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FORESIGHT
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The founding fathers of the Bahá'í
Faith all claimed to see into the future,
which is fairly typical for founders of religions.
The prophecies of the Bahá'ís include:
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Alchemy.
This ancient form of magic will become a respected science.
- The Great
Spirits.
"American Indians" will lead the world spiritually.
- The Big
Quake. A cataclismic worldwide event
will occur "which shall cause the limbs of mankind to
quake".
- The Lethal Substance
- The Atom's Heart
Alchemy
The Great Spirits
The Big Quake
The world is in travail, and its
agitation waxeth day by day. Its face is turned towards waywardness
and unbelief. Such shall be its plight, that to disclose it now would
not be meet and seemly. Its perversity will long continue. And when
the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly appear that which
shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then, and only then, will
the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the Nightingale of Paradise
warble its melody. - Gleanings from the Writings of
Bahá'u'lláh
So said Bahá'u'lláh, well over a
century ago. To his credit, he was not foretelling anything in the
immediate future; rather he spoke of a more distant future. He speaks
of two events which shall come concurrently:
1) there shall suddenly appear that
which shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake.
2) the Divine Standard [will] be unfurled, and the
Nightingale of Paradise warble its melody.
What does he mean by limbs quaking? It happens
that he speaks of limbs quaking in several contexts:
- "Certain wrong-doers who profess allegiance to the Cause of
God committed such deeds as have caused the limbs of sincerity, of
honesty, of justice, of equity to quake." -
KALÍMÁT-I-FIRDAWSÍYYIH
- "... His Great Revelation which hath caused the limbs of all
mankind to quake ..." - ISHRÁQÁT
- "... this Name which hath caused all other names to groan
aloud and the limbs of the sages to quake ..." -
ISHRÁQÁT
- "... the She-Serpent [The Imám-Jum'ih of
Isfahán, see page 203.] whose cruelty hath caused all
created things to groan, and the limbs of the holy ones to quake."
-Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
- "This is the Word which hath caused the limbs of disbelievers
to quake." - Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh revealed after
the Kitáb-i-Aqdas
- "... confessed their belief in that which hath made the limbs
of the oppressors among Thy creatures to quake,... " - Gleanings
from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
- " This is the Announcement that hath caused the limbs of
mankind to quake , except such as God, the Protector, the Helper,
the Succorer, hath willed to exempt. Men have indeed with their
own eyes witnessed how all men and all things have been thrown
into confusion and been sore perplexed, save those whom God hath
chosen to exempt." -Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
Clearly, the image of limbs quaking was used by
Bahá'u'lláh to depict agitation, confusion, or a
similar emotion. A literal interpretation, such as nerve gas or mass
hysteria, is not justifiable. This is not a prophecy of specify
events or phenomena, but merely a statement that things will get
worse before they get better.
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3 March, 1999.