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The Kitáb-i-Aqdas

  • Author:

  • Bahá’u’lláh

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í World Centre, 1992 edition
  • Pages:
  • 254
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Pages 194-195
 

60. And among the people is he who layeth claim to inner knowledge # 36
 
This is a reference to people who claim access to esoteric knowledge and whose attachment to such knowledge veils 195 them from the Revelation of the Manifestation of God. Elsewhere Bahá’u’lláh affirms: “They that are the worshippers of the idol which their imaginations have carved, and who call it Inner Reality, such men are in truth accounted among the heathen.”