He ['Abdu'l-Baha] is, and should for all time be regarded, first and
foremost, as the Center and Pivot of Bahá'u'lláh's peerless and all-enfolding
Covenant, His most exalted handiwork, the stainless Mirror of His light, the
perfect Exemplar of His teachings, the unerring Interpreter of His Word, the
embodiment of every Bahá'í ideal, the incarnation of every Bahá'í virtue, the
Most Mighty Branch sprung from the Ancient Root, the Limb of the Law of God,
the Being "round Whom all names revolve," the Mainspring of the
Oneness of Humanity, the Ensign of the Most Great Peace, the Moon of the Central
Orb of this most holy Dispensation -- styles and titles that are implicit and
find their truest, their highest and fairest expression in the magic name
'Abdu'l-Bahá.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The World Order of Baha'u'llah’)
