LIBER DECATRIARCHIA MYSTICA: Sketchings of the Thirteen Encompassing Spheres of the Tree of Reality and assorted material

CONTENTS List of Illustrations i Note on transliterations ii PROLOGOMENON 1-36 Treatise 37 6 DIAGRAMS OF THE TREE OF REALITY 38-43 Exordium & Introduction 45 Unity 1 53 Unity 2 58 Unity 3 63 Unity 4 66 Unity 5 70 Unity 6 73 Unity 7 77 Postscript 87 Súrat’ul-Ikhlás 97 GLOSSES 98 APPENDICES Appendix A 180 A Bayání Gnostic Universalist Prayer & Ritual of the Pentagram Appendix B 188 What is the Bayání Gnostic Faith? - Supplement 1: A Short Biography of Subh-i-Azal by Atíyyih Núrí 207 - Editors Note 217 - Supplement 2: Arabic Text of the Longer Will & Testament of the Báb 220 - Supplement 3: Arabic Text of Baghdad era Will & Testament of Husayn ‘Alí Núrí 225 - Notes 235 Appendix C 326 Muhiyiddín Ibn ‘Arabí’s Model of the Tree of Life - From Gerald Elmore’s Islamic Sainthood in the Fullness of Time: Ibn al-‘Arabi’s Book of the Fabulous Gryphon - Same model of Ibn ‘Arabi’s Tree from Siyyid Haydar Amuli’s Nass al-nusús reproduced in kitáb-i-nass’ul-nusús dar sharh-i-fusús al-hikam Appendix D 330 CHARTER OF THE ECCLESIA GNOSTICA BAYANI UNIVERSALIS: The 19 Commandments Appendix E 341 Assorted Materials from Bayání works - First 8 pages of the Book of the Five Grades 343 - Talismanic Table from the Book of the Five Grades 351 - From the Book of Recompense (kitáb al-jazá’) 354 - A haykal from An Anthology of the Writings of the Primal Point and Subh-i-Azal 357 - A dá’ira from Portions of the Writings of the Primal Point and Aqá Husayn the Scribe 357 - A haykal from Subh-i-Azal’s Book of Proof (ithbát) 358 Appendix F 360 Abjad Table Numerological value of the Arabic and Persian letters