Re: A Dream
JustBlind@aol.com
Tue, Jan 3 1995 16:47:36 GMT
Dear Dreamer <G>
I am a Baha'i and I would have loved to have had that dream of yours. IMHO
you've had a mystical experience.
In the 'Seven Valleys," Baha'u'llah states, 'One of the created phenomena is
the dream. Behold how many secrets are deposited therein, how many wisdoms
treasured up, how many worlds concealed."
In the "Suriy-i-Vafa,' Baha'u'llah again refers to dreams: 'Consider thy
state when asleep. Verily, I say, this phenomenon is the most mysterious of
the signs of God amongst men . . . Behold how the things which thou has seen
in thy dream is, after a considerable lapse of time, fully realized. ...the
world in which thou livest is different and apart from that which thou has
experience in thy dream. This latter world hath neither beginning nor end.
...It would equally be true to maintain that thy spirit, having transcended
the limitations of sleep and having stripped itself of all earthly
attachment, hath, by the act of God, been made to traverse a realm which
lieth hidden in the innermost reality of this world.'
Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Baha'i Faith and great-grandson of
Baha'u'llah, stated: 'That truth is often imparted through dreams no one who
is familiar with history, especially religious history, can doubt. ...In many
cases dreams have been the means of bringing people to the truth or of
confirming them in the Faith...'
All quotes are from A BASIC BAHA'I DICTIONARY by Wendi Momen, George Ronald,
1989 edition, pp 72-73.
John MacCord
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