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Baha'i
"Writings of Baha'u'llah" has been newly published in it's third expanded edition... was released in 2006 by the Baha'i Publishing Trust of New Delhi, India.
To me the value of this new edition with it's 1291 pages is that it includes just about every text of the Writings of Baha'u'llah translated into English in one volume.... so that means it is more economical and takes up less space on the shelf than if you had all the volumes included in this one book. Not that owning the separate texts is in anyway less important... It's just that you now have Summons of the Lord of Hosts, The Tabernacle of Unity and Gems of Divine Utterance along withe earlier published works of Baha'u'llah like the Kitab-i-Iqan and the Aqdas and the other works in one handy volume!
The index also includes all the indices of the texts in order...book by book. This means you have one convenient place to research in a topical index for all the books..instead of having each index after each text.
It also makes for easy reading with some delightful flower motifs at the end of each work.... The cover is also gold stanped with a crysanthemum flower on the front cover.
I decided to read through this volume cover to cover...reading a little each day. By the end of a few months or so I hope to have read through all the major works of Baha'u'llah translated into English...this will be an excellent deepening. Ask yourself when was the last time you read through the Kitab-i-Iqan?... I did so a long time ago and in the course of time forgot some of the more salient points. SO take this as an opportunity to re-read the Writings.
After I read the Writings of Baha'u'llah I have decided to do the same with the companion volume of the Writings and Utterances of Abdul-Baha.
- Art
To me the value of this new edition with it's 1291 pages is that it includes just about every text of the Writings of Baha'u'llah translated into English in one volume.... so that means it is more economical and takes up less space on the shelf than if you had all the volumes included in this one book. Not that owning the separate texts is in anyway less important... It's just that you now have Summons of the Lord of Hosts, The Tabernacle of Unity and Gems of Divine Utterance along withe earlier published works of Baha'u'llah like the Kitab-i-Iqan and the Aqdas and the other works in one handy volume!
The index also includes all the indices of the texts in order...book by book. This means you have one convenient place to research in a topical index for all the books..instead of having each index after each text.
It also makes for easy reading with some delightful flower motifs at the end of each work.... The cover is also gold stanped with a crysanthemum flower on the front cover.
I decided to read through this volume cover to cover...reading a little each day. By the end of a few months or so I hope to have read through all the major works of Baha'u'llah translated into English...this will be an excellent deepening. Ask yourself when was the last time you read through the Kitab-i-Iqan?... I did so a long time ago and in the course of time forgot some of the more salient points. SO take this as an opportunity to re-read the Writings.
After I read the Writings of Baha'u'llah I have decided to do the same with the companion volume of the Writings and Utterances of Abdul-Baha.
- Art
