person arise and bring forth a myriad verses,
discourses, epistles, and prayers, none of which have been acquired
through learning, what conceivable excuse could justify those that reject
them, and deprive themselves of the potency of their grace? What answer
could they give when once their soul hath ascended and departed from its
gloomy temple? Could they seek to justify themselves by saying: "We have
clung to a certain tradition, and not having beheld the literal fulfilment
thereof, we have therefore raised such cavils against the Embodiments of
divine Revelation, and kept remote from the law of God?" Hast thou not
heard that among the reasons why certain Prophets have been designated as
Prophets "endowed with constancy" was the revelation of a Book unto them?
And yet, how could this people be justified in rejecting the Revealer and
Author of so many volumes of verses, and follow the sayings of him who
hath foolishly sown the seeds of doubt in the hearts of men, and who,
Satan-like, hath risen to lead the people into the paths of perdition and
error? How could they allow such things to deprive them of the light of
the Sun of divine bounty? Aside from these things, if these people shun
and reject such a divine Soul, such holy Breath, to whom, We wonder, could
they cling, to whose face besides His Face could they turn? Yea--"All have
a quarter of the Heavens to which they turn."(171) We have shown thee
these two ways; walk thou the way thou choosest. This verily is the truth,
and after truth there remaineth naught but error.

Amongst the proofs demonstrating the truth of this Revelation is this,
that in every age and Dispensation, whenever the invisible Essence was
revealed in the person of His Manifestation, certain souls, obscure and
detached from all worldly entanglements, would seek illumination from the
Sun of Prophethood and Moon of divine guidance, and would attain unto the
divine Presence. For this reason, the divines of the age and those
possessed of wealth, would scorn and scoff at these people. Even as He
hath revealed concerning them that erred: "Then said the chiefs of His
people who believed not, 'We see in Thee but a man like ourselves; and we
see not any who have followed Thee except our meanest ones of hasty
judgment, nor see we any excellence in you above ourselves: nay, we deem
you liars.'"(172) They caviled at those holy Manifestations, and protested
saying: "None hath followed you except the abject am