Comments on: It’s a start… http://jbarnabasl.wordpress.com/2006/04/08/its-a-start/ Explorations of our humanness Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:39:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: admin http://jbarnabasl.wordpress.com/2006/04/08/its-a-start/#comment-2 admin Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:30:29 +0000 http://jbarnabasl.wordpress.com/2006/04/08/its-a-start/#comment-2 Many thanks for your help with this study, Alison. I very much appreciate your pointers. I shall read your blog entries and we may have a dialogue about this. --Barney Many thanks for your help with this study, Alison. I very much appreciate your pointers. I shall read your blog entries and we may have a dialogue about this.

–Barney

]]> By: Alison Marshall http://jbarnabasl.wordpress.com/2006/04/08/its-a-start/#comment-1 Alison Marshall Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:34:57 +0000 http://jbarnabasl.wordpress.com/2006/04/08/its-a-start/#comment-1 Dear Barney, I have found it impossible to work out a consistent statement about the relationship between mind, spirit and soul etc from the many writings. This is caused, in part, by the impossibility of words to accurately represent spiritual realities and the inconsistencies in the translations we work from in English. When I studied the issue, I found that the best writings to work from were from Baha'u'llah; principally, this statement from the Summons: "“Say: Spirit, mind, soul, and the powers of sight and hearing are but one single reality which hath manifold expressions owing to the diversity of its instruments.” pp 154-55, para 35 I have written a series of blog entries on this topic, in which I examine what Baha'u'llah says on this issue in what I consider to be the three principal sources: - Suriy-i-Ra’is, in Summons of the Lord of Hosts, pp 152-55 - Commentary on the verse ‘He who knows his self knows his lord’ (which is also in Gleanings at LXXXIII) - Tablet of the Disconnected Letters, which is not officially translated. The discussion on my blog begins at http://whoisbahaullah.com/blog/?p=134 . The messages that comprise the discussion are located one after the other in the Study category. Alison Marshall Dear Barney,
I have found it impossible to work out a consistent statement about the relationship between mind, spirit and soul etc from the many writings. This is caused, in part, by the impossibility of words to accurately represent spiritual realities and the inconsistencies in the translations we work from in English.

When I studied the issue, I found that the best writings to work from were from Baha’u'llah; principally, this statement from the Summons: ““Say: Spirit, mind, soul, and the powers of sight and hearing are but one single reality which hath manifold expressions owing to the diversity of its instruments.” pp 154-55, para 35 I have written a series of blog entries on this topic, in which I examine what Baha’u'llah says on this issue in what I consider to be the three principal sources:
- Suriy-i-Ra’is, in Summons of the Lord of Hosts, pp 152-55
- Commentary on the verse ‘He who knows his self knows his lord’ (which is also in Gleanings at LXXXIII)
- Tablet of the Disconnected Letters, which is not officially translated.

The discussion on my blog begins at http://whoisbahaullah.com/blog/?p=134 . The messages that comprise the discussion are located one after the other in the Study category.

Alison Marshall

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