Tony Bristow-Stagg
One Planet One People Please
Understanding the Divinity and Godhead and how this relates to the Messengers, is part of the journey we are faced in this world of dust.
This is the most contested complicated aspect that has divided the faiths, one that has many Writings to ponder to which Baha'u'llah has given many explanations. Personally I have drawn my following thoughts from many very thought provoking passages, but start with one quote.
First and foremost there is only One God, which we know is Unknowable and Unapproachable. From my Understanding of what Baha'u'llah has recorded, that is also applicable for the Messengers, God is unapproachable to the created.
As such I see the Writings tell us that the Messengers are "The Self of God" to us. It is by these given Essences of Detachment that we know of all the Attributes given of God, we know these Attributes do not define God, thus I see they define the Messengers.
This is not the flesh of the Messengers we are contemplating, but the very Essence of our existence, which is the Holy Spirit (Word of God), and I found that Baha'u'llah says that even the Holy Sprit was created of God, the Most Great Spirit. All the Messengers emanate from the Holy Spirit.
I have read this Tablet of Abdu'l-Baha, which is most brilliant (Provisional Translation)
Tablet of the Universe (Lawh-i-Aflakiyyih) and I see it shows why my thoughts are given in the manner above.
"Praise be to God Who hath ever caused His Names and Attributes to penetrate the degrees of existence; Who hath made the effects of those Names and Attributes to shine resplendent and their signs to be firmly established in both the hidden and manifest worlds. By them He hath made the holy realities that are informed by His grace and are the recipients of His outpourings to be the sole revealers of all that pertaineth unto Him, and hath caused them to move through the firmament of perfection in arcs of descent and ascent. He hath ordained these Names and Attributes to be the first and foremost origin and cause of being in the world of creation and the source of the different grades of realities in the degrees of existence. When, through its power of attraction and propagation, the Day-Star of Names and Attributes shone upon the hidden realities in the heart of the unseen realm, they issued forth, were spread abroad, scattered about, set in order, became the recipients of the grace of God and His outpourings, and were made to be the sole manifestations of the Divine conditions and Eternal signs. Emerging from behind the veils, they appeared clothed in raiments of light, moving in the firmament of the unity of God, in orbits of sanctity and circles of glorification..."
Will be a great discussion, as we are all yet to grasp the significance of the Message given by Baha'u'llah.
Oh that the world would explore this Spirit and not the vanities of this world.
Regards Tony
This is the most contested complicated aspect that has divided the faiths, one that has many Writings to ponder to which Baha'u'llah has given many explanations. Personally I have drawn my following thoughts from many very thought provoking passages, but start with one quote.
First and foremost there is only One God, which we know is Unknowable and Unapproachable. From my Understanding of what Baha'u'llah has recorded, that is also applicable for the Messengers, God is unapproachable to the created.
As such I see the Writings tell us that the Messengers are "The Self of God" to us. It is by these given Essences of Detachment that we know of all the Attributes given of God, we know these Attributes do not define God, thus I see they define the Messengers.
This is not the flesh of the Messengers we are contemplating, but the very Essence of our existence, which is the Holy Spirit (Word of God), and I found that Baha'u'llah says that even the Holy Sprit was created of God, the Most Great Spirit. All the Messengers emanate from the Holy Spirit.
I have read this Tablet of Abdu'l-Baha, which is most brilliant (Provisional Translation)
Tablet of the Universe (Lawh-i-Aflakiyyih) and I see it shows why my thoughts are given in the manner above.
"Praise be to God Who hath ever caused His Names and Attributes to penetrate the degrees of existence; Who hath made the effects of those Names and Attributes to shine resplendent and their signs to be firmly established in both the hidden and manifest worlds. By them He hath made the holy realities that are informed by His grace and are the recipients of His outpourings to be the sole revealers of all that pertaineth unto Him, and hath caused them to move through the firmament of perfection in arcs of descent and ascent. He hath ordained these Names and Attributes to be the first and foremost origin and cause of being in the world of creation and the source of the different grades of realities in the degrees of existence. When, through its power of attraction and propagation, the Day-Star of Names and Attributes shone upon the hidden realities in the heart of the unseen realm, they issued forth, were spread abroad, scattered about, set in order, became the recipients of the grace of God and His outpourings, and were made to be the sole manifestations of the Divine conditions and Eternal signs. Emerging from behind the veils, they appeared clothed in raiments of light, moving in the firmament of the unity of God, in orbits of sanctity and circles of glorification..."
Will be a great discussion, as we are all yet to grasp the significance of the Message given by Baha'u'llah.
Oh that the world would explore this Spirit and not the vanities of this world.
Regards Tony