Clear all
Work #1351 · Mature

Tablets to the Political Leaders

Bahá'u'lláh (Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʻAlí Núrí)
1860s-70s · Arabic and Persian
Tablets (epistolary religious-political appeals) · Bahá'í Faith

Bahá'u'lláh's 1860s-70s tablets to monarchs and pope

Attribute Fingerprint

Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.

Attribute Tablets to the Political Leaders (Mature)
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 Non-Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Non-Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Total
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method —
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Reversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Discrete

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

⧖

Time

Tablets to the Political Leaders

The 1860s-70s Bahá'í-Iranian-Ottoman period.

✦

Space

Tablets to the Political Leaders

The international setting of the addressed leaders.

◉

Matter

Tablets to the Political Leaders

The political-religious world of the late-nineteenth century.

◎

Observer

Tablets to the Political Leaders

Bahá'u'lláh as prophetic-religious-political subject.

⚡

Energy

Tablets to the Political Leaders

Prophetic-religious-political energies.

⧉

Information

Tablets to the Political Leaders

The tablets' content.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Tablets to the Political Leaders

The tablets have remained foundational Bahá'í documents; non-Bahá'í engagement has been variable.