Bicentenary Poems and Prose

Divine Unity: To The Bab

Divine Unity:
To The Bab

"In the time of the First Manifestation the Primal Will appeared in Adam; in the day of Noah It became known in Noah; in the day of Abraham in Him; and so in the day of Moses; the day of Jesus; the day of Muhammad, the Apostle of God; the day of the ‘Point of the Bayan’ [the Báb]; the day of Him Whom God shall make manifest [Bahá’u’lláh]; and the day of the One Who will appear after Him Whom God shall make manifest. Hence the inner meaning of the words uttered by the Apostle of God, ‘I am all the Prophets’, inasmuch as what shineth resplendent in each one of Them hath been and will ever remain the one and the same sun."

The Bab1

The Primal Will--
the first effluence
from the Divine Essence
that is God--
is reflected from the mirrors
of God's chosen
Manifestations.

The Primal Will unites,
upon a sing foundation,
all the Prophets of God
from Adam to the Bab,
and from the Bab onward.

Poet's Note: ▼

This is poem 109 of the 200 I am writing to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Birth of The Bab.

Footnotes
1  Selections from the Writings of the Bab, p. 126.