Read online at https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/call-divine-beloved/9#545908212
Four Valleys Notes[edit]
- https://bahai-library.com/resources/tablets-notes/chahar-vadi/notes.html
- https://bahai-library.com/resources/tablets-notes/chahar-vadi/outline.html
- https://bahai-library.com/brownstein_stages_four_valleys (Four stages in one path or four paths?)
- http://wilmetteinstitute.org/projects/fourv.ruth.html (Deepening plan)
- http://wilmetteinstitute.org/projects/fourv.nina.html (Knowledge map)
- https://bahai-library.com/langness_mystical_content_four-valleys
By section[edit]
Second valley[edit]
Meaning of the word "patron" (p. 53)[edit]
(Note: The following reference to p. 50 is on p. 53 in our online copy; for reference to Sale's translation and notes, see this online copy)
"Regarding your question about the meaning of the words on page 50 of the Seven and Four Valleys: This is a verse of the Qur'an which Bahá'u'lláh quotes; the word patron here means helper--in other words when God misleads a soul, he shall find no other helper. You would find Sale's translation and comments on the Qur'an helpful in getting at the story back of such verses as this one."
- (From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to an individual believer, March 18, 1946, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1613)
Third Valley[edit]
Seventy-two "lunacies" (p. 54) refers to types of sacrifice[edit]
Question—What are the "seventy-two degrees of insanity" spoken of by BAHA'O'LLAH?
Answer—One is to forfeit possessions, to forfeit estates. One is to forego name, honor, fame. One is to forsake relatives, station. Et cetera [ended Abdul-Baha, laughing], et cetera, et cetera. Each one of these is a distinct insanity!
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Star of the West, vol. 3, issue 10, pp. 9)
