14.    Station of BÁB And The Four Special Vicegerents
The gate (BÁB) would appear to be in the same sense as the four original gates (BÁBs) “Special vicegerents who served as a connection between the Twelfth Imam and his fold before his disappearance”.

Such an assumption is, however, erroneous. The Letter BA is composed of a single straight line with a diacritical point directly beneath it. The Point differentiates the Letter BA from its fellows and is in reality its essence. Thus the Point is the essence of the Letter BA which is the essence of Bismillah (In the Name of God, the Most unapproachable, the Most Holy, the new formula of Bismillah). The Point is the station of Volition (Mashiyyat مشیت) of the divine manifestation, from which all are created and unto which all return. The BA is the first word which god utters in His Revelation as in Bismillah. It is the First Creation. It is the Gate of God.

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