Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-14

630 words

انسان دو قسم استعداد دارد فطری و اکتسابی مانند سایر کائنات که هر یک استعداد و خاصیت

Translation:

Provisional translation

Personality is of two kinds. One is the natural or God-given personality which the western thinkers call individuality

Publications (1)Translations (4)

BDA. Zarqání, Maḥmúd. Kitáb-i Badáyi`u'l-Áthár (2 vols.). Bahá'í-Verlag, 1987. Vol. 1 (translated as MHMD1): https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/241.pdf, Vol. 2 (translated as MHMD2): https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/242.pdf

BDA2.138x

http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-146.html

DAS. Diary notebooks and letters of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Dec. 1912 – Jun. 1915. English and Persian diary notebooks and letters held in the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Often quoted in other sources such as SW. Catalog entries are indexed by date and include only the English notebooks and letters. Letters from 1 Jul 1913 through 19 Oct. 1914 found here: https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914

DAS.1913-02-14

Not yet online

SW. Star of the West, 25 vols. (1910-1935). Periodical issued each Bahá’í month. Vols. 1-12 reprinted 1978 in 8 volumes by George Ronald. Each issue Includes a section in Persian. https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West

SW_v04#02 p.038-040

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_2

MHMD2. Masumian, Adib (trans.). ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Europe 1912-1913: The Talks and Travels of the Master as Recorded by Mírzá Maḥmúd Zarqání. George Ronald, 2024. English Translation of BDA2

MHMD2.172x

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ADP. Chamberlain, Isabel Fraser. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá on Divine Philosophy. Boston: The Tudor Press, 1918. https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1

ADP.130-134

https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA130