He [the Báb] Who was, in the words of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the
“Morn of Truth” and “Harbinger of the Most Great Light,” Whose advent at once
signalized the termination of the “Prophetic Cycle” and the inception of the
“Cycle of Fulfillment,” had simultaneously through His Revelation banished the
shades of night that had descended upon His country, and proclaimed the
impending rise of that Incomparable Orb Whose radiance was to envelop the whole
of mankind.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
