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Abstract:

Structured summarized notes from Dr. Saiedi’s 2019 talks on the Báb’s Writings, delivered at the Swedish and Norwegian Bahá'í summer school 2019, highlighting key theological concepts and themes. Includes some provisional translations quoted in the talks.

Notes:

Mirrored from bahaiwritings.wordpress.com. Name of transcriber unknown.

Crossreferences:

Worldview and the Law of the Persian Bayan – A Series of 4 Talks by Dr. Nader Saiedi (2019)

Audio:

https://bahai-library.com/saiedi_writings_bab_norway

The Writings of the Báb:

Notes from Talks given by Dr. Nader Saiedi

Nader Saiedi

Anonymous, compiler

2020-04-10

About: Dr. Nader Saiedi delivered a series of talks on the topic of “The Writings of the Báb” at the Norwegian and Swedish Summer Schools of 2019. Notes from these talks were posted here as a series of 8 posts. In this post, you can read the improved (thank you C, A, and G for improving the notes and the text) notes. Please bear in mind that these are personal notes. These notes are not comprehensive, nor do they capture the order in which the main topics were elaborated. Naturally, given that these are personal notes, they cannot fully and accurately reflect all aspect presented during the sessions. Audio online here. [Name of transcriber, owner "of my personal and combined notes," unknown.] (from bahaiwritings.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/the-writings-of-the-bab-notes-saeidi-talks.pdf)

1. Contents (of PDF below)

1.  Introduction
	Magnitude of the Writings of the Báb
	Authenticity of the Writings of the Báb
	Writings of the Báb Important to Understand the Bahá'í Faith
	Re-Creating All Things
	Understanding the Writings of the Báb
	Complexity of the Writings of the Báb
	
2.  The Concept of God
	Anthropomorphic conception of God
	Transcendental conception of God
	God as Transcendental Entity
	Act of Worship
	
3.  The Concept of Manifestation of God
	The Point
	The Two Stations Symbolized in the Name of the Báb
	
4.  The Concept of Religion
	The Concept of Progressive Revelation
	
5.  The Concept of Day of Judgement / Resurrection
	Heaven and Hell
	Heaven and Hell for All Things
	
6.  The Concept of Occultation – 12th Imam

7.  The Concept of Divine Justice
	Human Freedom and Will of God
	Human Beings as Free
	Nobility of Man

2. PDF

Download: saiedi_notes_writings_bab.pdf.

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