…the Bearers of the trust of God are made manifest unto the
peoples of the earth as the Exponents of a new Cause and the Bearers of a new
Message. Inasmuch as these Birds of the Celestial Throne are all sent down from
the heaven of the Will of God, and as they all arise to proclaim His irresistible
Faith, they therefore are regarded as one soul and the same person. For they
all drink from the one Cup of the love of God, and all partake of the fruit of
the same Tree of Oneness.
- Baha’u’llah (The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
