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The Book of Ighan

run away " like timorous asses fleeing from a lion" (K. S. 74).

Were ye to reflect a little, ye would find doors of significances and explanations opened in this subject and statement, and behold all the knowledge and the mysteries thereof without veils. These things are only for the purpose of training and delivering the souls from the cage of self and desire, for that Ideal King in Himself hath forever been independent of the knowing of the beings, and in His Identity will ever be exalted above the adoration of contingent things. A single breeze of His Affluence honors all the world with the robes of wealth, and a mere drop of the sea of His Generosity favors all the existence with Eternal Life. But as the purpose is to distinguish between truth and falsehood, sun and shadow, therefore at every instant tests sent from the presence of the Lord of Might pour down like copious rain. Were people to ponder a little over the former Prophets and their manifestation, the matter would become so easy to them that they will not be veiled by reason of deeds and words which are contrary to their egotism and desire. They will burn every veil with the fire of the Sadrat of Knowledge and rest upon the throne of quiescence and composure. For example, Moses the Son of Amran, one of the great Prophets and the possessor of a Book, one day in the earlier part of His Dispensation, before His Mission, was passing through the market. Two men were striving