Fire: Gods love. https://bahai-library.com/compilation_fire_symbol
Hellfire: "Do not associate with the wicked, because the company of the wicked change the light of life into the fire of remorse.
Heaven and hell: Think ye of love and good fellowship as the delights of heaven, think ye of hostility and hatred as the torments of hell. Where is Paradise, and where is Hell? Say: 'The one is reunion with Me; the other thine own self. There is no fiercer hell, no more fiery abyss, than to possess a character that is evil and unsound; no more darksome pit nor loathsome torment than to show forth qualities which deserve to be condemned.
The meaning of Jesus dying for our sins is this: Christ sacrificed Himself so that mankind might be freed from the imperfections of the material nature and endowed with the virtues of the spiritual nature. Abdul Baha Know thou that when the Son of Man [Christ] yielded up His breath to God, the whole creation wept with a great weeping. By sacrificing Himself, however, a fresh capacity was infused into all created things. We testify that when He came into the world, He shed the splendor of His glory upon all created things. He it is who purified the world. Blessed is the man who, with a face beaming with light, hath turned towards Him.
Beasts: Baha’is believe the biblical beasts are allegorical descriptions of the organized forces that always oppose new revelations. Symbolically, the first beast refers to the armies that opposed Muhammad.
Life and death: By the terms 'life' and 'death,' spoken of in the scriptures, is intended the life of faith and the death of unbelief. His Holiness Jesus Christ has pronounced that those who have not received a portion of the divine spirit are dead. The wages of sin is death." Romans 6:23 Wherever in the holy books they speak of raising the dead, the meaning is that the dead were blessed by eternal life.
Only the believers in the Prophet Noah were spiritually alive, safely preserved in the "ark" of His Faith, and the other people on the earth were spiritually dead. By this bread is meant the heavenly sustenance of divine perfections. In other words, whoso partakes of this sustenance—that is, whoso acquires the outpouring grace of God, draws illumination from His light, and obtains his portion of the perfections of Christ—will attain everlasting life. What is meant by blood, likewise, is the spirit of life, which consists in divine perfections, heavenly splendours, and eternal grace.
Water: The knowledge of God; life. But the heavenly water and spirit, which are knowledge and life, make the human heart good and pure; the heart which receives a portion of the bounty of the Spirit becomes sanctified, good and pure -- that is to say, the reality of man becomes purified and sanctified from the impurities of the world of nature. Water is the cause of life, and when Christ speaks of water, He is symbolizing that which is the cause of Everlasting Life. This life-giving water of which He speaks is like unto fire, for it is none other than the Love of God, and this love means life to our souls.
Grave/tomb: Heedlessness and error. Behold, all the people are imprisoned within the tomb of self, and lie buried beneath the nethermost depths of worldly desire!
Leprosy: Through Him the leper recovered from the leprosy of perversity and ignorance. Leprosy may be interpreted as any veil that intervene between man and the recognition of the Lord, his God.
Angels: People who have replaced faults with divine attributes. Those who, reinforced by the power of the spirit, have consumed, with the fire of the love of God, all human traits and limitations, and have clothed themselves with the attributes of the most exalted Beings and of the Cherubim. The meaning of ‘angels’ is the confirmations of God and His celestial powers. Likewise angels are blessed beings who have severed all ties with this nether world, have been released from the chains of self and the desires of the flesh, and anchored their hearts to the heavenly realms of the Lord. These are of the Kingdom, heavenly; these are of God, spiritual; these are revealers of God’s abounding grace; these are dawning-points of His spiritual bestowals.
Adam and Eve: Adam signifies the heavenly spirit of Adam, and Eve His human soul. For in some passages in the Holy Books where women are mentioned, they represent the soul of man.
The tree of good and evil signifies the human world; for the spiritual and divine world is purely good and absolutely luminous, but in the human world light and darkness, good and evil, exist as opposite conditions.
Serpent: The meaning of the serpent is attachment to the human world. This attachment of the spirit to the human world led the soul and spirit of Adam from the world of freedom to the world of bondage and caused Him to turn from the Kingdom of Unity to the human world. When the soul and spirit of Adam entered the human world, He came out from the paradise of freedom and fell into the world of bondage. From the height of purity and absolute goodness, He entered into the world of good and evil. The tree of life is the highest degree of the world of existence: The position of the Word of God, and the supreme Manifestation.
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