Universal Manifestation
Bahá'u'lláh is the Universal Manifestation of this universal cycle[edit]
"Question: You have stated that we are living in a universal cycle, the first Manifestation of which was Adam and the universal Manifestation of which is Bahá'u'lláh. ... "Briefly, there were many universal cycles preceding this one in which we are living."
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 218, 220 passim)
Blessed Beauty (Bahá'u'lláh) and His Herald (The Báb) have ended the appearance of God's universal Manifestation[edit]
"With the Abha Blessed Beauty and the Exalted One, His Herald-- may my life be a sacrifice for Them both--hath ended the appearance of God's independent and universal Manifestation. And for a thousand years all shall be illumined by His lights and be sustained by the ocean of His favours."
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, sec. 225, pp. 295)
Bahá'u'lláh as Originator of this universal cycle[edit]
"He Who in such dramatic circumstances was made to sustain the overpowering weight of so glorious a Mission was none other than the One Whom posterity will acclaim, and Whom innumerable followers already recognize...as the Inaugurator of the long-awaited millennium, as the Originator of a new "Universal Cycle,"
- (Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 93)
Bahá'u'lláh as supreme Manifestation of cycle beginning with Adam[edit]
"We are in the cycle which began with Adam, and its supreme Manifestation is Bahá'u'lláh."
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, p. 161; also in Foundations of World Unity, p. 54)
