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		<title>Wine and wineskin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a little gem from the book The Arc of Ascent (read it yourself for the full picture). These words were spoken by God to Daniel: &#8220;But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.&#8221; Daniel 12:4 [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here’s a little gem from the book The Arc of Ascent (read it yourself for the full picture).</p>
<p style="padding-left:20px;">These words were spoken by God to Daniel:<br />
<em>&#8220;But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.&#8221;</em>  Daniel 12:4</p>
<p style="padding-left:20px;"><em>&#8220;Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.&#8221;</em> Daniel 12:9</p>
<p style="padding-left:20px;">In the Quran, Muhammad states that in this day the righteous will be rewarded:<br />
<em>&#8220;Choice sealed wine shall be given them to quaff, The seal of musk.&#8221;</em> Sura 42-114</p>
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<p style="padding-left:20px;">Shoghi Effendi describes the Kitab-i-Iqan:<br />
<em>it proffered to mankind the &#8220;Choice Sealed Wine,&#8221; whose seal is of &#8220;musk,&#8221; and broke the &#8220;seals&#8221; of the &#8220;Book&#8221; referred to by Daniel</em>  God Passes By, p. 139</p>
<p>So we have this Choice Wine, but it is still sealed, albeit with an attractive perfume (musk) as a seal.</p>
<p style="padding-left:20px;"><em>&#8220;Think not that We have revealed unto you a mere code of laws. Nay, rather, We have unsealed the choice Wine with the fingers of might and power.&#8221;</em> Kitab-i-Aqdas no. 5</p>
<p>Thus the relation between spiritual guidance (the wine, which is sealed) and the laws and institutions through which this guidance can be applied (the wineskin which holds the wine).</p>
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