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Rh Oneness desired to reveal a sign of the mysteries of resurrection, revival, paradise and fire, Gabriel brought the revelation of this verse: "And they will wag their heads at thee, saying When (shall) this (be)? Answer, peradventure it is nigh" (K. S. 17). That is, before long, these wanderers in the valley of error shall wag their heads in derision and say: When shall these things appear? Say thou in answer—Peradventure they are nigh. The import of this single verse is sufficient for the people, were they to consider it with acute vision.

Praise be to God! How far from the paths of Truth were these people! Although the "resurrection" was realized in the rise of His Holiness, and the lights and tokens thereof had pervaded the whole earth, yet they derided and held to views based upon the false and vain imaginations of the divines of the age, heedless of the sun of Supreme Providence and the showers of Divine Mercy. Yea; the beetle is deprived of the holy fragrances of eternity and the bat flees from the splendor of the world-illuminating sun. The same fact is witnessed in every age during the appearance of the Manifestations of the True One; as Jesus said: "Ye must be born again." In another place He hath said: "Except a man be born of water and spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God; that which is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of spirit is spirit" (John iii. 6).

The interpretation of this is, whosoever is not