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Wolfgang Klebel
- Unity and Progressive Revelation: Comparing Bahá’í Principles with the Basic Concepts of Teilhard de Chardin Session #46 · 2003 · Lights Vol. 5 · PDF About a decade before Teilhard de Chardin's death (1881-1955) and the posthumous publishing of his books, Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith wrote these words in 1949: "The world has at least the thinking w…
- True of Thyself: Firstness and Lastness, Outwardness and Inwardness (Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy seen in the light of Bahá’u’lláh’s mystical writings) Session #53 · 2004 · Lights Vol. 6 · PDF
- Lawh-i-Hikmat (Bahá’u’lláh’s Tablet of Wisdom): Spiritual Materialism vs. Dialogical Thinking Session #60 · 2005 · Lights Vol. 7 · PDF This commentary on Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet results in these tentative and preliminary conclusions: The primary focus of Bahá'í studies must by on the Writings of the Faith, and the philosophical understanding and interpreta…
- The Word is the master key for the whole world Session #67 · 2006 · Lights Vol. 8 · PDF
- Gottes Wort - der Schlüssel zur Welt Session #70 · 2006
- Bahá’u’lláh’s “Most Sublime Vision” Session #74 · 2007 · Lights Vol. 9 · PDF This paper has been updated and published as Occasional Papers Volume 2.
- Panel Discussion on Minimalism and the Bahá’í Faith Session #74 · 2007
- In the Heart of All that is: Part 1 Session #81 · 2008 · Lights Vol. 10 · PDF The "Heart," and the "City of the Heart," are central concepts in the Bahá'í Writings; and this presentation attempts to review a certain aspect of it. The title of the paper is taken from a prayer of `Abdu'l-Bahá; and a…
- In the Heart of All that is: Part 2 Session #81 · 2008 · Lights Vol. 10 · PDF See full abstract under Part One, above.
- The Path of God: Declaration Towards a Global Ethic and the Bahá’í Faith, Parts 1 and 2 Session #88 · 2009 · Lights Vol. 11 · PDF 1. PART I In this first part of the presentation, the Global Ethic will be compared with the Bahá'í Faith; this comparison was suggested by the commentary of the German theologian Hans Küng, who prepared the text of the …
- The Essence of Man: Towards a Bahá’í Understanding of Human Nature and Psychology Session #95 · 2010 · Lights Vol. 12 · PDF I. Towards Understanding Human Nature This presentation is a commentary on a section from Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to Mírzá Hádí, translated by Shoghi Effendi in the Gleanings of the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, (GWB 164-165) ab…
- I know Not How to Sing Thy Praise: Reflections on a Prayer of Bahá’u’lláh Session #102 · 2011 · Lights Vol. 13 · PDF This prayer of Bahá'u'lláh (PM 122) gives access to the basic question of theology about "God" for this day and age, where practical and theoretical atheism and irreligion has captured at least halve of mankind, not only…
- Understanding Reality: Bahá’u’lláh’s “Four States” of Man, Seen as Tetrarchic Structure - A New Concept of Philosophy and Theology Session #109 · 2012 · Lights Vol. 14 · PDF This presentation tries to follow `Abdu'l-Bahá's statement that we have to follow Bahá'u'lláh's new principles and forget the old patterns of thought in order to find the peace of the heavenly kingdom, not only in the wo…
- Finding a Trace of the Traceless Friend: Reflection on Bahá’í Scholarship as a Journey in the Valley of Search Session #116 · 2013 · Lights Vol. 15 · PDF In this presentation the attempt is made to shed some light at Bahá'í Scholarship from the First Valley of the Seven Valleys of Bahá'u'lláh, the Valley of Search. The combination of finding a "trace" of a "traceless frie…
- The Tetrarchic Self: Correlating Freud’s Transference with the Four States of Bahá’u’lláh Session #123 · 2014 · Lights Vol. 16 · PDF In Lights of 'Irfán, Book 6 (2005; presented in Bosch 2003), this writer has taken the statement of Bahá'u'lláh in the Seven Valleys as the "Mother Verse," and further developed this idea in most of his later papers. Bah…
- The Language of the Heart: From Dream Language towards Understanding the Language of the Heart Session #130 · 2015 · Lights Vol. 17 · PDF The Bahá'í Religion could justifiably be called the "Religion of the Heart." Statistically for example in the Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh the heart is the most frequently used word after God. God 995, Hear…
- The Dawn of a New Creation: The Difference in Understanding Creation in Western Philosophy, Christianity and the Bahá’í Faith Session #137 · 2016 On Monday, October 23rd 1911, 'Abdu'l-Bahá talking in Paris, France, about the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh reaching the West stated this. Then shall humanity put on a new garment in the radiance of the love of God, and it …