I have recently been interested more in Baha'i thought.
Just read this article,
The Baha'i Principle of Progressive Revelation by Iko Congo
Reflecting on Congo's post, I am noting the similarity between the Baha'i Principle of Progressive Revelation, and the Mahayana Buddhist principle of Upāya, or skillful means in spiritual teaching.
One difference (and actually, this is where I find Baha'i thought quite compelling, regardless of my own tendency to Buddhist-ic atheism), is that Progressive Revelation takes into account (at least, according to this article), developmental differences in learning spirituality (and not only dispositional difference, as the Lotus Sutra, by way of one Buddhist Mahayana textual example, often suggests of the BuddhaDharma being taught to beings of many different backgrounds)...
Note the analogy around "first grade", "second grade" and "third grade" teachers in school, who each set educational foundations for a person to ultimately be able to attain an analogous "revelation" of a university-level education.
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