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could this people be justified in rejecting the Revealer
and Author of so many volumes of verses,
and follow the sayings of him who hath foolishly
sown the seeds of doubt in the hearts of men, and
who, Satan-like, hath risen to lead the people into
the paths of perdition and error? How could they
allow such things to deprive them of the light of
the Sun of divine bounty? Aside from these things,
if these people shun and reject such a divine Soul,
such holy Breath, to whom, We wonder, could
they cling, to whose face besides His Face could
they turn? Yea--"All have a quarter of the
Heavens to which they turn." (1) We have shown
thee these two ways; walk thou the way thou
choosest. This verily is the truth, and after truth
there remaineth naught but error.
Amongst the proofs demonstrating the truth of
this Revelation is this, that in every age and Dispensation,
whenever the invisible Essence was revealed
in the person of His Manifestation, certain
souls, obscure and detached from all worldly entanglements,
would seek illumination from the Sun
of Prophethood and Moon of divine guidance, and
would attain unto the divine Presence. For this
