od given to the world through
Them. That Message remains valid until it is superseded by a later Message
given by the same or another Prophet.

God is the great Physician Who alone can rightly diagnose the world's
sickness and prescribe the appropriate remedy. The remedy prescribed in
one age is no longer suitable in a later age, when the condition of the
patient is different. To cling to the old remedy when the physician has
ordered new treatment is not to show faith in the physician, but
infidelity. It may be a shock to the Jew to be told that some of the
remedies for the world's sickness which Moses ordered over three thousand
years ago are now out of date and unsuitable; the Christian may be equally
shocked when told that Muhammad had anything necessary or valuable to add
to what Jesus prescribed; and so also the Muslim, when asked to admit that
the Bab or Baha'u'llah had authority to alter the commands of Muhammad;
but according to the Baha'i view, true devotion to God implies reverence
to all His Prophets, and implicit obedience to His latest Commands, as
given by the Prophet for our own age. Only by such devotion can true Unity
be attained.

The Supreme Manifestation

Like all the other Prophets, Baha'u'llah states His own Mission in the
most unmistakable terms.

In the Lawh-i-Aqdas, a Tablet addressed especially to Christians, He
says:--

Surely the Father hath come and hath fulfilled that which you were
promised in the Kingdom of God. This is the Word which the Son
veiled when He said to those around Him that at that time they
could not bear it. But when the stated time was ended, and the
Hour arrived, the Word shone forth from the Horizon of the Will.
Beware, O Concourse of the Son (i.e. Christians)! Cast it not
behind you, but hold thereunto. It is better for you than all that
which is before you! ... Verily, the Spirit of Truth is come, to
guide you into all Truth. Verily, He speaketh not from Himself,
nay, but rather from the All-Knowing and Wise. He is the One Whom
the Son hath glorified.... Abandon that which is before you, O
people of the earth, and take that which is commanded you by Him
Who is the Powerful, the Faithful.

And in a letter to the Pope, written from Adrianople in 1867, He says:--

Beware lest celebration hinder you from the Celebrated and worship
hinder you from the Worshipped One! Behold the Lord, the Might