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This second major crisis of His ministry, external in nature and hardly less severe than the one precipitated by the rebellion of Mirza Muhammad- 'Ali, gravely imperiled His life, deprived Him, for a number of years, of the relative freedom He had enjoyed, plunged into anguish His family and the followers of the Faith in East and West, and exposed as never before, the degradation and infamy of His relentless adversaries. It originated two years after the departure of the first American pilgrims from the Holy Land. It persisted, with varying degrees of intensity, during more than seven years, and was directly attributable to the incessant intrigues and monstrous misrepresentations of the Arch- Breaker of Baha'u'llah's Covenant and his supporters.
(263:2)
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