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TAGS: Haykal and daira; Talismans
Abstract:
Talisman drawn by the Bab; not identified.
Notes:
Images small because it was scanned in 2000, when monitors were smaller and bandwidth more limited.

See other similar pentacles by browsing bahai-library.com/title/haykal, and read about this form of Tablet at Wikipedia.


Haykal (pentacle talisman) #1

Báb, The

published in The Sources of Babi Doctrine and History, by Denis MacEoin, pages 273

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992

This is an unidentified pentacle by the Bab, which according to the caption under the image is "from the reproduction in Qismati az alwah-i-khatt-i-Nuqta-yi Ula," p. 26. Note also a description from Shoghi Effendi, in God Passes By page 69:
It was exclusively to His [Bahá'u'lláh's] care that the documents of the Bab, His pen-case, His seals, and agate rings, together with a scroll on which He had penned, in the form of a pentacle, no less than three hundred and sixty derivatives of the word Bahá’ were delivered, in conformity with instructions He Himself had issued prior to His departure from Chihriq.

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