--- In [email protected], "WillyTex" <willy...@...> wrote: > > > > guyfawkes: > > US support depends on the shrinking minority of > > people who think that by allowing Israelis to > > claim "the promised land" it will bring the > > second coming and the rapture and all that... > > > "Iran is now being run by people so extreme that > they scared Ayatollah Khomeini. Mainstream Shiites > believe that the 12th imam is the messiah. He > disappeared in 873 CE but will return. > > Until he does, all political rule is illegitimate, > and the proper role of the senior Shi'ite > establishment is to worry about the spiritual > needs of the flock. > > Khomeini came to accept the view that religious > leaders can rule before the return of the mahdi. > However, the current regime goes further and holds > that the return can behastened by provoking a > conflagration, thus forcing the mahdi to return > and save the world..."
Whuch has already happened: [Share International Home] <http://shareintl.org/index.htm> [Share International Home] [Background information] Welcome to our introduction (2/11) previous <http://shareintl.org/introduction/introduction1.htm> next <http://shareintl.org/introduction/introduction4.htm> Who is Maitreya? [Maitreya the World Teacher] All the major religions expect a further revelation to be given by a future Teacher. Christians hope for the return of the Christ, the Buddhists look for the coming of another Buddha (the Lord Maitreya), while Muslims await the Imam Mahdi, the Hindus a reincarnation of Krishna, and the Jews the Messiah. Students of the esoteric tradition know these as different names for the same individual ¯ Maitreya, the World Teacher ¯ and they look for his imminent return now, at the head of his group of Masters of Wisdom. They are people like us, who have gone before us in evolution and who have always guided and inspired humanity from behind the scenes. Preferring to be known simply as the Teacher, Maitreya has not come as a religious leader, but as an educator in the broadest sense ¯ pointing the way out of humanity's most critical problems. At this time of great political, economic, and social crisis, Maitreya will inspire humanity to see itself as one family, and create a civilization based on sharing, economic and social justice, and global cooperation. [Home] Top of Page <http://shareintl.org/introduction/introduction2.htm#top> HOME <http://shareintl.org/index.htm> | INTRODUCTION <http://shareintl.org/introduction/introduction1.htm> | MAITREYA <http://shareintl.org/maitreya/Ma_main.htm> | BACKGROUND <http://shareintl.org/background/background.htm> | EVENTS <http://shareintl.org/events/upevents.htm> | SEARCH <http://shareintl.org/search/search.htm> | FOR NEWS MEDIA <http://shareintl.org/media/newsmedia.htm> | LANGUAGES <http://shareintl.org/languages/languages.htm> | FEEDBACK <http://shareintl.org/feedback/feedback.htm> | ARCHIVES <http://shareintl.org/archives/index.htm> | SI NEWS <http://shareintl.org/magazine/SI_current.htm> | ABOUT US <http://shareintl.org/aboutus/aboutus.htm> | UPDATES TO THE SITE <http://shareintl.org/search/update_sched.htm> | First published April 1999, >
