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Contents

Part One: ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE PROPHETS IN THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY

1: NATURE IS GOVERNED BY ONE UNIVERSAL LAW

2: PROOFS AND EVIDENCES OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

3: THE NEED OF AN EDUCATOR

4: ABRAHAM

5: MOSES

6: CHRIST

7: MUḤAMMAD

8: THE BÁB

9: BAHÁ’U’LLÁH

10: TRADITIONAL PROOFS EXEMPLIFIED FROM THE BOOK OF DANIEL

11: COMMENTARY ON THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN

12: COMMENTARY ON THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH

13: COMMENTARY ON THE TWELFTH CHAPTER OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN

14: SPIRITUAL PROOFS

15: TRUE WEALTH

Part Two: SOME CHRISTIAN SUBJECTS

16: OUTWARD FORMS AND SYMBOLS MUST BE USED TO CONVEY INTELLECTUAL CONCEPTIONS

17: THE BIRTH OF CHRIST

18: THE GREATNESS OF CHRIST IS DUE TO HIS PERFECTIONS

19: THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST

20: THE NECESSITY OF BAPTISM

21: THE SYMBOLISM OF THE BREAD AND THE WINE

22: MIRACLES

23: THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST

24: THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON THE APOSTLES

25: THE HOLY SPIRIT

26: THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

27: THE TRINITY

28: EXPLANATION OF VERSE FIVE, CHAPTER SEVENTEEN, OF THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN

29: EXPLANATION OF VERSE TWENTY-TWO, CHAPTER FIFTEEN, OF THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS

30: ADAM AND EVE

31: EXPLANATION OF BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT

32: EXPLANATION OF THE VERSE “FOR MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN”

33: THE “RETURN” SPOKEN OF BY THE PROPHETS

34: PETER’S CONFESSION OF FAITH

35: PREDESTINATION

Part Three: ON THE POWERS AND CONDITIONS OF THE MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD

36: THE FIVE ASPECTS OF SPIRIT

37: THE DIVINITY CAN ONLY BE COMPREHENDED THROUGH THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS

38: THE THREE STATIONS OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS

39: THE HUMAN CONDITION AND THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS

40: THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS

41: THE UNIVERSAL CYCLES

42: THE POWER AND INFLUENCE OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS

43: THE TWO CLASSES OF PROPHETS

44: EXPLANATION OF THE REBUKES ADDRESSED BY GOD TO THE PROPHETS

45: EXPLANATION OF THE VERSE OF THE KITÁB-I-AQDAS, “THERE IS NO PARTNER FOR HIM WHO IS THE DAYSPRING OF REVELATION IN HIS MOST GREAT INFALLIBILITY”

Part Four: ON THE ORIGIN, POWERS AND CONDITIONS OF MAN

46: MODIFICATION OF SPECIES

47: THE UNIVERSE IS WITHOUT BEGINNING; THE ORIGIN OF MAN

48: THE DIFFERENCE EXISTING BETWEEN MAN AND ANIMAL

49: THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN RACE

50: SPIRITUAL PROOFS OF THE ORIGIN OF MAN

51: THE SPIRIT AND MIND OF MAN HAVE EXISTED FROM THE BEGINNING

52: THE APPEARING OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BODY

53: THE RELATION BETWEEN GOD AND THE CREATURE

54: ON THE PROCEEDING OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT FROM GOD

55: SOUL, SPIRIT AND MIND

56: THE PHYSICAL POWERS AND THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS

57: THE CAUSES OF THE DIFFERENCES IN THE CHARACTERS OF MEN

58: THE DEGREE OF KNOWLEDGE POSSESSED BY MAN AND THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS

59: MAN’S KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

60: THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SPIRIT (1)

61: THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SPIRIT (2)

62: PERFECTIONS ARE WITHOUT LIMIT

63: THE PROGRESS OF MAN IN THE OTHER WORLD

64: THE STATE OF MAN AND HIS PROGRESS AFTER DEATH

65: EXPLANATION OF A VERSE IN THE KITÁB-I-AQDAS

66: THE EXISTENCE OF THE RATIONAL SOUL AFTER THE DEATH OF THE BODY

THE IMMORTALITY OF CHILDREN

67: ETERNAL LIFE AND ENTRANCE INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD

68: FATE

69: THE INFLUENCE OF THE STARS

70: FREE WILL

71: VISIONS AND COMMUNICATION WITH SPIRITS

72: HEALING BY SPIRITUAL MEANS

73: HEALING BY MATERIAL MEANS

Part Five: MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS

74: THE NONEXISTENCE OF EVIL

75: TWO KINDS OF TORMENT

76: THE JUSTICE AND MERCY OF GOD

77: THE RIGHT METHOD OF TREATING CRIMINALS

78: STRIKES

79: THE REALITY OF THE EXTERIOR WORLD

80: REAL PREEXISTENCE

81: REINCARNATION

82: PANTHEISM

83: THE FOUR METHODS OF ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE

84: THE NECESSITY OF FOLLOWING THE TEACHINGS OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS

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