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Here are references to think about if you realize that Baha’u’llah
was
the first Alif to appear after the Bab’s Mission. There are three
Letters BHA, in the Greatest Name, this Revelation, and two have
appeared, the Bab and Baha’u’llah................
The Bab cited in the book Selections from the Writings of E.G. Browne
refers to Himself as “The (letter) Ba which permeates the water of
the
Letters, and the Point which stands at the Gate of the two
Alifs......” p. 215 Selections from the Writings of E.G. Browne /In
the book /// The World as Text: Cosmologies of Shaykh Ahmad al-
Ahsa'i by Juan R.I. Cole, Department of History, University of
Michigan, ,Studia Islamica 80 (1994):1-23. Juan Cole gives this
symbolic meaning to the word ALIF in Arabic:
alif...............A......................al-Badi`
(Wondrous)....................Universal Intellect
Baha'u'llah states at the end of the Kitab-i-Iqan , "Revealed by the
`Ba' and the `Ha". The Bab being the Ba (B) and Baha'u'llah the Ha
(H)
of the Greatest Name, BHA, with the Alif (A) soon to follow.
The third Alif will appear only when the following events occur: .
“And when the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly appear
that
which shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then, and only then,
will the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the Nightingale of Paradise
warble its melody”.(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha'u'llah, p. 118
Perhaps the concept of a Manifestation coming whenever humanity
reaches a certain point of spiritual capacity, whether it be after
nine or a thousand years, is new to many believers. In the Kitab-i-
Aqdas Baha''u''llah states that there will not be a new REVELATION
for a thousand years, and it seems that most Baha''is change the word
Revelation to Manifestation, and so are veiled as were the Babis who
did the same when the Bab promised that a new Manifestation would
appear every 1000 years, and He also remarked that Muhammad appeared
only 700 years after Christ. This indicated that God could also send
a Manifestation before 1000 years. Yet when Baha''u''llah declared
His Message only 19 years after the Bab, many Babi''s denounced Him,
to which He replied:
" O ye who are inly blind! Whether too soon or too late, the evidences
of His effulgent glory are now actually manifest. It behoveth you to
ascertain whether or not such a light hath appeared. It is neither
within your power nor mine to set the time at which it
should be made manifest. God's inscrutable Wisdom hath fixed its hour
beforehand. Be content, O people, with that which God hath desired
for you and predestined unto you." (Gleanings p 103) So you should
realize
that the 1000 years only begins WHEN A REVELATION IS COMPLETED and
it was not completed with the deaths of either the Bab or Baha’u’llah,
and it will
only be completed after the 3rd Manifestation has finished His part
of
of the three part Revelation.
Only a limited number of souls had acquired the capacity for the
immediate acceptance of Baha''u''llah and more advanced Teachings,
others followed later. New levels of thinking and spiritual evolution
always seem to shine forth first in a few special, spiritual souls,
and then, gradually, the rest of humanity follows. Soon the third
Letter of the Revelation of the Greatest Name BHA'' will be revealed.
(Composed of these three letters in Arabic)
First of all note that many of the Teachings revealed by Baha'u'llah
were too advanced for this time, but were intended for later ! "So
prolific was this period, that during the first two years after His
return from His retirement, according to the testimony of Nabil, who
was at that time living in Baghdad, the unrecorded verses that
streamed from His lips averaged, in a single day and night, the
equivalent of the Qur'an! As to those verses which He either dictated
or wrote Himself, their number was no less remarkable than either the
wealth of material they contained, or the diversity of subjects to
which they referred. A vast, and indeed the greater, proportion of
these writings were, alas, lost irretrievably to posterity. No less
an authority than Mirza Aqa Jan, Baha'u'llah's amanuensis, affirms,
as reported by Nabil, that by the express order of Baha'u'llah,
hundreds of thousands of verses, mostly written by His own hand, were
obliterated and cast into the river. "Finding me reluctant to execute
His orders," Mirza Aqa Jan has related to Nabil, "Baha'u'llah would
reassure me saying: 'None is to be found at this time worthy to hear
these melodies.' ...Not once, or twice, but innumerable times, was I
commanded to repeat this act."(Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 137)
Baha'u'llah went on to say: "Know verily that the veil hiding Our
countenance hath not been
completely lifted. We have revealed Our Self to a degree corresponding
to the capacity of the people of Our age. Should the Ancient Beauty be
unveiled in the fullness of His glory mortal eyes would be blinded by
the dazzling intensity of His revelation."
Baha'u'llah cited in The World Order of Baha'u'llah, 1944 ed., page
116
That there are three Letters of the one Name of God indicates,
symbolically, that these are not independent Revelations, but parts
of one great Revelation from one God, one Cause of God. In each
succeeding Manifestation all the Letters and perfections of the
previous Manifestations are present and manifest. Consider this
statement of the Guardian "Near the end of the formative period the
nations will unite of their own volition and with the non-commitant
expansion of the Cause,
become merged into the fabric of the World Order of Baha'u'llah.
There will be another Manifestation before this will happen." Haifa
Notes of Wm Allison, 1957 Obviously the world civilization cannot
continue without a world government in the near future, because of
the conflict between nations, the worldwide destruction of the
environment that grows continually worse, and the dangerous mal
distribution of wealth.
The Bab wrote:" Regard any people. In truth they all believe that
they are searching for God. All desire God's pleasure! They certainly
do not desire to go against God's pleasure. Nevertheless, they all
act and have acted against what is true. Look at the letters of the
Psalms, then the letters of the Bible, then the letters of the
Gospel, then the letters of the Quran, then the letters of the Bayan,
then the letters of the Book of Him Whom God shall manifest (ie.
Baha'u'llah). From the highest to the most humble, they all imagine
that they are searching for God's pleasure and that they have
certitude and insight in His Religion; yet all, in the presence of
Him Who will be manifested (ie. The third Letter of the Revelation of
the Greatest Name, the Alif) after Him Who God shall manifest (i.e.
Baha'u'llah, the second Letter of the Revelation of the Greatest Name
BHA) are like the letters of the previous Books in the presence of
the witnesses of the Bayan." Bab, in a Tablet translated by A.L.M.
Nicholas
The third Manifestation of the Revelation of the Greatest Name will
soon appear, and the indications that the "end times" are now here is
obvious. Baha''u''llah wrote: "The world is in travail, and its
agitation waxeth day by day. Its face is turned towards waywardness
and unbelief. Such shall be its plight, that to disclose it now would
not be meet and seemly. Its perversity will long continue. and when
the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly appear that which
shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. THEN and ONLY THEN, will
the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the Nightingale of Paradise
warble its melody." Gleanings, p. 118 The Divine Standard is the Word
of God ("Had the divine standard laid down in the Qur'án been truly
observed, adverse judgements would not have been pronounced against
Him Who is the Tree of divine Truth." The Bab, Selections from the
Writings of the Bab, p. 102) and the Nightingale of Paradise is the
Revealer of that Word, the Alif. ( He is the King, the All-Knowing,
the Wise! Lo, the Nightingale of Paradise singeth upon the twigs of
the Tree of Eternity, with holy and sweet melodies, proclaiming to
the sincere ones the glad tidings of the nearness of God,
Compilations, Baha'i Prayers, p. 208) In the New Testament, in the
book of Matthew, chap 24, we read: "Immediately AFTER the tribulation
of those days shall the sun
be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars
shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heaven shall be
shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven
and then shall the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the
Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory."
Baha'u'llah also states : "These fruitless strifes, these ruinous
wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.... These
strifes and this bloodshed and discord must cease, and all men be as
one kindred and one family." "Soon," He predicts, "will the present-
day order be rolled up, and a new one spread out in its
stead." "After a time," He also has written, "all the governments on
earth will change. Oppression will envelop the world. And following a
universal convulsion, the Sun of Justice will rise from the horizon
of the unseen realm." ( The Promised Day is Come, p. 116) The Sun of
Justice is the Revealer of God's Word and the unseen realm is the
realm of the Holy Spirit.
The general area of the world where the last Manifestation of the
Revelation of the Greatest Name will appear is indicated in these
quotations. "The Hour will not come , until the Sun arises in the
West, and all men seeing it will believe." Hadith of Muhammad cited
in Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam, p.256------"Issue forth from your
cities, O peoples of the West and aid your God ere the Day when the
Lord of mercy shall come down unto you in the shadow of the
clouds..."The Bab cited in Selections from the Writings of the Bab,
p. 56-----"Unveil thy face, O beauty of the Lord, that the Sun may
arise in the West..." Baha'u'llah, cited in Haifa Notes of May
Maxwell======"If the sun arises in the west, it would still be the
same sun: one must not withdraw from it on account of its rising
place nor consider the west to be always the place of sunset." Abdu'l-
Baha in Some Answered Questions, Chap. 14====="At the third
resurrection the sun will rise from the West." A Hadith of Muhammad
cited in The Heavenly Table, p. 25 "Should success crown your
enterprise, America will surely evolve into a center from which waves
of spiritual power will emanate, and the throne of the Kingdom of
God, will in the plenitude of its majesty and glory, be firmly
established." Abdu'l-Baha cited in God Passes By pp 254-255
*********************************************************************
LIST OF URLs with the longer article concerning the coming
Manifestation:
ARTICLE’// ALIF OF THE GREATEST NAME (MIRROR SITES)
http://alif.resonance.org/
http://www.metavergence.com/john/
http://ca.geocities.com/johncarre/Manifestation_coming_soon.html
http://www.angelfire.com/amiga/humanity/Alif_of_BHA.html
http://www.angelfire.com/amiga/humanity/Manifestation_coming_soon.html
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"Notwithstanding the divinely-inspired admonitions of all the
Prophets, the saints and the Chosen Ones of God, enjoining the people
to see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears, they have
disdainfully rejected their counsels and have blindly followed and
will continue to follow the leaders of their Faith." Baha'u'llah,
Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 164
Here are references to think about if you realize that Baha’u’llah
was
the first Alif to appear after the Bab’s Mission. There are three
Letters BHA, in the Greatest Name, this Revelation, and two have
appeared, the Bab and Baha’u’llah................
The Bab cited in the book Selections from the Writings of E.G. Browne
refers to Himself as “The (letter) Ba which permeates the water of
the
Letters, and the Point which stands at the Gate of the two
Alifs......” p. 215 Selections from the Writings of E.G. Browne /In
the book /// The World as Text: Cosmologies of Shaykh Ahmad al-
Ahsa'i by Juan R.I. Cole, Department of History, University of
Michigan, ,Studia Islamica 80 (1994):1-23. Juan Cole gives this
symbolic meaning to the word ALIF in Arabic:
alif...............A......................al-Badi`
(Wondrous)....................Universal Intellect
Baha'u'llah states at the end of the Kitab-i-Iqan , "Revealed by the
`Ba' and the `Ha". The Bab being the Ba (B) and Baha'u'llah the Ha
(H)
of the Greatest Name, BHA, with the Alif (A) soon to follow.
The third Alif will appear only when the following events occur: .
“And when the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly appear
that
which shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then, and only then,
will the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the Nightingale of Paradise
warble its melody”.(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha'u'llah, p. 118
Perhaps the concept of a Manifestation coming whenever humanity
reaches a certain point of spiritual capacity, whether it be after
nine or a thousand years, is new to many believers. In the Kitab-i-
Aqdas Baha''u''llah states that there will not be a new REVELATION
for a thousand years, and it seems that most Baha''is change the word
Revelation to Manifestation, and so are veiled as were the Babis who
did the same when the Bab promised that a new Manifestation would
appear every 1000 years, and He also remarked that Muhammad appeared
only 700 years after Christ. This indicated that God could also send
a Manifestation before 1000 years. Yet when Baha''u''llah declared
His Message only 19 years after the Bab, many Babi''s denounced Him,
to which He replied:
" O ye who are inly blind! Whether too soon or too late, the evidences
of His effulgent glory are now actually manifest. It behoveth you to
ascertain whether or not such a light hath appeared. It is neither
within your power nor mine to set the time at which it
should be made manifest. God's inscrutable Wisdom hath fixed its hour
beforehand. Be content, O people, with that which God hath desired
for you and predestined unto you." (Gleanings p 103) So you should
realize
that the 1000 years only begins WHEN A REVELATION IS COMPLETED and
it was not completed with the deaths of either the Bab or Baha’u’llah,
and it will
only be completed after the 3rd Manifestation has finished His part
of
of the three part Revelation.
Only a limited number of souls had acquired the capacity for the
immediate acceptance of Baha''u''llah and more advanced Teachings,
others followed later. New levels of thinking and spiritual evolution
always seem to shine forth first in a few special, spiritual souls,
and then, gradually, the rest of humanity follows. Soon the third
Letter of the Revelation of the Greatest Name BHA'' will be revealed.
(Composed of these three letters in Arabic)
First of all note that many of the Teachings revealed by Baha'u'llah
were too advanced for this time, but were intended for later ! "So
prolific was this period, that during the first two years after His
return from His retirement, according to the testimony of Nabil, who
was at that time living in Baghdad, the unrecorded verses that
streamed from His lips averaged, in a single day and night, the
equivalent of the Qur'an! As to those verses which He either dictated
or wrote Himself, their number was no less remarkable than either the
wealth of material they contained, or the diversity of subjects to
which they referred. A vast, and indeed the greater, proportion of
these writings were, alas, lost irretrievably to posterity. No less
an authority than Mirza Aqa Jan, Baha'u'llah's amanuensis, affirms,
as reported by Nabil, that by the express order of Baha'u'llah,
hundreds of thousands of verses, mostly written by His own hand, were
obliterated and cast into the river. "Finding me reluctant to execute
His orders," Mirza Aqa Jan has related to Nabil, "Baha'u'llah would
reassure me saying: 'None is to be found at this time worthy to hear
these melodies.' ...Not once, or twice, but innumerable times, was I
commanded to repeat this act."(Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 137)
Baha'u'llah went on to say: "Know verily that the veil hiding Our
countenance hath not been
completely lifted. We have revealed Our Self to a degree corresponding
to the capacity of the people of Our age. Should the Ancient Beauty be
unveiled in the fullness of His glory mortal eyes would be blinded by
the dazzling intensity of His revelation."
Baha'u'llah cited in The World Order of Baha'u'llah, 1944 ed., page
116
That there are three Letters of the one Name of God indicates,
symbolically, that these are not independent Revelations, but parts
of one great Revelation from one God, one Cause of God. In each
succeeding Manifestation all the Letters and perfections of the
previous Manifestations are present and manifest. Consider this
statement of the Guardian "Near the end of the formative period the
nations will unite of their own volition and with the non-commitant
expansion of the Cause,
become merged into the fabric of the World Order of Baha'u'llah.
There will be another Manifestation before this will happen." Haifa
Notes of Wm Allison, 1957 Obviously the world civilization cannot
continue without a world government in the near future, because of
the conflict between nations, the worldwide destruction of the
environment that grows continually worse, and the dangerous mal
distribution of wealth.
The Bab wrote:" Regard any people. In truth they all believe that
they are searching for God. All desire God's pleasure! They certainly
do not desire to go against God's pleasure. Nevertheless, they all
act and have acted against what is true. Look at the letters of the
Psalms, then the letters of the Bible, then the letters of the
Gospel, then the letters of the Quran, then the letters of the Bayan,
then the letters of the Book of Him Whom God shall manifest (ie.
Baha'u'llah). From the highest to the most humble, they all imagine
that they are searching for God's pleasure and that they have
certitude and insight in His Religion; yet all, in the presence of
Him Who will be manifested (ie. The third Letter of the Revelation of
the Greatest Name, the Alif) after Him Who God shall manifest (i.e.
Baha'u'llah, the second Letter of the Revelation of the Greatest Name
BHA) are like the letters of the previous Books in the presence of
the witnesses of the Bayan." Bab, in a Tablet translated by A.L.M.
Nicholas
The third Manifestation of the Revelation of the Greatest Name will
soon appear, and the indications that the "end times" are now here is
obvious. Baha''u''llah wrote: "The world is in travail, and its
agitation waxeth day by day. Its face is turned towards waywardness
and unbelief. Such shall be its plight, that to disclose it now would
not be meet and seemly. Its perversity will long continue. and when
the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly appear that which
shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. THEN and ONLY THEN, will
the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the Nightingale of Paradise
warble its melody." Gleanings, p. 118 The Divine Standard is the Word
of God ("Had the divine standard laid down in the Qur'án been truly
observed, adverse judgements would not have been pronounced against
Him Who is the Tree of divine Truth." The Bab, Selections from the
Writings of the Bab, p. 102) and the Nightingale of Paradise is the
Revealer of that Word, the Alif. ( He is the King, the All-Knowing,
the Wise! Lo, the Nightingale of Paradise singeth upon the twigs of
the Tree of Eternity, with holy and sweet melodies, proclaiming to
the sincere ones the glad tidings of the nearness of God,
Compilations, Baha'i Prayers, p. 208) In the New Testament, in the
book of Matthew, chap 24, we read: "Immediately AFTER the tribulation
of those days shall the sun
be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars
shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heaven shall be
shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven
and then shall the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the
Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory."
Baha'u'llah also states : "These fruitless strifes, these ruinous
wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.... These
strifes and this bloodshed and discord must cease, and all men be as
one kindred and one family." "Soon," He predicts, "will the present-
day order be rolled up, and a new one spread out in its
stead." "After a time," He also has written, "all the governments on
earth will change. Oppression will envelop the world. And following a
universal convulsion, the Sun of Justice will rise from the horizon
of the unseen realm." ( The Promised Day is Come, p. 116) The Sun of
Justice is the Revealer of God's Word and the unseen realm is the
realm of the Holy Spirit.
The general area of the world where the last Manifestation of the
Revelation of the Greatest Name will appear is indicated in these
quotations. "The Hour will not come , until the Sun arises in the
West, and all men seeing it will believe." Hadith of Muhammad cited
in Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam, p.256------"Issue forth from your
cities, O peoples of the West and aid your God ere the Day when the
Lord of mercy shall come down unto you in the shadow of the
clouds..."The Bab cited in Selections from the Writings of the Bab,
p. 56-----"Unveil thy face, O beauty of the Lord, that the Sun may
arise in the West..." Baha'u'llah, cited in Haifa Notes of May
Maxwell======"If the sun arises in the west, it would still be the
same sun: one must not withdraw from it on account of its rising
place nor consider the west to be always the place of sunset." Abdu'l-
Baha in Some Answered Questions, Chap. 14====="At the third
resurrection the sun will rise from the West." A Hadith of Muhammad
cited in The Heavenly Table, p. 25 "Should success crown your
enterprise, America will surely evolve into a center from which waves
of spiritual power will emanate, and the throne of the Kingdom of
God, will in the plenitude of its majesty and glory, be firmly
established." Abdu'l-Baha cited in God Passes By pp 254-255
*********************************************************************
LIST OF URLs with the longer article concerning the coming
Manifestation:
ARTICLE’// ALIF OF THE GREATEST NAME (MIRROR SITES)
http://alif.resonance.org/
http://www.metavergence.com/john/
http://ca.geocities.com/johncarre/Manifestation_coming_soon.html
http://www.angelfire.com/amiga/humanity/Alif_of_BHA.html
http://www.angelfire.com/amiga/humanity/Manifestation_coming_soon.html
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"Notwithstanding the divinely-inspired admonitions of all the
Prophets, the saints and the Chosen Ones of God, enjoining the people
to see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears, they have
disdainfully rejected their counsels and have blindly followed and
will continue to follow the leaders of their Faith." Baha'u'llah,
Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 164