er. Beware lest ye shut out the
people by yet another veil. Pluck asunder the chains of vain imaginings,
in the name of the Lord of all men, and be not of the deceitful. Should ye
turn unto God, and embrace His Cause, spread not disorder within it, and
measure not the Book of God with your selfish desires. This, verily, is
the counsel of God aforetime and hereafter.... Had ye believed in God,
when He revealed Himself, the people would not have turned aside from Him,
nor would the things ye witness today have befallen Us. Fear God, and be
not of the heedless.... This is the Cause that hath caused all your
superstitions and idols to tremble.... O concourse of divines! Beware lest
ye be the cause of strife in the land, even as ye were the cause of the
repudiation of the Faith in its early days. Gather the people around this
Word that hath made the pebbles to cry out: 'The Kingdom is God's, the
Dawning-Place of all signs!'... Tear the veils asunder in such wise that
the inmates of the Kingdom will hear them being rent. This is the command
of God, in days gone by, and for those to come. Blessed the man that
observeth that whereunto he was bidden, and woe betide the negligent.

"HOW long will ye, O concourse of divines, level the..."

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.

"O CONCOURSE of divines! Can any one of you race with..."

O CONCOURSE of divines! 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