Dear Gilberto After giving you my warmest I am just slowly going through your kind letters and the part I think (!) by the grace of God I mar respectfully answer. (As I was posting this I am in receipt of other letters from your productive pen which I have to think about later tonight after praying to the One God (Allah) Whose Rah.mat (Mercy) unites us all
You wrote in http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist/m43037.html ***4. In both the Quran, the Bible, and in the writings of other religions, God creates with the power of his words. God *says* "Let there Be light" or God *says* "Be" and it is. (Kun fa ya kun). So if God's words don't end one way to read that is to say that God doesn't stop acting in the world, doesn't stop creating. And in fact, it is a mainstream theological claim the physical universe doesn't have any staying power of its own and that moment to moment to moment, God is constantly recreating everything over and over again Peace Gilberto** Again on this specific point you make a valid statement. The only thing I would suggest that the greatest result of this ***Kun fa yakuun*** This "Be and It is"_ this B uniting with E _ is actually the creation of spiritual transformation in human reality, in the human soul. Otherwise on the physical level humans too "create" things reflecting the potency of the Divine Name the Fashioner...But spiritual transformation is the Work of the Holy Spirit of God through His Revelations. In this Day the Blessed Beauty... *******The vitality of men's belief in God is dying out in every land; nothing short of His wholesome medicine can ever restore it. The corrosion of ungodliness is eating into the vitals of human society; what else but the Elixir of His potent Revelation can cleanse and revive it? Is it within human power, O Hakim, to effect in the constituent elements of any of the minute and indivisible particles of matter so complete a transformation as to transmute it into purest gold? Perplexing and difficult as this may appear, the still greater task of converting satanic strength into heavenly power is ONE THAT WE HAVE BEEN EMPOWERED TO ACCOMPLISH. The Force capable of such a transformation transcendeth the potency of the Elixir itself. The Word of God, alone, can claim the distinction of being endowed with the capacity required for so great and far-reaching a change (Baha'u'llah: Gleanings, Page: 200)***** *** It is evident that nothing short of this mystic transformation could cause such spirit and behaviour, so utterly unlike their previous habits and manners, to be made manifest in the world of being. For their agitation was turned into peace, their doubt into certitude, their timidity into courage. Such is the potency of the Divine Elixir, which, swift as the twinkling of an eye, transmuteth the souls of men! (Baha'u'llah: The Kitab-i-Iqan, Pages: 156-157)*** I am at one with you ...now I will look at your other points My colleagues my fellow students my mentors all of us are looking at your points with great love and warmth and mah.abbat and rah.m khazeh __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, use subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
