The Religious Education
 Frees from imperfections of nature
 Given by Manifestation for virtues
 Spirituality; morality; idealism
 Needs to be revised
 Redeems from defects of nature
 Greatest; is God's bestowal; religion
 Human and divine; defined
 Moral; given by religion
 True: God chooses us to spread
Good and Evil
 Sin defined
 Awareness of; essential to soul
 Choice of; belongs to man
 Discriminate between; animals can't
 Evil in man described
 Evil is non-existence of good
 Evil is only from man
 Evil makes good known
 Good exists; evil is non-existent
 Goodness not same as spirituality
 How can evil be in divine creation?
 Limitation proves unlimited; etc
 Lower nature makes man subject to sin
 May God draw us from evil desire
 No evil in creation
 'noble I created thee'
 Opposites; things known by
 Perfect; all things created so
 Perfection; imperfection; man between
 Reality of evil explained
 Relation of good things can be evil
 Right is for soul to control body
 Righteous acts and covetousness
 Seekers vs the wayward and perverse
 Seekers distinguished from others
 'seemingly fair; inwardly foul'
 Sins born of materialistic nature
 Sources of each; named
 Straying shows God's forgiveness
 Wrong uses of power mentioned
Growth
 Is spirit of whatever grows
 Power of is vegetable spirit
 Virtues; attain via divine education
 Advancement of soul; thru suffering
 Aspirations fed by lower nature; bad
 Aspirations must ascend
 Perfections makes man useful
 Body needs food; soul Holy Spirit
 Passion leads to destruction
 Civilization progress thru knowledge
 Civilization; man created to advance it
 Civilization; material and divine; unite
 Compared to tree
 Culture/education cause soul unfold
 Effect of intoning the revealed words
 Embryonic growth of body and soul
 Emerging of trust of God described
 Evolution after death; nearer to God
 Evolution is spiritual after death
 Evolution is spiritual after death
 Evolution; this life to prepare for next
 Fail in allegiance to God described
 Fly to realms of mystic holiness
 Growing worse caused by self-love
 In divine world thru bounty of God
 Intellect and understanding develop
 Living by revelation urged; effect
 Man ascends by own powers
 Man's caused by material; spiritual
 Man's determined by how he thinks
 Mind; spirit imperfect in infancy
 Moral development cause by religion
 Of new world order; toward perfect
 Of soul is independent of body
 Over-indulgence vs soul growth
 Potentiality manifest via volition
 Potentialities; must manifest now
 Progress before and after death
 Progress; in perfections after death
 Progress thru bounty of God, prayer
 Progress thru stages and degrees
 Progress of world aided by religion
 Purpose of lives; to acquire virtues
 Realizing possibilities through grace
 Requires that body be controlled
 Rise to what you were created for
 Senses lead to expression of life
 Soul grows from seed
 Soul growth only toward God
 Soul passes through earthly conditions
 Soul progresses after death
 Soul progresses on road to divinity
 Soul gains qualities of worlds lived
 Soul; like seed; must grow
 Spiritual growth described
 Spiritual progress; word of God only
 Spiritual to over-rule material forces
 Veils of satanic self must be burned
 Virtues inspired by Holy Spirit
 What man is; by what power dominates
Guidance
 Gift conferred
 Bahaullah asked us to be signs of
 Illumination from; as described
 Light from Manifestation in hearts as
 Promised by Jesus
Heaven
 All in; is pervaded by will of God
 Dependent on God for its existence
 Held in Gods grasp
 Law of is love; as in New Order
 On earth is Kingdom revealed
 Unveiled by Bahaullah
 Hell; all Evil from Man
Kingdom; Action; Attributes of
 Changes in described
 Citizens become if deny self; obey
 Divine bestowals in; are infinite
 Doors are open; seek its treasures
 Everlast bounty; pure hearts share
 Graces of; earn by capacity for love
 Has neither beginning nor end
 Lights and mysteries of; seen
 Materiality is its outer expression
 Mysteries of; are in man
 Realities of; known only through faith
 Realities of; manifest in the hearts
 Realities of; manifest in the hearts
 Song of; first heard in East
 Spiritual Kingdom revealed
 Way to is religion, Manifestations
 Work here is same as departed souls'