The Manifestation of God.
Kitáb-i-Aqdas: i.e., The Most Holy Book. The principal work of Bahá’u’lláh, which contains the greater part of the commandments. It is the basis of the principles of the Bahá’í Faith.
The House of Justice (Baytu’l-Adl) is an institution created by Bahá’u’lláh. He refers to two levels of this institution: the Local Houses of Justice, responsible for each town or village, and the Universal House of Justice. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, in His Will and Testament, added an intermediate level, the Secondary Houses of Justice. It is only on the Universal House of Justice that infallibility has been conferred. At the present time, to stress their purely spiritual functions, the Local and Secondary Houses of Justice are designated Local and National Spiritual Assemblies.
Qur’án 23:14.
Man.
i.e., if we admit, for example, that man had formerly been a quadruped, or had had a tail.
Cf. Gen. 1:26.
This subject, of emanation and manifestation, is more fully explained in the following chapter.
Cf. “Real Preexistence,” p. 280.
John 1:1.