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Tag: "Gold"

tag name: Gold type: Miscellaneous; Metaphors and allegories
web link: bahai-library.com/tags/Gold
related tags: Alchemy; Detachment; Materialism; Metal; Purity; Tests and difficulties
referring tags: Golden calf
notes:

"Busy not thyself with this world, for with fire We test the gold, and with gold We test Our servants."

"Thou dost wish for gold and I desire thy freedom from it. Thou thinkest thyself rich in its possession, and I recognize thy wealth in thy sanctity therefrom. By My life! This is My knowledge, and that is thy fancy; how can My way accord with thine?"

– Bahá'u'lláh, Hidden Words, Arabic, #55 and 56 (BH00386)

references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold; bahaiquotes.com/subject/gold; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Gold

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  1. 2024-12. Translating the Bahá'í Writings into Languages Other Than English. Craig Alan Volker, Mary Goebel Noguchi. — Challenges in translation, including questions about spelling, terminology, politeness strategies em...
  2. 2018/2025. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks. Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'í World Centre, trans. . — 216 selections, last updated 2025.
  3. 2017-03-04. Tablet of the Clouds (Lawḥ-i-Saḥáb), The. Bahá'u'lláh, Joshua Hall, trans. . — Proclaims Baha’u’llah’s divine authority, challenges religious leaders, emphasizes detachment,...
  4. 2012. Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam, by Todd Lawson: Review. Christopher Buck.
  5. 2009-2025. Translation List: Provisional Translations of Baháʼí Texts. Adib Masumian, trans. — Index to talks, letters, and other items translated from Persian and Arabic to English by Adib Masum...
  6. 2007. Hidden Gifts: Finding Blessings in the Struggles of Life. Brian Kurzius. — Compilation of Baha'i texts on the purpose of problems and tests in our lives.
  7. 2002/2012. Reflection on the Theory of Alchemy as Explained in the Bahá'í Writings, A. Keven Brown. — Baha'u'llah and ‘Abdu’l-Baha referred to the 'hidden craft' of alchemy as part of divine philoso...
  8. 1996. Bahá'u'lláh's Teachings on Spiritual Reality. Paul Lample, comp. — The quest for spirituality, the spiritual life, material and spiritual reality, the progress of the ...
  9. 1967-12-09. Hidden Words, The: Transcript of a talk by Hand of the Cause of God A. Q. Faizí. Abu'l-Qásim Faizí. — Talk delivered in Wilmette, Illinois.
  10. 1937. Path to God, The: 1937 edition. Dorothy Baker. — Essay published as a pamphlet about the goal of life, revelation and access to heaven, self-improvem...
 
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