em to "fear
God" and not to follow "the vain imaginings of the superstitious"; and
directs them to lay aside the things they possess and "take fast hold of
the Tablet of God by His sovereign power." To the archbishops of that
Church He similarly declares that "He Who is the Lord of all men hath
appeared," that they are "numbered with the dead," and that great is the
blessedness of him who is "stirred by the breeze of God, and hath arisen
from amongst the dead in this perspicuous Name." In passages addressed to
its bishops He proclaims that "the Everlasting Father calleth aloud
between earth and heaven," pronounces them to be the fallen stars of the
heaven of His knowledge, and affirms that His body "yearneth for the
cross" and His head is "eager for the spear in the path of the
All-Merciful." The concourse of Christian priests He bids "leave the
bells," and come forth from their churches; exhorts them to "proclaim
aloud the Most Great Name among the nations"; assures them that whoever
will summon men in His Name will "show forth that which is beyond the
power of all that are on earth"; warns them that the "Day of Reckoning
hath appeared"; and counsels them to turn with their hearts to their
"Lord, the Forgiving, the Generous." In numerous passages addressed to the
"concourse of monks" He bids them not to seclude themselves in churches
and cloisters, but to occupy themselves with that which will profit their
souls and the souls of men; enjoins them to enter into wedlock; and
affirms that if they choose to follow Him He will make them heirs of His
Kingdom, and that if they transgress against Him, He will, in His
long-suffering, endure it patiently.

And finally, in several passages addressed to the entire body of the
followers of Jesus Christ He identifies Himself with the "Father" spoken
of by Isaiah, with the "Comforter" Whose Covenant He Who is the Spirit
(Jesus) had Himself established, and with the "Spirit of Truth" Who will
guide them "into all truth"; proclaims His Day to be the Day of God;
announces the conjunction of the river Jordan with the "Most Great Ocean";
asserts their heedlessness as well as His own claim to have opened unto
them "the gates of the kingdom"; affirms that the promised "Temple" has
been built "with the hands of the will" of their Lord, the Mighty, the
Bounteous; bids them "rend the veils asunder," and enter in His name His
Kingdom; recalls the saying of Jesus to Peter; and assures them that,