"O My Friends! Call ye to mind that covenant ye have entered into with Me upon Mount Paran... Now none do I find faithful unto the covenant. Of a certainty pride and rebellion have effaced it from the hearts, in such wise that no trace thereof remaineth." "Man has opposed the Will of God and acted in opposition to the plan of God. Therefore from the beginning of history to the present time the world of humanity has had no lasting rest... In the nineteenth century... the darkness of imitations and forms had enveloped religious belief. The people of religions were in constant warfare, filled with enmity, hatred and bitterness." "When the sun sets, it is the time for bats to fly... When the lights of religion become darkened, the materialists appear." (Hwp 46- 7; Pup 291- 2; Pup 174) (97:1)

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The Worlds of God
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