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42 or such events take place in this age, consider what the people would do! I swear by the Educator of Existence and the Revealer of Words that they will at once declare (those concerned) infidels and condemn to death. Should a hundred thousand cries be raised, it would not enter a single ear that a fatherless one had been appointed to Prophethood or a murderer had given utterance to "verily I am God," from the Tree of Fire. Where would they listen to one who announced that a Jesus had appeared through the breath of the Holy Spirit or that a Moses had been appointed by the Irresistible Command?

If the eye of Justice be opened, it will be seen from all these explanations that similar happenings and their consequences are evident in this day. Although such conditions have not appeared during this Manifestation, yet people clinging to the imaginations of rejected souls have made charges and inflicted calamities the like of which hath never appeared in the world of creation.

God is Great! When explanation reached this point, spiritual fragrance wafted from the Dawn of Sublimity and the breeze of morning blew from the City of the Sheba of Eternity. Its breath conferred fresh glad tidings upon the soul and an immeasurable expansion upon the spirit! It spread a new carpet and brought precious and innumerable gifts from that Traceless Beloved for whose lovely stature the robe of mention is short and for whose shining figure the