Thus ended a life which posterity will recognize as standing
at the confluence of two universal prophetic cycles, the Adamic Cycle
stretching back as far as the first dawnings of the world's recorded religious
history and the Bahá'í Cycle destined to propel itself across the unborn
reaches of time for a period of no less than five thousand centuries. The
apotheosis in which such a life attained its consummation marks, as already
observed, the culmination of the most heroic phase of the Heroic Age of the
Bahá'í Dispensation. It can, moreover, be regarded in no other light except as
the most dramatic, the most tragic event transpiring within the entire range of
the first Bahá'í century. Indeed it can be rightly acclaimed as unparalleled in
the annals of the lives of all the Founders of the world's existing religious
systems.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
