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]

  1. Theology
    1. God
    2. Religion (Prophets is also relevant and includes other holy figures not designated as Prophets)
    3. Mankind
    4. Nature
    5. spiritual-intellectual concepts and realities
  2. Reading the Writings (Deepening/Scholarship/Training)
  3. Bahá'í History (prior to Faith and for this Faith, concerning/impacting non-Bahá'í world and within Bahá'í community)
  4. Moral Teachings (and moral laws)
  5. Teaching-the-Faith Teachings (methods, goals, prerequisites, etc.)
  6. Social Teachings and laws
  7. 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)

  1. 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)

Teaching (the Cause)[edit]