intervene between the eye of man's understanding
and the divine Luminary which shineth forth from
the dayspring of the divine Essence. Consider how
men for generations have been blindly imitating
their fathers, and have been trained according to
such ways and manners as have been laid down by
the dictates of their Faith. Were these men, therefore,
to discover suddenly that a Man, Who hath
been living in their midst, Who, with respect to
every human limitation, hath been their equal, had
risen to abolish every established principle imposed
by their Faith--principles by which for
centuries they have been disciplined, and every
opposer and denier of which they have come to regard
as infidel, profligate and wicked,--they would
of a certainty be veiled and hindered from
acknowledging His truth. Such things are as
"clouds" that veil the eyes of those whose inner
being hath not tasted the Salsabil of detachment,
nor drunk from the Kawthar of the knowledge of
God. Such men, when acquainted with these circumstances,
become so veiled that without the least
question, they pronounce the Manifestation of God
an infidel, and sentence Him to death. You must
have heard of such things taking place all down
the ages, and are now observing them in these days.
