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To this World Order the Bab Himself had, whilst a prisoner in the mountain fastnesses of Adhirbayjan, explicitly referred in His Persian Bayan, the Mother- Book of the Babi Dispensation, had announced its advent, and associated it with the name of Baha'u'llah, Whose Mission He Himself had heralded. "Well is it with Him," is His remarkable statement in the sixteenth chapter of the third Vahid, "who fixeth his gaze upon the Order of Baha'u'llah, and rendereth thanks unto his Lord! For He will assuredly be made manifest..." To this same Order Baha'u'llah Who, in a later period, revealed the laws and principles that must govern the operation of that Order, had thus referred in the Kitab- i- Aqdas, the Mother- Book of His Dispensation: "The world's equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this Most Great Order. Mankind's ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System, the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed." Its features Abdu'l- Baha, its great Architect, delineated in His Will and Testament, whilst the foundations of its rudimentary institutions are now being laid after Him by His followers in the East and in the West in this, the Formative Age of the Baha'i Dispensation.
(324:3)
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