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Rh among the people in every age and cycle. They have ever been occupied with vain sayings, that a certain sign hath not appeared and another hath not come to pass. Such diseases affected them only because of adherence to the divines of the age in their approval or denial of these pure Essences and Divine Temples. The divines being submerged in selfish conditions and engaged in paltry and evanescent affairs, found these Immortal Suns contrary to their learning and understanding and opposed to their judgment and decision. They also interpreted and explained the meanings of the Divine words and the traditions and records of the "Letters of Unity" literally, according to their own understanding. So they bereft and deprived both themselves and the people from the shower of Divine Grace and Mercy. Yet they acknowledge the well-known tradition which says "Our Word is arduous and intricate." It is also said in another place, "Verily our matter is arduous and intricate; no one can bear it except an angel of Nearness, a Prophet sent or a servant whose heart God hath tested for faith." They know to a certainty that none of these three is true concerning them. As to the first two, this is clear; as to the third, they have never been proof against the tests of God, and at the appearance of the Divine Touchstone they showed forth nothing but alloy.

Praise be to God! Notwithstanding their