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erroneous conception of the Deity. More than a thousand
ecclesiastics were summoned to the General Council at
Nicea (the modern Izmid), of whom only three hundred
and eighteen persons subscribed to the decisions of the
Council, and these too formed three opposite factions
with their respective ambiguous and unholy expressions
of “homousion” or “homoousion,” “consubstantial,” and
other terms utterly and wholly strangers to the Prophets of
Israel, but only worthy of the “Speaking Horn.”

    The Christians who suffered persecutions and
martyrdoms under the pagan emperors of Rome because
they believed in One God and in his servant Jesus (pbuh)
were now doomed by the imperial edict of the “Christian”
Constantine to even severer tortures because they refused
to adore the servant Jesus (pbuh) as consubstantial and coeval
with his Lord and Creator! The Elders and Ministers of
the Arian Creed, i.e. Qashishi and Mshamshaní -as they
were called by the early Jewish Christians- were deposed
or banished, their religious books suppressed, and their
churches seized and handed over to the Trinitarian bishops
and priests. Any historical work on the early Christian
Church will give us ample information about the service
rendered by Constantine to the cause of the Trinitarian
Creed, and tyranny to those who opposed it. The merciless
legions in every province were placed at the disposal of
the ecclesiastical authorities. Constantine personifies a
regime of terror and fierce war against the Unitarians,
which lasted in the East for three centuries and a half,
when the Muslims established the religion of Allah and
assumed the power and dominion over the lands trodden
and devastated by the four beasts.

    (e) The “Talking Horn” is accused of having
contemplated to change “the Law and the times.” This is
a very serious charge against the Horn. Its blasphemies
or “great words against the Most High” may or may not
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