lers, ',Ve would have sent down to them angel from the heaven as an apostle" (17: 95). When even an angel cannot serve as a model for men, much less would God Himself serve that purpose, even though it were possible that He should come in the form
of human flesh. Man has to face temptatione at every step of his life; but there is no temptation for God. So, the simple truth is that God-incarnate would not serve any purpose in the reformation of man. But, fdr the impartial consideration of our American Bahai, we reporduce the verdict of modern scientific research and investigation with regard to the Divinity of Jesus Christ which Bahaul1ah, as shown in the foregoing lines, had assumed as a drop to stay him up in his preposterous claim. The compilers of wellknown book Encyclopaedia Biblica who are the accredited scholars and divines of the Christian faith, have stated (Art. son of God) in quite unmistakeable terms: "We must infer that Jesus had indeed communion with God but nothing beyond it; but this connection was under such limitations that the attribute of Godness as well as absolute knowledge belonged to God, and hence the boundary line between the Divine and human was strictly preserved." Yet another Christian scholar, J. Hastings, writes in his book, Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, p. 808 : "All the be1ieving Jews and all the rest of the Nazarene Jews esteemed Jesus
with one consent as a mere son of Joseph and Mary." Bahaullah mortal man. man, the
was, likewise, a mere From a study of his book, Kitab al-Aqdas, it appears that either he suffered from a mental kink, or was so much disgusted with his lamentable lot in the prisoncell that he sometimes cursed his adversaries, the Babis, and invoked evil upon them, and sometimes he held high glittering hopes to his friends; yet in all his sullen gloom and melancholy he was so much arrogant and presumptuous that he claimed to be the Mighty Manifestation of the Most High God the Creator of the heavens and the earth. That his mental faculties had suffered some sort of derangement during the period of his incarceration we have Bahaullah's own confession. Writes he in one of his letters, called Alwah : "On account of the torture of heavy irons and the stink and stench of the prison at Tehran, I got very little sleep. But when I sometimes fell asleep, I felt 8,S if something was dropping from over the head on my bosom, just as a. big water canal falls from the top of a. hill on the land below. A burning,
34 sensation of an intense degree was, then, fel t in all my lim bs, and my tongue, at that time, spoke words which no one has the power to listen to and hear." A few of Bahaullah's wild statemente we reproduce for the indulgence of our readers and the careful consideration of those Bahais who have never had the opportunity of seeing their sealed scripture, the Kitab al-Aqdas.
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"Ye leaders of mankind, listen to the voice of the Lord of the heavens. He is speaking to you from his great prison that there is no god excepting me (i.e, Bahaullah), the mighty and the glorious, the knowing and the wise."
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"He it is (i.e. Bahaullah) who sent Apostles and revealed Books. There is no god but me the mighty, the wise."
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"King of Austria! when you passed through Akka, on your way to the Temple at Jerusalem, the source of the light of Divine unity was imprisoned there, and you made no enquiry concerning him. After that every house w