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From such clear and formally laid down statements, incompatible as they are with any assertion of a claim to Prophethood, we should not by any means infer that 'Abdu'l-Baha is merely one of the servants of the Blessed Beauty, or at best one whose function is to be confined to that of an authorized interpreter of His Father's teachings. Far be it from me to entertain such a notion or to wish to instill such sentiments. To regard Him in such a light is a manifest betrayal of the priceless heritage bequeathed by Baha'u'llah to mankind. Immeasurably exalted is the station conferred upon Him by the Supreme Pen above and beyond the implications of these, His own written statements. Whether in the Kitab-i-Aqdas, the most weighty and sacred of all the works of Baha'u'llah, or in the Kitab-i-'Ahd, the Book of His Covenant, or in the Suriy-i-Ghusn (Tablet of the Branch), such references as have been recorded by the pen of Baha'u'llah - references which the Tablets of His Father addressed to Him mightily reinforce - invest 'Abdu'l-Baha with a power, and surround Him with a halo, which the present generation can never adequately appreciate.
(133:3)
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