The Above Crucifix was materialized in the Spring of 1973, on
Mahashivarathri, the night of Shiva. Up until 1973, Swami had materialized a
Lingam during Mahashivarathri each year. The night before the usual
materialization of the lingham in 1973, Swami told Jack Hislop that this year
the lingham would be manifested with only a few devotees present.
Early the next morning, Swami and the late Dr.Hislop and a few devotees
got in their cars and drove many hours until they reached the Bandipur Forest
in the Indian state of Mysore, perhaps a ten hour drive. Hislop was hoping for
a repeat performance of a miracle that occured with Swami in the Bandipur
Forest previously. On that prior occasion, Swami stood at the edge of the
forest and called the elephants to him. An entire herd of elephants came
thundering toward Swami, Most of the devotees ran for safety, but Swami calmly
stood his ground. The elephants stopped running and one of them slowly
approached Swami, knelt on the ground in front of him, and then turned around
and walked back into the forest along with the herd.
But in 1973, such was not the case. Swami instructed the driver where to
stop the car, and after doing so, walked down the slope of a river until they
reached the sandy river bed. As they passed a bush, Sai Baba broke off two
twigs and placed them together. "What is this, Hislop?" Swami asked.
"Well, Swami, it's a cross," Hislop replied.
Swami then closed his hand around the two twigs and blew into his fist
several times. When he opened his hand, the twigs were no longer present, but
instead the crucifix you see in this photograph was. Hislop and the other
devotees were stunned by the miraculous crucifix, so small, yet so beautiful
and full of detail.
Swami related to Hislop that he had blown several times into his fist in
order to create a crucifix out of the original wood on which Jesus was
crucified. Baba said, "All of the original wood had returned to the elements,
so I had to blow on the twigs several times in order to retrieve the original
wood."
Thus, the crucifix you see is made of the 2,000 year old wood that was
part of the original crucifix. Hislop, in examining the crucifix more closely,
noticed a hole at the top of the cross and asked Baba about it. Swami replied
to the effect that the crucifix was not stuck into the ground, but rather was
hung on a post. Swami indicated to Hislop that Jesus, as he appears in this
small metal sculpture, is the way he actually appeared after his physical death
on the cross.
Several weeks later, Jack Hislop and his wife, Victoria, were back in
their home overlooking the ocean in Mexico near Ensenada. A friend of theirs,
Walter, had visited them, seen the crucifix and asked if he could photograph
it, which he did. Walter and his wife returned a few weeks later, and spread
out the photographs alongside the crucifix. At exactly 5 p.m. there was a loud
crash of thunder and lightning. A great wind blew through the house and rattled
the windows and doors, blowing the curtains around. This was a mystery, as the
sky had been completely clear. Even a San Diego newspaper noted the unusual
event the following day.
Victoria Hislop immediately commented, "What just happened is described
in the Bible. At exactly 5 p.m., Jesus died, and a great wind, a violent storm
suddenly descended."
Victoria was able to find the Bible passage depicting this event. The
Hislops felt they had just witnessed a recapitulation of the actual crucifixion
and physical death of Jesus. A couple of years later, Swami confirmed to Hislop
that his experience and interpretation of the storm surrounding the crucifix
was correct.
Why was the crucifix materialized on Mahashivarathri, the night and
morning dedicated to the worship of Shiva, and the dissolution of one's ego and
negative qualities? Why the materialization of the Shiva Lingham and crucifix
on the same day? There are no readily available answers to these questions and
only our Divine Lord knows the answers
the face of Jesus is only an eighth of an inch long on the actual
materialized crucifix. At this size, one begins to see more detail, and what is
striking are the bumps all over his body.
Dr. John Hislop asked Swami about the bumps and Bhagawan said that Jesus
was beaten over every inch of his body. Because of the severe beating, blood
clotted underneath the skin, creating the numerous bumps seen here at the time
of his physical death.
The Divine Crucifix from our Divine Master.
Om Sai Ram
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