“Of His [the Báb’s] Revelation,” He [Baha’u’llah] further
adds, “the Prophets of God, His saints and chosen ones, have either not been
informed, or in pursuance of God’s inscrutable Decree, they have not
disclosed.”
And yet, immeasurably exalted as is the station of the Báb,
and marvellous as have been the happenings that have signalized the advent of
His Cause, so wondrous a Revelation cannot but pale before the effulgence of
that Orb of unsurpassed splendor Whose rise He foretold and whose superiority
He readily acknowledged. We have but to turn to the writings of the Báb Himself
in order to estimate the significance of that Quintessence of Light of which
He, with all the majesty of His power, was but its humble and chosen Precursor.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The Dispensation of Baha’u’llah’)
