| Title | Title translation | Author 1 | Author 2 | Language | Session | Published | Abstract | online |
| "For The Love of My Beauty": Love, Art and Attainment in the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh e |
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Brian Miller |
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English |
34 |
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This presentation examines the importance of beauty in the Revelation of Baha'u'llah as a name and attribute of God. It explores the relationship of beauty, artful expression, and love to the spiritual progress of the soul and human society. Beauty is a key element in how we live our lives as Baha'is and an aspect of how we participate in the divin... |
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| Ode of Varqá'íyyih, The e |
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Brian Miller |
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English |
26 |
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The revelation of Baha'u'llah's great ode in Arabic to the Maid of Heaven, known as the Qasidiy-i-Varqa'iyyih, constitutes the defining moment of Baha'u'llah's sojourn in Sulaymaniyyih, a period described by the Blessed Beauty himself as "the greatest testimony to the truth of this revelation." The impact it had was dramatic on those at whose reque... |
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| Transformative Power of the Maid of Heaven, The: An Exploration of Grammar, Gender and Poetics in Bahá'u'lláh's Ode of the Dove e |
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Brian Miller |
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English |
137 |
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pact of the Maid of Heaven on the soul of Baha'u'llah. She is so powerful that she transforms everyone and everything touched by her radiance. The Ode also foreshadows the trials and sufferings endured by Baha'u'llah in His love for her beauty.
Poetry has been used a vehicle for revelation in past Dispensations. It plays a pivotal role during th... |
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