Wednesday, October 12, 2022

A Baha'i Glossary

Month, Day: 179, Will, Honour (Justice) 

While researching today, I ran into this site. Probably have seen it from time to time over the years. Perhaps, it's because I don't generally do searches on Baha'i subjects. Rather, I go to the on-line libraries and browse/search, having spent decades with the printed Writings before we saw the brief time (25 years) of the web. 

One thing that is attractive is the old style. I still have pages like that being maintained. But, the scholarship is first rate. Learned a few things today; the old guys has not said that a lot, lately. 

We will be referring to this site, henceforth. 

Remarks: 10/12/2022

10/12/2022 -- 

Sunday, October 9, 2022

Koran

 Month, Day: 179, Will, Knowledge (Glory)

Today, I was looking for readings from Paul in his letters to the Romans. Why? There had been some discussion about him that I remembered. So, I found a record of a Letter to the UHJ with responses. 

Too, though, I was making a Koran page for easy reference and found a post from 10 May 2013 on St. Paul. I had been searching for the use of "Qu'ran" in the blog. 

Remarks: 10/08/2022

10/08/2022 -- 

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Ezra Pound

Month, Day: 179, Names, Power (Grace)

Interesting read: 

    'Abdu'l-Baha and Ezra Pound's Circle  

Remarks: 09/01/2022

09/01/2022 -- 

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Gog and Magog

Month, Day: 179, Perfection, Perfection (Perfection)

This is one of those rare times when we have a triple, of month, day, and day of the week. And, Perfection? We will get back to these. 

For some reason, 'Gog and Magog' has been gnawing at me, from some memory of long ago which had to do with Jewish friends. Of late, I have been reading a book about the Hasidic view of the world. Very interesting, mainly due to my Catholic upbringing which consisted of immersion in the Testaments, mostly the New. For some reason, I had a notion that this dealt with technology. Will track that down. 

In terms of technology, people are infatuated greatly with what I call AIn't which has a technical purpose. We will be getting to that, in terms of truth engineering. As someone mentioned today in a forum, academia has looked at this forever, it seems. So, where are the failings? Are there failings? Well, we see a fantasy, essentially, being the basis for major world views. Wait, that argument can be made from several other angles, as well. 

So, how to proceed? Well, as before, with some commentary plus pointers to material. First, Gog and Magog from three major views. 

Technical motives will necessitate some changes that are not explicitly covered in the Writings. At the core of the decisions will be a balance twixt the human abilities versus that of the artificial (context more than the AIn't view). 

Psychology will be a central theme, too, with many types of research done over the years will have results coming to fore, such as application of Jung's ideas (several). Too, the merging of a new approach to cognition will be part of the dynamic. Not the least, changes in attitude about mathematics, and computing, will allow hitherto fore ignored discussions and work.  

Throughout all of this, stabilizing influences will come via cultures across the board, and the world, offering their insights gained over time and through locational imperatives. 

Remarks: 08/08/2022

08/08/2022 -- 

Friday, June 24, 2022

Hermeticism

 Month, Day: 179, Mercy, Splendour (Independence)

This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_Trismegistus 

             https://bahai-library.com/brown_hermes_apollonius 

    and

that: https://bahai-library.com/brown_forward_article_evolution 

    and

another thing: https://bahai-library.com/mclean_rhetoric_shoghi_effendi 

   and 

more. 

Remarks: 12/20/2022

06/25/2022 -- Added article on rhetoric. 

06/29/2022 -- Changed top link to Hermes rather than Hermeticism plus added link to Baha'i Library. 

12/20/2022 -- Yes, back to the gist: Enoch and Unity.