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That Day has now come. This is the Great Day of God of which Christ spoke, the full appearance and blossoming of the Kingdom of God on earth. We stand at the threshold of this mighty promise (141:4) In the above quoted passage, none but the Christ Returned is signified by "the Greatest Luminary". And it is Baha'u'llah Who has fulfilled His Return, and His Coming is the condition which makes possible the full development of the spiritual powers of humanity - "the perfection of the essence and its qualities", the visible appearance of the Kingdom of God on earth in its fullness (141:5) The appearance of Adam signalized the birth of man - the burst of humanity from the embryonic condition into the fullness of the growth and development of humanity's powers in the Kingdom of nature. Christ, however, was the divine Messenger to mankind at the dawn of the point when the kingdom of humanity first fails, and is therefore in need of the spiritual graces of the Kingdom of God. He embodies the spiritual rebirth, the Crucifying, definitive Turning Point of mankind; the point at which man must "die" to the world and must "live" in Him. And the Manifestation of Baha'u'llah comes as the kingdom of humanity utterly, finally, and miserably fails, as tragically witnessed in the world today: in Him, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, appears the Kingdom of the Father in the plenitude of its power and glory
(141:6)
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