Music and prayer

Month, Day: 178, Power, Light (Beauty)

Only of late, looking into this. The Aqdas mentions the power of music (Page 39, #51): We, verily, have made music as a ladder for your souls, a means whereby they may be lifted up unto the realm on high; make it not, therefore, as wings to self and passion. 

Example:

Praise be unto Thee, O Lord my God! We have observed the Fast in conformity with Thy bidding and break it now through Thy love and Thy good-pleasure. Deign to accept, O my God, the deeds that we have performed in Thy path wholly for the sake of Thy beauty with our faces set towards Thy Cause, free from aught else but Thee. Bestow, then, Thy forgiveness upon us, upon our forefathers, and upon all such as have believed in Thee and in Thy mighty signs in this most great, this most glorious Revelation. Potent art Thou to do what Thou choosest. Thou art, verily, the Most Exalted, the Almighty, the Unconstrained.  

                                                                         Bahá’u’lláh

And, the music: SHAFIREH ARIA FASTING CHANT 2020 (especially, like the piano)

Remarks: 11/18/2021 

11/18/2021 -- Added link to the paragraph with text.  

Some Answered Questions

Month, Day: 178, Knowledge, Beauty (Beauty)

This is a great example of the use of the web. 

Where Some Answered Questions was formulated. 

Remarks: 10/17/2021 

10/17/2021 --  

Operational modes

 Month, Day: 178, Will, Honour (Perfection)

This is cursory and meant to crystallize some reflective notions. The necessary work has to do with operational concerns, on an on-going basis. The rampant abuse that can result from various technological achievements has to be mitigated through people understanding the dynamics on all levels. 

Motivation: The Masters Prayer sent to Alfred E. Lunt (grandfather, 8th generation in the U.S. - died in 1937). This is with respect to what the American dream might be and how it applies to those who see it.

As well, yes, I am familiar with the Baha'i Cosmology as written on Wikipedia (get link). 

• God/Manifestation (see Writings)
• Creation/Covenant (Master, Guardian)
• Philosophy/Mathematics (our knowingness)
• Others (necessary realization, significance)
• Philosophy/Mathematics (applied, operational)
• Technology (abilities and artifacts)
• Evolution (energy)

 If one thinks of 7V4V, that is fine. We have periods and cycles. 

The advent of the computer compels us to look at things differently than we did before. In this hierarchy, of course, there is both top-down and bottom-up. It can be secularized (that's the whole idea). 

This linear string is happenstance. We are talking embedding of various sorts. It may be that the transition to a secular view that can be modeled, in terms of truth engineering, will help elucidate some of the particulars that will seem too fuzzy. BTW, others? Unity, of course. 

Remarks: 10/11/2021 

10/11/2021 --  

Might to Will

 Month, Day: 178, Might, Loftiness (Glory)

First year with the new model in mind and the moon in sight. See Cycles-return. 

So, we are at the end of Might where Fall came about. Now, we start the up-loop through Will and on toward Loftiness. 

But, whereas in the northern real, we are descending with winter approaching. We are like March 18th which is right before Fast end. Cold. In some areas, still a couple of months from the budding of trees. 

Remarks: 09/25/2021 

09/25/2021 --  

No one knows their end

   Month, Day: 178, Names, Power (Grace)

Sura Houd  

And I tell you not that with me are the treasures of God: nor do I say, 'I know the things unseen;’ nor do I say, 'I am an angel;’ nor do I say of those whom you eye with scorn. No good thing will God bestow on them: God best knoweth what is in their minds for then should I be one of those who act unjustly."  

Remarks: 08/31/2021 

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