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Julio Savi
- The Love Relationship Between God and Humanity: A Commentary on Bahá’u’llah’s Hidden Words Session #2 · 1994 The poetical-spiritual atmosphere of The Hidden Words and their theological-philosophical content are briefly examined. Through those aphorisms the human adventure upon the earth is described. Man's material and spiritua…
- Sufi stages of the soul in The Seven Valleys and The Four Valleys of Bahá’u’llah Session #14 · 1997 The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys are addressed to two Sufi leaders and therefore their style and content are conceived according to the understanding of their addressees. If we want to have a better understanding o…
- The Newly-Born Babe of That Day: Mysticism in the age of the maturity of humankind Session #62 · 2005 · Lights Vol. 7 · PDF The author analyzes three dynamics conducive from the mysticism of nascent religions, involving the whole community of believers, to the mysticism of periods of spiritual decline, involving only elites of believers, estr…
- Religion and Exclusivism: A Baha’i Perspective Session #62 · 2005 · Lights Vol. 7 · PDF The author presents a survey of the Bahá'í teachings on exclusivism on the ground of his understanding of the open letter addressed by the Universal House of Justice to the world's religious leaders in 2002 and the recen…
- Baha’u’lláh’s Tablet to Maryam, the Crimson Leaf: An introduction and a provisional translation Session #69 · 2006 · Lights Vol. 8 · PDF
- Prayers and rituals in the Bahá’í Faith: A Tablet to Jináb-i-Mullá `Alí-Akbar fí Ardi’l-Alif Session #76 · 2007 · Lights Vol. 9 · PDF
- Tablet to Jináb-i-Mullá ‘Alí-Akbar fí ardi’l-álif Session #76 · 2007 · Lights Vol. 9 · PDF
- Methods and Qualities of the Seekers of Reality in “Some Answered Questions” in the light of Bahá’í Scriptures Session #83 · 2008 · Lights Vol. 10 · PDF In "Some Answered Questions", 'Abdu'l-Bahá illustrates a number of criteria and qualities of the seekers of Reality. He mentions the senses, the method of reason, the text of the Holy Scriptures and the bounty of the Hol…
- The Duty of Kindness and Sympathy Towards Strangers and Foreigners: As enjoined in `Abdu’l-Bahá’s Paris Talks and as reflected in the Italian “Charter on the Values and Significance of Citizenship and Integration” Session #97 · 2010 · Lights Vol. 12 · PDF The abandonment of racial, religious and nationalistic prejudice is one of the central issues in the talks `Abdu'l-Bahá delivered during His travels in the West. A ground-breaking concept in those days when the Western w…
- Mayflowers in the Ville Lumière: The Dawning of Bahá’í History in the European Continent Session #97 · 2010 · Lights Vol. 12 · PDF Against the background of the Paris of the fin de siècle and of the Belle í�poque, with its magnificent intellectual and artistic efflorescence, a young American lady becomes the catalyst for the spiritual awakeni…
- Bahá’u’lláh’s Persian poems written before 1863 Session #104 · 2011 · Lights Vol. 13 · PDF A provisional list of Bahá'u'lláh's Persian poems written before 1863 is provided. These poems are described as an early fruit of the mystical experiences Bahá'u'lláh had in the Síyáh-Chál of Teheran in October 1852. Tho…
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Egypt: Early September 1910 5 December 1913 Session #111 · 2012 · Lights Vol. 14 · PDF `Abdu'l-Bahá discontinuously sojourned in Egypt from early September 1910 to 5 December 1913. This paper is a concise study of the historical and political background of this sojourn and of its chronicle. Egyptian cities…
- The Inebriation of His Enrapturing Call Session #111 · 2012 · Lights Vol. 15 · PDF During the two years when Bahá'u'lláh lived in isolation in Kurdistan, He composed a number of poems, in which He gave vent to the mighty emotions aroused in His great heart by the mystical experiences He had while confi…
- “At Dawn the Friend Came to my bed”�: An early fruit of the Supreme Pen Session #118 · 2013 · Lights Vol. 16 · PDF This paper attempts to analyse a poem revealed by the Blessed Beauty, both in its form and in its contents. This poem seems a qaá��ídih. The features of qaá��ídih are briefly explained. Some of the literary devices used …
- Sáqí, bi-dih ábí O Cup-Bearer, give me a drop: A hymn to love offered by the Blessed Beauty Session #125 · 2014 · Lights Vol. 16 · PDF This is one among eight Persian poems Bahá'u'lláh signed "Dervish." They were most probably written in Kurdistan, where Bahá'u'lláh remained from 10 April 1854 to 19 March 1856. It is a ghazal, meaning a mystical "song" …
- An Homage to Memorials of the Faithful and to Eight of Its Heroes Session #132 · 2015 · Lights Vol. 17 · PDF Memorial of the Faithful is described as an inspiring "book of prototypes," that not only portrays "all of the archetypes that the various personality theorists have given us in this century" and "all the human dichotomi…
- Poetry in ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Writings and Utterances Session #138 · 2016 · Lights Vol. 18 · PDF As Shoghi Effendi pointed out, "the Prophets of God do not teach the arts," which are "an expression of the people." However, 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Who Himself wrote a few poems in Persian and in Turkish, has left good guidance …
- Ancient poems as a means of Revelation, in an early Tablet by Bahá’u’lláh Session #146 · 2017 · Lights Vol. 19 · PDF This paper offers a personal translation of a Persian Tablet revealed by Bahá'u'lláh in the 'Iraqí period. The Tablet is rich in quotations from ancient Iranian poets. Our paper examines the importance of poetry in the h…
- The Mathnaví by Rúhu’lláh Varqá, the martyr: A few notes on its historical context and poetical content Session #146 · 2017 · Lights Vol. 19 · PDF A tentative translation of the Mathnaví by Rúá��u'lláh Varqá, the martyr, is presented. It is accompanied by a few historical remarks on the short life of this heroic child and a concise commentary of the content of his …