If…thou art sailing upon the sea of creation, know thou that
the First Remembrance, which is the Primal Will of God, may be likened unto the
sun. God hath created Him through the potency of His might, and He hath, from
the beginning that hath no beginning, caused Him to be manifested in every
Dispensation through the compelling power of His behest, and God will, to the
end that knoweth no end, continue to manifest Him according to the
good-pleasure of His invincible Purpose….It is this Primal Will which appeareth
resplendent in every Prophet and speaketh forth in every revealed Book. It
knoweth no beginning, inasmuch as the First deriveth its firstness from It; and
knoweth no end, for the Last oweth its lastness unto It.
In the time of the First Manifestation the Primal Will
appeared in Adam; in the day of Noah It became known in Noah; in the day of
Abraham in Him; and so in the day of Moses; the day of Jesus; the day of
Muhammad, the Apostle of God; the day of the 'Point of the Bayan'; the day of
Him Whom God shall make manifest; and the day of the One Who will appear after
Him Whom God shall make manifest. Hence the inner meaning of the words uttered
by the Apostle of God, 'I am all the Prophets', inasmuch as what shineth
resplendent in each one of Them hath been and will ever remain the one and the
same sun.
- The Báb ('Selections from the Writings of the Báb')
