2.   The allegation of the Primal Point being the herald of Baha

2.1    Baha's Claim
An earlier Manifestation, according to the Primal Point, is the 'First to believe in a later Manifestation. Each Manifestation, according to the Primal Point again, covenants himself with God, for belief in the next Manifestation and in his revelation.

Thus each Manifestation is the confirmation of the earlier Manifestation and of his revelation, and a Teller-of-Good-News about the coming of the next Manifestation.
This does not, however mean that an earlier Manifestation stands in relation to a succeeding Manifestation as did John the Baptist to the Christ.

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 the Primal Point, as is laid down in the Bayan.
In his new 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.

The relevant passage in the tablet sums as follows:
"This is what was sent down from the empyrean of Eternity, and in it is made plain the station, wherein the Beauty of God is established upon the throne of Great Name, and verily He it is the promised One in all the tablets under whatever name [be e], if you be of the knowing ones, and He-Who-Will-Appear, and in truth He shall appear in the Mustaghath with Manifest power."

Thereafter Baha's pretension that Primal Point was the Herald, or the Teller-of-Good-News about the coming, of Baha is untenable.

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