11  The Vatican, Epistle of the Pope
The epistle intended for the Pope runs as follows:
O! Pope rend asunder the veils! The Lord of Lords hath come in the shadow of clods, and the matter hath been decided on the part of god, the powerful, the Unconstrained …. Verily He hath come from heaven another time, as He came from it the first time; beware lest ye oppose Him as the Pharisees opposed Him without evidence or proof … Dost thou dwell in palaces, which the king of the manifestation of abodes [i.e. Acre]? … The word which the Most faithful wrote hath indeed descended into the form of as man in this time: Blessed is the Lord who is the Father; He hath come with His Most Mighty power amongst the nations; Turn towards Him, O Conqueror of the good! ….. The Father hath come, and that which hath been promised unto you in the kingdom is accomplished; this is a word which was concealed behind the veil of might, and when the promised (time) came, it shone from the horizon of the (Divine) Will with manifestation …. My body yearneth for the cross and my heart is eager for the spear in the path of the merciful one (i.e. god) …. This is indeed the Father, whereof Isaiah gave you tidings and the Comforter whom the Spirit (i.e. Christ) promised …”
J.R.A.S. October, 1889, PP.963-967, Prof. Browne’s Translation.

In the presence of Baha’s most humble submissions to Count Gobineau imploring him to interceded with Napoleon III to extend his “shadow of protection to Baha and his felloe-exiles (see France), it does not stand to reason that Baha would have sent such an aggressive, arrogant and disrespected epistle to Pope pious ix, to whom the interceder and the person whose protection was sought owed their allegiance. The epistle was kept under the carpet.

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