Though I am hardly a biblical scholar, once I began reading the bible as a book of symbols, relative to the dynamics of consciousness, only then did it make any sense. To interpret these symbols literally, though, as the fundamentalists do, causes lots of confusion.
"End of times" or "The end times", wrt consciousness, is the process of transcending, leading to experiences of GC, revelations of angels, etc. However, by getting hung up on the names and exact descriptions in that (hidden) holy text, the modern Christians chase many wild geese, instead. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" wrote: > > > > > > W-p: > > > > Islamic tradition holds that Jesus, the son of Mary, was the promised > Prophet and Masih (Messiah) sent to the Israelites, and that he will > again return to Earth at the end of times, along with the Mahdi, and > they will defeat Masih ad-Dajjal, the "false Messiah" or Antichrist.[6] > > > Carde, both Jesus (living in Italy) and The Christ (living in London) > are already here, and it's not because it's the "end of times" but > because it's a new beginning for mankind. Just like Maharishi said many, > many times :-) > > http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2012/2012-01.htm > <http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2012/2012-01.htm\ > > >