Vaughn,
At 11:42 PM 6/13/2004, you wrote:
But it escapes this mind how one whose station is as great as that of Quddus could
think of himself as a Manifestation. 'Abdu'l-Baha and the Guardian, for example,
were quick to discount being thought of as a Manifestation. Why would someone as
Several years ago I noticed the allegorical use of the term merchant in
the Book of Revelation to refer to religious leaders who use religion to
satisfy their own quests for either the physical riches of the earth or to
feed their vanity and egos on the souls of men.
Speaking of Babylon, the
Well, don't forget Muhammad and the Bab were
chants too. ;-}
I wasn't forgetting (it came out in the Ocean
search when I was tracking down the exact quotes I was thinking about). In
this caseI'm referringonly to the allegorical "merchants" of
corrupted religion--Babylon, not earthly ones
