1.   Baha claiming to be the return of the Primal Point

1.1    Baha's own account
In his Epistle to Nasir, Baha says: Had they [i.e. the Bayanis who rejected Baha's pretensions] reflected, they would not on my second manifestation [i.e. the Primal Point returned again] have been veiled from my beauty by a name [i.e. Subh-i-Azal] amongst my names." The Traveller's Narrative English Translation, Vol. II. P.96, footnote 1 by Prof. Browne.
In another passage, again, Baha declares that he is the Primal Point returned again, and the manner of speaking he carries so far as to take the martyrdom of the Primal Point at Tabriz, as one of his own experiments, as in the following remarkable passage.". J.R.A.S October, 1889, P.952, Prof. Browne's Article.
This as the Primal Point returned again in the person of Baha. Baha refers to the Primal Point as a major manifestation on the same footing with Baha.
In his Most Holy Book (Al-Kitab-al-Aqdas) Baha refers to the Prima Point not as a major manifestation but as a mere Teller-of-Good-News about the coming of Baha, as in the following passage:
Aqdas, English Translation:
P.24: "Thus commanded He who gave Good News of Me and who made mention of Me at nights and at daybreaks "

P. 54: “The other feast is the day on which we sent Him who should tell the people the Good News of this name by which the dead are raised”.
P. 49: “Then remember what happened through the power of Him who told the Good News of Me in mentioning this Manifestation”.
In his epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Julie Chamber's translation, P.69, P.108, P.109, Baha refers to the Primal Point not as a major manifestation but as a "Teller-of-Good-News" about the coming of Baha." The Primal Point is alleged "to have succeeded himself for these glad tidings and the straight path."
In his authoritative interpretation of the Point's "Tablet of the Letters (Lawh-i-Hurufat) in the early days in his incarnation in the prison of city of Acre," Baha gave a ruling that the appearance of the Man-Yuzhirihullah (He-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest)." with whom Baha asserts identity," must needs occur no less than nineteen years after the declaration of the Primal Point." By this ruling Baha claimed to have "unravelled the mystery of the Mustaghath," and sought to account for his 'appearance' as Him-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest, the promised one of the Bayan. The Dawn-Breakers, Nabil's Narrative, Shoghi Effendi's translation, American Edition. PP.304-305.

In his autograph tablet facsimile, written by him towards the end of his days, Baha revoked his ruling on the “Mustaghath” and stated that “He who that may appear” approximately in the “Ghiyath”, namely, one thousand years after the declaration of the Primal Point, “shall be speaking in my name”, and that “He who was named in the Bayan He-Who-Will-Appear”, i.e. He-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest” shall in truth come in the Mustaghath”, viz, two thousand and one years after the declaration of he Primal Point, as is laid down in the Bayan.
In his ruling Baha does not explain how he came to “appear” in the interval between the time of the Primal Point and the advent of Him-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest.

See Baha’s Swam Song.

Baha contradicted himself and made his exit.

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