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.
Letters to the Son of the Wolf
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
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| 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.
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.