Becoming a Brilliant Star
Cognitive Development

Scripture From The Bahá'í  Faith

Developed by: W. Huitt
Last Modified: July 2011

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• Compilation on Cognitive Development (pdf format) (Word 2003 format) by W. Huitt

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• Compilations based on the spiritual powers or powers of the human mind described by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (in pdf format):
  • Overview
  • Common faculty: communicates between the outward powers (making it possible to perceive material things) and inward powers (making it possible to perceive non-material)
  • Intelligence: the intermediary between body and spirit; the power of understanding; the ability to gain control of and adapt natural laws to man's own needs
  • Perception: awareness
  • Imagination: [image, picture, visualize] which conceives [creates, invents, produces, reproduces, germinates, gives birth to] things
  • Thought: reflects [conscious reflection, concentrates, considers, contemplates, deliberates, ponders] upon realities
  • Comprehension: [susceptibility, conception, grasp, realization, understanding] which comprehends [discerns, understands] realities
  • Memory: [recollection, remembrance, recall, retention] which retains whatever man imagines, thinks and comprehends

References and Additional Resources:

• Scholarship, in Compilation of Compilations. Baha'u'llah, Abdu'l-Bahá, and Shoghi Effendi. , Volume 3, pages 226-264.
• Baha'i Scholarship: Statements from the World Centre, in Baha'i Studies Review. Universal House of Justice. , 3:2 (Association for Baha'i Studies of English-Speaking Europe, 1993).

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