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hast already heard and witnessed. Such deeds and
words have been solely instigated by leaders of religion,
they that worship no God but their own
desire, who bear allegiance to naught but gold,
who are wrapt in the densest veils of learning, and
who, enmeshed by its obscurities, are lost in the
wilds of error. Even as the Lord of being hath explicitly
declared: "What thinkest thou? He who
hath made a God of his passions, and whom God
causeth to err through a knowledge, and whose
ears and whose heart He hath sealed up, and over
whose sight He hath cast a veil--who, after his
rejection by God, shall guide such a one? Will ye
not then be warned?" (1)
Although the outward meaning of "Whom God
causeth to err through a knowledge" is what hath
been revealed, yet to Us it signifieth those divines
of the age who have turned away from the Beauty
of God, and who, clinging unto their own learning,
as fashioned by their own fancies and desires,
have denounced God's divine Message and Revelation.
"Say: it is a weighty Message, from which
ye turn aside!" (2) Likewise, He saith: "And when
