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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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