.2-4, 43.5, 84.5
ascension of, 10.14, 23-7
baptism of, 16.6, 19.1-5, 38.9, 58.5
birth of, 17
blasphemy against, 4.1
bread and wine symbolizing, 21
chosen ones of, 11.36, 11.37
descended from Abraham, 4.4, 57.6
divinity of, 21.6-7
as Educator, 3.17, 6.5, 29.10
end of Dispensation of, 11.8
forgiveness of, 76.1, 77.10
God the Father's relationship to, 12.2, 16.7, 27.7, 38.8-9, 54.7
grace of, 21.3-4, 21.7, 21.10, 29.12
greatness of, 18
Holy Spirit's relationship to, 17, 25.8, 29.4
humanity of, 21.3, 21.6-7, 64.4
Jews failed to recognize, 13.14, 14.15, 26.4, 28.4-5
martyrdom of, 10.5, 10.10, 10.12, 10.14, 11.22, 21.6, 22.5, 28.4, 35.5
miracles of, 10.3, 22
as mirror, 27.6-7, 54.5-7
mission of, 29.10
Mosaic Dispensation abrogated by, 6.2-3, 20.2-3, 20.5
Most Great Infallibility of, 45.10
peace brought by, 3.13-14, 12.3
perfections of, 21.2, 21.4, 21.10, 29.12, 31.2, 37.13, 54.5
popes' conduct compared to, 34.5-10
pre-existence of, 28
proofs of station as Manifestation, 22.3-5, 24.3
prophecies regarding, 13.14, 26.4
reality of, 25.2, 27.5, 27.8, 29.7, 30.7, 39.4, 63.2
religion of, 11.7, 11.8, 11.12
resurrection of, 23
return of, 10.8, 26
sacrifice of, 29.3, 29.10-13, 30.9, 30.11
sign of, 14.13, 38.7
spirit of, 21.3-5, 21-7. 27.8, 29.7
spirituality of, 24.3-4, 29.2
station of, 30.7, 38.8-9
teachings of, 21.4, 21.7
transfiguration of, 33.4, 71.7, 71.9
truth of, 22.5
unity brought by, 3.13-14, 12.3
virtues of, 37.13
Jews. See also Israel and Israelites
Bahá'u'lláh's teaching of, 9.6
end of Mosaic dispensation, 11.8
failure to recognize Jesus Christ, 13.14, 14.15, 26.4, 28.4-5
laws given to, 30.10, 76.2
Muhammad's treatment of, 7.9
Persian captivity of, 6.2, 10.11-12
returning to Holy Land, 12.7-8
John (Apostle), visions of, 11,13, 71.2, 71.9
John the Baptist, 19.4, 20.5
as return of Elias/Elijah, 33.3-6, 33-9, 81.14
Joseph (father of Christ), 12.2
Joseph (OldTestament), 4.4, 11.36, 30.10
Joshua, 11.12, 11.17-18, 44.10
Justice. See also Injustice
acting with, 57.10, 64.4, 70.3-4, 70.7, 84.9
Bahá'u'lláh brought, 12.4
of body politic, 77.10-14
of God,76, 77-8
grace contrasted with, 32.5, 62.7
laws of, 29.5
strikes and, 78.2, 78.3, 78.9
Karbilá, Iraq, 9.6
Khadiiih. 10.22
Kindness. See Compassion; Loving-kindness Kingdoms. See Animal kingdom; Degrees; God, kingdom of; Heaven; Human kingdom; Mineral kingdom;Vegetable kingdom
Knowledge, 56.2, 56.4, 59.6, 83. See also God, knowledge of;
Ignorance
acquisition of, 25.4, 32.5, 37.2, 57.10
of attributes, 59.3-4
of the Báb, 8.1-3
of Bahá'u'lláh, 9.11, 64.4
conceptual, 40.2-3, 48.6, 71.3
divine, 40.6, 82.5-6
earth to be filled with, 12.4-5
essential, 35.2
extent and limitations of, 3.10, 58, 59.5, 59.6, 59.7
formal, 40.2
of good and evil, 30.2, 70.3, 70.5-7
human, 16.1-3, 40.2-5, 83.7
intuitive, 40.2,40.4
of Manifestations, 40, 59.9
of Muhammad, 7.13
objects of, 82.6, 82.13
as perfection, 37.7
of the pre-existent, 82.5-6, 82.14
religion as establisher of, 34.10-11
search for, xvi-xvii, 10.7
sensible, 16.2,16.4-8
true, 14.12
water symbolizing, 19.6, 19.7
Kosher laws, 76.2
Lamp(s), 66.3, 68.2-3
lights relationship to, 25.6, 25.8, 33.9, 36.2, 37.12, 39.4, 44.5, 46.7
spirit compared to, 55.4, 55.6
Last Supper, 21.8-10
Law(s)
abrogation of, 20.2-3, 20.5, 20.6-8
of Bahá’u’lláh, 12.4
brought by Manifestations of God, 11.37
European, 20.7
of God, 11.7, 13.2, 20, 34.3, 47.9, 51.3
material, 2.5, 11.11, 11.12
Mosaic, 6.2-3, 11.12, 20.2-3, 20.5, 20.8, 43.5, 43-9, 76.2
of motion, 1.2, 81.9, 83.2
of nature, 1,22.1, 47.5-6, 51.3, 78.2
penal, 77
religious, 76.2, 76.3, 76.4
spiritual, 11.11
Ten Commandments, 43.9
Learning. See Knowledge
Letters of the Living, 11.36n48
Life, 1.1, 19.7, 30.12, 42.2, 67.3, 74.6. See also Creation; Elements, composition and combination of; Nature
everlasting, 22.6-7, 30.9, 30.12, 60.4, 67, 84.2-3
attainment of, 21.2, 21.5, 21.7, 21.10, 29.12
of rational soul, 36.6, 38.8
Light, 16.5, 31.3-7, 48.12, 74.6. See also Lamp(s),
light's relationship to of the sun, 28.2, 37.12, 39.3, 39.6, 42.2, 53.2-3, 84.10
Lord of Hosts, prophecies regarding, 10.8. See also Bahá'u'lláh
Lot, 4.2
Love, 16.3, 32.5, 48.4. See also God, love of
of Bahá'u'lláh, 12.4, 12.6
of Manifestations, 11.37, 42.3
Loving-kindness, 43.12, 84.12
Lying, 57.12, 64.4, 75.1, 76.3
Magicians, 10.3-4
Magnanimity, 77.2, 77.10
Mahdi, prophecies regarding, 10.8
Man. See also Body, human; Embryos, human, stages of development; Human kingdom; Mind, human; Senses; Spirit, human
ascension of, 64.7
attributes of, 40.7, 47.9, 64.4, 74.3
body of world compared to, 20.4
cannot create life, 47.5
capacities of, 57.3, 57.9-12, 81.10
character of, 57
completeness of, 46.3-8, 47.9-11, 48.2
comprehension of God by, 59
creation of, 18.4, 64.4
distinguished from animals, xiv-xv, 3.3-4, 3.6, 29.5-6, 47,10—11, 48, 49.4, 55.5
evolution of, xiv-xv, 46, 47
degrees of, 47.9, 51.3, 57.3, 58.2,64.2
existence of, 1.6, 48, 49, 57.4, 67.3, 67.9, 80.5-6
in image and likeness of God, 3.7, 3.11, 49.8, 64.4
knowledge of, 16.1-3, 40.2-5, 83.7
love of transcendence in, 48.8
mastery over nature, 1.4, 48.9-10
nature of, 29.2, 8.46
need for an educator, 3, 64.4
originality of, 47.10-11, 50
origination of, 17.7, 38.5-6, 80.4
perfections of, 38.6, 49.8, 60.3-4, 62.2, 64.1-7, 70.5, 74-3
acquiring, 7.16, 81.4
powers of, xv, 3.18, 30.12, 48.2, 48.5-7, 48.11, 56
reality of, 54.4, 57.10, 60.3, 71.6, 81.12, 82.17, 84.4
manifestations of, 15.8, 50.4, 81.10
sanctifying, 19.6, 30.9
senses, 61.1, 67.6
soul as, 38.3
station of, 64
vestigial organs and limbs in, 47.11, 49.3-6
weaknesses of, 2.3
will of, 1.3
Manifestation, appearance through, 53.3-4. 54.2-3, 54.5-7, 82.16-17
Manifestations of God. See also Educators, true; Miracles; Prophecies; Prophethood and
prophets; Revelation, divine; and individual Manifestations
appearance of, 11.35, 13.5-13, 14.7, 27.4, 82.6
change brought by, 3.14, 11.10, 20.3-4. 20.6-8, 43.8-9, 43.12
civilization brought by, 49.8-9
compared to sun, 42.2, 43.3
cycles of, 41.3-4
Dispensations founded by, 11.10, 43.3, 43.5
distancing oneself from, 31.3-7
essence of religion unchanged by, 11.7-9, 11.12, 11.24, 11.42-43
God's relationship to, 37, 44
grace of, 38.4, 39.4, 42.3, 43.3, 45.3
guidance from, 39.1, 43.4
as hollow reed, 11.2
knowledge of, 40, 59.9
love of, 11.37, 42.3
morals reformed by, 6.2-3, 7.11-12, 8.1-2, 9.1, 11.26, 43.5, 43.8
Most Great Infallibility of, 45
perfections of, 18.6, 38.1, 42, 45.5
as Perfect Man, 11.1-2, 27.5, 44.12, 50.5, 59.8
powers of, 11.37, 22.2, 22.8, 42, 58.5
proofs of, 3.17, 20.4, 22.3-5, 24.3, 41.4
rays emanating from, 25.2
realities of, 16.10, 39.3, 39.4-6, 45.5
resurrection of, 23.2
return of, 33, 81.14
sovereignty of, 11.37
stations of, 30.7, 31.2, 38, 39
corporeal, 58.5
divine, 38.1, 38.4, 38.8, 39.1, 39.4, 39.6, 58.5
material, 38.1, 38.2, 38.8, 39.1
rational soul, 38.1, 38.3, 38.8, 39.1, 39.6, 58.5
unity brought by, 11.37
universal, 30.7, 41.4, 59.8
wisdom of, 45.5-6
Mankind. See Man
Martyrdoms, 61.3. See also Báb, the, martyrdom of; Jesus Christ, martyrdom of
Marván, 13.6
Mary (mother of Christ), 17.3
Mathematicians and mathematics, 7.14, 7.15, 7.16, 35.6, 82.4, 83.3
Matter, 47.4, 47.8, 53.7, 82.12
Maturity, stages of, 51.2-3. See also Embryos, human, stages of development
Maxwell, May Bolles, xi
Medicine. 73.2, 73.7. See also Healing and health; Illnesses; Physicians
healing without, 72
Islamic traditional, 20.4n80
Memory, 56.2, 56.4, 74.3
in animals, 48.5
Mercy, 76,77.8
Messengers of God. See Manifestations of God
Messiah, prophecies regarding, 10.8, 26.4
Metaphor, 16.4-9,24.2, 34.3
Microbial particles, 72.3
Mind, human, 39.6, 51, 52.3, 61.4, 82.12.
See also Discoveries, man's power to make; Intelligence; Reason; Thought(s)
acquisition of knowledge by, 25.4, 32.5, 37.2, 57.10
as intelligible reality, 48.4,74.2
Manifestations' enlightenment of, 42.3, 42.5
perception through, 40.5, 59.4, 74.1, 74.2
perfections of, 64.1
place and time traversed by, 67.1-2
power of, 16.3, 55.6, 83.3
Mineral kingdom, 3.1, 40.7, 51.3, 59.6, 82.17
degrees and stations in, 32.5, 32.6, 62.1-2, 63.3
existence of, 32.2, 57.4, 67.3, 67.9, 79.2, 80.5-6
happiness in, 15.2, 15.6
perfections of, 46.6, 64.1
Miracles, 22
Bahá'u'lláh and, 9.6-9, 9.19, 9.22, 10.3-5
of Brahma, 10.3
of Christ, 10.3,22
Mirrors, 27.6-7, 36.3, 61.5-6, 66.3, 79.3.
See also Sun, mirror's relationship to
Moderation, 78.5-7
Moon, 13.4, 35.6, 63.3
light of, 28.2, 39.3
promulgators and followers compared to, 43.4
Morals. See also Deeds, good; Ethics
in Africa, 3.3, 29.5, 77.13
degradation, 77.11-12
Manifestations' reformation of, 6.2-3, 7.11-12, 8.1-2, 9.1, 11.26, 43-5, 43-8
rectification of, 84.2, 84.10
Moses, 5, 11.12, 14.13, 30.10, 39.4, 64.4.
See also Law(s), Mosaic
appearance at Christ's transfiguration, 71.7, 71.9
chosen ones of, 11.36
descended from Abraham, 4.4, 57-6
Dispensation of, 11.7, 11.8
as Educator, 3.17
God's rebuke to, 44.4, 44.8-10
miracles of, 22.4
Muhammad compared to, 11.17
Most Great Luminary. See Bahá'u'lláh
Most Great Name. See Bahá'u'lláh
Most Great Prison, 9.4, 9.15, 10.2.
See also 'Akká
Most Holy Book. See Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of, Kitáb-i-Aqdas
Motion
of existence, 63.1-2, 69.3
human, 16.8,70.6
laws of, 1.2, 81.9, 83.2
of souls, 44.5
of spiritual cycles, 14.7, 14.12
Mount Carmel, Bahá'u'lláh's arrival on, 9.15
Mu'aviyih, 13.6
Muhammad, 7. See also Educators, true, Muhammad as; Islam; Muslims
advent of, 11.34
Arab tribes civilized by, 7.3-8, 7.11, 7.13-16, 11.14, 11.18-19, 13.11-12
chosen ones of, 11.36
descended from Abraham, 4.4, 57.6
Dispensation of, 11.5-6, 11.12-28, 43-5
emigration of, 10.18,10.20, 10.22n24
God's rebukes to, 44.11
laws and teachings of, 10.22, 11.16
military expeditions of, 7.2, 7.7-9
persecution of, 7.2, 7.7
proof of station as Manifestation, 7.2
prophecies regarding, 11.5-7, 11.34, 13.4
religion of, 11.7, 11.8, 11.12-28, 13.4-7
tales about, 7.1-2, 7.10
treatment of Christians by, 7.9
Muhammad-Taqí Afnán, Hájí Mírzá (Vakilu'd-Dawlih), 11.361n48
Murder, laws against, 76.3
Muslims. See also Arab tribes, Muhammad's education of; Islam; Muhammad
Bahá'u'lláh's teaching of, 9.6
calendar of, 10.20, 13.13
God's rebukes to, 44.11
persecution of, 7.2, 7.7
Mutavakkil, 77.9
Mysteries. See also Discoveries
divine, 42.3, 55.5, 81.15
found in man, 64.4
Najaf, Iraq, 9.6
Najrán, 7.9
Napoleon, Bahá'u'lláh's epistle to, 9.16
Nasiri'd-Din Shah. Bahá'u'lláh's epistle to, 9.17, 9.22, 16.8
Nature, 1. See also Animal kingdom; Human kingdom; Mineral kingdom;Vegetable kingdom
attributes of, 16.3, 19.6
innate, 57.4, 57.9-12
law of, 78.2
man's dominance over, 1.4, 48.9-10
perfections in, 15.8
Now' (species), 46.1n127
Necessary relationships, 40.8-9
Noah, 11.7, 30.10, 57.7
Non-existence, 2.4, 60.5, 63.1, 79.2. See also Existence
absolute, 47.3, 53.7
evil as, 74.3-4, 74-6-7
relative nature of, 80.5-7
Nusayris, beliefs of, 81.13
Olive trees (Revelation of John), 11.13
One, the, 82.2n162, 82.4
Oneness. See God, oneness of; Unity
Oppression, 76.6, 77.10, 78.4
Order
in contingent world, 2.5
natural, 1, 22.1-2, 47.5-6, 51.3, 51.5, 52.5, 81.10
social, 3.6, 3.9
universal, 47.9, 82.11
Original sin, 29.9, 30. See also Sin(s)
Originality, 47.10-11, 49.2-8, 50
Origination, 17.7, 38.5-6, 53.5, 80, 82.12-14
Orthodox Christians, baptismal rite, 20.5
Ottoman Empire, moon as emblem of, 13-4
Palestine, 12.8
Papacy, 34, 43.12
Paradise, 11.35, 42.5, 60.2, 60.3, 61.3. See also Heaven
Adam and Eve expelled from, 30.4, 30.6
Parents, 57.5,62.6. See also Families
Paul (Apostle), 20.2, 29.8
Peace, 11.37, 78.4
brought by Bahá'u'lláh, 12.4, 12.7
brought by Christ, 3.13-14, 12.3
Pen of the Most High. See Bahá'u'lláh
Pentecost. See Holy Spirit, descent of
Perception, 56.1, 61.3,71.7, 74.1-2
Perfection(s). See also God, perfections of; Man, perfections of
acquisition of, 32.5, 47.9, 52.2-3, 81.4, 81.11
of Bahá'u'lláh, 9.5
of Christ, 21.2, 21.4, 21.10, 29.12, 31.2, 37.13, 54.5
of creation, 15.2, 62.1
degrees of, 64.2, 64.5, 66.4
divine, 3.7, 18.2, 18.6, 30.7, 31.3, 36-7, 39.1, 59.8, 64.5
human, 32.4, 46.2-3, 46.6, 47.9-11
of Manifestations, 18.6, 31.2-3, 37.11, 38.1, 42, 45.3
material, 1, 77.13
pre-existent, 82.14
return of, 33.9, 81.8, 81.14
spiritual, 29.2,77.13
of the universe, 32.2-5
Perfect Man, Manifestations of God as, 11.1-2, 27.5, 44.12, 50.5, 59-8
Persia and Persians
Bahá'u'lláh's transformation of, 9.13, 9.24, 84.12
captivity of Jews in, 6.2, 10.11-12
dominion of, 13.6
religious fanaticism of, 8.1, 9.1
sun as emblem of, 13.4
Peter (Apostle), 9.25, 20.2, 34, 62.3, 63.2
Pharaoh, 11.17, 64.4
Pharisees, 13.14
Philosophers and philosophy, 59.7, 83.4, 84.9-10
ancient, 5.3, 5.5, 53.5, 81.13, 82.2, 83.2-5
divine, 17.2, 17.5-7, 48.4, 76.3
European, 46.8,49.3, 83.2
material, 17.2, 17.4-6, 48.2-3, 48.8, 48.11, 50.6
on one cause of all things, 82.13, 82.16
Physicians. See also Healing arid health; Medicine
Galen, 5.5, 84.9, 84.10
Hippocrates, 5.5
lying to patients, 57.12
Manifestations as, 45.6
Prophets as, 20.4, 40.8
spiritual, 10.7, 72.6
Pilgrims, Western, xi
Plagues (Revelation of John), 11.18
Planets, 1.2, 42.2
Plants, 17.4, 32.5, 82.17. See also Flowers; Tree(s);Vegetable kingdom
existence of, 49.3, 57.4
healing through, 73.5, 73.7
perfections of, 70.5
Plato, 5.5, 7.14, 83.3, 84.9
Plotinus, 82.2n1.62
Pole Star, 48.6-7 Polygamy, 7.1, 7.4-5
Poor, the, care of, 76.1, 78.12
Popes. See Papacy
Poverty, 2.4, 74.4, 74.6, 82.14
disparity between wealth and, 78:2-8, 78.12
Power(s), 37.7,71.3. See also God, power of
extraordinary, 5.5-6
of growth, 37.13, 64.1
of Holy Spirit, 24.3, 36.9, 72.7
of man, 3.18, 30.12, 48.2, 48.5-7, 48.11, 56
of Manifestations, 11.37, 22.2, 22.8, 42, 58.5
material, 18.3, 56.1
Satanic, 64.2, 64.4
spiritual, 36.4, 56.2, 72.5, 73.1
of the two witnesses, 11.17-18, 11.21
universal, 84.4
Prayer(s), 11.24-25, 62.3-7, 66.6
Predestination, 35. See also Fate
Pre-existence, 80. See also Existence
of Christ, 28
essential, 28.2, 80.2-4
of God, 53.5-6, 82.13
of knowledge, 35.4-5, 82.5-6, 82.13-14
temporal, 28.3, 80.2, 80.3
Priests. See Divines
Primal Point. See Báb, the
Primal Will, 53.5-6. See also Will
Profit-sharing, 78.5-8
Progress, 63
human, 3.6, 64.6
Manifestations' influence on, 42.5
of soul after death, 62, 64, 66
Promised One, prophecies regarding, 13-5-9,25-7-8, 35-3- See also Manifestations of God
Promulgators, followers and, 43.4-6
Proofs. See also Arguments; God, existence of, proofs of;
Manifestations of God, proofs of; and under individual Manifestations
rational, 10, 60.5, 60.7, 81.5, 83.7
traditional, 83.7
Prophecies
regarding the Báb, 11.6, 11.34, 13.5-13
regarding Bahá'u'lláh, 9.15, 10, 11.34-45, 12
from Book of Revelation, 11
regarding Christ, 13.14, 26.4
from Daniel, 10.10-17, 10.19, 13.13
regarding the Messiah, 10.8, 26.4
regarding Muhammad, 11.5-7, 11.34, 13.4
regarding the Promised One, 13.5-7, 25.7-8, 35.3
in Tablets to the kings, 9.18
regarding Twin Manifestations, 10.8-22
Prophethood and prophets, 43. See also Manifestations of God; and individual prophets
announcements of, 35.3, 35.5
cycles of, 14.7-15
descended from Abraham, 4.4, 57.6
as educators, 64.5
God's rebukes of, 44
on goodly deeds, 84.11
independent, 43.2, 43.3, 43.5-6
of Israel, 37.11, 37.13
miracles attributed to, 10.5, 22
on.one cause of all things, 82.13
perfections of, 31.2, 62.1
as physicians, 20.4, 40.8
power of, 58.4
return of, 33, 81.14-15
station of, 27.8, 38.8
visions of, 71.4
on worlds of God, 82.17
Ptolemy, 7.14,7.15, 81.13, 83.3
Punishment
being veiled from God as, 67.8, 67.10, 75.2
body politic’s responsibility for, 76.6, 77.2-3, 77.6, 77.10-11, 77.14
physical, 75.2
spiritual, 60.3, 81.3, 84.9
ultimate, 60.2,60.4
Purification, 19.6, 30.7, 67.7
through repentance, 19.3-4, 20.5
Pythagoras, 7.14
Qualities. See Attributes;Virtues
Quddús, 11.28-31
Qur'án, 7.11, 7.13, 7.15
dispensation of, 11.5-6, 11.23, 11.25
verses from
2:105, 32.1
3:74, 32.1
6:103, 37.4
17:60, 81.8
19:17, 17.3
23:14, 47.9, 60.4
36:36, 17.4
36:38, 7.14
36:40, 7.14
37.62-6, 81.8
37:180, 81.12
44:43-6, 81.8
48:1-2, 44.11
48:8, 11.12
56:52-3, 81.8
59:2, 37.10, 81.13
Reality. See also Change, spiritual reality unchanging; Intelligible realities; Man, reality of; Sensible realities
of Christ, 25.2, 27.5-8, 27.8, 29.4, 29.7, 30.7, 39.4, 63-2
contingent, 62.2
degrees of, 82.17-18
discoveries of, 48.4, 58.4
divine, 27.2-8, 29.3, 37, 43.3, 54.2-7, 55-5, 59-4, 59-8-9, 82
individual, 39.6, 82
of Manifestations, 16.10, 39.3, 39.4-6,45.5
progress of, 54.3, 62.3
search for, xx
spiritual, 18.3
uncompounded, 82.2, 82.6
universal, 59.8
Reason, xiv, 36.4, 60.7, 76.2-3, 83.3-6, 84.7.
See also Mind, human
Reed (Revelation of John), Perfect Man as, 11.1-2
Reincarnation, xiii, 81
Relationships, necessary, 40.8-9
Religion. See also Manifestations of God, Dispensations founded by; and individual religions
as a bride, 13.1, 13.4
chosen ones of every, 11.36
cycles of, 14.7-12, 43.9-12
decline of, 11.22-6
foundations of, 11.24, 60.2
of God, 11.7-10
harmony of science and, xiv
as Holy City, 13.1, 13.3-4
influence on civilization, 84.9
Manifestations' founding of, 40.8-9, 43-3, 43-5, 43-9
material aspects changing, 11.10, 13-2
as necessary relationships, 40.8
as New Jerusalem, 13.1, 13.3-4
as promoter of truth, 34.10
spiritual foundation unchanging, 11.7-9, 11.12, 11.28, 11.42-43
Repentance, baptism of, 19.3-4,20.5
Retaliation. See Revenge
Return. See also Reincarnation
of Christ, 10.8, 26
in material world, 14.6, 14.11
of Prophets, 33, 81.14-15
Revelation, divine, 3.18, 11.2, 35.3, 35.5, 37.11, 37.13. See also Bahá'u'lláh, revelation of; Word of God; and under Bible, verses from
Revenge, 43.12, 76.5-6, 77-2, 77-5-7
Rewards, 60.2-4, 81.3, 84.9
Righteousness, 29.5. See also Deeds, good
Rod, 11.2
of Jesse (Isaiah), 12.1-2,12.7
Rome, 5.5, 6.2, 13.6, 34.4, 34.9
Rumelia. See Adrianople
Sa'adat (felicity), 15.2n68
Sackcloth (Revelation of John), 11.12
Salvation, 10.7, 65, 84.2
Samuel, 37.13
Sanctification/sanctity, 19.6, 30.7, 67.7, 82.16, 82.18
Science(s), xiv, 34.10-11, 48.4, 57.10, 58.3, 71.6. See also Discoveries; Evolution; Medicine
Scriptures, 10, 30.5,43.3, 83.6. See also Bible; Qur'an
Seasons, 14.1-11. See also Autumn; Spring; Summer; Winter
Seed(s), 14.3, 29.11, 37.13, 53.4, 82.16
procession of trees and flowers from, 47-7, 51-3-4. 54-3
Seekers, 10.7, 14.12, 22.4, 84.6
Self-sacrifice, 67.7
Sensations, 62.2, 64.1, 82.17
Senses, 67.6, 71.7
animal, 48.2, 48.4-7, 55.4, 58.2
comprehension through, 16.2, 61.1, 83-2,83.7
perception through, 67.5, 74.1-2
power of, 36.2, 48.11, 59.6
Sensible realities, 3.10, 16, 25.3, 74.4, 83.2
discoveries of, 48.6-7
perception of, 36.2, 74.1, 74.2
Serpent, and sin of Adam and Eve, 30.2, 30.6, 30.8, 30.11
Servitude, 62.1-3
Shoghi Effendi, xv-xvi, xvi-xvii
Sight, sense of, 56.1,61.1. See also Blindness; Eyes
in animals, 48.5
power of, 3.8, 56.1, 56.3, 56.4, 59.6, 84.7
Simon. See Peter (Aposde)
Sin(s), 29, 30. See also Evil; Iniquity
Sleep, 16.8-10, 38.8, 39.6, 58.5, 61.2-3, 71.8
Smell, sense of, 16.2, 16.3, 48.5, 56.1, 56.4, 73.2, 73.6, 83.2
Socrates, 5.3
Sodom, 11.22
Solar system, 7.14-15, 42.2, 48.7, 83.3
Solomon, 11.4, 43.5
Some Answered Questions
'Abdu'l-Baha’s review of, xii, xiii
first editions of, xii, xvi
Persian text, xii, xix, xx
Shoghi Effendi's endorsement of, xvi-xvii
subject matter of, xii-xiii, xvi
translations of, xii, xv-xvi, xvii, xix
Son of God. See Jesus Christ
Sophists, 79.1 Sorrow, 16.4, 39.6, 48.4
Soul(s), 55, 58.3, 60.4, 71.7. See also Manifestations of God, stations of, rational soul; Spirit, human
attributes of, 57.9, 59.7-8
blindness of, 31.3-6
healing other souls, 72.5-6
prayers for departed, 62.3-4, 62.6-7, 66.6
progress after death, 62, 64, 66
veiled, 65.3, 67.10
Species. See also Animal kingdom
evolution and transformation of, 46, 47-6-11, 49
human, 17.7, 46, 47.9-11, 49.2, 49.4-8, 50.1-4, 64.1
originality of, 47.11, 49.2-8
origination of, 38.5-6
return and recurrence of, 81.7
use of term, xiv, 46, 1n127
Speech, 61.1, 84.7
Spirit(s), 55. See also Holy Spirit
animal, 36.2, 36.3, 48.11, 55.2, 55.4
baptism by, 19.5-7
conversing with, 71
degrees of, 16.4, 81.10
education of, 57.8
heavenly, 36.6
kinds of, 36, 55.2
mineral, 36.1n110
vegetable, 36.1, 37.13
Spirit, human, xv, 36.3-5, 40.5, 51. See also Soul(s)
body's connection with, 52, 80.4, 81.11
bondage of, 30.6, 30.8-9
essential pre-existence of, 80.4
immortality of, 5.3, 60, 61
life of, 67.3-5
Manifestations' enlightenment of, 42.3, 42.5
origination of, 38.5-6
perfections of, 52.3, 52.5
power of, 30.12, 48.6-7, 48.11, 55.5-6
procession from God, 53.1-5, 54, 82.18
progress of, 63.2
reality of, 16.3, 16.4, 48.4
as sign of God, 37.13, 38.5-6
in sleep, 61.2-3
space and time traversed by, 67.2, 67.5
understanding modes of, 61.1
Spirit of faith, 36.6, 55.2, 55.5. See also Faith and faithfulness
Spirit of God. See Jesus Christ, spirit of
Spiritual disclosures, 71
Splendour, heavenly, as station of Manifestations, 38.1, 38.4, 38.8
Springtime
material, 14.2, 14.6, 16.9, 36.7, 42.4, 67.4
spiritual, 14.7-8, 14.11, 36.8-9, 42.5, 43.5
Stars, 1.2, 23.5, 26.1, 26.5, 37.12, 69
Statues, worship of, 43.8, 43.9, 43.11
Steadfastness, 67.7
Strikes, 78
Substance, 82.8-12
Sudan, people of, 3.3
Suffering, 75
Sufis, 82.1-7, 82.12, 82.15, 82.16, 82.17
Summer, 14.3, 14.8-9, 42.4
Sun, 13.4, 35.6, 36.3, 63.3, 84.10
cycles of, 14.12-13, 14.15, 42.4
earth nurtured by, 53.2
as emblem of Persia, 13.4
existence of, 26.5,46.5
light of, 28.2, 37.12, 39.3, 39.6, 42.2, 53.2-3, 84.10
Manifestations compared to, 42.5, 43.3
mirror's relationship to, 24.2, 25.4-5, 27.4-6, 36.7, 37.5, 39.4, 54.5-6. 55.5, 61.6, 67.5, 81.11
perfect organization of, 1.2, 18.2
prophethood compared to, 38.7
rays of, 31.2, 36.7, 45.2, 49.5, 50.2-3, 52.3, 52.5-6, 55.6, 80.4, 82.16-18
reality of, 59.4, 59.8
as source of life, 42.2, 53.2
Tablet of the Testament. See Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of, Book of the Covenant
Taste, sense of, 56.1, 56.4, 83.2
in animals, 48.5, 73.6
Teachings, divine
of Bahá'u'lláh, 9.13
of Christ, 21.4, 21.7
spread of, 13.2, 42.5
true happiness found in, 15.8, 84.11
unchanging nature of, 11.42-43
Telegraph, 1.4, 17.5, 48.4. See also Inventions
Temple (Jerusalem), 11.3-8, 11.11, 11.42
Ten Commandments, 43.9
Tests. See Martyrdoms;Torment
Theft, laws against, 11.10, 76.3
Theosophists, 81.9, 82.1-7, 82.12, 82.15
Things
discoveries of, 58.4
excellence or baseness of, 76.2-3
existence of, 80.3, 80.7
imperfection of, 38.6
knowledge of, 45.2, 59.3-4, 82.5-6
non-existent, 60.5
progress of all, 63
realities of, 3.10, 20.2, 22.1, 35.4, 40.8, 71.6, 84.2
Thought(s), 20.7, 56.2, 56.3, 56.4. See also Mind, human
Manifestations' enlightenment of, 42.3, 42.5
Tihrán, Bahá'u'lláhs exile from, 9.5
Time, 39.7, 47, 67.1-2. See also Pre-existence
Torah, 54.1, 83.6, 84.12. See also under Bible, verses from
advent ofTwin Manifestations foretold in, 10.16-22
commandments and laws in, 11.12, 20.5, 20.8, 43.9, 76.2
day stands for year in, 10.12, 10.16
Muhammad's defence of, 7.12
prophecies
regarding Christ, 13.14
regarding Promised One, 35.3
regarding Twin Manifestations, 10.8
sin of Adam and Eve in, 30
Torment, 75
Touch, sense of, 56.1, 83.2
Tradition(s), 10.3, 14.9, 20.4n80
as criterion of comprehension, 83.6-7
of Imam ‘Ali, 37.2 , 37.8
proofs from, 10.6, 10.8-22
Transfiguration, day of, 33.4, 71.7, 71.9
Transformation, 53.7, 81.8, 84.12. See also Change(s)
Transmigration, 81.3, 81.5, 81.11
Treachery, 64.4, 75.1, 76.3
Tree(s). See also Seed(s);Vegetable kingdom
beauty and perfection of, 32.3
fruit of, 49.4, 50.5, 51.3-4, 52.4, 55.6
of good and evil, 30
inability to comprehend, 59.6
process from seed to, 51.3-4, 54.3, 82.16
Prophets compared to, 44.5
recurrence and return of, 81.7, 81.8
religions compared to, 43.10
Tree of Zaqqúm, 81.8n157
"Trefah" (unclean), 76.2
Tribunal, universal, 12.4
Trinity, 16.7,27. See also God; Holy Spirit; Jesus Christ
Trustworthiness, 64.4
Truth and truthfulness, 64.4, 67.7
of Christ, 22.5
Manifestations as centres of, 40.8-9, 42-3, 45-5
religion as promoter of, 34.10
search for, 10.7, 14.12, 14.14
spiritual, 11.7, 25.7-8
Twin Manifestations, prophecies regarding, 10.8-22. See also Báb, the; Bahá'u'lláh
Umayyads, 11.20, 11.22, 13.6-7
Understanding. See also Knowledge
animals' powers of, 48.2
lack of, 1.5,74.3
spiritual, 61.1, 71.6, 71.7
Unity, 27.8, 47.3. See also God, oneness of
brought by Bahá'u'lláh, 12.4, 12.6-7
brought by Christ, 3.13-14,12.3
of existence, 82
of Manifestations, 11.37
of souls, 71.7
Universal House of Justice, xiv, 45.4 Universal tribunal, 12.4 Universe
existence of, 80.6, 81.12, 81.13
infinite, 81.12, 81.13
mysteries of, 3.10, 34.11,64.4
order in, 32.2-7
origin of, 47
Valid, 13.6
Vegetable kingdom, 64.1, 82.11. See also Flowers; Plants; Seed(s);Tree(s)
degrees and stations in, 32.6, 40.7, 62.1-2
happiness in, 15.3, 15.6
need for cultivation in, 3.1, 3.2
perfections of, 32.2, 32.3, 46.6, 51.4, 82.16
spirit of, 55.2, 55.3
transformation in, 49.3-4, 49.7
Vengeance. See Revenge
Vestigial organs and limbs, 47.11, 49.3-6
Vices, 36.5, 57.12, 60.3, 64.4
Violence, Christ's teachings against, 43.12. See also Revenge
Virtues
acquisition of, 3.4, 15.7, 36.5, 81.11
of Christ, 37.13
human, 11.7-9, 11.19, 11.24-25, 60.3, 64.4, 74.2
of Manifestations, 38.1
spiritual, 11.7, 29.3, 84.2-3, 84.6, 84.10
true happiness lies in, 15.7
Vision(s)
in Bible, 71.2, 71.9
physical, 37.12, 50.3, 61.1, 83.2
spiritual, 2.8,61.2,71
Wakefulness, 16.8, 38.8, 61.2, 61.4, 71.4
War
among Arab tribes, 7.4, 7.6,
by beast (Revelation of John), 11.20-1
among Christians, 43.12
between France and Germany, 9.16
Muslim law of, 7.9
will be banned, 12.4
Water, 1.3, 11.17, 19.5-7, 20.5 73.7
Weaknesses, 2.3, 37.7, 57.5, 74.4, 82.14. See also Imperfection
Wealth, 2.4, 15.6, 62.4, 62.5, 74.6, 82.14
disparity between poverty and, 78.2-8, 78.12
Welfare, human, 3.6, 78.12
Will, 1.3, 32-5
free, 35, 70
Primal, 53.5
Winter, 14.5, 14.10
Wisdom
of God, 11.13, 20.8, 47.5, 47.8
human, 49.5
of Manifestations, 45.5-6
Witnesses, two (Revelation of John), 11
Woes (Revelation of John), 11.34
Woman clothed with sun (Revelation of John), 13.4-12
Women, treatment of by Arab tribes, 7-3-7
Word of God. See also Jesus Christ; Revelation, divine
is word of Manifestations, 44.5
manifestational appearance of, 54.5-7
man's spiritual nature inherited from, 29.2, 29.7, 30.9
pre-existence of, 28.3, 28.4, 80.7
revelation from, 37.11
station of, 30.7, 38.4, 38.7, 38.9
Work and workers, 76.1, 78.1, 78.4-11
Works and faith, 65. See also Deeds, good
World, contingent, 2.3-6, 3. n, 11.10, 20.2, 20.4, 29.5. See also Creation; Existence
attachment to, 30.6, 30.8-9, 30.12
cycles in, 14.1-6
degrees and stations in, 32.6, 46.3
existence of, 38.5, 42.2, 47.6, 79.2, 80.6
God's knowledge in, 35.4
imperfection in, 2.3, 27.4, 37.7
Yahyá, Mirza, 64.4
Yazid, 13.6
Zaqqúm, Tree of, 81.8n157
Zodiac, signs of, 14.12-13. See also Solar system
Zoroastrianism, prophecies regarding Twin Manifestations, 10.8