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		<title>By: Millennium</title>
		<link>http://www.ojaipost.com/2008/04/year-2008-of-global-enlightenment/comment-page-1/#comment-10382</link>
		<dc:creator>Millennium</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 05:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>YAHDI -- MUCH thanks for the review of Islam and the Maadi, MaTreya!
what we will find, are finding, however is that the principle concern of the Maitreyah will not be &#039;humanity&#039;s inhumanity to humanity&#039; -- the patriarchy&#039;s violation of women and chidren -- and enslavement of nearly every sister and brother -- but will rather be our destruction and murder of sacred nature, all our relations, our Mother Earth ...
our desecration of the deity, the divine, herself.
VIPUL -- thank you for sharing your light, world &#039;round!
MICHAEL -- I will lend my voice to yours!!
in HER becoming ...
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>YAHDI &#8212; MUCH thanks for the review of Islam and the Maadi, MaTreya!<br />
what we will find, are finding, however is that the principle concern of the Maitreyah will not be &#8216;humanity&#8217;s inhumanity to humanity&#8217; &#8212; the patriarchy&#8217;s violation of women and chidren &#8212; and enslavement of nearly every sister and brother &#8212; but will rather be our destruction and murder of sacred nature, all our relations, our Mother Earth &#8230;<br />
our desecration of the deity, the divine, herself.<br />
VIPUL &#8212; thank you for sharing your light, world &#8217;round!<br />
MICHAEL &#8212; I will lend my voice to yours!!<br />
in HER becoming &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: dvorah</title>
		<link>http://www.ojaipost.com/2008/04/year-2008-of-global-enlightenment/comment-page-1/#comment-10381</link>
		<dc:creator>dvorah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 19:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My big Anonymous Burrito - I&#039;ve missed you! Come HOME!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My big Anonymous Burrito &#8211; I&#8217;ve missed you! Come HOME!</p>
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		<title>By: el anonimobile</title>
		<link>http://www.ojaipost.com/2008/04/year-2008-of-global-enlightenment/comment-page-1/#comment-10380</link>
		<dc:creator>el anonimobile</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 19:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>beloved divine dvorahji-
i&#039;m still out in the middle of the atlantis! ocean
at some tantric mystery school
but i do hear the call...
&quot;thacher burrito at ruben&#039;s&quot;
-*-
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>beloved divine dvorahji-<br />
i&#8217;m still out in the middle of the atlantis! ocean<br />
at some tantric mystery school<br />
but i do hear the call&#8230;<br />
&#8220;thacher burrito at ruben&#8217;s&#8221;<br />
-*-</p>
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		<title>By: dvorah</title>
		<link>http://www.ojaipost.com/2008/04/year-2008-of-global-enlightenment/comment-page-1/#comment-10379</link>
		<dc:creator>dvorah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 18:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, you&#039;d have to be completely spiritually blind not to notice the increased interest in yoga, meditation, brotherhood, caring, service, universal outrage of injustice in the world. There is rolling movement on all fronts including Mother Earth&quot; crying, &quot;Enough Already!&quot; It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
In the meantime - CELEBRATE AND BE HAPPY!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, you&#8217;d have to be completely spiritually blind not to notice the increased interest in yoga, meditation, brotherhood, caring, service, universal outrage of injustice in the world. There is rolling movement on all fronts including Mother Earth&#8221; crying, &#8220;Enough Already!&#8221; It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.<br />
In the meantime &#8211; CELEBRATE AND BE HAPPY!</p>
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		<title>By: Vipul Patel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vipul Patel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 17:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes a large number of people across the globe are feeling the change. In India we are saying that major shifts are happening, and a reverse countdown to 2011 has started and everyone is being asked to increase their participation in these great movements.
Vipul..
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes a large number of people across the globe are feeling the change. In India we are saying that major shifts are happening, and a reverse countdown to 2011 has started and everyone is being asked to increase their participation in these great movements.<br />
Vipul..</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Kabir</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Kabir</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 08:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mother Maitreyah!
If we sing her, she will sing us!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mother Maitreyah!<br />
If we sing her, she will sing us!</p>
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		<title>By: evan austin</title>
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		<dc:creator>evan austin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 07:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eckhart Tolle and Oprah?  i was just instructed to credit them for the wonder that is Scotch-and-water!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eckhart Tolle and Oprah?  i was just instructed to credit them for the wonder that is Scotch-and-water!</p>
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		<title>By: Big EL????</title>
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		<dc:creator>Big EL????</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 06:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>El-Anonidorable&#039;- where the hell are you when I need you? Lunch? (I was stood up!) Del Taco, 12 tomorrow- Wear your anonymous Cowboy paperbag. I miss you...your Dvorah
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>El-Anonidorable&#8217;- where the hell are you when I need you? Lunch? (I was stood up!) Del Taco, 12 tomorrow- Wear your anonymous Cowboy paperbag. I miss you&#8230;your Dvorah</p>
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		<title>By: dvorah</title>
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		<dc:creator>dvorah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Darling Millennium - Does that mean we&#039;re not having lunch together at Farmer &amp; the Cook? And it was going to be my treat!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Darling Millennium &#8211; Does that mean we&#8217;re not having lunch together at Farmer &#038; the Cook? And it was going to be my treat!</p>
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		<title>By: YahDi</title>
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		<dc:creator>YahDi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Mahdi (Ma Adi or Primordial Mother)
The Mahdi, (the name of the last of the twelve
imams, the first being Ali, son-in-law of Mohammed)
according to Islam, and in particular its Shiite
branch, is the Savior to come at the time of the
Last Judgment to save the world. It is interesting
to recall that Mahdi, in Sanskrit, is the contraction
of Ma Adi (Primordial Mother) in the same way that
the returning Savior according to Buddha, Maitreya,
is a contraction of Ma Treya (Mother threefold,
trimorphic protonnoia or trigunatmika).
The function of the Mahdi is similar to those
attributed to the Kalki of the Hindus, the Maitreya
of the Buddhists or the Christ King of the Christians.
The return of the Mahdi constitutes the most frequent
prediction of the imams. Al-Kultani and Al-Numani
consecrated an entire chapter and Ibn Babunye passed
down in thirteen chapters the predictions of the Prophet,
Fatima and of the eleven imams on the subject of the
Twelfth imam.
The obscure presence of the Mahdi dominates totally
the religious conscience of imamism during the period
of the disappearance of Ali until the return of the
awaited Savior. But here and there, throughout the
prophetic texts, there are hints of great esoteric
knowledge. At the moment of birth a light pierced the
top of the child&#039;s head (a possible reference to the
opening of the seventh chakra) and reached into the
depth of the sky. This child is the Mahdi, She who
will fill the earth with equality and justice just
as it is now filled with oppression and injustice.
The universal precursory Sign of the return of the
Mahdi, She who Guides, consists of the general
invasion of the earth by Evil and the victory of
the forces of Evil over those of Good. Without such
a manifestation, the entirety of humanity would be
engulfed by darkness.
Here we find extracts from the eulogies of Ali Talib
describing various components of the sign announcing
the return of the Mahdi. The Sign consists of the
following traits: the people will neglect prayer,
squander the divinity which is conferred on them,
legalize untruths, practice usury, accept bribes,
construct huge edifices, sell religion to win this
lower world, employ idiots, prostitute themselves,
break family ties, obey passion and consider insign-
ificant the letting of blood. Magnanimity will be
considered as weakness and injustice as glory,
princesses will be debauched and ministers will be
oppressors, intellectuals will be traitors and the
reader of the Koran vicious. False witness will be
brought openly and immorality proclaimed in loud
voices. A word of promise will be slander, sin
and exaggeration.
The sacred Books will become ornate, the mosques
disguised, the minarets extended. Criminals will be
praised, the lines of combat narrowed, hearts in
disaccord and pacts broken. Greedy for the riches
of this lower world, all will involve themselves
in material business, the vicious voices of these
manipulators will be loud and will be listened to.
The most ignoble of the people will become leaders,
the debauched will be believed for fear of the Evil
they will cause, the liar will be considered as
truthful and the traitor as trustworthy They will
resort to singers and musical instruments and women
will horse ride, they will resemble men and the men
will resemble women. The people will prefer the
activities of this lower-world to those of the
Higher-World and will cover with lambskin the
hearts of wolves.
The Qaim (Mahdi) comes to re-establish the lost
sense of sanctity. Firstly She will re-draft Islam
into a new purity and integrity. The imam is described
also as energy-giving. The imam says: As to the way
of benefiting from my presence (literally to benefit
of me) during my disappearance, it is similar to the
profit we gain from the Sun while it is hidden from
sight by the clouds.
According to Majid Golpur, a scholar who reviewed
the relationship between ancient Muslim writings and
new revelations, some language seem to refer to new
cognitive powers that may be associated with the rise
of the Kundalini. All the faithful joining the ranks
of the Mahdi will be gifted with special miraculous
powers, in particular those of super sensitive communi-
cation with the imam. At the time of Advent of our
Quran, says Jafar, She, may She be exalted and glorified,
will develop the hearing and sight of our faithful in
such a manner that, without there being a messenger
between the Qaim and themselves, She will speak with
them and they hear Her and see Her without Her having
left the place where She is.
This text probably refers to the dawn of collective
consciousness, whose property is the connectivity
described in the previous chapters. More specifically,
we can recognize a mention of the vibratory consciousness
of the chakras, which correspond to specific locations
in the hands. For decisions which they have difficulty
in taking, they will receive instructions and direction
from the imam who will write on the palm of their hands,
they need only look and then execute the orders.
The following language could possibly indicate a
succession of imams or the collectivity of realized
souls, through the reference of the wind. But, without
subtler the subtler spiritual experience, it can easily
feed the delusion of self-appointed elect fanatics. She
speaks: O Mohammad. These are My friends, My pure elect,
and My proof after you for humankind. They are your
legatees and your priests and the best of My creatures
after you. By My Glory and My Majesty I will manifest
through them My Religion and I will raise through them
My Word; by the last of them (Mahdi) I will make the
earth pure of My enemies. I will establish her from the
sunrise to the sunset throughout the entire earth; I
will confer to her power the wind and will lower for
her the stubborn clouds. I will help her with My Army
and aid her with My Angels until She raises My Name and
the creatures acknowledge My uniqueness, and then I
will prolong her reign and I will ensure the succession
of My Friends over the time until the Day of Resurrection.
In this way the awaited Imam (al-Muntazar) Mad-dhi, Qaim,
will prepare the earth for the Last Judgment and the
Resurrection. The battle of Qaim will mark the ultimate
victory of the believers against their enemies and the
universal and final establishment of the religion of
the imams. The community of the faithful is a familiar
theme of all eschatology.
It is interesting to know that these texts imply a
profound criticism of Islam as some parts of the Arab
world seem to know it. The returned Mahdi will do as
did the Prophet, destroying that which was before, just
as the Prophet destroyed the rituals of the period of
ignorance, and She will establish once again Islam. Our
Qaim will repair the Mosque and will reconstruct Her
Mecca. The Qaim will bring a new Order, a new Book,
a new Legislation and a New Tradition.
Of course the primary ambiguity of these prophecies
is that they may refer to more spiritual and ethical
realities or be understood as a militant call for a
violent upheaval. But there are texts indicating that
these prophecies do not invite the fight of Islam
against other religions but rather, the fight of all
religions for their inner renewal. Mahdi will equally
re-establish the other religions, also abandoned and
disfigured, in their original Truth and Purity.
Indeed: !The Mahdi! will extract the Torah and the
other Divine Books from their caverns and will judge
amongst the faithful of the Evangiles according to
the Evangiles, amongst the faithful of al-Zabur (The
Book of David) according to the al-Zabur and amongst
the faithful of the Koran according to the Koran.
It is the universal initiation by the imam of all
peoples into the secrets of existence and of their
own religions, and this is without doubt the meaning
which must be understood by the term Mahdi given by
the fifth imam al-Bagir: Mahdi (the Guide) is named
as such because it is he who will guide (Yahdi) us
in the secret teachings.
If so, the prediction of the Mahdi does not announce
the victory of zealot warriors who will wipe out non-
believers, understood to be other races or religions.
Rather, the prophecies talk of the power of love, not
the might of hate. They would then refer to the fight
against ignorance, no doubt the most formidable of all
battles. But if Allah is indeed the Merciful and
Compassionate, such is the most likely meaning of the
predictions of the imams. The real jihad is an internal
fight for our own purification, so that out full spiritual
potential might finally manifest. Consequently, even
in the stern Muslim prophecies we can read the hopeful
and promising light of humankind&#039;s renewal. This may
or may not combine with events of massive destruction
that can still manifest. But let us focus on the hopeful
dimension of this momentous period.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Mahdi (Ma Adi or Primordial Mother)<br />
The Mahdi, (the name of the last of the twelve<br />
imams, the first being Ali, son-in-law of Mohammed)<br />
according to Islam, and in particular its Shiite<br />
branch, is the Savior to come at the time of the<br />
Last Judgment to save the world. It is interesting<br />
to recall that Mahdi, in Sanskrit, is the contraction<br />
of Ma Adi (Primordial Mother) in the same way that<br />
the returning Savior according to Buddha, Maitreya,<br />
is a contraction of Ma Treya (Mother threefold,<br />
trimorphic protonnoia or trigunatmika).<br />
The function of the Mahdi is similar to those<br />
attributed to the Kalki of the Hindus, the Maitreya<br />
of the Buddhists or the Christ King of the Christians.<br />
The return of the Mahdi constitutes the most frequent<br />
prediction of the imams. Al-Kultani and Al-Numani<br />
consecrated an entire chapter and Ibn Babunye passed<br />
down in thirteen chapters the predictions of the Prophet,<br />
Fatima and of the eleven imams on the subject of the<br />
Twelfth imam.<br />
The obscure presence of the Mahdi dominates totally<br />
the religious conscience of imamism during the period<br />
of the disappearance of Ali until the return of the<br />
awaited Savior. But here and there, throughout the<br />
prophetic texts, there are hints of great esoteric<br />
knowledge. At the moment of birth a light pierced the<br />
top of the child&#8217;s head (a possible reference to the<br />
opening of the seventh chakra) and reached into the<br />
depth of the sky. This child is the Mahdi, She who<br />
will fill the earth with equality and justice just<br />
as it is now filled with oppression and injustice.<br />
The universal precursory Sign of the return of the<br />
Mahdi, She who Guides, consists of the general<br />
invasion of the earth by Evil and the victory of<br />
the forces of Evil over those of Good. Without such<br />
a manifestation, the entirety of humanity would be<br />
engulfed by darkness.<br />
Here we find extracts from the eulogies of Ali Talib<br />
describing various components of the sign announcing<br />
the return of the Mahdi. The Sign consists of the<br />
following traits: the people will neglect prayer,<br />
squander the divinity which is conferred on them,<br />
legalize untruths, practice usury, accept bribes,<br />
construct huge edifices, sell religion to win this<br />
lower world, employ idiots, prostitute themselves,<br />
break family ties, obey passion and consider insign-<br />
ificant the letting of blood. Magnanimity will be<br />
considered as weakness and injustice as glory,<br />
princesses will be debauched and ministers will be<br />
oppressors, intellectuals will be traitors and the<br />
reader of the Koran vicious. False witness will be<br />
brought openly and immorality proclaimed in loud<br />
voices. A word of promise will be slander, sin<br />
and exaggeration.<br />
The sacred Books will become ornate, the mosques<br />
disguised, the minarets extended. Criminals will be<br />
praised, the lines of combat narrowed, hearts in<br />
disaccord and pacts broken. Greedy for the riches<br />
of this lower world, all will involve themselves<br />
in material business, the vicious voices of these<br />
manipulators will be loud and will be listened to.<br />
The most ignoble of the people will become leaders,<br />
the debauched will be believed for fear of the Evil<br />
they will cause, the liar will be considered as<br />
truthful and the traitor as trustworthy They will<br />
resort to singers and musical instruments and women<br />
will horse ride, they will resemble men and the men<br />
will resemble women. The people will prefer the<br />
activities of this lower-world to those of the<br />
Higher-World and will cover with lambskin the<br />
hearts of wolves.<br />
The Qaim (Mahdi) comes to re-establish the lost<br />
sense of sanctity. Firstly She will re-draft Islam<br />
into a new purity and integrity. The imam is described<br />
also as energy-giving. The imam says: As to the way<br />
of benefiting from my presence (literally to benefit<br />
of me) during my disappearance, it is similar to the<br />
profit we gain from the Sun while it is hidden from<br />
sight by the clouds.<br />
According to Majid Golpur, a scholar who reviewed<br />
the relationship between ancient Muslim writings and<br />
new revelations, some language seem to refer to new<br />
cognitive powers that may be associated with the rise<br />
of the Kundalini. All the faithful joining the ranks<br />
of the Mahdi will be gifted with special miraculous<br />
powers, in particular those of super sensitive communi-<br />
cation with the imam. At the time of Advent of our<br />
Quran, says Jafar, She, may She be exalted and glorified,<br />
will develop the hearing and sight of our faithful in<br />
such a manner that, without there being a messenger<br />
between the Qaim and themselves, She will speak with<br />
them and they hear Her and see Her without Her having<br />
left the place where She is.<br />
This text probably refers to the dawn of collective<br />
consciousness, whose property is the connectivity<br />
described in the previous chapters. More specifically,<br />
we can recognize a mention of the vibratory consciousness<br />
of the chakras, which correspond to specific locations<br />
in the hands. For decisions which they have difficulty<br />
in taking, they will receive instructions and direction<br />
from the imam who will write on the palm of their hands,<br />
they need only look and then execute the orders.<br />
The following language could possibly indicate a<br />
succession of imams or the collectivity of realized<br />
souls, through the reference of the wind. But, without<br />
subtler the subtler spiritual experience, it can easily<br />
feed the delusion of self-appointed elect fanatics. She<br />
speaks: O Mohammad. These are My friends, My pure elect,<br />
and My proof after you for humankind. They are your<br />
legatees and your priests and the best of My creatures<br />
after you. By My Glory and My Majesty I will manifest<br />
through them My Religion and I will raise through them<br />
My Word; by the last of them (Mahdi) I will make the<br />
earth pure of My enemies. I will establish her from the<br />
sunrise to the sunset throughout the entire earth; I<br />
will confer to her power the wind and will lower for<br />
her the stubborn clouds. I will help her with My Army<br />
and aid her with My Angels until She raises My Name and<br />
the creatures acknowledge My uniqueness, and then I<br />
will prolong her reign and I will ensure the succession<br />
of My Friends over the time until the Day of Resurrection.<br />
In this way the awaited Imam (al-Muntazar) Mad-dhi, Qaim,<br />
will prepare the earth for the Last Judgment and the<br />
Resurrection. The battle of Qaim will mark the ultimate<br />
victory of the believers against their enemies and the<br />
universal and final establishment of the religion of<br />
the imams. The community of the faithful is a familiar<br />
theme of all eschatology.<br />
It is interesting to know that these texts imply a<br />
profound criticism of Islam as some parts of the Arab<br />
world seem to know it. The returned Mahdi will do as<br />
did the Prophet, destroying that which was before, just<br />
as the Prophet destroyed the rituals of the period of<br />
ignorance, and She will establish once again Islam. Our<br />
Qaim will repair the Mosque and will reconstruct Her<br />
Mecca. The Qaim will bring a new Order, a new Book,<br />
a new Legislation and a New Tradition.<br />
Of course the primary ambiguity of these prophecies<br />
is that they may refer to more spiritual and ethical<br />
realities or be understood as a militant call for a<br />
violent upheaval. But there are texts indicating that<br />
these prophecies do not invite the fight of Islam<br />
against other religions but rather, the fight of all<br />
religions for their inner renewal. Mahdi will equally<br />
re-establish the other religions, also abandoned and<br />
disfigured, in their original Truth and Purity.<br />
Indeed: !The Mahdi! will extract the Torah and the<br />
other Divine Books from their caverns and will judge<br />
amongst the faithful of the Evangiles according to<br />
the Evangiles, amongst the faithful of al-Zabur (The<br />
Book of David) according to the al-Zabur and amongst<br />
the faithful of the Koran according to the Koran.<br />
It is the universal initiation by the imam of all<br />
peoples into the secrets of existence and of their<br />
own religions, and this is without doubt the meaning<br />
which must be understood by the term Mahdi given by<br />
the fifth imam al-Bagir: Mahdi (the Guide) is named<br />
as such because it is he who will guide (Yahdi) us<br />
in the secret teachings.<br />
If so, the prediction of the Mahdi does not announce<br />
the victory of zealot warriors who will wipe out non-<br />
believers, understood to be other races or religions.<br />
Rather, the prophecies talk of the power of love, not<br />
the might of hate. They would then refer to the fight<br />
against ignorance, no doubt the most formidable of all<br />
battles. But if Allah is indeed the Merciful and<br />
Compassionate, such is the most likely meaning of the<br />
predictions of the imams. The real jihad is an internal<br />
fight for our own purification, so that out full spiritual<br />
potential might finally manifest. Consequently, even<br />
in the stern Muslim prophecies we can read the hopeful<br />
and promising light of humankind&#8217;s renewal. This may<br />
or may not combine with events of massive destruction<br />
that can still manifest. But let us focus on the hopeful<br />
dimension of this momentous period.</p>
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