And among the evidences of the truth of His [the Báb’s]
manifestation were the ascendancy, the transcendent power, and supremacy which
He, the Revealer of being and Manifestation of the Adored, hath, unaided and
alone, revealed throughout the world. No sooner had that eternal Beauty
revealed Himself in Shíráz, in the year sixty, and rent asunder the veil of
concealment, than the signs of the ascendancy, the might, the sovereignty, and
power, emanating from that Essence of Essences and Sea of Seas, were manifest
in every land. So much so, that from every city there appeared the signs, the
evidences, the tokens, the testimonies of that divine Luminary. How many were
those pure and kindly hearts which faithfully reflected the light of that
eternal Sun, and how manifold the emanations of knowledge from that Ocean of
divine wisdom which encompassed all beings!
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
