Man; Actions of:-
  • acting like beasts unworthy of man
  • brutal if he rejects the Holy Spirit
  • following lusts is error
  • w/o spiritual education; is a brute
  • makes nature his servant
  • doesn't create religion
  • pursuing passion blinds inner sight
  • stopping ears to truth causes evil
  • wrong use of qualities is evil
    Man; Attributes of:-
  • affected by power of Bahá'í Cause
  • animal side; man has, needs education
  • capable of extremes in virtues/vices
  • capability to know and love God
  • divine and human nature compete
  • energies are latent in man
  • faculties are directed by soul
  • filled with Holy Spirit; makes power
  • gifts of; compared
  • inspired by Holy Spirit if teach
  • mysteries of Divine Spirit in man
  • no freedom from passion w/o Holy Spirit
  • peace upon man in path of the Cause
  • station of; great if firm in the Cause
  • subject to power of the lusts
  • superiority is in being a soul
  • turned always towards the heights
  • two natures; material and spiritual
  • two powers; material and spiritual
  • two sides; animal and angelic
  • understanding; the first gift of God
  • wings given for specific purpose
    Man; Purpose of:-
  • to carry forward civilization
  • to enjoy divine and material pleasures
  • to illumine the world
  • to know and love God
  • to know and love God
  • to radiate light to the world
    Man; Reality of:-
  • at end of darkness/start of light
  • believers are like college students<
  • man is book of certitude
  • collective center; spiritual forces
  • compared to animal
  • contains lower world; superior to it
  • contrasted with nature
  • high degree materiality/low spirit
  • highest species; virtues of all classes
  • in god's image
  • most noble of created beings
  • nearest creature to God's nature
  • only place show perfections of spirit
  • part animal; but thought can lift him
  • part of nature; but above it
  • perfect mirror of the Sun of Truth
  • his reality is not his body
  • his reality is not his body
  • is shown behavior to check impulses
  • is a sign of both worlds
  • is a sign of both worlds
  • is sum of creation; Manifestation
  • is sum of perfections; perfect
  • 'be ye trustees of God'
    Rational Man; Action of:-
  • action of; helps soul grow etc
  • action of; is often unproductive
  • discovers the realities of things
  • sees action patterns in time
  • serves, at times, only material life
  • used wrongly; a worst misuse
    Rational Man; Attributes of:-
  • appetites of; not to be over-indulged
  • clouded by changes in dispensations
  • his outer consciousness called 'mind'
  • his freedom and mastery over nature
  • his mortal vision; like a veil
    Satan is Lower Nature of man
    Satanic:-
  • knowledge vs divine knowledge
  • fancies; setting ones heart on is bad
  • fancy; regions of; not to be sought
  • fancy; regions of; not to be sought
  • fancy; one's heart must be cleansed of
  • power; let it be overcome
  • self; must be burned in fire of love
  • strength changed to heavenly power
  • bondage to; deliver selves from
  • captive to self and desire; nations are
  • captive to; people are held
  • conquer; prayer asking to
  • contemplation of; should end
  • full of; can't hold water of life
  • leave servants to self; may God not
  • prison of self
  • renounce; to enter kingdom revealed
  • renouncing; only way to peace
  • sacrifice; in love for others
  • sacrificing; required
  • something greater; not self-love
  • surrender; most exalted station
  • victim of; soul becomes as described
  • victory over; gain it
  • vision confined to; is bad