[Dajjal]

For an explanation of the Islamic End-Times beliefs held by Iran's Pres. Ahmadinejad, see my FR homepage.

[Kimberly GG]

Thank you,,,,,I'll check it out!

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.varchive.org/lec/671206pri.htm

Mankind In Amnesia:

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If you don’t have a Bible just stop at a motel and you find one there. And there you will read if you open it twice—the chances are better than fifty-fifty—a description of some phenomena that are certainly not peaceful. The foundations of the earth were discovered, coal was falling from the sky, earth was trembling, hills were moving into the sea, sea and land were changing places, mountains vomited lava and were molten like wax.

And this kind of pictures are found in the prophets through the Psalms and also in the books of Genesis, Exodus and Numbers, without end. Even fundamentalists read them as metaphors. Follow the description the Dominican monks wrote down as told by the aborigines of this continent—I quote it in Worlds in Collision—and imagine stones falling from the sky with crashing noises and bitumen pouring down, and men trying to go on the roofs, while the buildings collapse, or to climb the trees which throw them away; imagine the Pacific Ocean rising like a towering wall and approaching the continent, the entire land burning with a thousand volcanoes; new mountains going up and the water carrying everything away. This is not a vision: it is described in historical texts and folk traditions and in epics of many races of the world. We don’t like to think about those things as real events.

Already about the time of the first century B. C. started the forgetfulness. In the Sibylline books or in the New Testament many sentences tell of the expectations of Doomsday—a scene taken from the experiences of the past. The phenomenon of the creeping-in oblivion you can observe in the debate between the anti-clerical Lucretius who understood the heritage of ages and the clerical Cicero who claimed that the planets are gods. Nothing can happen to them and whoever claims that at any time they can be at fault should be brought to court and for a capital punishment. The Pythagorean secret teaching, the Stoic philosophy, all the mysteries and various rites, all go back to those experiences, in order to re-live them...