Spiritual-Ethical-Religious
Spiritual-Ethical-Religious defined[edit]
'Abdu'l-Bahá in Chapter 3 of Some Answered Questions, describes spiritual (or "divine") education (here, affairs) in the following terms: "Divine education is that of the Kingdom of God: it consists in acquiring divine perfections, and this is true education; for in this state man becomes the focus of divine blessings, the manifestation of the words, "Let Us make man in Our image, and after Our likeness." [Cf. Gen. 1:26.] This is the goal of the world of humanity."
Categorization[edit]
Prayer-Mystical-Meditation and Fasting[edit]
(see also Protagonist--Institution-Community-Mashriqu'l-Adhkár)
Study of Spiritual Subjects[edit]
- Theology
- Reading the Writings (Deepening/Scholarship/Training)
- Bahá'í History (prior to Faith and for this Faith, concerning/impacting non-Bahá'í world and within Bahá'í community)
- Moral Teachings (and moral laws)
- Teaching-the-Faith Teachings (methods, goals, prerequisites, etc.)
- Social Teachings and laws
- Administrative Teachings
Virtues[edit]
(also integrated (as potentially with all sections) within Material-Physical and Human--Intellectual-Arts-Social-Professional-Administrative above as well as protagonist, sequences, etc. sections)
- Subcategorized List of virtues
Service to Cause[edit]
(excluding teaching (below) - e.g., processing paperwork, research, Archives, etc.) and to one's profession/mankind
Bahá'í Funds[edit]
(Faith and poor - spiritual and material education, health, etc.)
Spiritual Infrastructure[edit]
(Mashriqu'l-Adhkár House of Worship; the "material" "intellectual", "social", and "administrative" dependencies must all be infused with the spirit but are listed under Material-Physical)