O thou who hast fixed thy gaze upon the all-glorious Horizon!  The Call is raised but hearing ears are numbered, nay non-existent.  This Wronged One findeth himself in the maw of the serpent, yet He faileth not to make mention of the loved ones of God.  So grievous have been Our sufferings in these days that the Concourse on High are moved to tears and to lamentation.  Neither the adversities of the world nor the harm inflicted by its nations could deter Him Who is the King of Eternity from voicing His summons or frustrate His purpose.  When those who had for years been hiding behind the veils perceived that the horizon of the Cause was resplendent and that the Word of God was all-pervasive, they rushed forth and with swords of malice inflicted such harm as no pen can portray nor any tongue describe.

They that judge with fairness testify that since the early days of the Cause this Wronged One hath arisen, unveiled and resplendent, before the faces of kings and commoners, before the rulers and the divines, and hath, in ringing tones, summoned all men unto the straight Path.  He hath had no helper save His Pen, nor any succourer other than Himself.

Those who are ignorant or heedless of the motivating purpose of the Cause of God have rebelled against Him.  Such men are the foreboders of evil, whom God hath mentioned in His Book and Tablets and against whose influence, clamour and deception He hath warned His people.  Well is it with those who, in the face of the remembrance of the Lord of Eternity, regard the peoples of the world as utter nothingness, as a thing forgotten, and hold fast to the firm handle of God in such wise that neither doubts nor insinuations, nor swords, nor cannon could hold them back or deprive them of His presence.  Blessed are the steadfast; blessed are they that stand firm in His Faith.

In response to thy request the Pen of Glory hath graciously described the stations and grades of the Most Great Infallibility.  The purpose is that all should know of a certainty that the Seal of the Prophets(45)—­may the souls of all else but Him be offered up for His sake—­is without likeness, peer or partner in His Own station.  The Holy Ones(46)—­may the blessings of God be upon them—­were created through the potency of His Word, and after Him they were the most learned and the most distinguished among the people and abide in the utmost station of servitude.  The divine Essence, sanctified from every comparison and likeness, is established in the Prophet, and God’s inmost Reality, exalted above any peer or partner, is manifest in Him.  This is the station of true unity and of veritable singleness.  The followers of the previous Dispensation grievously failed to acquire an adequate understanding of this station.  The Primal Point(47)—­may the life of all else but Him be offered up for His sake—­saith:  ’If the Seal of the Prophets had not uttered the word “Successorship”, such a station would not have been created.’