Some Answered Questions
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| Some Answered Questions (1908) by , translated by Shoghi Effendi |
| Some Answered Questions are answers by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to questions posed by Laura Clifford Barney between 1904 and 1906. Many questions focus on Christian subjects like the Book of Revelation, the story of Genesis and the Book of Isaiah. Others cover topics about God, evolution, fate, free will, healing, the non-existence of evil, and reincarnation. |
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Contents
Part One
On The influence of the Prophets in the Evolution of Humanity
- 1. Nature is governed by a universal law
- 2. Proofs and arguments for the existence of God
- 3. The need for an Educator
- 4. Abraham
- 5. Moses
- 6. Christ
- 7. Muḥammad
- 8. The Báb
- 9. Bahá’u’lláh
- 10. Rational proofs and traditional arguments from the sacred Scriptures
- 11. Commentary on the eleventh chapter of the Revelation of John
- 12. Commentary on the eleventh chapter of Isaiah
- 13. Commentary on the twelfth chapter of the Revelation of John
- 14. Material and spiritual cycles
- 15. True felicity
Part Two
Some Christian subjects
- 16. Intelligible realities and their expression through sensible forms
- 17. The birth of Christ
- 18. The greatness of Christ
- 19. True baptism
- 20. Baptism and the changing law of God
- 21. The bread and the wine
- 22. The miracles of Christ
- 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 judgement
- 27. The Trinity
- 28. The pre-existence of Christ
- 29. Sin and atonement
- 30. Adam and Eve
- 31. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit
- 32. “Many are called, but few are chosen”
- 33. The return of the Prophets
- 34. Peter and the papacy
- 35. Free will and predestination
Part Three
On the powers and conditions of the Manifestations of God
- 36. The five kinds of spirit
- 37. The connection between God and His Manifestations
- 38. The three stations of the divine Manifestations
- 39. The human and the divine stations of the Manifestations
- 40. The knowledge of the divine Manifestations
- 41. Universal cycles
- 42. The power and perfections of the divine Manifestations
- 43. The two kinds of Prophets
- 44. The rebukes addressed by God to the Prophets
- 45. The Most Great Infallibility
Part Four
On the origin, powers and conditions of man
- 46. Evolution and the true nature of man
- 47. The origin of the universe and the evolution of man
- 48. The difference between man and animal
- 49. Evolution and the existence of man
- 50. Spiritual proofs of the originality of man
- 51. The appearance of the spirit and the mind in man
- 52. The appearance of the spirit in the body
- 53. The connection between God and his creation
- 54. The procession of the human spirit from God
- 55. Spirit, soul, and mind
- 56. The outward and the inward powers of man
- 57. The differences in human character
- 58. The extent and limitation of human comprehension
- 59. Man’s comprehension of God
- 60. The immortality of the spirit (1)
- 61. The immortality of the spirit (2)
- 62. The infinite perfections of existence and the progress of the soul in the next world
- 63. The progress of all things within their own degree
- 64. The station of man and his progress after death
- 65. Faith and works
- 66. The subsistence of the rational soul after the death of the body
- 67. Eternal life and entrance into the kingdom of God
- 68. Two kinds of fate
- 69. The influence of the stars and the interconnectedness of all things
- 70. Free will and its limits
- 71. Spiritual disclosures
- 72. Healing without medicine
- 73. Healing by material means
Part Five
Miscellaneous subjects
- 74. On good and evil
- 75. Two kinds of torment
- 76. The justice and mercy of God
- 77. The punishment of criminals
- 78. Strikes
- 79. The reality of the world of being
- 80. Pre-existence and origination
- 81. Reincarnation
- 82. The unity of existence
- 83. The four criteria of comprehension
- 84. Good deeds and their spiritual prerequisites
