Bicentenary Poems and Prose

The Primal Will: To The Bab

The Primal Will:
To The Bab

"In the time of the First Manifestation the Primal Will appeared in Adam; in the day of Noah It became known in Noah; in the day of Abraham in Him; and so in the day of Moses; the day of Jesus; the day of Muḥammad, the Apostle of God; the day of the “Point of the Bayán”; the day of Him Whom God shall make manifest; and the day of the One Who will appear after Him Whom God shall make manifest. Hence the inner meaning of the words uttered by the Apostle of God, “I am all the Prophets,” inasmuch as what shineth resplendent in each one of Them hath been and will ever remain the one and the same sun."

The Bab1

The Bab,
like all divine Manifestations
from Adam forward,
was an emanation of the Primal Will.

The Point of the Bayan
expressed the will of God
through the scriptures
that descended from the Primal Will.

The purpose
if His life and death
was to reveal God's Will
to humanity.

Poet's Note: ▼

This is poem 54 of the 200 I am writing to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Birth of The Bab.

Footnotes
1  Selections From the Writings of The Bab, 4. Excerpts from the Dalá’il-i-Sab‘ih (The Seven Proofs), "Thy letter hath been perused. Were the truth of this..."