Gilberto, as Iskandar said, you will find in the same source the answer why Manifestations are of a different from we common humans.
This is an extract of an article (Udo Schaefer) that I found interesting in relation to the station of the Manifestations of God:
Bahá'u'lláh's revelation conveys a more differentiated view of the divine messengers. The scripture imparts a conceptual scheme of Bahá'í ontology, a trichotomy according to which there are three worlds: the eternally inaccessible world of God ('álamu'l-haqq) which is "exalted beyond the grasp of the minds of men", the world of creation ('álamu'l-khalq) and an intermediate world, the world of the revelation of the divine command ('álamu'l-amr). The prophets and messengers of God are part of this intermediate world.
This view has been expressed terminologically: In place of the Qur'ánic terms nabí (prophet) and rasÏl (messenger), we find in Bahá'í scripture the frequently occurring term mazharu'lláh or az-zuhÏr (Manifestation of God) by which it is indicated that these figures are exalted above normal human existence and have an ontological station above that of man, that they are beings sui generis. A twofold nature has been assigned to them: a human station and a spiritual station which is "born of the substance of God himself" (iláhí).
The fundamental ontological difference between human beings and the prophets is pre-existence and their innate knowledge of the world of creation (násÏt) and of the metaphysical world (malakÏt, jabarÏt): "They are the Treasuries of divine knowledge ... the Mines of divine Wisdom." Their knowledge is not acquired, not gained by reflection or experience. Rather it is "divine knowledge," the "knowledge of being" ('ilmu'l-wujÏd) which is "like the cognizance and consciousness that man has of himself." The Manifestations of God "are aware of the reality of things," of the needs and exigencies of
the human world, they are "sanctified Mirrors" reflecting the light of God, "the focal points where the signs, tokens and perfections of that sacred pre-existent Reality appear in their splendour." Their "knowledge of being" has been expressed by Bahá'u'lláh in a metaphor according to which the Manifestation is like a "Divine and Infallible physician" who "has His finger on the pulse of mankind" who "perceiveth the disease and prescribeth, in His unerring wisdom, the remedy."
Thus, the divine messengers are "Manifestations" of God and not his incarnations. In relation to God, the Manifestation appears as utter nothingness, but in relation to the world of creation ('álamu'l-khalq, násÏt) he is endowed with all the attributes of God. Only through knowledge of the Manifestations is knowledge of God attainable. Each of them has been the "representative and mouthpiece of God:"
Whoso recognizeth them hath recognized God. Whoso hearkeneth to their call, hath hearkened to the Voice of God, and whoso testifieth to the truth of their Revelation, hath testified to the truth of God Himself. Whoso turneth away from them, hath turned away from God, and whoso disbelieveth in them, hath disbelieved in God. Every one of them is the Way of God that connecteth this world with the realms above, and the Standard of His Truth unto every one in the kingdoms of earth and heaven...
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