1.    Summary

The Title of Baha & Bahaullah
First and foremost among his grounds is his pretension to the title of Baha and Bahaullah, to support which he has picked out of the word Baha and its comparative and superlative degrees appearing in any and every writing of the Primal Point and produced them as proof.

Abha Horizon
I am alive in the Abha horizon. This passage is pilfered from the Point’s Testamentary disposition addressed to Subh-i-Azal.

The Name Baha
The most ancient name, Baha. This passage, pilfered from the Point’s Seven Proofs, Persian, refers to a prayer of old, which the Primal Point produces in reference to the Lights of his own mission who will forego their I-ness to establish the Point’s cause.

The Month of Baha
This passage pilfered from the Bayani calendar introduced by the Primal Point represents the first month of the Bayani year, the first day of that month named the Day of god is likened unto the Point, the Primal Point in the Bayani dispensation, who identifies himself with the next manifestation, He-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest, as all the manifestations, while outwardly different as to human personality, are in essence one being and reveal one evolving truth (Persian Bayan, vii, 10).

The Land of Baha
This passage is pilfered from the Point’s and his amanuensis Aqa Sayyid Husayn of Yazd’s writings in which they refer to Tehran as the land of Ta merely because the letter Ta in Teheran and the word Baha have the same numerical equivalent, viz, 9.

The Order of Bahaullah.
The Persian Bayan, III, 16, in which the Primal Point deals with the order in which his writings of five grades or styles of Verses, Supplications, Commentaries and Scientific Treaties and Persian Words, collectively named Bayan are to be arranged, printed and published.

Inasmuch as the Primal Point states that an incoming Manifestation and his Revelation are more perfect than an outgoing Manifestation and his Revelation, and inasmuch as the Primal Point states that the Manifestation of the Age is also called Bahaullah, the Primal Point in the Bayanic dispensation. The Primal Point concludes that the order in which the Revelation of the next manifestation He Whom God Will Make Manifest, Bahaullah in his cycle will be arranged will be more perfect than his own and adds that the blessed is One who will attain unto that order or arrangement of Bahaullah. This statement pilfered from the Bayan and read out of its context is alleged to be a prophetic announcement on which Mirza Husayn Ali’s “world-rendering, earth-encircling” order contained in the Aqdas is based.

Red Ruby Ships
In his First Book in which he foreshadows his mission in a veiled language, the Primal Point speaks of Red Ruby Ships intended for the people of Baha. This term applies to the followers of the Primal Point, who was Bahaullah in the Bayanic dispensation. Red Ruby ships are distorted into Crimson Colored Ark intended for the companions of Mirza Husayn Ali.

Derivatives from the word Baha
Mirza Husayn Ali pins his pretensions to the 360 derivations from the word Baha contained in the Point’s document, which was not after all meant for him. PP. 21-23F, Title of Baha and Bahaullah On the authority of the Point’s theory of theophanies annunciated in the Bayan the manifestation of the age is the grantor of titles as the manifestation in the Bayanic Dispensation the Primal Point was the grantor, in whose honors’ list Tahira appears as Baha. No title was ever bestowed by the Primal Point on Mirza Husayn Ali. The title of Baha and Bahaullah taken by him are unauthorized and self assumed.

The Remnant of God
The Point’s statement in his Seven Proofs, Persian Bayan disproves the allegation that he had meant Mirza Husayn Ali by the term ‘The Remnant of God’. The allegation is devoid of historical foundation. The title of the ‘Remnant of God is applied to the Mahdi or the Qaim, with whom the Primal Point identified himself.

Point’s Oral disclaimer
The Point’s Oral disclaimer in 1845 of the BÁB-hood in its Shia connection, according to him, is deliberately and purposely misrepresented by Sir Abbas Effendi and distorted by him into a full-dress address by the Primal Point to create the false impression that “the BÁB’s meaning was the Gate-hood of another City and the medium-ship of another person”, namely, Mirza Husayn Ali. “who had in his mind [the intention of corresponding and entering into relations with the BÁB after the death of the late Prince Muhammad Shah”, on September, 1848, The Traveler’s Narrative by Sir Abbas Effendi, Vol. II., P. 62.

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