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Standing at the close of the whole Prophetic Cycle His Revelation is described as including twenty-five out of the twenty-seven letters of all knowledge; and with Him each and every past Prophet has a separate Covenant, concerning the One whom He heralded. the Supreme World Redeemer. Thus He stands at the confluence of the Prophetic Cycle which is closed and of the Age of Fulfilment which now opens. The Baha'i Era begins with His Declaration on the evening of May 22, 1844, and ushers in the universal Age of Truth.. (65:1) To any spiritually expectant soul, the Bab's declaration would have indicated that the Kingdom of God had indeed come. No earlier Manifestation, not even Jesus.. had issued a challenge to the rulers.. proclaiming the Self-Sufficiency of His Cause and denouncing the vanity of their ephemeral power and calling upon them to lay aside, one and all, their dominion, and deliver His Message.. But to such men as the Persian authorities, such claims merely proved the Author was an undoubted mountebank and probably not in his right mind and that His Cause would quickly collapse of its own weight.
(65:2)
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