s of exultation, was moved to address to one of His most trusted
and eminent followers in the earliest days of His ministry: "What more
shall I say? What else can my pen recount? So loud is the call that
reverberates from the Abha Kingdom that mortal ears are well-nigh deafened
with its vibrations. The whole creation, methinks, is being disrupted and
is bursting asunder through the shattering influence of the Divine summons
issued from the throne of glory. More than this I cannot write."

Dearly-beloved friends! Enough has been said, and the quoted excerpts from
the writings of the Bab, of Baha'u'llah and of 'Abdu'l-Baha are
sufficiently numerous and varied, to convince the conscientious reader of
the sublimity of this unique cycle in the world's religious history. It
would be utterly impossible to over-exaggerate its significance or to
overrate the influence it has exerted and which it must increasingly exert
as its great system unfolds itself amidst the welter of a collapsing
civilization.

To whoever may read these pages a word of warning seems, however,
advisable before I proceed further with the development of my argument.
Let no one meditating, in the light of the afore-quoted passages, on the
nature of the Revelation of Baha'u'llah, mistake its character or
misconstrue the intent of its Author. The divinity attributed to so great
a Being and the complete incarnation of the names and attributes of God in
so exalted a Person should, under no circumstances, be misconceived or
misinterpreted. The human temple that has been made the vehicle of so
overpowering a Revelation must, if we be faithful to the tenets of our
Faith, ever remain entirely distinguished from that "innermost Spirit of
Spirits" and "eternal Essence of Essences"--that invisible yet rational God
Who, however much we extol the divinity of His Manifestations on earth,
can in no wise incarnate His infinite, His unknowable, His incorruptible
and all-embracing Reality in the concrete and limited frame of a mortal
being. Indeed, the God Who could so incarnate His own reality would, in
the light of the teachings of Baha'u'llah, cease immediately to be God. So
crude and fantastic a theory of Divine incarnation is as removed from, and
incompatible with, the essentials of Baha'i belief as are the no less
inadmissible pantheistic and anthropomorphic conceptions of God-- both of
which the utterances of Baha'u'llah emphatically repudiate and the fallacy
of which t