Future Manifestations of God
The Bahá'í Revelation refutes claim to be final revelation from God[edit]
"It should also be borne in mind that, great as is the power manifested by this Revelation and however vast the range of the Dispensation its Author has inaugurated, it emphatically repudiates the claim to be regarded as the final revelation of God's will and purpose for mankind."
"...those who have recognized the Light of God in this age, claim no finality for the Revelation with which they stand identified..."
Later Prophets will be under Bahá'u'lláh's shadow[edit]
"After Bahá'u'lláh many Prophets will, no doubt, appear, but they will be all under His shadow. Although they may abrogate the laws of the Dispensation, in accordance with the needs and requirements of the age in which they appear, they nevertheless draw their spiritual force from this mighty Revelation. The Faith of Bahá'u'lláh constitutes, indeed, the stage of maturity in the development of mankind. His appearance has released such spiritual forces which will continue to animate, for many long years to come, the world in its development. Whatever progress may be achieved in later ages--after the unification of the whole human race is achieved--will be but improvements in the machinery of the world. For the machinery itself has already been created by Bahá'u'lláh. The task of continually improving and perfecting this machinery is one which later Prophets will be called upon to achieve. They will move and work within the orbit of the Bahá'í cycle."
- (From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to an individual believer, November 14, 1935, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1561)
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Possibility of a future Manifestation of God being a woman?[edit]
"Know thou moreover that in the Day of Revelation were He to pronounce one of the leaves to be the manifestation of all His excellent titles, unto no one is given the right to utter why or wherefore, and should one do so he would be regarded as a disbeliever in God and be numbered with such as have repudiated His Truth."
- (Bahá'u'lláh, Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 185)
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No Text known which states explicitly the country in which Manifestations of God will appear[edit]
"As to the future, the Research Department knows of no Text which states explicitly in which country Manifestations of God will appear."
- (On behalf of the Universal House of Justice, Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1986-2001, sec. 7.5)
