Tablet catalog
Words spoken ca. 1900
OOL 06 50113 Phelps: ABU 2080
ABU 2080•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken ca. 1900
130 words
Translation:
Provisional translation
God is pure essence and cannot be said to be anywhere or in any place... But as man must form and express a conception of God in some way, he calls God 'love' or 'truth'
AELT. Phelps, Myron. Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1903. Republished 1912 with different pagination. 1903 edition: https://archive.org/stream/lifeteachingsofa00phel. 1912 edition: https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/phelps_life_teachings_abbas_effendi.pdf. Catalog pagination follows 1912 edition
AELT.114
https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/phelps_life_teachings_abbas_effendi.pdf#page=161
PN. Pilgrim notes from the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Arranged by year with occasional additional identifiers. https://bahai-library.com/pilgrims- notes_us_archives_1898-1959
PN_1900 p010
https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=10