Siman 254

(14.) I heard in his name that he said: "There will yet come a time when men will wonder to each other and one will say to his fellow: 'Did you know Rabbi Nachman? Were you in his house? Did you know one of his people — this one or that one?' And it will be a great wonder in the world that a person merited to know him. And even one who will know his people — that too will be a great wonder." (For so greatly will his true name and importance be recognized, and all will know the truth of the immensity of his great and boundless greatness — until it will be a wonder in their eyes for one who merited to know him.) <span style="color:#b8a060; font-style:italic;" title="הַשְׁמָטָה — הַשִּׁבְעָה רוֹעִים"><I heard in his name that he said that he will learn Torah together with [all] the Seven Shepherds></span> (Said the transcriber: see the letter of the Baal Shem Tov printed at the end of the book Porat Yosef, where it is brought that Mashiach will learn Torah with the Seven Shepherds [and it is already cited in the words of Rabbainu z"l several times that he is in the aspect of Mashiach — but that the generation is not worthy of this].)