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Section Two: The Hidden Sunrise
The manifestation of a Manifestation of God
A Manifestation of God is always a Manifestation of God. The physical bodies of the Manifestations of God are like the rest of us humans, but their Souls are not the same as our human souls. Their Souls are pre-existent. 33_ACT16
Bahá’u’lláh was aware of His own Station before 1852.34_ACT16 NabĂl gives examples of individuals who recognized the Station of Bahá’u’lláh before 1852 [DB 25-26 Part A, Section 1; including e.g. Shaykh Hasan-i-ZunĂşzĂ, whom Bahá’u’lláh tells not to tell others because the time has not yet come to do so]. It was however in the SĂyáh-Chál, that Bahá’u’lláh received the intimation that the time to manifest His Revelation in this realm had come.
The Manifestation of Bahá
Bahá’u’lláh Himself, in later years, described the experience He had in the SĂyáh-Chál of the Call of Manifestation:
During the days I lay in the prison of Tihrán, though the galling weight of the chains and the stench-filled air allowed Me but little sleep, still in those infrequent moments of slumber I felt as if something flowed from the crown of My head over My breast, even as a mighty torrent that precipitateth itself upon the earth from the summit of a lofty mountain. Every limb of My body would, as a result, be set afire. At such moments My tongue recited what no man could bear to hear.35_ACT16
One night, in a dream, these exalted words were heard on every side: “Verily, We shall render Thee victorious by Thyself and by Thy Pen. Grieve Thou not for that which hath befallen Thee, neither be Thou afraid, for Thou art in safety. Erelong will God raise up the treasures of the earth — men who will aid Thee through Thyself and through Thy Name, wherewith God hath revived the hearts of such as have recognized Him.” 36_ACT16
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