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It should be noted, in this connection, that in the third Vahid of this Book there occurs a passage which, alike in its explicit reference to the name of the Promised One, and in its anticipation of the Order which, in a later age, was to be identified with His Revelation, deserves to rank as one of the most significant statements recorded in any of the Bab's writings. "Well is it with him," is His prophetic announcement, "who fixeth his gaze upon the Order of Baha'u'llah, and rendereth thanks unto his Lord. For He will assuredly be made manifest. God hath indeed irrevocably ordained it in the Bayan." It is with that self- same Order that the Founder of the promised Revelation, twenty years later-- incorporating that same term in His Kitab- i- Aqdas-- identified the System envisaged in that Book, affirming that "this most great Order" had deranged the world's equilibrium, and revolutionized mankind's ordered life. It is the features of that self- same Order which, at a later stage in the evolution of the Faith, the Center of Baha'u'llah's Covenant and the appointed Interpreter of His teachings, delineated through the provisions of His Will and Testament. It is the structural basis of that self- same Order which, in the Formative Age of that same Faith, the stewards of that same Covenant, the elected representatives of the world- wide Baha'i community, are now laboriously and unitedly establishing. It is the superstructure of that self- same Order, attaining its full stature through the emergence of the Baha'i World Commonwealth-- the Kingdom of God on earth-- which the Golden Age of that same Dispensation must, in the fullness of time, ultimately witness.
(25:1)
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