rts of
the people might not be troubled, anxious and tormented.

How often the Prophets of God and His supreme Manifestations in Their
prayers confess Their sins and faults! This is only to teach other men, to
encourage and incite them to humility and meekness, and to induce them to
confess their sins and faults. For these Holy Souls are pure from every
sin and sanctified from faults. In the Gospel it is said that a man came
to Christ and called Him "Good Master." Christ answered, "Why callest thou
Me good? there is none good but One, that is, God."(135) This did not
mean--God forbid!--that Christ was a sinner; but the intention was to teach
submission, humility, meekness and modesty to the man to whom He spoke.
These Holy Beings are lights, and light does not unite itself with
darkness. They are life, and life and death are not confounded. They are
for guidance, and guidance and error cannot be together. They are the
essence of obedience, and obedience cannot exist with rebellion.

To conclude, the addresses in the form of reproach which are in the Holy
Books, though apparently directed to the Prophets--that is to say, to the
Manifestations of God--in reality are intended for the people. This will
become evident and clear to you when you have diligently examined the Holy
Books.

Salutations be upon you.

45: EXPLANATION OF THE VERSE OF THE KITAB-I-AQDAS, "THERE IS NO PARTNER
FOR HIM WHO IS THE DAYSPRING OF REVELATION IN HIS MOST GREAT
INFALLIBILITY"

It is said in the holy verse: "There is no partner for Him Who is the
Dayspring of Revelation(136) in His Most Great Infallibility. He is, in
truth, the exponent of 'God doeth whatsoever He willeth' in the kingdom of
creation. Indeed the Almighty hath exclusively reserved this station for
Himself and to none is given a share in this sublime and highly exalted
distinction."(137)

Know that infallibility is of two kinds: essential infallibility and
acquired infallibility. In like manner there is essential knowledge and
acquired knowledge; and so it is with other names and attributes.
Essential infallibility is peculiar to the supreme Manifestation, for it
is His essential requirement, and an essential requirement cannot be
separated from the thing itself. The rays are the essential necessity of
the sun and are inseparable from it. Knowledge is an essential necessity
of God and is inseparable from Him. Power is an essential necessity of God
and is inseparable f