| Title | Title translation | Author 1 | Author 2 | Language | Session | Published | Abstract | online |
| Bahá'u'lláh's "Most Sublime Vision" e |
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Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
74 |
Lights9 |
This paper has been updated and published as Occasional Papers Volume 2. |
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| Dawn of a New Creation, The: The Difference in Understanding Creation in Western Philosophy, Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith e |
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Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
137 |
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On Monday, October 23rd 1911, 'Abdu'l-Baha talking in Paris, France, about the Revelation of Baha'u'llah reaching the West stated this.
Then shall humanity put on a new garment in the radiance of the love of God, and it shall be the dawn of a new creation! (PT 34)
The question is what is this new creation that is dawning? What is the new unde... |
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| Emergence, Enchantment, Entanglement and Excellence of the Cosmos e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
- |
Lights9 |
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| Essence of Man, The: Towards a Bahá'í Understanding of Human Nature and Psychology e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
95 |
Lights12 |
I. Towards Understanding Human Nature
This presentation is a commentary on a section from Baha'u'llah's Tablet to Mirza Hadi, translated by Shoghi Effendi in the Gleanings of the Writings of Baha'u'llah, (GWB 164-165) about "the essence of man." This paper attempts to provide an understanding of what is expressed in these Words. Baha'u'llah's a... |
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| Finding a Trace of the Traceless Friend: Reflection on Bahá'í Scholarship as a Journey in the Valley of Search e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
116 |
Lights15 |
In this presentation the attempt is made to shed some light at Baha'i Scholarship from the First Valley of the Seven Valleys of Baha'u'llah, the Valley of Search. The combination of finding a "trace" of a "traceless friend" indicates the mysteriousness and complexity of this task, and introduces us into the mystical realm. The introductory section ... |
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| Gottes Wort - der Schlüssel zur Welt e |
God's Word: The key to the world |
Wolfgang Klebel |
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Deutsch |
70 |
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| I know Not How to Sing Thy Praise: Reflections on a Prayer of Bahá'u'lláh e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
102 |
Lights13 |
This prayer of Baha'u'llah (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 in the East but also in the West. It presents an answer to the question how to believe in God today and how to understand words l... |
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| In the Heart of All that is: Part 1 e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
81 |
Lights10 |
The "Heart," and the "City of the Heart," are central concepts in the Baha'i 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-Baha; and another text from the Master about the Sympathetic Nervous System will induce us into the idea of the heart being the site where th... |
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| In the Heart of All that is: Part 2 e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
81 |
Lights10 |
See full abstract under Part One, above. |
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| Language of the Heart, The: From Dream Language towards Understanding the Language of the Heart e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
|
English |
130 |
Lights17 |
The Baha'i Religion could justifiably be called the "Religion of the Heart."
Statistically for example in the Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah the heart is the most frequently used word after God. God 995, Heart 236, Revelation 229, Divine 142 and all other words, like Love, Faith, Hope, Justice, Unity (together with Oneness) Knowledge... |
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| Lawh-i-Hikmat (Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet of Wisdom): Spiritual Materialism vs. Dialogical Thinking e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
60 |
Lights7 |
This commentary on Baha'u'llah's Tablet results in these tentative and preliminary conclusions:
The primary focus of Baha'i studies must by on the Writings of the Faith, and the philosophical understanding and interpretation need to follow and be enlightened by the Revelation. Attempting to use philosophical categories and trying to understand ... |
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| Panel Discussion on Minimalism and the Bahá'í Faith e |
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Ian Kluge |
Wolfgang Klebel |
English |
74 |
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| Path of God, The: Towards a Global Ethic and the Bahá'í Faith e |
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Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
- |
Lights11 |
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| Path of God, The: Declaration Towards a Global Ethic and the Bahá'í Faith, Parts 1 and 2 e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
88 |
Lights11 |
1. PART I
In this first part of the presentation, the Global Ethic will be compared with the Baha'i Faith; this comparison was suggested by the commentary of the German theologian Hans Küng, who prepared the text of the `Declaration Towards a Global Ethic' in 1993 for the Parliament of the World's Religions:
"It will now be an enjoyable task... |
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| Sow the Seeds of My Divine Wisdom in the Pure Soil of Thy Heart: Towards Coordinating Langs' Communicative Approach of Psychoanalysis with the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
- |
Lights20 |
On correlating the contemporary world and the Baha'i Revelation through the psychoanalysis of Robert Langs, who postulated that "divine wisdom" lies inherent deep within the human unconscious mind. |
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| Tetrarchic Self, The: Correlating Freud's Transference with the Four States of Bahá'u'lláh e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
123 |
Lights16 |
In Lights of 'Irfan, Book 6 (2005; presented in Bosch 2003), this writer has taken the statement of Baha'u'llah in the Seven Valleys as the "Mother Verse," and further developed this idea in most of his later papers. Baha'u'llah explains that this formulation is added here so "that the full meaning may be manifest" and then follows with "And thus f... |
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| 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) e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
53 |
Lights6 |
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| Understanding Reality: Bahá'u'lláh's "Four States" of Man, Seen as Tetrarchic Structure - A New Concept of Philosophy and Theology e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
109 |
Lights14 |
This presentation tries to follow `Abdu'l-Baha's statement that we have to follow Baha'u'llah's new principles and forget the old patterns of thought in order to find the peace of the heavenly kingdom, not only in the world, but primarily and foremost in our hearts:
"Now the new age is here and creation is reborn. Humanity hath taken on new life.... |
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| Unity and Progressive Revelation: Comparing Bahá'í Principles with the Basic Concepts of Teilhard de Chardin e |
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Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
46 |
Lights5 |
About a decade before Teilhard de Chardin's death (1881-1955) and the posthumous
publishing of his books, Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha'i
Faith wrote these words in 1949:
"The world has at least the thinking worldcaught up by now with all the
great and universal principles enunciated by Baha'u'llah over 70
years ago, and so o... |
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| Word is the master key for the whole world, The e |
|
Wolfgang Klebel |
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English |
67 |
Lights8 |
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