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Farshid Kazemi
- Celestial Fire: Bahá’u’lláh as the Messianic Theophany of the Divine Fire (átar) in Zoroastrianism Session #88 · 2009 · Lights Vol. 14 · PDF One of the foundational philosophical premises at the heart of Bahá'í ontology is that the structure of 'being' (wujúd) is one of 'process' and 'becoming' rather then static and fixed. This dynamic ontology in the writin…
- Mysteries of Alast: The Realm of Subtle Entities (`Alam-i Amr) and the Primordial Covenant in the BábíBahá’í Writings Session #88 · 2009 One of the more esoteric terms in Shí`í-Shaykhí thought that has found its way into the vast corpus of the Bábí-Bahá'í sacred scriptures is called `the realm of subtle entities' or `álam-i dharr (lit. world of particles)…
- Early Ishmaelite Philosophy and the BábíBahá’í Religions Session #89 · 2009 From the earliest days of the advent of the BábíBahá'í religions both polemical and scholarly sources have noted similarities between Ismai'ili thought and that of the BábíBahá'í religions. In light of the apparent sim…
- The Land of Za’farán (ard-i-za’farán) in the Bábí-Bahá’í Scriptures Session #89 · 2009 One of the more obscure visionary landscapes in the spiritual topography of Islamic gnosis and mysticism, which has also found mention in the Bábí-Bahá'í scriptures, is a perfumed and redolent earth, called the land of S…