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Contemplating the Words of Baha'u'llah in the Month of Names

Kamal (Perfection), 6 Asma (Names) 177 B.E. - Monday, August 24, 2020

"I shall restate here My theme, that perchance this may assist thee in recognizing thy Creator. Know thou that God—exalted and glorified be He—doth in no wise manifest His inmost Essence and Reality. From time immemorial He hath been veiled in the eternity of His Essence and concealed in the infinitude of His own Being. And when He purposed to manifest His beauty in the kingdom of names and to reveal His glory in the realm of attributes, He brought forth His Prophets from the invisible plane to the visible, that His name “the Manifest” might be distinguished from “the Hidden” and His name “the Last” might be discerned from “the First”, and that there may be fulfilled the words: “He is the First and the Last; the Seen and the Hidden; and He knoweth all things!”33 Thus hath He revealed these most excellent names and most exalted words in the Manifestations of His Self and the Mirrors of His Being."

Baha'u'llah12

God Made Known

We worship an unknown God,
Made know by His Manifestations,
Who are the Mirrors of His Attributes,
And the Prophets of His Religion.

God has made Himself known
         by Abraham, The Father of the Faithful,
         by Krishna, The Educator,
         by Moses, The Law Giver;,
         by Zoroaster, The Pure,
         by Buddha, the Enlightened One.
         by Christ, The Son of God,
         by Muhammad, The Seal of the Prophets,
         by The Bab, The Gate of God,
         and by Baha'u'llah, The Glory of God.

Footnotes
1  Gems of Divine Mysteries
2  https://www.bahai.org/r/888667397