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I greatly fear that Lord Curzon's description of Persian untruthfulness may be illustrated by the career of the Great Pretender. This being so, I am strongly of opinion that so far from confirming the Ezelite view of subsequent events, the Ezelite account of Ṣubḥ-i-Ezel's first appearance appreciably weakens it. Something, however, we may admit as not improbable.
The result was that with great public spirit he retired in favour of Baha. The news was soon spread abroad; it was not helpful to the cause of Ezel. So by Ezelite hands Dayyan was foully slain. It was on this occasion that Ezel vented curses and abusive language on his rival.
The historical work of the Ezelite party, called The Eight Paradises, makes Ezel nineteen years of age when he came forward as an expounder of religious mysteries and wrote letters to the Bāb.
There, among the Bābī refugees, he found new and old friends who adhered closely to the original type of theosophic doctrine; an increasing majority, however, were fascinated by a much more progressive teacher. It was, in fact, an ecclesiastical crisis, as the authors of the Traveller's Narrative, as well as the Ezelite historian, distinctly recognize.
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