the Fashioner

Month, Day: 181, Mercy, Honour (Grace) 

Lawḥ-i-Ḥikmat (Tablet of Wisdom):

Beware, O My loved ones, lest ye despise the merits of My learned servants whom God hath graciously chosen to be the exponents of His Name “the Fashioner” amidst mankind. Exert your utmost endeavor that ye may develop such crafts and undertakings that everyone, whether young or old, may benefit therefrom. We are quit of those ignorant ones who fondly imagine that Wisdom is to give vent to one’s idle imaginings and to repudiate God, the Lord of all men; even as We hear some of the heedless voicing such assertions today.

Remarks: 07/10/2025

07/10/2025 --     

Eyes of the East

Month, Day: 181, Mercy, Speech (Beauty) 

Lawḥ-i-Ḥikmat (Tablet of Wisdom):

When the eyes of the people of the East were captivated by the arts and wonders of the West, they roved distraught in the wilderness of material causes, oblivious of the One Who is the Causer of Causes, and the Sustainer thereof, while such men as were the source and the wellspring of Wisdom never denied the moving Impulse behind these causes, nor the Creator or the Origin thereof. Thy Lord knoweth, yet most of the people know not.

Remarks: 07/06/2025

07/06/2025 --    

Light, repeat

Month, Day: 181, Grandeur, Sovereignty (Beauty) 

This is a repeat from 3 May 2022 because the Month of Light is right around the corner. 

The World Order of Baha'u'llah: 

... when .., the light of religion is quenched in men’s hearts, and the divinely appointed Robe, designed to adorn the human temple, is deliberately discarded, a deplorable decline in the fortunes of humanity immediately sets in, bringing in its wake all the evils which a wayward soul is capable of revealing. The perversion of human nature, the degradation of human conduct, the corruption and dissolution of human institutions, reveal themselves, under such circumstances, in their worst and most revolting aspects.

Human character is debased,
confidence is shaken,
the nerves of discipline are relaxed,
the voice of human conscience is stilled,
the sense of decency and shame is obscured,
conceptions of duty, of solidarity, of reciprocity and loyalty are distorted, and
the very feeling of peacefulness, of joy and of hope is gradually extinguished. 

Quoting from WOofB by the Guardian, like before. So, truth engineering is a subject to consider.   

Remarks: 06/01/2025

06/01/2025 --   

Five kinds

Month, Day: 181, Beauty, Might (Grace)   

SAQ (The Five Kinds of Spirit) 

– 36 – The Five Kinds of Spirit  

First is the vegetable spirit… the composition and combination of the elements according to the wisdom and decree of the Most High, and from their mutual arrangement as well as their influence upon, and their interconnection with, other created things. … So, to give an analogy, electricity results from the composition of certain constituent parts, and as soon as these parts are separated, the electrical force is immediately dissipated and lost. Such is the vegetable spirit.

After this is the animal spirit … when by the decree of the almighty Lord it reaches a fuller degree of combination, the animal spirit, which consists in the power of the senses, comes to exist. This power perceives sensible realities—that which can be seen, heard, tasted, smelled, or touched. … It is like this lamp before you: When oil, wick, and flame are brought together, light is produced; but when the oil is exhausted, the wick consumed, and the constituent parts separated, the light will also be extinguished and lost. 

As to the human spirit, its likeness is that of a glass and the bounty of the sun … body of man, which is composed of the elements, is the most perfect form of composition and combination, the soundest arrangement, the noblest composition, and the most perfect of all existing things. It grows and develops through the animal spirit. This perfect body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun: If the glass is shattered or the mirror destroyed, no harm befalls the outpouring grace of the sun, which continues unabated.

This spirit is the discovering power that encompasses all things. … 

But this human spirit has two aspects: one divine and one satanic—that is, it is capable of both the greatest perfection and the greatest deficiency. Should it acquire virtues, it is the noblest of all things; and should it acquire vices, it becomes the most vile. 

As to the fourth degree of spirit, it is the heavenly spirit, which is the spirit of faith and the outpouring grace of the All-Merciful. This spirit proceeds from the breath of the Holy Spirit,

The fifth degree of spirit is the Holy Spirit, which is the mediator between God and His creation. It is like a mirror facing the sun: Just as a spotless mirror receives the rays of the sun and reflects its bounty to others, so too is the Holy Spirit the mediator of the light of holiness, which it conveys from the Sun of Truth to sanctified souls.

Remarks: 05/06/2025

05/06/2025 --   

Renew

Month, Day: 181, Splendour, Questions (Majesty) 

Ah, Questions, again. The basis for science and knowledge rather than knowing, itself. 

Let's review a few posts. 

• Mission and method (3 Jan 2008) -- This started off of a bounce from Wikipedia and its page on Science and Religion. In the first month (January), we had posts on economics, money/wealth, and some seeds. The first two dealt with the reality of retired life. We were three years in. The last one had several topics. These ought to be used to scrutinize these fifteen-plus years of posts to see if we stayed on track given that the world has changed immensely in those years. January of that year had four posts. 
• Any moment (18 May 2008) -- A little poem from the 1990s was presented. Cycles and their moments are a continuing theme especially as we are now in an age of GenAI and its turmoils. The reference of psychether is apropos to this time. Some say GenAI and its use is disrespectful of life. Others chase the potential of the computer for dominance. Fans of science fiction are having a ball. Can science mature so as to open its framework? Yes. The real question deals with whether mathematics can mature. 
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With regard to Wikipedia, the "Talk" page has some of my comments with regard to science and religion. But, of late, the whole tone and scope of the page has changed. That, to me, was rewarding. As well, there are pages on Baha'i Cosmology as well as we can see Writings on alchemy (and such) via the web. 

Remarks: 04/03/2025

04/03/2025 --