The moment of Revelation!
Day 18 of the #Fast19Paintings Challenge (each painting rendered in 19 minutes): while reading our devotional readings this morning I ran across the quote from Bahá'u'lláh describing the moment that something absolutely remarkable happened to Him while imprisoned and chained to many other Bábís, deep in the underground "Black Pit" dungeon called the Síyáh-Chál in Tihrán in 1852. He saw, in a vision, an intimation of His future, and the future of humanity. While reading this quote, I saw this painting in my head.

"While engulfed in tribulations I heard a most wondrous, a most sweet voice, calling above My head. Turning My face, I beheld a Maiden—the embodiment of the remembrance of the name of My Lord—suspended in the air before Me. So rejoiced was she in her very soul that her countenance shone with the ornament of the good pleasure of God, and her cheeks glowed with the brightness of the All-Merciful. Betwixt earth and heaven she was raising a call which captivated the hearts and minds of men. She was imparting to both My inward and outer being tidings which rejoiced My soul, and the souls of God’s honoured servants.

"Pointing with her finger unto My head, she addressed all who are in heaven and all who are on earth, saying: 'By God! This is the Best-Beloved of the worlds, and yet ye comprehend not. This is the Beauty of God amongst you, and the power of His sovereignty within you, could ye but understand. This is the Mystery of God and His Treasure, the Cause of God and His glory unto all who are in the kingdoms of Revelation and of creation, if ye be of them that perceive. This is He Whose Presence is the ardent desire of the denizens of the Realm of eternity, and of them that dwell within the Tabernacle of glory, and yet from His Beauty do ye turn aside.' "

– Baha’u’llah, The Summons of the Lord of Hosts, pp. 5-6.

The Maid of Heaven, as the Baha’i teachings describe her, imparted to Baha’u’llah an inkling of His mission as the One whom God shall make manifest, the world’s redeemer and peacemaker, the prophet and Promised One of all major religious traditions.