Happy Declaration of the Báb!

 

The Shrine of the Báb on Mt. Carmel, Photo by Dina Sandgreen

“I am, I am, I am the Promised One! I am the One Whose name you have for a thousand years invoked, at Whose mention you have risen, Whose advent you have longed to witness, and the hour of Whose Revelation you have prayed God to hasten. Verily, I say, it is incumbent upon the peoples of both the East and the West to obey My word, and to pledge allegiance to My person.” 
-The Báb