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Persona #101

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

1817–1892
Persian religious leader, founder of the Bahá'í Faith

The progressive revelation of one God across the world's religious traditions — humanity entering its age of maturity

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Attribute Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Emergent
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Multiple
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Total
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Both
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Scripture
Observer · Theological Method Magisterial
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Emergent
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Reversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

Linear and progressive — Bahá'í teaching reads religious history as the unfolding of a single revelation across successive stages of human maturity. Non-deterministic — human action genuinely matters for the arrival of the foretold global unity.

Space

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

Global — the unification of the world's peoples is the substantive task. The Bahá'í World Centre in Haifa-Akká institutionalises this in space.

Matter

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

Emergent from divine creative activity, conserved within the created order.

Observer

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

A single embodied person with multiple time-instances (the soul's pre-mortal and post-mortal stages). Personal metaphysical agency: the One God who is the source of all revelations.

Energy

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

Emergent, conserved, reversible within the divine economy.

Information

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

Conserved at both scales by the persistence of revelation through the manifestations of God and by the immortal soul.

Internal Tensions

Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)

Bahá'u'lláh's claim to be the latest in the series of progressive manifestations of God — and the institutional successor to Muhammad — has been rejected by orthodox Shia Islam, with the Bahá'í community facing systematic persecution in Iran since the 1979 revolution. The faith's claim to transcend the world's religious traditions through their fulfilment is read by adherents of those traditions as either appreciative ecumenism or as replacement theology. The administrative-institutional development under ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, and the Universal House of Justice has produced a globally coordinated religious community without parallel for its size in modern history.