The Faith of Bahá'u'lláh should indeed be regarded, if we
wish to be faithful to the tremendous implications of its message, as the
culmination of a cycle, the final stage in a series of successive, of
preliminary and progressive revelations. These, beginning with Adam and ending
with the Báb, have paved the way and anticipated with an ever-increasing
emphasis the advent of that Day of Days in which He Who is the Promise of All
Ages should be made manifest.
There are no Prophets, so far, in the same category as
Bahá'u'lláh, as He culminates a great cycle begun by Adam. (From a letter
written on behalf of the Guardian to the National Spiritual Assembly of
Australia and New Zealand, December 26, 1941: Letter from the Guardian to
Australia and New Zealand; Lights of Guidance)
