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Abstract:
The mythological universe created by Bahá’u’lláh employs three significant spiritual verities: the unknowable nature of the Ultimate Mystery, the relativity of religious/mythological truth, and the necessity of science and investigation of reality.
Notes:
This article is posted online at the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive. Permission to cross-post articles given by ABS editor in 1997 and 2000 when I was building the first bahai-studies.ca website.
Crossreferences:
Outline of section Poetic Imagery in the Bahá'í Writings from this article (off-site PDF); Some Themes and Images in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (Bahiyyih Nakhjavani); Dimensions of Spirituality: Reflections on the Meaning of Spiritual Life and Transformation in Light of the Bahá'í Faith (chapter 8, Jack McLean, 1994)
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