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Part One: ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE PROPHETS IN THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY
- 1: NATURE IS GOVERNED BY ONE UNIVERSAL LAW
- 2: PROOFS AND EVIDENCES OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
- 3: THE NEED OF AN EDUCATOR
- 4: ABRAHAM
- 5: MOSES
- 6: CHRIST
- 7: MUḤAMMAD
- 8: THE BÁB
- 9: BAHÁ’U’LLÁH
- 10: TRADITIONAL PROOFS EXEMPLIFIED FROM THE BOOK OF DANIEL
- 11: COMMENTARY ON THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN
- 12: COMMENTARY ON THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH
- 13: COMMENTARY ON THE TWELFTH CHAPTER OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN
- 14: SPIRITUAL PROOFS
- 15: TRUE WEALTH
Part Two: SOME CHRISTIAN SUBJECTS
- 16: OUTWARD FORMS AND SYMBOLS MUST BE USED TO CONVEY INTELLECTUAL CONCEPTIONS
- 17: THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
- 18: THE GREATNESS OF CHRIST IS DUE TO HIS PERFECTIONS
- 19: THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST
- 20: THE NECESSITY OF BAPTISM
- 21: THE SYMBOLISM OF THE BREAD AND THE WINE
- 22: MIRACLES
- 23: THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
- 24: THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON THE APOSTLES
- 25: THE HOLY SPIRIT
- 26: THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
- 27: THE TRINITY
- 28: EXPLANATION OF VERSE FIVE, CHAPTER SEVENTEEN, OF THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN
- 29: EXPLANATION OF VERSE TWENTY-TWO, CHAPTER FIFTEEN, OF THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS
- 30: ADAM AND EVE
- 31: EXPLANATION OF BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT
- 32: EXPLANATION OF THE VERSE “FOR MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN”
- 33: THE “RETURN” SPOKEN OF BY THE PROPHETS
- 34: PETER’S CONFESSION OF FAITH
- 35: PREDESTINATION
Part Three: ON THE POWERS AND CONDITIONS OF THE MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD
- 36: THE FIVE ASPECTS OF SPIRIT
- 37: THE DIVINITY CAN ONLY BE COMPREHENDED THROUGH THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS
- 38: THE THREE STATIONS OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS
- 39: THE HUMAN CONDITION AND THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS
- 40: THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS
- 41: THE UNIVERSAL CYCLES
- 42: THE POWER AND INFLUENCE OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS
- 43: THE TWO CLASSES OF PROPHETS
- 44: EXPLANATION OF THE REBUKES ADDRESSED BY GOD TO THE PROPHETS
- 45: EXPLANATION OF THE VERSE OF THE KITÁB-I-AQDAS, “THERE IS NO PARTNER FOR HIM WHO IS THE DAYSPRING OF REVELATION IN HIS MOST GREAT INFALLIBILITY”
Part Four: ON THE ORIGIN, POWERS AND CONDITIONS OF MAN
- 46: MODIFICATION OF SPECIES
- 47: THE UNIVERSE IS WITHOUT BEGINNING; THE ORIGIN OF MAN
- 48: THE DIFFERENCE EXISTING BETWEEN MAN AND ANIMAL
- 49: THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN RACE
- 50: SPIRITUAL PROOFS OF THE ORIGIN OF MAN
- 51: THE SPIRIT AND MIND OF MAN HAVE EXISTED FROM THE BEGINNING
- 52: THE APPEARING OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BODY
- 53: THE RELATION BETWEEN GOD AND THE CREATURE
- 54: ON THE PROCEEDING OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT FROM GOD
- 55: SOUL, SPIRIT AND MIND
- 56: THE PHYSICAL POWERS AND THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS
- 57: THE CAUSES OF THE DIFFERENCES IN THE CHARACTERS OF MEN
- 58: THE DEGREE OF KNOWLEDGE POSSESSED BY MAN AND THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS
- 59: MAN’S KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
- 60: THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SPIRIT (1)
- 61: THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SPIRIT (2)
- 62: PERFECTIONS ARE WITHOUT LIMIT
- 63: THE PROGRESS OF MAN IN THE OTHER WORLD
- 64: THE STATE OF MAN AND HIS PROGRESS AFTER DEATH
- 65: EXPLANATION OF A VERSE IN THE KITÁB-I-AQDAS
- 66: THE EXISTENCE OF THE RATIONAL SOUL AFTER THE DEATH OF THE BODY
- THE IMMORTALITY OF CHILDREN
- 67: ETERNAL LIFE AND ENTRANCE INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD
- 68: FATE
- 69: THE INFLUENCE OF THE STARS
- 70: FREE WILL
- 71: VISIONS AND COMMUNICATION WITH SPIRITS
- 72: HEALING BY SPIRITUAL MEANS
- 73: HEALING BY MATERIAL MEANS
Part Five: MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS
- 74: THE NONEXISTENCE OF EVIL
- 75: TWO KINDS OF TORMENT
- 76: THE JUSTICE AND MERCY OF GOD
- 77: THE RIGHT METHOD OF TREATING CRIMINALS
- 78: STRIKES
- 79: THE REALITY OF THE EXTERIOR WORLD
- 80: REAL PREEXISTENCE
- 81: REINCARNATION
- 82: PANTHEISM
- 83: THE FOUR METHODS OF ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE
- 84: THE NECESSITY OF FOLLOWING THE TEACHINGS OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS
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