8.   The Centre of Covenant
Contradicting Baha, Sir Abbas Effendi also claimed to be the Centre of Covenant. In the considered opinion of the 'Unitarians', 'Violation' meant infraction of Baha's Will and Testament. In the considered opinion of Sir Abbas Effendi 'Violation' meant opposition to his bidding. In the result Sir Abbas Effendi excommunicated all the members of Baha's family.

As the 'Branch' in his human personality, Baha claimed to have "built the temple of the Lord," which consists of his "Kitab-i-Hayakel". Contradicting Baha, Sir Abbas as the "Branch from the Ancient Root (i.e. Baha)" claimed to have "built the temple of the Lord" which consists of the "building" built by him on the Mount Carmel, in Haifa, in which he was buried.

"when the hour came the wronged one and broken-winged bird," to quote Sir Abbas Effendi in his Will and Testament, "took its flight unto the Celestial concoured, when it hastened to the realm of the unseen with its mortal frame lost or hidden, beneath the duet” in the building on Mount Carmel, survived by his swan-song, the Will and Testament, in which he trampled under foot the Will and Testament of Baha whose 'servant' he claimed to be in his apparent [i.e. earthly] life.

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