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TAGS: Philosophy; - Badí‘ calendar; - Symbolism; Arc of ascent and descent; Colors; Cosmology, cosmos; Numerology; Seven stages of creation; Worlds of God
Abstract:
Symbolism in the Bahá'í-era calendar, some Shaykhí origins of the Báb’s cosmology and ontology, and how these Shaykhí concepts find symbolic expression in the structure and organization of the Badí‘ calendar.
Notes:
The first third of this paper was published, in a slightly different version, as "Symbolism in the Badí‘ Calendar" in Baha’i Studies Review 12 (2004), pp 15-31.

See also Moojan Momen's The Names of the Bahá’í Months: Separating Fact from Fiction (offsite).

Crossreferences:

A Wondrous New Day:

The Numerology of Creation and 'All Things' in the Badí' Calendar

Robin Mihrshahi

99 pages

2004/2013

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