Ebook: 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