BahÃĄâ•Žuâ•ŽllÃĄh and the New Era - Knowledge Rush

The Greatest Event in HistoryIf we study the story of the “ascent of man” as recorded in thepages of history, it becomes evident that the leading factor inhuman progress is the advent, from time to time, of men who passbeyond the accepted ideas of their day and become the discoverersand revealers of truths hitherto unknown among mankind.The inventor, the pioneer, the genius, the Prophet—these are themen on whom the transformation of world primarily depends.As Carlyle says:—The plain truth, very plain, we think is, that ... one manthat has a higher Wisdom, a hitherto unknown spiritual Truthin him, is stronger, not than ten men that have it not, or thanten thousand, but than all men that have it not; and standsamong them with a quite ethereal, angelic power, as with asword out of Heaven’s own armory, sky-tempered, which nobuckler, and no tower of brass, will finally withstand.—Signs of the TimesIn the history of science, of art, of music, we see abundantillustrations of this truth, but in no domain is the supreme importanceof the great man and his message more clearly evidentthan in that of religion. All down the ages, whenever the spirituallife of men has become degenerate and their morals corrupt, thatmost wonderful and mysterious of men, the Prophet, makes Hisappearance. Alone against the world, without a single humanbeing capable of teaching, of guiding, of fully understandingHim, or of sharing His responsibility, He arises, like a seeramong blind men, to proclaim His gospel of righteousness andtruth.Amongst the Prophets some stand out with special preeminence.Every few centuries a great Divine Revealer—a Krishna,a Zoroaster, a Moses, a Jesus, a Mu%ammad—appears in the