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144Shaikhi Medium - Haji Kazim - the Shaikhis were anxiously expecting the manifestation of the new Medium, Mirza `Ali Muhammad Bab, who had attended the lectures of Haji Kazim at Karbala, proclaimed himself the expected Medium, and many Shaikhis accepted him. The young Persian seer looks upon Reality as an essence which brooks no distinction of substance and attribute. The first bounty or self-expansion of the Ultimate Essence, he says, is Existence. "Existence" is the "known", the "known" is the essence of "knowledge"; "knowledge" is "will"; and "will" is "love". Thus from Mulla Sadra's identity of the known and the knower, he passes to his conception of the Real as Will and Love. This Primal Love, which he regards as the essence of the Real, is the cause of the manifestation of the Universe which is nothing more than the self-expansion of Love. The word creation, with him, does not mean creation out of nothing; since, as the Shaikhis maintain, the word, creator is not peculiarly applicable to God alone. The Quranic verse, that "God is the best of creators(1)", implies that there are other self-manifesting beings like God. After the execution of `Ali Muhammad Bab, Bahaullah, one of his principal disciples who were collectively called "The First Unity", took up the mission, and proclaimed himself the originator of the new dispensation, the absent Imam whose manifesta- 1 Sura 23 : v. 14.
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