…the terms sovereignty, wealth, life, death, judgment and
resurrection, spoken of by the scriptures of old, are not what this generation
hath conceived and vainly imagined. Nay, by sovereignty is meant that
sovereignty which in every dispensation resideth within, and is exercised by,
the person of the Manifestation, the Day-star of Truth. That sovereignty is the
spiritual ascendancy which He exerciseth to the fullest degree over all that is
in heaven and on earth, and which in due time revealeth itself to the world in direct proportion to its capacity and spiritual
receptiveness…
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan)
