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Would you accept a Lord who visits the toilet every sometime

Sounds a little ... you know!

Isn't it time to stop creating myths and come back to truth

You have put God so below

Why?

Arent you worried about these bad claims

2007-02-20 13:05:18 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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"Know of a certainty that in every Dispensation the light of Divine Revelation hath been vouchsafed unto men in direct proportion to their spiritual capacity. Consider the sun. How feeble its rays the moment it appeareth above the horizon. How gradually its warmth and potency increase as it approacheth its zenith, enabling meanwhile all created things to adapt themselves to the growing intensity of its light. How steadily it declineth until it reacheth its setting point. Were it, all of a sudden, to manifest the energies latent within it, it would, no doubt, cause injury to all created things.... In like manner, if the Sun of Truth were suddenly to reveal, at the earliest stages of its manifestation, the full measure of the potencies which the providence of the Almighty hath bestowed upon it, the earth of human understanding would waste away and be consumed; for men's hearts would neither sustain the intensity of its revelation, nor be able to mirror forth the radiance of its light. Dismayed and overpowered, they would cease to exist."

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...Of these worlds He mentioned four in this Tablet. To gain some appreciation of their mysteries, let us turn our thoughts to God's creation on this earth, where different kingdoms exist together, each one fulfilling its particular purpose. And let us consider the human being who, in this life, functions on three different levels simultaneously. In relation to the lower kingdoms, such as the vegetable and animal, man is superior and dominant. Within his own kingdom, however, man is created to live in unity with his fellow men; whereas, in relation to the Manifestations of God, he is vastly inferior. In this example it can be seen that although man remains the same being, he manifests three degrees of qualities and attributes: those of unity, of inferiority and superiority.

Likewise, the spiritual worlds of God mentioned in this Tablet are of different degrees. The world of Hahut is described by Bahá'u'lláh as the Heaven of Oneness, the realm of the Divine Being, the imperishable Essence, a realm so exalted that even the Manifestations of God are unable to understand it. Bahá'u'lláh has written in one of His Tablets:

From time immemorial, He, the Divine Being, hath been
veiled in the ineffable sanctity of His exalted Self, and will
everlastingly continue to be wrapt in the impenetrable
mystery of His unknowable Essence... Ten thousand
Prophets, each a Moses, are thunderstruck upon the Sinai of
their search at God's forbidding voice, 'Thou shalt never
behold Me!'; whilst a myriad Messengers, each as great as
Jesus, stand dismayed upon their heavenly thrones by the
interdiction 'Mine Essence thou shalt never apprehend!'

The next is the world of Lahut which is the plane of Divinity, the Heavenly Court. In the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh it appears that the realm of Lahut is perhaps the world of God in relation to His Manifestations and Chosen Ones. Immersed in the ocean of His Presence, They claim no station for Themselves on this plane and are as utter nothingness in relation to Him. In this realm no one is identified with God and the designation 'He alone, and no one else beside Him, is God' becomes manifest here.

Yet another spiritual world which Bahá'u'lláh describes in this Tablet is that of Jabarut, the All-Highest Dominion. The station of those who abide therein is closely identified with God, insofar as they manifest all the attributes of God, speak with His voice and are united with Him. This world appears to be the realm in which God's Chosen Ones, in relation to created things, are invested with His authority.

In the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh there are many statements concerning the dual station of the Manifestations of God and His Chosen Ones. In relation to God, these Holy Souls appear as utter nothingness, but in relation to the world of creation They are endowed with all the attributes of God and are closely identified with Him. As Bahá'u'lláh has stated in one of His prayers:

When I contemplate, O my God, the relationship that
bindeth me to Thee, I am moved to proclaim to all created
things 'verily I am God!'; and when I consider my own self,
lo, I find it coarser than clay!

Similar statements have also been made in Islam. The following tradition attributed to Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, clearly indicates the dual nature of the Messengers of God. 'Manifold are Our relationships with God. At one time, We are He Himself, and He is We Ourself. At another He is that He is, and We are that We are.'

Another plane in the spiritual worlds of God is that of Malakut, the Kingdom of God, often referred to by the Prophets of the past. In the Tablet of Kullu't-Ta'am, Bahá'u'lláh has described it as the Heaven of Justice.

Apart from these four spiritual worlds, Bahá'u'lláh also refers in this Tablet to the realm of Nasut -- this mortal world -- which He describes as the Heaven of Bounty. In many of His Tablets He has confirmed that both the human world and Divine Revelation have come into being through the bounty of God alone, and that if His bounty were to be replaced for one moment by the operation of His justice, the whole of creation would cease to exist.

(Adib Taherzadeh, The Revelation of Baha'u'llah v 1, p. 57)

2007-02-20 13:36:38 · answer #1 · answered by Gravitar or not... 5 · 0 0

You can take a Lord to the toilet, but you can't make him pee.

2007-02-20 21:11:38 · answer #2 · answered by Vlasko 3 · 0 0

Not only is God not held hostage by people of no faith in Him. I am not swayed from my faith in Him. May God bless U.

2007-02-20 21:08:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2 2

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