Re: Religion and Women

2010-11-08 Thread Stephen Gray
The Baha'i Studies Listserv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_feminism Equality feminism is a submovement of feminism. It is fundamentally at odds with difference feminism and expresses the crucial similarities between the male and female sexes. Mary Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication of the

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2010-11-08 Thread Dean Betts
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Please, where can I find Baha'u'llah's own description of his Revelation in the Siya-Chal? __ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to

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2010-11-08 Thread Adib Masumian
The Baha'i Studies Listserv I was asleep upon My couch, when lo, the breezes of My Lord, the All-Merciful, passed over Me, awoke Me from My slumber, and bade Me lift up My voice betwixt earth and heaven. This thing is not from Me, but from God. Unto this testify the dwellers of His Dominion and of

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2010-11-08 Thread Adib Masumian
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Also see: During the days I lay in the prison of Tihran, though the galling weight of the chains and the stench-filled air allowed Me but little sleep, still in those infrequent moments of slumber I felt as if something flowed from the crown of My head over My breast,

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2010-11-08 Thread Susan Maneck
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Please, where can I find Baha'u'llah's own description of his Revelation in the Siya-Chal? As to the dungeon in which this Wronged One and others similarly wronged were confined, a dark and narrow pit were preferable. Upon Our arrival We were first conducted along a

Re: Afterlife

2010-11-08 Thread Stephen Gray
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Also, it's worth noting that symbolic interpretation is standard in Judaism. From: Stephen Gray skg_z...@yahoo.com To: Baha'i Studies bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Sent: Wed, November 3, 2010 4:26:21 PM Subject: Re: Afterlife The Baha'i

Re: Afterlife

2010-11-08 Thread Stephen Gray
The Baha'i Studies Listserv I don't watch 700 Club so I wouldn't know. I just assumed that everyone who was a Christian, Muslim, Sufi, Baha'i, etc. believed that heaven symbolized a metaphysical dimension or plane of existence where good souls go after death and hell for evil souls.

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2010-11-08 Thread Dean Betts
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Isn't there a description somewhere of the Maid of Heaven appearing during the time when He was reveiving the Revelation? - Original Message - From: Susan Maneck sman...@gmail.com To: Baha'i Studies bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 11:55

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2010-11-08 Thread Iskandar Hai, M.D.
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Suratu'l-Haykal. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Dean Betts fdbe...@mindspring.com wrote: The Baha'i Studies Listserv Isn't there a description somewhere of the Maid of Heaven appearing during the time when He was reveiving the Revelation? - Original

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2010-11-08 Thread STChamberlain
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Greetings Dean! It seems that there are some variations on the manner in which Baha'u'llah refers to Divine Revelation, determined by who he was addressing; and in different texts. Also, in Gleanings a long passage which I personally read as a dialogue between

Re: Request - Suratu'l-Haykal

2010-11-08 Thread STChamberlain
The Baha'i Studies Listserv A Revelation, hailed as the promise and crowning glory of past ages and centuries, as the consummation of all the Dispensations within the Adamic Cycle, inaugurating an era of at least a thousand years' duration, and a cycle destined to last no less than five

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2010-11-08 Thread Susan Maneck
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Isn't there a description somewhere of the Maid of Heaven appearing during the time when He was reveiving the Revelation? Oops, sorry. I posted that quickly as I was headed for work. The passage describing His revelation is the one which follows: One night, in a

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2010-11-08 Thread Dean Betts
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Thanks, everyone who replied. That's what I needed. - Original Message - From: Iskandar Hai, M.D. To: Baha'i Studies Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 3:16 PM Subject: Re: request The Baha'i Studies ListservSuratu'l-Haykal. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010