in: "How long will ye, O concourse of divines, level the spears of
hatred at the face of Baha? Rein in your pens. Lo, the Most Sublime Pen
speaketh betwixt earth and heaven. Fear God, and follow not your desires
which have altered the face of creation. Purify your ears that they may
hearken unto the Voice of God. By God! It is even as fire that consumeth
the veils, and as water that washeth the souls of all who are in the
universe."

"Say: O concourse of divines!" He furthermore addresses them, "Can any one
of you race with the Divine Youth in the arena of wisdom and utterance, or
soar with Him into the heaven of inner meaning and explanation? Nay, by My
Lord, the God of mercy! All have swooned away in this Day from the Word of
thy Lord. They are even as dead and lifeless, except him whom thy Lord,
the Almighty, the Unconstrained, hath willed to exempt. Such a one is
indeed of those endued with knowledge in the sight of Him Who is the
All-Knowing. The inmates of Paradise, and the dwellers of the sacred
Folds, bless him at eventide and at dawn. Can the one possessed of wooden
legs resist him whose feet God hath made of steel? Nay, by Him Who
illumineth the whole of creation!"

"When We observed carefully," He significantly remarks, "We discovered
that Our enemies are, for the most part, the divines." "Among the people
are those who said: 'He hath repudiated the divines.' Say: 'Yea, by My
Lord! I, in very truth, was the One Who abolished the idols!'" "We,
verily, have sounded the Trumpet, which is Our Most Sublime Pen, and lo,
the divines and the learned, and the doctors and the rulers, swooned away
except such as God preserved, as a token of His grace, and He, verily, is
the All-Bounteous, the Ancient of Days."

"O concourse of divines! Fling away idle fancies and imaginings, and turn,
then, towards the Horizon of Certitude. I swear by God! All that ye
possess will profit you not, neither all the treasures of the earth, nor
the leadership ye have usurped. Fear God, and be not of the lost ones."
"Say: O concourse of divines! Lay aside all your veils and coverings. Give
ear unto that whereunto calleth you the Most Sublime Pen, in this wondrous
Day.... The world is laden with dust, by reason of your vain imaginings,
and the hearts of such as enjoy near access to God are troubled because of
your cruelty. Fear God, and be of them that judge equitably."

"O ye the dawning-places of knowledge!" He thus exhorts them, "Beware t