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DavidMark
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Dear contender Jen (who likes to post a smiley that implies I’m wacked out):
These mysteries and stations we are talking about are greater than us, and the lesser cannot completely comprehend them. I never said Jesus was JUST a Messenger. All we will ever understand of God is what is taught and exemplified by the Divine Manifestations. Their light is the same, but the measure of it increases, like the moon in phase, until the entire disc is illuminated. We are living in that Days of Days.
If the Buddhists really know and love Buddha, they will come to Baha’u’llah, which many have done. It was Buddhist Baha’is of Rangoon who had the marble sarcophagus made for the buriel of the Báb’s body in 1909.
My unalterable position is the one stated by Baha’u’llah here:
Were any of the all-embracing Manifestations of God to declare: “I am God!” He verily speaketh the truth, and no doubt attacheth thereto. For it hath been repeatedly demonstrated that through their Revelation, their attributes and names, the Revelation of God, His name and His attributes, are made manifest in the world. …
And were any of them to voice the utterance: **“I am the Messenger of God,” **He also speaketh the truth, the indubitable truth. Even as He saith: “Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but He is the Messenger of God.” Viewed in this light, they are all but Messengers of that ideal King, that unchangeable Essence.
And were they all to proclaim: “I am the Seal of the Prophets,” they verily utter but the truth, beyond the faintest shadow of doubt. For they are all but one person, one soul, one spirit, one being, one revelation. They are all the manifestation of the “Beginning” and the “End,” the “First” and the “Last,” the “Seen” and “Hidden” – all of which pertain to Him Who is the innermost Spirit of Spirits and eternal Essence of Essences.
And were they to say: **“We are the servants of God,” **this also is a manifest and indisputable fact. For they have been made manifest in the uttermost state of servitude, a servitude the like of which no man can possibly attain. Thus in moments in which these Essences of being were deeply immersed beneath the oceans of ancient and everlasting holiness, or when they soared to the loftiest summits of divine mysteries, they claimed their utterance to be the Voice of divinity, the Call of God Himself. (Baha’u’llah, The Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 178)
VIV: He came like a “thief in the night” and the householders didn’t know He was in the house. “Every eye shall see Him” means recognizing the spiritual verities…which we will either do in this world or the next. Physical sight is unimportant, just as it was in the case of Jesus’ first coming. Why didn’t the Jews recognize Him? Isaiah said (and so did the Qur’an) “eyes have they with which they see not” etc. He was beclouded by the human station – the fact that He is in a human body subject to the same conditions as other people. It is the Word They speak, whether They are homeless, penniless, friendless. That inescapable Word will triumph.
Beseeching God’s favors for every seeker,
Mark
These mysteries and stations we are talking about are greater than us, and the lesser cannot completely comprehend them. I never said Jesus was JUST a Messenger. All we will ever understand of God is what is taught and exemplified by the Divine Manifestations. Their light is the same, but the measure of it increases, like the moon in phase, until the entire disc is illuminated. We are living in that Days of Days.
If the Buddhists really know and love Buddha, they will come to Baha’u’llah, which many have done. It was Buddhist Baha’is of Rangoon who had the marble sarcophagus made for the buriel of the Báb’s body in 1909.
My unalterable position is the one stated by Baha’u’llah here:
Were any of the all-embracing Manifestations of God to declare: “I am God!” He verily speaketh the truth, and no doubt attacheth thereto. For it hath been repeatedly demonstrated that through their Revelation, their attributes and names, the Revelation of God, His name and His attributes, are made manifest in the world. …
And were any of them to voice the utterance: **“I am the Messenger of God,” **He also speaketh the truth, the indubitable truth. Even as He saith: “Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but He is the Messenger of God.” Viewed in this light, they are all but Messengers of that ideal King, that unchangeable Essence.
And were they all to proclaim: “I am the Seal of the Prophets,” they verily utter but the truth, beyond the faintest shadow of doubt. For they are all but one person, one soul, one spirit, one being, one revelation. They are all the manifestation of the “Beginning” and the “End,” the “First” and the “Last,” the “Seen” and “Hidden” – all of which pertain to Him Who is the innermost Spirit of Spirits and eternal Essence of Essences.
And were they to say: **“We are the servants of God,” **this also is a manifest and indisputable fact. For they have been made manifest in the uttermost state of servitude, a servitude the like of which no man can possibly attain. Thus in moments in which these Essences of being were deeply immersed beneath the oceans of ancient and everlasting holiness, or when they soared to the loftiest summits of divine mysteries, they claimed their utterance to be the Voice of divinity, the Call of God Himself. (Baha’u’llah, The Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 178)
VIV: He came like a “thief in the night” and the householders didn’t know He was in the house. “Every eye shall see Him” means recognizing the spiritual verities…which we will either do in this world or the next. Physical sight is unimportant, just as it was in the case of Jesus’ first coming. Why didn’t the Jews recognize Him? Isaiah said (and so did the Qur’an) “eyes have they with which they see not” etc. He was beclouded by the human station – the fact that He is in a human body subject to the same conditions as other people. It is the Word They speak, whether They are homeless, penniless, friendless. That inescapable Word will triumph.
Beseeching God’s favors for every seeker,
Mark