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TAGS: Angels; Concourse on High; Dwellers and inmates
Abstract:
Provisional translations of three short extracts from Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
Notes:
Mirrored with permission from adibmasumian.com/translations, which includes typescripts of the original Persian texts.
Crossreferences:

Concourse on High:

A Brief Compilation

Bahá'u'lláh
Abdu'l-Bahá

Adib Masumian, translator

2024-10

Bahá’u’lláh Defines the Concourse on High

What follows is my provisional translation (in other words, not official or authorized; see here for more) of a passage from a Tablet of Bahá’u’lláh, the original text of which has been published in Má’idiy-i-Ásmání, vol. 8, p. 45.

He who acteth, in this day, according to what hath been revealed in the Book of God—and whose heart hath been sanctified from doubt, enmity, hatred, and whatever ill beseemeth the station of humankind—is to be numbered with the Concourse on High...

Source: adibmasumian.com/translations/bh03644_concourse_on_high_excerpt


‘Abdu’l-Bahá Defines the Concourse on High

... provisional translation ... of a passage from a Tablet of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the original text of which has been published in Makátíb-i-Ḥaḍrat-i-‘Abdu’l-Bahá, vol. 8, p. 54.

... the dwellers of the City of Eternity and the members of the Concourse on High are those who are firm in the Covenant ...

Source: adibmasumian.com/translations/ab06698_concourse_on_high_excerpt


The Qualities of Those Who Belong to the Concourse on High

... provisional translation ... of a passage from a Tablet of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the original text of which has been published in Má’idiy-i-Ásmání, vol. 2, p. 109.

Those souls who have detached themselves from the world of humanity and acquired heavenly attributes are reckoned among the Concourse on High, numbered with the angels brought nigh unto God, and designated by the name “angelic beings.” Those embodiments of these qualities, though outwardly raised up in human temples, are in truth sanctified essences and holy realities.

Source: adibmasumian.com/translations/ab00939_excerpt_concourse_on_high

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