The "myriad veils of light," within which His
glory had been wrapped, were, at that historic hour [Ridvan], partially lifted,
vouchsafing to mankind "an infinitesimal glimmer" of the effulgence
of His "peerless, His most sacred and exalted Countenance." The
"thousand two hundred and ninety days," fixed by Daniel in the last
chapter of His Book, as the duration of the "abomination that maketh
desolate" had now elapsed. The "hundred lunar years," destined
to immediately precede that blissful consummation (1335 days), announced by
Daniel in that same chapter, had commenced. The nineteen years, constituting
the first "Vahid," preordained in the Persian Bayan by the pen of the
Báb, had been completed. The Lord of the Kingdom, Jesus Christ returned in the
glory of the Father, was about to ascend His throne, and assume the sceptre of
a world-embracing, indestructible sovereignty.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes
By’)
