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.
Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)
Bahá'u'lláh's tablet — eleven leaves of practical-religious wisdom
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih) (Late) |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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
Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)
Composed c. 1890; late-Bahjí-period; two years before Bahá'u'lláh's death in 1892.
Space
Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)
Bahjí composition near Akká, Ottoman Palestine; subsequent transmission across the entire global Bahá'í community.
Matter
Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)
Practical-religious wisdom across ethical, religious, political, social, and educational topics; the 'eleven leaves' structure.
Observer
Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)
Late Bahá'u'lláh as Manifestation-of-God in the final-Bahjí period, addressing the practical-application of the Bahá'í Revelation to the world.
Energy
Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)
Practical-prescriptive, religious-political, ecumenical-universalising energies.
Information
Words of Paradise (Kalimát-i-Firdawsiyyih)
Persian tablet structured in eleven 'leaves' (varaqát); aphoristic-prescriptive content; topical organisation.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Words of Paradise is foundational to the practical-social Bahá'í teaching alongside the major doctrinal Kitáb-i-Aqdas. The tablet exemplifies the characteristic Bahá'í emphasis on unity, consultation, education, and the abolition of religious sectarian strife as practical-religious imperatives — emphases that shape contemporary Bahá'í engagement with global-development, religious-pluralism, and inter-faith-cooperation work.