Reality and the Worlds of God compilation

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Table of Contents

  1. Reality Unveiled
    1. Why Study Reality?
    2. What is Reality?
    3. How to Perceive Reality: "Not with your eyes, but Mine"
    4. Reality: Kinds of Knowledge, and Powers of Perception

  2. Three Conditions of Existence in Reality
    1. Deity, the Source Condition: Kingdom of the Essence of God
      1. "In the Beginning"?
      2. The Source of All Being
      3. God, The Divine Reality
      4. The Inadequacy of Human Concepts of God
      5. The Manifesting and Creating of Worlds
    2. The Greater World: The Kingdom of the Manifestation of God
      1. .The Condition that God Manifests: The World of Prophethood
      2. The Cause that God Manifests: His Divine Plan
      3. The Spirit that God Manifests: The Holy Spirit
      4. The Will that God Manifests: the Divine Law
      5. The Word that God Manifests: Divine Revelation
      6. The Being Who Embodies All that God Manifests
      7. The Purpose of God's Manifestation
      8. The Revelation Manifested by God
        1. GIVEN TO CREATION
        2. PARTAKING OF THIS GIFT
        3. THE PURPOSE OF REVELATION
    3. The Lesser World, Servitude, Creation: The Kingdom of the Emanation of God
      1. The Condition of Prophethood in Creation
        1. SUPERHUMAN CONDITION, INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN GOD AND MAN
        2. PROVISIONS FOR WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS
        3. THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, MAKING TRUTH (REALITY) PERCEPTIBLE
        4. THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH NOW AVAILABLE
      2. The World of Servitude
      3. Creation as Seen by "My Eyes"
      4. Creation: The World of Souls and Reflection of Divinity
      5. Two Conditions of Creation: Material and Spiritual
      6. Man: Spiritual, Compared to the Animal
      7. Mankind: Combining the Spiritual and Material Conditions
      8. The Spiritual World, Progressively Unveiled: The "Kingdom Revealed"

  3. The Soul Unveiled
    1. The Soul: A Heavenly Mirror, Uniquely and Divinely Significant
    2. The Soul's Origin and Purpose
      1. The Origin of the Soul
      2. The Eternal Purpose of God for Man
      3. The Divine Earthly Objective
      4. The Soul's Dominion over Nature
        1. LET MAN HAVE DOMINION
        2. MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY WITH RESPECT TO CREATION
    3. The Power of the Soul and of the Lesser World
      1. The Generating Impulse, Power or Spirit behind All Existence
      2. The Role of Unity and Love in the Generating Impulse of Spirit
      3. Spirit: The Dual Power to Know and to Love
      4. Spirit: Manifesting in Degrees
      5. The Source-Power, the Manifestation's Spirit: The Essence of Divine Knowledge and Love
      6. The Soul's Spirit or Characteristic Power
      7. The Human Spirit or Characteristic Power
      8. The Animal Spirit or Characteristic Power
      9. Lower Degrees of Spirit
    4. The Life Pattern of the Soul
      1. Two Parts of the Pattern: Embryonic and Real Life
      2. The Soul's Relation to the Body through which It Functions
      3. The Objective: To Acquire Virtues (Knowledge and Love)
      4. The Soul's Life Independent of the Body During Its Earthly Lifetime
      5. The Inner Life and How It Connects with the Outer
        1. HIGHER-THAN-SENSORY PERCEPTION FUNCTIONING DURING SLEEP
        2. AWARENESS OF UNSEEN SPIRITUAL WORLDS AND HOW IT DEVELOPS
        3. THE VIVID PERCEPTIONS OF THE INNER LIFE
        4. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE MANY WORLDS OF GOD
      6. Parallel Pattern is That of a Fruit Tree
      7. The Soul's Life after the Body Dies
    5. The Two Natures Attributed to the Soul
      1. Origin: Divine Nature from the Soul, Animal Nature from the Body
      2. Characteristics of the Soul's Two Natures
    6. The Intermediate or Human Nature Attributed to the Soul
      1. An Earthly Development between the Divine and the Animal
      2. Character Deficiencies Showing in Human Nature and Beings
        1. DISUNITY AND GODLESSNESS
        2. BLINDNESS TO SPIRITUAL BEAUTY - OVER-EMPHASIS ON THE OUTER LIFE
        3. SELF-INDULGENCE AND LIVING IN THE PRISON OF SELF
      3. Purpose: The Difference between Natural Humanness and True Spirituality
      4. Evil, "Satan" and "Hell"
      5. The Meaning and Importance of Right Choices
      6. Evil as Part of the Divine Plan
    7. Mind and Knowledge in the Soul's Activities
      1. What Knowledge is - Available Varieties
      2. Divine Mind, and How the Soul's Knowing Power Reflects It
      3. The Mind of Man and the Divine Nature's Knowing Powers
        1. THE HUMAN MIND
        2. INTUITION
        3. FAITH
      4. Potentialities and Limitations of Human Knowing Powers
        1. INHERENT POWERS
        2. HAZARDS
      5. Thought: A Vital Power in Soul Development
      6. Education: Essential to the Life of the Soul
    8. The Heart and the Love in the Soul's Activities
      1. The Reality of Love
      2. The Soul's Reflection of Love
      3. Evil Emotions Caused by Self-Love or Limitations of Human Vision
      4. Human Desire and Will vs. the Divine
      5. Potentialities of the Soul in Love: Birth into the "Kingdom Revealed"
    9. The Soul as Man Reacts and Lives with His Feeling Determined by what He "Sees"
      1. Our Levels of Living, Growing, and Reacting Established by Our Own Vision
      2. "It is first to know…": Awareness or "Knowing", the Start of Every Reaction
      3. Animal Nature Aware only of the Physical World
      4. Human Nature Aware only of Its Own World
        1. WHAT THE HUMAN CREATURE "SEES"
        2. "NATURAL" HUMAN FEELINGS AND ACTIONS
      5. Divine Nature Seeing Reality, Reacting Spiritually

  4. The Workshop of the Soul, and Beyond
    1. "Worlds, Holy and Spiritually Glorious", Traversed Progressively
      1. The Physical World: An Outer Expression of Reality that Senses Perceive
      2. Human Thought World: A Mental Picture of Reality that the Human Intellect Perceives
      3. World of Human Affairs: What Human Reacting Produces
      4. The Kingdom Revealed: Reality Seen, and God's Purpose Revealed
      5. Entrance into the Kingdom: Key Given
        1. GOD'S CAUSE
        2. MAN'S PART
      6. Living in the Spiritual World and Abiding in the Light of God's Purpose
      7. The World Order of Baha'u'llah: Part of the Kingdom Revealed
      8. The World or Condition of "Departed Souls"
    2. Time: A Dimension of God's Purpose
      1. Time: A Reality
      2. Cycles of Growth
      3. God's Purpose Unfolding in Time
      4. Now, The Day of God: Every Soul Challenged
    3. The Religion and the Revelator
      1. Origin and Reality of Religion
      2. Purpose: Salvation from the Soul's Lower Nature through Progressive Acceptance of Reality
      3. Revealed Religions Changed to Human "religions": Need for Renewal
      4. The Transforming Elixir: Religion's Gift to Creation
      5. Baha'u'llah and His Divine Knowledge and Love
    4. God's Purpose for Man in Fulfillment
      1. God Calling Each Soul through Baha'u'llah
      2. The Soul Responding through Prayer
        1. ARE PRAYERS ANSWERED?
        2. THE WISDOM OF PRAYER
        3. THE UNIQUE AUTHORITY AND POWER OF "REVEALED PRAYERS"
        4. WORSHIP CONDITIONED BY THE SOUL'S VISION
        5. SUPPLICATION ADMONISHED
        6. HOW THE HEART COMMUNICATES
        7. POTENTIAL FULFILLMENT OF SPECIFIC NEEDS, THROUGH PRAYER
        8. THE SOUL'S GRATITUDE EXPRESSED IN PRAYER
        9. CONCERN FOR OTHERS BEST EXPRESSED IN PRAYER
        10. THE BELOVED, RECEIVING OUR PRAYERS
      3. Translating Reality into Action: Responsibility and the Bounty of Baha'is
      4. Reality and the Worlds of God Glimpsed

 

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