o understanding can grasp the nature of His Revelation, nor can
any knowledge comprehend the full measure of His Faith." He then quotes,
in confirmation of His argument, these prophetic words: "Knowledge is
twenty and seven letters. All that the Prophets have revealed are two
letters thereof. No man thus far hath known more than these two letters.
But when the Qa'im shall arise, He will cause the remaining twenty and
five letters to be made manifest." "Behold," He adds, "how great and lofty
is His station! His rank excelleth that of all the Prophets and His
Revelation transcendeth the comprehension and understanding of all their
chosen ones." "Of His Revelation," He further adds, "the Prophets of God,
His saints and chosen ones, have either not been informed, or, in
pursuance of God's inscrutable decree, they have not disclosed."

Of all the tributes which Baha'u'llah's unerring pen has chosen to pay to
the memory of the Bab, His "Best-Beloved," the most memorable and touching
is this brief, yet eloquent passage which so greatly enhances the value of
the concluding passages of that same epistle. "Amidst them all," He
writes, referring to the afflictive trials and dangers besetting Him in
the city of Ba_gh_dad, "We stand life in hand wholly resigned to His Will,
that perchance through God's loving kindness and grace, this revealed and
manifest Letter (Baha'u'llah) may lay down His life as a sacrifice in the
path of the Primal Point, the most exalted Word (the Bab). By Him, at
Whose bidding the Spirit hath spoken, but for this yearning of Our soul,
We would not, for one moment, have tarried any longer in this city."

Dearly-beloved friends! So resounding a praise, so bold an assertion
issued by the pen of Baha'u'llah in so weighty a work, are fully re-echoed
in the language in which the Source of the Babi Revelation has chosen to
clothe the claims He Himself has advanced. "I am the Mystic Fane," the Bab
thus proclaims His station in the Qayyumu'l-Asma, "which the Hand of
Omnipotence hath reared. I am the Lamp which the Finger of God hath lit
within its niche and caused to shine with deathless splendor. I am the
Flame of that supernal Light that glowed upon Sinai in the gladsome Spot,
and lay concealed in the midst of the Burning Bush." "O Qurratu'l-'Ayn!"
He, addressing Himself in that same commentary, exclaims, "I recognize in
Thee none other except the 'Great Announcement'--the Announcement voiced by
the Concourse on hig