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Focusing on the holiness of the text, Jewish mystics consider every nuance of the text to be a clue in discovering divine secrets, from the entire text to the accents on each letter. Once one can find such knowledge, one can use the text in mystical rituals to affect both the upper worlds (heavens) and the lower world (our world).
The writings of Baháʼu'lláh are the corpus of texts written or narrated by Baháʼu'lláh, which are regarded as sacred scripture in the Baháʼí Faith.Baháʼu'lláh was the founder of the Baháʼí Faith; he was born in Persia and later exiled for being a follower of the Báb, who in 1844 had declared himself to be a Manifestation of God and forerunner of "Him Whom God shall make ...
The purpose of the Manifestation of God, according to Baháʼí belief, is to educate humanity. [4] The Manifestations of God are seen as divine educators, who are raised up by God with the purpose of uplifting mankind and expressing his will. [4] In expressing God's intent, the Manifestations of God are seen to establish religion in the world. [4]
The differences in the revelation brought by the Manifestations of God is stated to be not inherent in the characteristics of the Manifestation of God, but instead attributed to the various worldly, societal and human factors; [4] these differences are in accordance with the "conditions" and "varying requirements of the age" and the "spiritual ...
The Manifestations of God, Messengers from God, are appearances of the Logos in the physical world. [1] The third division is Creation , which includes the physical world. [ 1 ] Creation is not seen as confined to the material universe, and individual material objects, such as the Earth, are seen to come into being at a particular moment and ...
The Catholic's pocket prayer-book (1899) Prayers and meditations on the life of Christ by Thomas à Kempis (1908) Meditations For Every Day In The Year by Roger Baxter (1823) The paradise of the Christian soul by Jacob Merlo Horstius (1877) With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections by Francis Xavier Lasance (1911) Wynne, John Joseph (1911 ...
The term Catholic Bible can be understood in two ways. More generally, it can refer to a Christian Bible that includes the whole 73-book canon recognized by the Catholic Church, including some of the deuterocanonical books (and parts of books) of the Old Testament which are in the Greek Septuagint collection, but which are not present in the Hebrew Masoretic Text collection.
Once the custom grew up of reciting Marian litanies privately, and of gradually shortening the text, it was not long until the idea occurred of employing them for public devotion, especially in cases of epidemic, as had been the practice of the Church with the litanies of the Saints, which were sung in penitential processions and during public calamities.