Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Kitáb-i-Aqdas
"The Most Holy Book" — Bahá'u'lláh's 1873 book of laws, the principal legal-doctrinal text of the Bahá'í Faith
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Late (the major late doctrinal-legal book)) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Kitáb-i-Aqdas
The temporal life of the Bahá'í community organised by the new Bahá'í calendar.
Space
Kitáb-i-Aqdas
The global space of the Bahá'í community; the local space of community institutions.
Matter
Kitáb-i-Aqdas
Embodied Bahá'í community life — prayer, fasting, marriage, work.
Observer
Kitáb-i-Aqdas
The Bahá'í believer in community — embodied, plural, subject to divine law. Personal-providential God as ultimate.
Energy
Kitáb-i-Aqdas
The energies of religious-community life under the laws of the Aqdas.
Information
Kitáb-i-Aqdas
The legal-constitutional information of the Aqdas preserved through the Bahá'í institutional framework.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Kitáb-i-Aqdas remained largely untranslated until 1992 — Shoghi Effendi (the Guardian of the Faith) had selected portions translated but withheld the full text. The relation between the legal-particular content of the Aqdas (composed in the nineteenth century with particular cultural assumptions) and its application in contemporary Bahá'í community life has been the central interpretive question. The Universal House of Justice continues to provide authoritative guidance.