Note 185

185. the School of Transcendent Oneness # 175

In this verse and the ones which immediately follow it, &Baha'u'llah confronts one of the reasons some of the &Babis rejected His claim to be the Promised One of the &Bayan. Their rejection was based on a Tablet addressed by the &Bab to "Him Who will be made manifest" on the reverse side of which the &Bab had written: "May the glances of Him Whom God shall make manifest illumine this letter at the primary school." This Tablet is published in Selections from the Writings of the &Bab.

These &Babis maintained that, since &Baha'u'llah was +P247 two years older than the &Bab, it was not possible for Him to receive this Tablet "at the primary school". &Baha'u'llah here explains that the reference is to events transpiring in the spiritual worlds beyond this plane of existence.