tended, as at every season the sun rises from a certain place and sets in another, so "easts" and "wests" are spoken of. This is the degree of the knowledge of the servants and yet what ignorances and defects they ascribe to the Essences of Knowledge and the Subtleties of Wisdom.
In like manner through these clear, firm, wellfounded and direct explanations understadji the "cleaving of Heaven" which is one of the sigh's of the Hour of Resurrection: As it is said: When the Heaven shall be cloven asunder" (K. S. 82). By this is meant the Heaven of Religions elevated during every Dispensation and cloven asunder in every subsequent Manifestation, that is, abolished and annulled. I swear by God that to one who carefully considers, the cleaving asunder of this Heaven is greater than the cleaving of the phenomenal heaven. Reflect a little; a long-established religion, under which all have grown and developed; by the shining ordinances of which they have been trained for long periods; hearing nothing from their fathers and ancestors except its mention, so that the eyes see only the effectiveness of its commands and ears hear only its ordinances; then afterward one appearing, severing and separating all these through Divine power and strength, nay rather, abolishing them. Consider whether this is of greater importance than that which these worthless creatures have imagined concerning the cleaving of heaven. Moreover, consider the
