Chapter 2: The Bab: The Forerunner
Verily the oppressor hath slain the Beloved of the worlds that he might thereby quench the Light of God amidst His creatures and withhold mankind from the Stream of Celestial Life in the days of his Lord, the Gracious, the Bountiful. - Baha'u'llah, Tablet to Ra'is. (14:1)

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