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A Study of the Pen Motif in the Bahá'í Writings

Author	Kavian Sadeghzade Milani
Author 2	Nafeh Fananapazir
Title of item	A Study of the Pen Motif in the Bahá'í Writings
Volume	9:1
Pages	27-49
Parent publication	Journal of Bahá'í Studies
Publisher of this ed.	Ottawa: Association for Bahá'í Studies North America
Date of this edition	1999
Language	English
Permission	author and publisher
Posted	2011-06-10 by Jonah Winters
Formatted	2011-06-07 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Published Articles
URL	bahai-library.com/milani_fananapazir_pen_motif
Abstract	Theology and background of the "pen" metaphor — the creative force presented by the Manifestation of God — and the "tablet" — the recipient of the creative force. Also the five realms of existence: Háhút, Láhút, Jabarút, Malakút, and Násút.
Notes	HTML below edited and reformatted without reference to original publication: some formatting, e.g. italics or blockquotes, may have been lost. See also PDF version from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/277. Mirrored with permission from www.markfoster.net/jccc/rs/penmotif.html. See also Bahá'í cosmology [wikipedia].
Tags	Allegories and metaphors; Cosmology; Lawh (Tablet); Manifestations of God; Pen (metaphor); Suriy-i-Qalam (Surih of the Pen); Theosophy; Words and phrases; Worlds of God
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Last edited	2022-04-05 02:18 EST. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted between 2003-2012 had various slightly different URLs and sometimes can be found in archive.org with addresses like bahai-library.com/file.php5?file=milani_fananapazir_pen_motif.

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