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But Baha'u'llah does not represent the final stage in the history of the Salvation of Man. He proclaims that God will continue in the future to send His messengers to mankind "to summon all mankind to truthfulness and sincerity, to piety and trustworthiness, to resignation and submissiveness to the Will of God, to forbearance and kindliness, to uprightness and wisdom" and "to array ever man with the mantle of a saintly character, and to adorn him with the ornament of holy and goodly deeds" (Gl). (23:2) This is the fundamental belief of Baha'u'llah's followers: that religion is not static but dynamic, that God did not manifest Himself for once and for all in the past but has done so at irregular cyclic intervals and will continue to do so in the future. They believe that the birth of each revealed religion was as the "tide of Fortune" and that the progressive development of the human race is dependent on the appearance of the divine manifestations.
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