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Sacred Mythology and the Bahá'í Faith

Author	William P. Collins
Title of item	Sacred Mythology and the Bahá'í Faith
Volume	2:4
Parent publication	Journal of Bahá'í Studies
Publisher of this ed.	Ottawa, ON: Association for Bahá'í Studies North America
Date of this edition	1990
Language	English
Permission	publisher
Posted	2011-05-26 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Published Articles
URL	bahai-library.com/collins_sacred_mythology
Abstract	The mythological universe created by Bahá’u’lláh employs three significant spiritual verities: the unknowable nature of the Ultimate Mystery, the relativity of religious/mythological truth, and the necessity of science and investigation of reality.
Notes	This article is posted online at the Journal of Bahá'í Studies past issues archive. Permission to cross-post articles given by ABS editor in 1997 and 2000 when I was building the first bahai-studies.ca website.
Tags	Allegories and metaphors; Babi history; Bahai history; Dawn-Breakers (book); Heroism; Interfaith dialogue; Joseph Campbell; Mythology; Poetry
Cross-references	See also Dimensions of Spirituality: Reflections on the Meaning of Spiritual Life and Transformation in Light of the Bahá'í Faith (chapter 8, Jack McLean, 1994).
Page views	4947 hits since 2011-05-26
Last edited	2022-04-04 15:41 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=collins_sacred_mythology.

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