The loom of time

The loom of time
computer prediction of "the Loom of Time devours the present and traces a garment of glistening cobwebs over the still-forming future"

The loom of time is a tenet of the Bahá'í Faith, which states that the universe is progressing through successive cycles or ages, in which the essential nature of humanity changes, and goes through, in Bahá'í terminology, three great ages. Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, wrote that humanity's current age is one of the "loomings" or "peculiar days" that precede the next age.

The loom of time[edit]

Most Bahá'ís are now in the process of becoming "caught up" into the next age. The Bahá'í teachings state that there will be nine such "loomings", that humanity entered its third loom about a century ago, and that the next age will last for nine thousand years. The Bahá'í Writings indicate that the next loom will be characterized by the establishment of the Bahá'í World Commonwealth, with the Bahá'ís themselves being firmly established as the ruling authority of the planet. "

The article goes on to say that the "looming" of our current age began in the year 1844, and ends with the following statement:

The loom of time in the Bahá'í writings[edit]

There is a special word in the Bahá'í Writings for this current, and future age, called the "loom of time." This is a special age in the Bahá'í Faith, the period in which humanity has a unique opportunity to bring about a better world.

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There is a verse in the Bahá'í Writings in which the "loom of time" is named. In one of the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh it is stated that "the Sun of Truth will cease to set ... ere the people of the earth reach conformity with His Law." In other tablets He addresses the question of the "loom of time" to a person named "Hanneh" and asks him to look forward to the time when "all shall have entered the meads of true understanding."

References[edit]

Bahá'u'lláh, The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys and the Hidden Words

Bab 7:5

Bab 7:15

Bab 7:20

Bab 10,14

Bab 115

Bab 191

Tafsir Nisabur

Tafsir Nisabur