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Work #959 · Last (less than a year before his 1892 death)

Letters to the Son of the Wolf

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)
1891 (composed in 'Akká) · Persian
Polemical-pastoral epistle · Bahá'í Faith

A defense of the Bahá'í Faith and a survey of its essential teachings — addressed to an Iranian cleric who had ordered Bahá'í executions

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Attribute Letters to the Son of the Wolf (Last (less than a year before his 1892 death))
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

Letters to the Son of the Wolf

Historical-prophetic time of the Bahá'í dispensation; 1891 composition before 1892 death.

Space

Letters to the Son of the Wolf

Exile in 'Akká addressing Iranian Shi'ite authority; global space of the new world order.

Matter

Letters to the Son of the Wolf

Embodied Bahá'í community under persecution; materially organised global community envisioned.

Observer

Letters to the Son of the Wolf

Bahá'u'lláh the speaker; Shaykh Muhammad-Taqi the addressee; Bahá'í and Shi'ite communities the broader audiences.

Energy

Letters to the Son of the Wolf

Moral-prophetic energy of the address; energies of religious renewal and political reform.

Information

Letters to the Son of the Wolf

Catalogue of Bahá'í principles — religious unity, world peace, equality, universal education, universal house of justice.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Letters to the Son of the Wolf

The work's prophetic-scriptural status coupled with polemical engagement of a specific opponent makes it difficult to read in any simple genre. Its practical-political proposals (universal house of justice, equality of women) were ahead of nineteenth-century norms and have served as the principal Bahá'í contribution to global moral-political thought.