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View submission: Baha'i Symbolism Question
In Haifa, there's a lot of things that don't have symbolic meaning and are really just for decoration
Except traditionally even apparently arbitrary meanings and choices as to shapes, forms, numbers and so on had esoteric and exact meaning. Would they be merely decorative in this occasion, when this is at the 'center' externally, architecturally, of the establishment of God's 'Kingdom of Heaven' on earth, of what represents contemporaneously in terms of buildings and temples housing the administrative heart of the "changeless faith of God; eternal in the past, eternal in the future"? In traditional conceptions of metaphysics symbolism is part of the 'language' that represents the horizons and concepts related to a transpersonal state of knowledge and knowing; they were considered part of the 'scaffolding' or 'ladder' one can employ to attain unto certain knowledge and identity in God. In this sense there is nothing merely decorative about symbolism, if applied with certain kinds of religious cosmological and metaphysical associations in mind. Wouldn't that be the case in this instance?
There's nothing here!