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The very completeness of the servitude with which 'Abdu'l-Baha promulgated the Faith of Baha'u'llah in East and West resulted at times in a confusion of belief concerning His station on the part of believers. Realizing the purity of the spirit animating His word and deed, surrounded by religious influences marking the breakdown of their traditional doctrines, a number of Baha'is felt that they honored 'Abdu'l-Baha by likening Him to a Manifestation, or hailing Him as the "return of Christ." Nothing caused Him such intense grief as this failure to perceive that His capacity to serve Baha'u'llah proceeded from the purity of the mirror turned to the Sun of Truth, and not from the Sun itself.
(48:2)
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