The Báb announced that the greater Manifestation would take
place after Him and called the Promised One "Him Whom God shall make
manifest," saying that nine years later the reality of His own mission
would become apparent. In His writings He stated that in the ninth year this
expected One would be known; in the ninth year they would attain to all glory
and felicity; in the ninth year they would advance rapidly. Between Bahá'u'lláh
and the Báb there was communication privately. The Bab wrote a letter
containing three hundred and sixty derivatives of the root Bahá.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, New York, 1912; ‘The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks
Delivered by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in
1912’)
