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Tag: "Tablet to Dr. Auguste Forel"

tag name Tablet to Dr. Auguste Forel type: Philosophy; Science: natural, social, and applied; Writings, 'Abdu'l-Bahá
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Lawh-i-Dr. Forel
inventory # AB00020; VUJUDE
abbreviation TAF (see key to abbreviations)
related tags - Authoritative English translations on bahai.org, 'Abdu'l-Bahá; - Best known Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá (Bahá'í World list); Auguste Forel; Questions and answers
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A letter written by ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá in 1921 in reply to a letter from Professor Auguste Forel, a Swiss psychiatrist. Dated 21 September 1921.

Official version is online at bahai.org/library.
Ebook (ePub format) available at bahaiebooks.org.
Version on oceanlibrary.com (includes audio)
Bahá'í Library Online version is here.

For more background information on Auguste Forel and the Bahá'í Faith, and the questions that he had asked to 'Abdu'l-Bahá, see The Life and Times of August Forel by Sheila Banani (2005). The Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Bahá is described from page 15 and further.

For an in-depth study of this Tablet, see: Ali-Murad Davúdí (2023). The Kingdom of Existence (Malakut-i-Vujud). Fundacion Nehal, Madrid. The prologue (preface) by Dr. Vahid Rafati includes several explanations useful to clarify some potential ambiguities.

bahaidata.org Q4720   ·   Links to Bahá'í wikis (bahai9, bahaipedia, etc.)
references en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_to_Dr._Forel; bahai9.com/wiki/Existence_of_God_proof_study_outlines/Composition_proof_outlines; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/tablet-auguste-forel

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  1. 2017-2020. List of Articles by Nader Saiedi on BahaiTeachings.org. Nader Saiedi. Links to 40 essays about Baha'i teachings on spiritual unity, justice, freedom, democracy, and global peace, critiquing materialism, nationalism, and advocating societal reform. Essays.
  2. 2014. Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age. Nader Saiedi. A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Bahá'í history, key writings, and the need for scholarly study, translation, and contextual analysis of Bahá'í texts. Audio.
  3. 2010-12. Material and Spiritual Worlds. Peter J. Khan. Four talks on the Five-Year Plan given at the North Island Bahá'í Summer School, Hamilton, New Zealand, December 2010. Audio.
  4. 1997. Background and Centrality of Apophatic Theology in Bábí and Bahá'í Scripture, The. Stephen Lambden. History of the theological position of the incomprehensibility-unknowability of God in past major Abrahamic religions and its importance and significance for contemporary Bahá'ís. Articles.
  5. 1993. Scientific Proof of the Existence of God, A. William S. Hatcher. Whenever scientists encounter a phenomenon that exhibits an evolution towards order, but without any observable reason for such movement, they suspect the cause to be an unseen force. Evolution presents a persistent movement from disorder towards order. Articles.
  6. 1976 [1921]. Tablet to Auguste Forel. Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, trans. . A letter of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá written in 1921, in reply to questions asked by the Swiss scientist Auguste-Henri Forel, exploring the soul, mind, spirit, and God's existence, affirming spiritual reality beyond materialism. Writings.

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  1. 1921-09-21
      'Abdu'l-Bahá wrote a 4,000 word Tablet for Dr Auguste Forel in response to a letter He received from him. The Tablet can be found at bahai.org, as well as in The Bahá'í World Vol. XV, pp. 37–43.

      Shoghi Effendi wrote of this Tablet: [GPB307]

        The famous scientist and entomologist, Dr. Auguste Forel, was converted to the Faith through the influence of a Tablet sent him by 'Abdu'l‑Bahá—one of the most weighty the Master ever wrote.
    • See The Kingdom of Existence by Dr Ali Murád Dávudí. In addition to Dr. Forel´s biography and the text of the tablet addressed to him by Abdu´l-Bahá, contains Dr. Dávúdí's extensive studies of the tablet, as well as a glossary of terms that offers more explanations about its contents.
 
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