Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 8.2.5

8.2.5

As the master was not without learning, he brought forwards a number of words of ancient Persian, and many other expressions which seldom are heard of amongst moderns, and having either translated them or given them a particular termination, he sprinkled them throughout his compositions, which he little by little put into verses. He clothed the whole in a new garb, and gave this his farrago a very extraordinary appearance. But his pretensions were still more strange, and they are of so high a nature, that it is hardly possible to give an intelligible account of them. In one word, he pretended to a BecoSkiet or BecoSkiety, which novel word he explained by saying: "That it was expressive of the middle dignity and nature betwixt Prophecy and Pontificate ; adding with all that all Prophets had not been BecoScs ; but that the last and seal of Prophets had been both, and moreover that the first BecoSc, simply speaking, had been the Prince of the heirs, the King of Saints, that is, His Majesty Saint-aaly, the son of Aab8-taaleb ; that Imam-reza had been "the eighth ; and that down to the Imam the eighth and securer, "both the Pontificate and Becoskiety had been joined in one and "the same person, until the two natures being split asunder, "Becoskiety descended to himself (Mahmed Hossein) in one "hand, and the Pontificate to His Majesty, the Imam Mahamedtaky on the other, from whom it would be continued to the "Lord of Command, (upon whom be peace !