"O Temple of God! No sooner had the hosts of Divine Revelation been sent down by the Lord of all names and attributes bearing the banners of His signs, than the exponents of doubt and fancy were put to flight. They disbelieved in the clear tokens of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, and rose up against Him in enmity and opposition. Amongst them were those who claimed: "These are not clear verses from God, nor do they proceed from an innate and untaught nature." Thus do the unbelievers seek to remedy the sickness of their hearts, utterly heedless that they thus render themselves accursed of all who dwell in heaven and on earth."
Comments:
• To begin with, let’s make a humble attempt and try to identify some of the spiritual entries/concepts that this paragraph brings to our attention. We can then strive, in light of the Writings, to gain some inkling of insights about some of them:
o “Temple of God”
o “the hosts of Divine Revelation”
o “the Lord of all names and attributes”
o “banners of His signs”
o “the exponents of doubt and fancy”
o the interaction between the “the hosts of Divine Revelation” and “the exponents of doubt and fancy”
o how those who “disbelieved in the clear tokens of God” are viewed as those who “rose up against” God
o the unbelievers accused Baha’u’llah that His Writings "are not clear verses from God” and that “they proceed from an innate and untaught nature."
o the concept of the “the sickness of …[the] hearts” of the “unbelievers”
o how the unbelievers “seek to remedy” this “sickness of their hearts”, however “utterly heedless that they thus render themselves accursed of all who dwell in heaven and on earth.”
o to be “accursed of all who dwell in heaven and on earth” – what does it mean?
