❤ I think it is important to remember, that the Bahaí Faith is an update to RELIGIOUS thinking, not specifically SCIENTIFIC thinking. Religion is about how to ACT properly based on a certain Idea. The proper way to act is described in detail by religious texts, but these are based on the knowledge available to mankind at a certain place in time. Therefore we should not confuse the two and become unnecessary dogmatic, but instead, as the Bahaí Faith also professes, bring science and religion in harmony. "Shiva Shakti atmakam Brahma" says Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji in the Ananda Sutram. Brahma, cosmic consciousness, God, is the composite of Shiva, the knowing or observing principle and Shakti, the creative force or actional principle. In short, consciousness is composed of knowing and doing in an eternal intertwined process. The two simply can not be separated, just like the sine and cosine are inseparably related to the rotation of the circle, or the two sides of a piece of paper. The progressive revelation is the continuous evolution and revolution of consciousness, in individuals and collectively. So we have to take the ABSTRACT truths and principles from religious culture and combine the with the MATERIAL truths of practical science as the two progress. This is like the two hemispheres of the brain that when in good health and connected in one body allow us the be both creative and intellectual, spiritual and intuitive, and bring fantasy and reality in harmony, by knowing how they can be used and properly explored for the welfare of all.
Also, it is the task of the religious master to bring people to a united consciousness. That is why there has to be both the evolutionary narrative and the perception of things as they are woven into one. Therefore it may be said that in potential the human form always already existed in creation, BECAUSE creation lead obviously to how we are now. This is the top-down and the bottom-up perspective combined. The Earth as it is now has always been in the potential as it obviously lead to this Earth as it is. This is like when you come home after the holidays and that is where you are now, so this being here has always been the potential outcome, because it is as it is now. Had things gone differently, that outcome would have been your reality and had been in potentiality. Do you understand what I mean?
It’s understandable from the perspective of anti-entropy. Perhaps the natural evolution of those planets that are at the stage of supporting life, that life itself gravitates to a higher complexity, until it attains intelligence, then wisdom. And to higher levels of intelligence and wisdom. This is ‘man’, even if his form is radically different from Earth’s man. This is why Unity is the next stage of civilization.
Unsurprisingly youtube scrubbed that reference in a comment of mine to Selections of the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha verse 134 and all that infers and applies healing the body with natural foods, really dissuading aiding medical malfeasance (especially medical malfeasance these past 4 years) that some non-Baha'is or people with eggregioius disrespect for Abdu'l-Baha, don't seem to understand.
"The academic world, once the scene of great exploits of the mind and spirit, settled into the role of a kind of scholastic industry preoccupied with tending its machinery of dissertations, symposia, publication credits and grants." - Century of Light Prepared under the supervision of the Universal House of Justice and published in 2001, Century of Light reviews, in the context of the Bahá’í Teachings, the profound changes that the world underwent during the 20th century and their relationship with the emergence of the Bahá’í Cause during the same period.
Helpful!
Thank you Steven for this wonderful and enlighting presentation that helps to shine light on this challenging topic 🌟
❤ I think it is important to remember, that the Bahaí Faith is an update to RELIGIOUS thinking, not specifically SCIENTIFIC thinking. Religion is about how to ACT properly based on a certain Idea. The proper way to act is described in detail by religious texts, but these are based on the knowledge available to mankind at a certain place in time. Therefore we should not confuse the two and become unnecessary dogmatic, but instead, as the Bahaí Faith also professes, bring science and religion in harmony. "Shiva Shakti atmakam Brahma" says Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji in the Ananda Sutram. Brahma, cosmic consciousness, God, is the composite of Shiva, the knowing or observing principle and Shakti, the creative force or actional principle. In short, consciousness is composed of knowing and doing in an eternal intertwined process. The two simply can not be separated, just like the sine and cosine are inseparably related to the rotation of the circle, or the two sides of a piece of paper.
The progressive revelation is the continuous evolution and revolution of consciousness, in individuals and collectively. So we have to take the ABSTRACT truths and principles from religious culture and combine the with the MATERIAL truths of practical science as the two progress. This is like the two hemispheres of the brain that when in good health and connected in one body allow us the be both creative and intellectual, spiritual and intuitive, and bring fantasy and reality in harmony, by knowing how they can be used and properly explored for the welfare of all.
Introducing the Tree as way of understanding the varieties of evolution is extremely helpful.
Also, it is the task of the religious master to bring people to a united consciousness. That is why there has to be both the evolutionary narrative and the perception of things as they are woven into one. Therefore it may be said that in potential the human form always already existed in creation, BECAUSE creation lead obviously to how we are now. This is the top-down and the bottom-up perspective combined. The Earth as it is now has always been in the potential as it obviously lead to this Earth as it is. This is like when you come home after the holidays and that is where you are now, so this being here has always been the potential outcome, because it is as it is now. Had things gone differently, that outcome would have been your reality and had been in potentiality. Do you understand what I mean?
It’s understandable from the perspective of anti-entropy. Perhaps the natural evolution of those planets that are at the stage of supporting life, that life itself gravitates to a higher complexity, until it attains intelligence, then wisdom. And to higher levels of intelligence and wisdom.
This is ‘man’, even if his form is radically different from Earth’s man. This is why Unity is the next stage of civilization.
Unsurprisingly youtube scrubbed that reference in a comment of mine to Selections of the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha verse 134 and all that infers and applies healing the body with natural foods, really dissuading aiding medical malfeasance (especially medical malfeasance these past 4 years) that some non-Baha'is or people with eggregioius disrespect for Abdu'l-Baha, don't seem to understand.
"The academic world, once the scene of great exploits of the mind and spirit, settled into the role of a kind of scholastic industry preoccupied with tending its machinery of dissertations, symposia, publication credits and grants." - Century of Light Prepared under the supervision of the Universal House of Justice and published in 2001, Century of Light reviews, in the context of the Bahá’í Teachings, the profound changes that the world underwent during the 20th century and their relationship with the emergence of the Bahá’í Cause during the same period.
Great book, Century of Light
12:13 Social Darwinism is an anathema to the Baha'i Faith.
Bahai Faith: creationist. Try hard but creation is Gebesis, evolution is science.
Did you mean Genesis?
@@darianlsmith6840 yes.