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"Never since the beginning of the world," Baha'u'llah Himself affirms, "hath the Message been so openly proclaimed." "Each one of them," He, specifically referring to the Tablets addressed by Him to the sovereigns of the earth-- Tablets acclaimed by Abdu'l- Baha as a "miracle"-- has written, "hath been designated by a special name. The first hath been named `The Rumbling,' the second `The Blow,' the third `The Inevitable,' the fourth `The Plain,' the fifth `The Catastrophe,' and the others `The Stunning Trumpet- Blast,' `The Near Event,' `The Great Terror,' `The Trumpet,' `The Bugle,' and the like, so that all the peoples of the earth may know, of a certainty, and may witness, with outward and inner eyes, that He Who is the Lord of Names hath prevailed, and will continue to prevail, under all conditions, over all men." The most important of these Tablets, together with the celebrated Suriy- i- Haykal (the Surih of the Temple), He, moreover, ordered to be written in the shape of a pentacle, symbolizing the temple of man, and which He identified, when addressing the followers of the Gospel in one of His Tablets, with the "Temple" mentioned by the Prophet Zechariah, and designated as "the resplendent dawning- place of the All- Merciful," and which "the hands of the power of Him Who is the Causer of Causes" had built.
(212:2)
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