Talk:The Purpose of Physical Reality

Bahá’í Publishing Trust, Wilmette, Illinois 60091

Copyright © 1987 by John S. Hatcher. All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hatcher, John, Dr.
The purpose of physical reality.

Bibliography: p.
1. Bahai Faith—Doctrines. 2. Theodicy. 3. Spirituality.
4. Cosmology. |. Title.
BP370.H38 1987 297’ .8924 87-1388
ISBN 0-87743-208-2

Parts of chapter 3 are revisions of John S. Hatcher, ‘The Metaphorical
Nature of Physical Reality,” World Order, 11, no. 4 (Summer 1977),
31-35, Copyright © 1978 by the National Spiritual Assembly of the
Bahá’ís of the United States (the essay was presented at the second
annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Studies on the Bahá’í
Faith, which published the talk as a monograph in Bahá’í Studies, 3
[Nov. 1977], Copyright © 1977). Parts of chapter 4 are revisions of
John S. Hatcher, “Afterlife and the Twin Pillars of Education,” World
Order, 13, no. 1 (Fall 1978), 21-37, Copyright © 1979 by the National
Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States.

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