Dear Gilberto,
In response to the above comment I would like to offer a personal observation:
In relating the internment of the Báb's remains on Mt. Carmel, the Guardian referred to the Báb's life as "standing at the confluence of TWO UNIVERSAL PROPHETIC CYCLES":
"Thus ended a life which posterity will recognize as standing at the confluence of two universal prophetic cycles, the Adamic Cycle stretching back as far as the first dawnings of the world's recorded religious history and the Bahá'í Cycle destined to propel itself across the unborn reaches of time for a period of no less than five thousand centuries." (Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 54)
In several instances, Shoghi Effendi has referred to `Abdu'l-Bahá as the "Pivot" of Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant. He was the self acknowledged Servant of Baha - during the lifetime of Bahá'u'lláh and after His ascension.
I think of the Báb as the pivot or as He is known, the Primal Point, (the Gate) between Cycles. This in no way diminishes His Revelation which was essential in this transition from one cycle to the next.
lovingly, Sandra
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