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Successive revelation, one God
One God, a line of Manifestations, a soul that does not reincarnate, and writings with a defined line of interpretation.
Progressive revelation is this tradition’s claim about other religions. It does not edit their rows. Authorized interpretation is not the same thing as the tablets.
One God speaks through successive Manifestations. Baháʼu’lláh is claimed as the one for this age. The soul progresses after death and does not return. Knowing runs through authorized writings.
- 01
One God
Unknowable in essence. Not a pantheon.
- 02
Manifestations
A historical line. Their older books are not rewritten by being included in the line.
- 03
One humanity
No Meru, no world-tree, no chosen geography as the axis.
- 04
Rational soul
Created to know and worship. Not an incarnation of God.
- 05
Progress, not return
Death continues the soul. Reincarnation is denied.
- Time
- Dispensations in sequence. Older cycles are said to be fulfilled, not copied as kalpas.
- Agents
- God and the Manifestations. Interpreters after Baháʼu’lláh are a defined office, not extra Manifestations.
- Human slot
- A soul among one humanity. The aim is worship and unity, not exaltation as a new revealer.
- Break
- No equal anti-god. The break that matters in the teaching is rejection of the latest revelation.