14 Nay, by Him Who holdeth in His grasp the kingdom of the entire creation!  Nowhere doth your true and abiding glory reside except in your firm adherence unto the precepts of God, your wholehearted observance of His laws, your resolution to see that they do not remain unenforced, and to pursue steadfastly the right course.

15 O kings of Christendom!  Heard ye not the saying of Jesus, the Spirit of God, “I go away, and come again unto you"?(85) Wherefore, then, did ye fail, when He did come again unto you in the clouds of heaven, to draw nigh unto Him, that ye might behold His face, and be of them that attained His Presence?  In another passage He saith:  “When He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth."(86) And yet behold how, when He did bring the truth, ye refused to turn your faces towards Him, and persisted in disporting yourselves with your pastimes and fancies.  Ye welcomed Him not, neither did ye seek His Presence, that ye might hear the verses of God from His own mouth, and partake of the manifold wisdom of the Almighty, the All-Glorious, the All-Wise.  Ye have, by reason of your failure, hindered the breath of God from being wafted over you, and have withheld from your souls the sweetness of its fragrance.  Ye continue roving with delight in the valley of your corrupt desires.  By God!  Ye, and all ye possess, shall pass away.  Ye shall, most certainly, return to God, and shall be called to account for your doings in the presence of Him Who shall gather together the entire creation.

16 Again, heard ye not that which hath been recorded in the Gospel concerning those “which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God"(87)—­that is, those who have been made manifest through the power of God?  Wherefore it becometh evident that one may well be manifested in the world of creation who is truly of God, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.  How is it then that when word reached you of Our Cause, ye failed to inquire from Our own lips, that ye might distinguish truth from falsehood, discover Our aim and purpose, and learn of the afflictions which We have suffered at the hands of an evil and wayward generation?

17 O Minister of the King of Paris!(88) Hast thou forgotten the pronouncement recorded in the Gospel according to John concerning the Word and those who are its Manifestations?  And hast thou ignored the counsels of the Spirit(89) concerning the Manifestations of the Word, and been numbered with the heedless?  If not, wherefore then didst thou conspire with the Minister of Persia(90) to inflict upon Us that which hath caused the hearts of men of insight and understanding to melt, the tears of the denizens of the Realm of eternity to flow, and the souls of them who are nigh unto God to mourn?  And all this thou didst commit without seeking to examine Our Cause or to discern its truth.  For is it not thy clear duty to investigate this Cause, to inform thyself of the things that have befallen Us, to judge with equity, and to cleave unto justice?