et hath quaffed the cup of martyrdom and soared to the loftiest horizon of Might, through the sentence and sanction of the divines of the age. What oppressions have been inflicted by the leaders of the time and divines of the age upon the Kings of Existence and the Essences of Desire! Satisfied with these limited and transient days, they were debarred from the everlasting realm, their eyes deprived from witnessing the lights of the beauty of the Beloved and their ears from hearing the wonderful melodies of the Nightingale of Desire. Therefore the condition of the divines of every age is recorded in all the Heavenly Books; as it is said in the Koran: "O ye people of the Book, why do ye reject the Signs of God, while ye are the witnesses of them" (K. S. 3)? Also, "O ye people of the Book, why do ye clothe truth with vanity, and knowingly hide the truth" (K. S. 3)? Also, in another place, "Say, O people of the Book, why do ye bar the path of God" (K. S. 3)?
It is evident that the u people of the Book " who barred mankind from the right path were the divines of that age, whose names and records are contained in all the writings and understood from most of the verses and traditions, were ye to see with the eye of God.
So gaze with Divine Insight into the horizons of the Supreme Knowledge and into the souls of the perfect words of Eternity, that all the mysteries of the spiritual Wisdom may appear without "veils of
