The Báb, acclaimed by Bahá'u'lláh as the "Essence of
Essences," the "Sea of Seas," the "Point round Whom the
realities of the Prophets and Messengers revolve," "from Whom God
hath caused to proceed the knowledge of all that was and shall be," Whose
"rank excelleth that of all the Prophets," and Whose "Revelation
transcendeth the comprehension and understanding of all their chosen
ones," had delivered His Message and discharged His mission. He 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’)
