Thus ended a life which posterity will recognize as standing
at the confluence of two universal prophetic cycles, the Adamic Cycle
stretching back as far as the first dawnings of the world’s recorded religious history and the Bahá’í Cycle destined to propel
itself across the unborn reaches of time for a period of no less than five
thousand centuries. The apotheosis in which such a life attained its
consummation marks, as already observed, the culmination of the most heroic
phase of the Heroic Age of the Bahá’í Dispensation. It can, moreover, be
regarded in no other light except as the most dramatic, the most tragic event
transpiring within the entire range of the first Bahá’í century. Indeed it can
be rightly acclaimed as unparalleled in the annals of the lives of all the
Founders of the world’s existing religious systems.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God
Passes By’)
