Some Answered Questions

1844-1921 `Abdu'L-Bahá

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Title: Some Answered Questions

Author: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

Release Date: September 2006 [Ebook 19289]

Language: English

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Some Answered Questions

by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

Edition 1, (September 2006)

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Contents

Baha'i Terms of Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part One: ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE PROPHETS IN THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY . . . . . . . . 1: NATURE IS GOVERNED BY ONE UNIVERSAL LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2: PROOFS AND EVIDENCES OF THE EXIS- TENCE OF GOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3: THE NEED OF AN EDUCATOR . . . . . . . . . . 4: ABRAHAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5: MOSES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6: CHRIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7: MUHAMMAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8: THE BÁB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9: BAHÁ’U’LLÁH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10: TRADITIONAL PROOFS EXEMPLIFIED FROM THE BOOK OF DANIEL . . . . . . . . 11: COMMENTARY ON THE ELEVENTH CHAP- TER OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN . . 12: COMMENTARY ON THE ELEVENTH CHAP- TER OF ISAIAH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13: COMMENTARY ON THE TWELFTH CHAP- TER OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN . . 14: SPIRITUAL PROOFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15: TRUE WEALTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part Two: SOME CHRISTIAN SUBJECTS . . . . . . . . 16: OUTWARD FORMS AND SYMBOLS MUST BE USED TO CONVEY INTELLECTUAL CON- CEPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17: THE BIRTH OF CHRIST . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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18: THE GREATNESS OF CHRIST IS DUE TO HIS PERFECTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19: THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST . . . . . . . . . . . . 20: THE NECESSITY OF BAPTISM . . . . . . . . . 21: THE SYMBOLISM OF THE BREAD AND THE WINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22: MIRACLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23: THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST . . . . . . . 24: THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON THE APOSTLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25: THE HOLY SPIRIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26: THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND THE DAY OF JUDGMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27: THE TRINITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28: EXPLANATION OF VERSE FIVE, CHAPTER SEVENTEEN, OF THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN 29: EXPLANATION OF VERSE TWENTY-TWO, CHAPTER FIFTEEN, OF THE FIRST EPIS- TLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS . . 30: ADAM AND EVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31: EXPLANATION OF BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32: EXPLANATION OF THE VERSE “FOR MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN” . . . 33: THE “RETURN” SPOKEN OF BY THE PROPHETS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34: PETER’S CONFESSION OF FAITH . . . . . . . 35: PREDESTINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part Three: ON THE POWERS AND CONDITIONS OF THE MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD . . . . . . . . . . 36: THE FIVE ASPECTS OF SPIRIT . . . . . . . . . 37: THE DIVINITY CAN ONLY BE COMPRE- HENDED THROUGH THE DIVINE MANI- FESTATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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38: THE THREE STATIONS OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 39: THE HUMAN CONDITION AND THE SPIRI- TUAL CONDITION OF THE DIVINE MANI- FESTATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 40: THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIVINE MANI- FESTATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 41: THE UNIVERSAL CYCLES . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 42: THE POWER AND INFLUENCE OF THE DI- VINE MANIFESTATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . 173 43: THE TWO CLASSES OF PROPHETS . . . . . . 175 44: EXPLANATION OF THE REBUKES AD- DRESSED BY GOD TO THE PROPHETS . . . 179 45: EXPLANATION OF THE VERSE OF THE KITÁB-I-AQDAS, “THERE IS NO PARTNER FOR HIM WHO IS THE DAYSPRING OF REVELATION IN HIS MOST GREAT INFAL- LIBILITY” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Part Four: ON THE ORIGIN, POWERS AND CONDI- TIONS OF MAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 46: MODIFICATION OF SPECIES . . . . . . . . . . 189 47: THE UNIVERSE IS WITHOUT BEGINNING; THE ORIGIN OF MAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 48: THE DIFFERENCE EXISTING BETWEEN MAN AND ANIMAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 49: THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN RACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 50: SPIRITUAL PROOFS OF THE ORIGIN OF MAN 209 51: THE SPIRIT AND MIND OF MAN HAVE EX- ISTED FROM THE BEGINNING . . . . . . . . 213 52: THE APPEARING OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BODY215 53: THE RELATION BETWEEN GOD AND THE CREATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

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54: ON THE PROCEEDING OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT FROM GOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55: SOUL, SPIRIT AND MIND . . . . . . . . . . . . 56: THE PHYSICAL POWERS AND THE INTEL- LECTUAL POWERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57: THE CAUSES OF THE DIFFERENCES IN THE CHARACTERS OF MEN . . . . . . . . . . . . 58: THE DEGREE OF KNOWLEDGE POSSESSED BY MAN AND THE DIVINE MANIFESTA- TIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59: MAN’S KNOWLEDGE OF GOD . . . . . . . . . 60: THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SPIRIT (1) . . . . 61: THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SPIRIT (2) . . . . 62: PERFECTIONS ARE WITHOUT LIMIT . . . . . 63: THE PROGRESS OF MAN IN THE OTHER WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64: THE STATE OF MAN AND HIS PROGRESS AFTER DEATH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65: EXPLANATION OF A VERSE IN THE KITÁB- I-AQDAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66: THE EXISTENCE OF THE RATIONAL SOUL AFTER THE DEATH OF THE BODY . . . . . THE IMMORTALITY OF CHILDREN . . . . . . . . 67: ETERNAL LIFE AND ENTRANCE INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68: FATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69: THE INFLUENCE OF THE STARS . . . . . . . . 70: FREE WILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71: VISIONS AND COMMUNICATION WITH SPIRITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72: HEALING BY SPIRITUAL MEANS . . . . . . . 73: HEALING BY MATERIAL MEANS . . . . . . . Part Five: MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS . . . . . . . . 74: THE NONEXISTENCE OF EVIL . . . . . . . . .

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