Gems of Divine Mysteries

Gems of Divine Mysteries

The decade-long exile of Bahullh in Irq began under the harshest of conditions and at the lowest ebb in the fortunes of the Bb Faith. It witnessed, however, the gradual crystallization of those potent spiritual forces which were to culminate in the declaration of His world-embracing mission in 1863. In the course of these years, and from the city of Baghdd, there radiated, Shoghi Effendi writes, wave after wave, a power, a radiance and a glory which insensibly reanimated a languishing Faith, sorely-stricken, sinking into obscurity, threatened with oblivion. From it were diffused, day and night, and with ever-increasing energy, the first emanations of a Revelation which, in its scope, its copiousness, its driving force and the volume and variety of its literature, was destined to excel that of the Bb Himself.1 Among these early effusions of the Pen of Glory is a lengthy Arabic epistle known as the Javhirul-Asrr, meaning literally the gems or essences of mysteries. A number of themes it enunciates are also elaborated in Persianthrough different revelatory modesin the Seven Valleys and the Book of Certitude, those two immortal volumes which Shoghi Effendi has characterized, respectively, as Bahullhs greatest mystical composition and His pre-eminent doctrinal work. Undoubtedly the Gems of Divine Mysteries figures among those Tablets revealed in the Arabic tongue which were referred to in the latter volume.2 One of the central themes of the book, Bahullh indicates, is that of transformation, meaning here the return of the Promised One in a different human guise. Indeed, in a prefatory note written above the opening lines of the original manuscript, Bahullh states: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 16939
Author: Bahá'u'lláh, 1817-1892
Release Date: Jun 23, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English