f The Tablet of All Food: The Hierarchy of the Spiritual Worlds and the Metaphoric Nature of Physical Reality

This paper analyses some of the terminology that Bahaullah uses in one of his earliest tablets, the Tablet of All Food (Law-i Kull ut- am), which is addressed to a Babi, j Mrz Kamlud-Dn Narq, who visited Bahaullah in Baghdad. In particular the hierarchy of the spiritual worlds is examined under the headings of the four terms that Bahaullah uses to describe this hierarchy: Hht, Lht, Jabart and Malakt.