[142] _Ibid._, p. 2.

[143] "The Story of the Bahai Movement," p. 17.

[144] So of Persia, _S. W._, April 28, 1914, p. 42.

[145] C. E. Maud, _Fortnightly Review_, April, 1912.

[146] Pages 68-158.

[147] "Table Talks with Abdul Baha," Dec. 2, 1900.

[148] "Answered Questions," pp. 22-29.

[149] _S. W._, Dec. 12, 1911, p. 7.

[150] Remey, "Tract on the Bahai Movement," p. 8.

[151] "Talks in Paris," p. 20.

[152] Remey, _S. W._, Dec. 31, 1913, pp. 267-271.

[153] In thus regarding the prophets as divine, Bahais are not setters forth of strange doctrine in Persia, for the Ali Allahis (Nusaireyeh), who number, possibly, twice as many as the Bahais in Persia, have the same doctrine, and, in addition, regard the Imam Ali and others as divine incarnations.

[154] Phelps, "Life of Abbas Effendi."

[155] Baha's "Words of Wisdom," p. 61. Notwithstanding these repudiations of Pantheism, nearly every investigator finds it at the basis of Bahai teaching.

[156] "Answered Questions," p. 23.

[157] Abdul Baha in Mrs. Grundy's "Ten Days in Acca."

[158] _Ibid._, p. 61: "The Blessed Perfection said in His Tablets that once He was Abraham, once Moses, once Jesus, once Mohammed and once the Bab. Baha Ullah is all the prophets, no matter by what name he chooses to call himself."

[159] "Bahai Proofs," p. 209.

[160] Pages 14-15.

[161] "Answered Questions," pp. 199-201. Mr. Sprague says: "The Bahai Faith teaches that the Universal Spirit, which is G.o.d, has manifested itself to every race at some time or other, and that it comes again and again, like the spring, to make all things new" ("A Year in India," p.

viii).

[162] "Ikan," p. 175.

[163] "Bahai Proofs," pp. 156-160. At the time of Azal there was a whole "galaxy" of Manifestations. Baha wishes to stop the claimants, so he declares that none is to be expected "for a thousand or thousands of years." Persia has had numerous incarnations, so-called. They were found among the Ismielis, a.s.sa.s.sins, Ali-Allahis and all the _Ghulat_. The veiled Prophet Mukanna, Babak and many pretenders have proclaimed themselves G.o.d. In truth Persia never lacks for an incarnation or two.

One of these, of the Ali-Allahi sect, arrived in Tabriz some years ago, and made an appointment to visit me at three o'clock P. M. My somavar was set to boiling and I awaited his arrival. But he failed to keep his engagement because the Governor-General, the Amir-i-Nizam, heard of his presence in the city, and this G.o.d fled, forgetting to send me word not to expect him.

[164] "Answered Questions," pp. 129-131, 199-201.

[165] _Ibid._, p. 184.

[166] "Ikan," pp. 123-127.

[167] Asad Ullah, "The School of the Prophets," p. 109.

[168] Mrs. Brittingham, "The Revelation of Baha Ullah," p. 32.

[169] _S. W._, Jan. 19, 1914, p. 283.

[170] "The Revelation of Baha Ullah," p. 24. Similarly Gulam Ahmad Quadiani of India claimed to be Christ come again as well as Mohammed and the Mahdi and also, for the Hindus, a new avatar or incarnation.

[171] C. M. Remey's tract, "The Covenant," pp. 14-15; Kheiralla's "Baha Ullah," p. 533, and "Lawh-ul-Akdas," translated in _S. W._, Vol. IV, p.

15.

[172] _S. W._, March 21, 1913, p. 13.

[173] "Notes at Acca," p. 24.

[174] "A Message from Acca."

[175] "Before Abraham was, I am," p. 46.

[176] "The Revelation," etc., p. 25.

[177] "Daily Lessons," p. 61.

[178] "Flowers from Rose Garden," p. 5; also, Dealy, "Dawn of Knowledge," Chap. IV.

[179] Asad Ullah, "Sacred Mysteries," pp. 74, 85.

[180] "Bahai Proofs," p. 121; _S. W._, Jan. 19, 1914, p. 288.

[181] "A Heavenly Vista," p. 12.

[182] "Life of Abbas Effendi," p. 197.

[183] "Ikan," p. 113.

[184] "Answered Questions," p. 152.

[185] "The Bahai Movement," p. 39.

[186] Phelps, p. 99.

[187] "Ten Days in the Light of Acca."

[188] _S. W._, Dec. 31, 1913, p. 269.

[189] M. Asad Ullah in M. H. Dreyfus's "Universal Religion," p. 63.