ence We came. Surrendering Our will to His, We
submitted to His injunction.

What pen can recount the things We beheld upon Our return! Two years have
elapsed during which Our enemies have ceaselessly and assiduously
contrived to exterminate Us, whereunto all witness. Nevertheless, none
amongst the faithful hath risen to render Us any assistance, nor did any
one feel inclined to help in Our deliverance. Nay, instead of assisting
Us, what showers of continuous sorrows, their words and deeds have caused
to rain upon Our soul! Amidst them all, We stand, life in hand, wholly
resigned to His will; that perchance, through God's loving kindness and
His grace, this revealed and manifest Letter may lay down His life as a
sacrifice in the path of the Primal Point, the most exalted Word. By Him
at Whose bidding the Spirit hath spoken, but for this yearning of Our
soul, We would not, for one moment, have tarried any longer in this city.
"Sufficient Witness is God unto Us." We conclude Our argument with the
words: "There is no power nor strength but in God alone." "We are God's,
and to Him shall we return."

They that have hearts to understand, they that have quaffed the Wine of
love, who have not for one moment gratified their selfish desires, will
behold, resplendent as the sun in its noon-tide glory, those tokens,
testimonies, and evidences that attest the truth of this wondrous
Revelation, this transcendent and divine Faith. Reflect, how the people
have rejected the Beauty of God, and have clung unto their covetous
desires. Notwithstanding all these consummate verses, these unmistakable
allusions, which have been revealed in the "Most weighty Revelation," the
Trust of God amongst men, and despite these evident traditions, each more
manifest than the most explicit utterance, the people have ignored and
repudiated their truth, and have held fast to the letter of certain
traditions which, according to their understanding, they have found
inconsistent with their expectations, and the meaning of which they have
failed to grasp. They have thus shattered every hope, and deprived
themselves of the pure wine of the All-Glorious, and the clear and
incorruptible waters of the immortal Beauty.

Consider, that even the year in which that Quintessence of Light is to be
made manifest hath been specifically recorded in the traditions, yet they
still remain unmindful, nor do they for one moment cease to pursue their
selfish desires. According