Index to Some Answered Questions

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, Ḥájí Mírzá Muḥammad-Taqí,
    Vakílu'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

'Alí, Imám, 11.12–23, 11.26–30,
    37.2n111, 37.8n113. See also Imáms

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. See Muḥammad
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, Muḥammad'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
Baghdád, Bahá'u'lláh's exile to, 4.5,
        9.4n11, 9.5–6

Bahá'í 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 Báb'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, 9.4n11
    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 Bahá'u'lláh
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 Bahá'í 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
    Muḥammad's treatment of, 7.9
    original precepts not followed, 43.9,
        43.12
    spread of, 9.25
    tales about Muḥammad 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 Dispensa-
        tions, 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
    Muḥammad 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 combina-
        tion 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 Manifesta-
        tions 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, 36.9,
        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
    Muḥammad'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
Ḥasan '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-'Arabí, 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

Illusion(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

Imáms, 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 Muḥammad; Muslims

    decline of, 11.26, 11.28
    Dispensation of, 11.5–6, 11.25,
        13.4–7
    prophecies regarding Twin Mani-
        festations, 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
    Muḥammad'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 (Old Testament), 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
Khadíjih, 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; Ignor-
        ance

    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 Muḥammad, 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

    light's 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,
        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
    existence of, 1.6, 48, 49, 57.4, 67.3,
        67.9, 80.5–6

        degrees of, 47.9, 51.3, 57.3, 58.2, 64.2

    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 relation-
        ship to

Moderation, 78.5–7
Moon, 13.4, 35.6, 63.3

    light of, 28.2, 39.3
    promulgators and followers com-
        pared 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
    Muḥammad 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'áviyih, 13.6
Muḥammad, 7. See also Educators, true,
        Muḥammad 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

Muḥammad-Taqí Afnán, Ḥájí Mírzá
    (Vakílu'd-Dawlih), 11.36n48

Murder, laws against, 76.3
Muslims. See also Arab tribes, Muḥam-
        mad's education of; Islam;
        Muḥammad

    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
Náṣiri'd-Dín Sháh, 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

Naw' (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

Nuṣayrís, 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, 45.5
    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 and 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, 82.2n162
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, II
    regarding Christ, 13.14, 26.4
    from Daniel, 10.10–17, 10.19, 13.13
    regarding the Messiah, 10.8, 26.4
    regarding Muḥammad, 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'ádat (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'án

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 (Apostle)
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-Bahá'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

Ṭihrán, Bahá'u'lláh's 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 of Twin 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
    Muḥammad'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 Imám 'Alí, 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

Valíd, 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), II
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, 3.11, 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
Yaḥyá, Mírzá, 64.4
Yazíd, 13.6

Zaqqúm, Tree of, 81.8n157
Zodiac, signs of, 14.12–13. See also
        Solar system

Zoroastrianism, prophecies regarding
        Twin Manifestations, 10.8