) Consider how clearly and explicitly he hath been
described in God's incorruptible Book! This man, moreover, feigning
humility, hath in his own book referred to himself as the "athim servant":
"Athim" in the Book of God, mighty among the common herd, "Karim" in name!

Ponder the blessed verse, so that the meaning of the words: "There is
neither a thing green nor sere but it is noted in the unerring Book,"(147)
may be imprinted upon the tablet of thy heart. Notwithstanding, a
multitude bear him allegiance. They have rejected the Moses of knowledge
and justice, and clung to the Samiri(148) of ignorance. They have turned
away their eyes from the Day-star of truth which shineth in the divine and
everlasting heaven, and have utterly ignored its splendour.

O my brother! A divine Mine only can yield the gems of divine knowledge,
and the fragrance of the mystic Flower can be inhaled only in the ideal
Garden, and the lilies of ancient wisdom can blossom nowhere except in the
city of a stainless heart. "In a rich soil, its plants spring forth
abundantly by permission of its Lord, and in that soil which is bad, they
spring forth but scantily."(149)

Inasmuch as it hath been clearly shown that only those who are initiated
into the divine mysteries can comprehend the melodies uttered by the Bird
of Heaven, it is therefore incumbent upon every one to seek enlightenment
from the illumined in heart and from the Treasuries of divine mysteries
regarding the intricacies of God's Faith and the abstruse allusions in the
utterances of the Day-springs of Holiness. Thus will these mysteries be
unravelled, not by the aid of acquired learning, but solely through the
assistance of God and the outpourings of His grace. "Ask ye, therefore, of
them that have the custody of the Scriptures, if ye know it not."(150)

But, O my brother, when a true seeker determineth to take the step of
search in the path leading to the knowledge of the Ancient of Days, he
must, before all else, cleanse and purify his heart, which is the seat of
the revelation of the inner mysteries of God, from the obscuring dust of
all acquired knowledge, and the allusions of the embodiments of satanic
fancy. He must purge his breast, which is the sanctuary of the abiding
love of the Beloved, of every defilement, and sanctify his soul from all
that pertaineth to water and clay, from all shadowy and ephemeral
attachments. He must so cleanse his heart that no remnant of either love