dolatry, and of the
Jewish doctors, after He had uttered the blessed words proclaiming the
unity of God! By My life! My pen groaneth, and all created things cry out
by reason of the things that have touched Him, at the hands of such as
have broken the Covenant of God and His Testament, and denied His
Testimony, and gainsaid His signs."

"The foolish divines," another Tablet declares, "have laid aside the Book
of God, and are occupied with that which they themselves have fashioned.
The Ocean of Knowledge is revealed, and the shrill of the Pen of the Most
High is raised, and yet they, even as earthworms, are afflicted with the
clay of their fancies and imaginings. They are exalted by reason of their
relationship to the one true God, and yet they have turned aside from Him!
Because of Him have they become famous, and yet they are shut off as by a
veil from Him!"

"The pagan priests," in yet another Tablet is written, "and the Jewish and
Christian divines, have committed the very things which the divines of the
age, in this Dispensation, have committed, and are still committing. Nay,
these have displayed a more grievous cruelty and a fiercer malice. Every
atom beareth witness unto that which I say."

To these leaders who "esteem themselves the best of all creatures and have
been regarded as the vilest by Him Who is the Truth," who "occupy the
seats of knowledge and learning, and who have named ignorance knowledge,
and called oppression justice," and who, "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"--to these Baha'u'llah has chosen to address these
words: "O concourse of divines! Ye shall not henceforward behold
yourselves possessed of any power, inasmuch as We have seized it from you,
and destined it for such as have believed in God, the One, the
All-Powerful, the Almighty, the Unconstrained."

In the Kitab-i-Aqdas we read the following: "Say: O leaders of religion!
Weigh not the Book of God with such standards and sciences as are current
amongst you, for the Book itself is the unerring Balance established
amongst men. In this most perfect Balance whatsoever the peoples and
kindreds of the earth possess must be weighed, while the measure of its
weight should be tested according to its own standard, did ye but know it.
The eye of My loving-kindness weepeth sore over you, in