Bahá'í cosmology
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Bahá’í cosmology has its origin in the Sufi cosmology of Ibn al-'Arabi.
In the Súriy-i-Vafa, Bahá'u'lláh writes:
| “ | "Know thou of a truth that the worlds of God are countless in their number, and infinite in their range. None can reckon or comprehend them except God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise."[1] | ” |
In an early writing, the Tablet of All Food (Lawh-i-Kullu't-Ta'am), Bahá'u'lláh describes five levels between God and the physical world:
- Hahut - the unapproachable essence of God.
- Lahut - Divinity.
- Jabarut - the world of ‘Spirits’.
- Malakut - the ‘Kingdom’, the heaven of the angels.
- Nasut - the human world.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Bahá'u'lláh, Tablets, p.187
[edit] References
- Symbolic Cosmology in the Sufi and Baha'i traditions by Michael McCarron.
- [1] The Realms of Divine Existence
as described in the Tablet of All Food by Bijan Ma'sumian, Ph.D.
- Tablet of All Food by Bahá'u'lláh, translated by Stephen Lambden.
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