Tag: "Primal Will"

tag name	Primal Will	type:	Philosophy; Religion, general
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Primal_Will
variations or mis-spellings	First Will; First Intellect; mashíyyat-i-avvaliyyih
related tags	– Concepts, Philosophical; – Concepts, Religious; Creation; God; God, Will of; God, Word of; Primal; Seven stages of creation; Will
referring tags	Causality (causation); World of Command and World of Creation
Inventory subject	Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God; The self-generation of the Primal Will; The Primal Will; Absolute freedom; independence of God
notes	See also: – Covenant Library Unified Index
selected quotations (authoritative sources)	These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts: "... know thou that the First Remembrance, which is the Primal Will of God, may be likened unto the sun. God hath created Him through the potency of His might, and He hath, from the beginning that hath no beginning, caused Him to be manifested in every Dispensation through the compelling power of His behest, and God will, to the end that knoweth no end, continue to manifest Him according to the good-pleasure of His invincible Purpose. And know thou that He indeed resembleth the sun. Were the risings of the sun to continue till the end that hath no end, yet there hath not been nor ever will be more than one sun; and were its settings to endure forevermore, still there hath not been nor ever will be more than one sun. It is this Primal Will which appeareth resplendent in every Prophet and speaketh forth in every revealed Book. It knoweth no beginning, inasmuch as the First deriveth its firstness from It; and knoweth no end, for the Last oweth its lastness unto It. In the time of the First Manifestation the Primal Will appeared in Adam; in the day of Noah It became known in Noah; in the day of Abraham in Him; and so in the day of Moses; the day of Jesus; the day of Muḥammad, the Apostle of God; the day of the “Point of the Bayán”; the day of Him Whom God shall make manifest; and the day of the One Who will appear after Him Whom God shall make manifest. Hence the inner meaning of the words uttered by the Apostle of God, “I am all the Prophets,” inasmuch as what shineth resplendent in each one of Them hath been and will ever remain the one and the same sun." – The Báb, Dalá’il-i-Sab‘ih (The Seven Proofs), (BB00015) "... To every discerning and illumined heart it is evident that God, the unknowable Essence, the divine Being, is immensely exalted beyond every human attribute, such as corporeal existence, ascent and descent, egress and regress. Far be it from His glory that human tongue should adequately recount His praise, or that human heart comprehend His fathomless mystery. He is and hath ever been veiled in the ancient eternity of His Essence, and will remain in His Reality everlastingly hidden from the sight of men... No tie of direct intercourse can possibly bind Him to His creatures. He standeth exalted beyond and above all separation and union, all proximity and remoteness. No sign can indicate His presence or His absence; inasmuch as by a word of His command all that are in heaven and on earth have come to exist, and by His wish, which is the Primal Will itself, all have stepped out of utter nothingness into the realm of being, the world of the visible..." – Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude), ¶213 (BH00002) "... It follows that all things have emanated from God; that is, it is through God that all things have been realized, and through Him that the contingent world has come to exist. The first thing to emanate from God is that universal reality which the ancient philosophers termed the “First Intellect” and which the people of Bahá call the “Primal Will”..." – `Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, chapter 53: The Connection between God and His Creation (AB00876)
references	www.lampofsearch.com/p/the-first-intellect-and-the-primal; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q="Primal Will"; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q="First Intellect"

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