1. Inventory Version 6 texts
This year’s update to the Partial Inventory includes a 194-volume, parallel-text, chronological series of all available writings of the Central Figures of the Baha'i Faith, for the first time in their entirety in provisional English translation. The volumes (pdf format, Dropbox account required) can be downloaded at blog.loomofreality.org/?page_id=252. See more links and information here.
An English NotebookLM instance containing the translations (Gmail account required) allows you to “chat” with the English sources of the revelation. Read more about it here or see the Explorer here:
notebooklm.google.com/notebook/5eff8d63-61c9-4a96-80ad-779cbe11d156.
A Persian/Arabic NotebookLM instance containing the original texts (Gmail account required) is here:
notebooklm.google.com/notebook/86b6416c-05f5-4480-a993-d3a26978da7b
In both instances, you can now set the output language to anything you desire and “chat” with the sources of the Baha’i Revelation in the language of your choice.
2. Inventory Version 6, 2026, LLMs and other resources
3. Star of the West, Bahá’í News, Baha'i World
I have just created three NotebookLM instances—one for Star of the West, another for Bahá’í News (US), and another for Bahá’í World (excluding vol. 35). These can be used like any large language model such as Claude or ChatGPT, in that you can converse with each instance to retrieve desired information from the periodical it represents. This is especially useful if you are looking for a certain detail, anecdote, Tablet, or something else that you recall having seen in one of these periodicals but can't remember which one. Examples of possible research prompts include:
What kinds of endeavors were Bahá’ís across the globe engaged in during World War I?
What was the condition and character of the Bahá’í community in Japan during the early 20th century?
What English-language Bahá’í publications were announced between 1910 and 1915?
Give me a chronological outline of the services Harlan Ober rendered to the Bahá’í Faith throughout his life.
Here are the links to each instance:
They are publicly available and should, at most, only need a Gmail account to access, so feel free to share them with others who may be interested. Anyone using the free plan can send up to 50 prompts a day across all these notebooks.
I will note that there are some transcription errors in the source files, but it would take an excessively long time to clean them up and this would likely prove not to be worthwhile, not only because the errors are mostly minor but also since NotebookLM will almost certainly provide correct answers regardless.
4. Scholarship in Persian
5. Sifter: AI enhanced semantic search for Star of the West
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