Talk:Baháʼí cosmology

Redirect

I feel like this article is worthy of being deleted or redirected. It seems like WP:OR and without potential for expansion. Cuñado ☼ - Talk 00:38, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

The article has improved in the meanwhile. No need for deleting or redirecting. Wiki-uk (talk) 06:29, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Realms of existence.

I tried to add wikilinks to the Realms of existence, but every one redirects to Sufi cosmology. Are they just using similar words, or do the Bahais share Sufi cosmology?--Editor2020 (talk) 00:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Depending on the audience, Baha'u'llah wrote in a style that was understandable to those audience. For example his works while he was in the mountains of Kurdistan, were written in a Sufi style (such as the Seven Valleys). In other writings there would be no Sufi terminology. As to the specifics of Baha'i cosmology and their similarity to Sufi cosmology, they seem to share a certain terminology, but I haven't seen anything comparing the two. The reference that I've been using states "Baha'u'llah ... often used a Neoplatonic cosmological framework which was traditional in certain schools of Islamic metaphysical thought". The framework may be the same, but there may be differences. Regards. -- Jeff3000 (talk) 01:50, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

BTW, I removed your comment inserted into the text, because the source for that sentence uses those words "God: the essentially preexistent cause of existence. The creation is contingent upon him". Regards, -- Jeff3000 (talk) 01:50, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Another ref

This might be useful. 152.2.62.5 (talk) 16:41, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Problems with this cosmology

1. "and humans exist between the angelic and physical realms " But in one Tablet Baha'u'llah states that a man may excell the realm of the angels. 2. There is also a problem with the separation made between God and the Supreme Manifestation. Baha'u'llah states that these two are inseparable for man cannot conceptualize anything past the Sadratu'l-Muntaha

Nice

This was the first page related to the exposition of the Faith's BASIS that I have run across on Wikipedia that resonated (many senses). Kudos to the authors. I stumbled on the page as I had added Baha'i to a search string (a peripatetic's urge is to blame). Wonder if finding this page is telling me something about progression? jmswtlk (talk) 01:54, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

another possible cite to mix in...

The Realms of Divine Existence as described in the Tablet of All Food --Smkolins (talk) 12:49, 6 November 2014 (UTC)