“The people, during the absence of the Báb, re-enacted ...”

The people, during the absence of the Báb, re-enacted the episode of the Calf by setting up a blaring figure which embodied animal features in human form45 ...

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Whenever the people ask Thee of the appointed Hour say: Verily the knowledge of it is only with My Lord,46 Who is the Knower of the unseen. There is none other God but Him—He Who hath created you from a single soul,47 and I have no control over what profiteth Me or harmeth Me, but as My Lord pleaseth.48 Indeed God is Self-Sufficient and He, My Lord, standeth supreme over all things. Chapter LXIX.

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