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“The Diogenes Club_ René Guénon”, Founded by myself

(Posts of October 2005 A. D.)

Yes, Aghà Khans were supporters of British Empire - and by the way ... supporters of the game Polo among the nobles of the Empire... and even diamonds for the Indian community principally lived by diamond commerce. It’s not a surprise, for they are descendants of Hassàn al-Sabbah (Hasàn-i Sabbah, in Persian), even if in a disputed way ... In fact there are also the descendants of the famous “Shaykh al-Jabal”, descendant of Hasàn-i Sabbah from ‘Alamùt, in the Elburz (“Alborj”, analogue to the “Meru” of Hindus) over Teheràn of today (by the way even Khomeinì - even if absolutely against him as theorical positions - admired him and inspired to him, and also the false prophet of the false

“holy” war, “Been Laid-in”, as I call him...).

Descendants of the “Shaykh al-Jabal”, in Syria, do not correspond plainly to the descendants of Hasàn-i Sabbah of ‘Alamùt. There had been problems among them for “descendance”... No surprise: it’s typical historical that the ones who started criticizing the fact that Muhammad al-Mahdî must not necessarily “descendant for the flesh” then deviated for a problem of corporeal descendance, following the ”flesh”...!

Two observations.

Even for Corbin the valid part of Ismailism went into Sufism, and influenced strongly Ibn ‘Arabî, as we see.

Second observation. “The initiatic chain ‘singularly deviated’ among Ishmaelites”, as Guénon would’ve said.

For the problem of al-Mahdî I will say something about it in the following post.

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So let’s retake back the “sutra” of our speech - ‘sutra’ in its literal meaning, of course... The Two conceptions of al-Mahdî. Precisation. The Twelfth Imamite Shi’a affirms that Muhammad al-Mahdî must necessarily come from the Prophet Family. Therefore Muhammad al-Mahdî is never died. There is the “Minor Occultation” and the “Major Occultation” started in IXth century after Christ’s birth. Practically, in certain path of Shi’ism, today not vital, al-Mahdî acts like the al-Khidr in Sufism, the same way exactly. For the Twelfth Imâm is the “never died”...

But let’s arrive at the pint of the two conceptions. We must return to the picture sketched above. First conception.

The first conception - spread into both Shi’a and Sunnah - affirms that al-Mahdî will be a “Saviour with the Sword” who will defeat the “kafirùn” and impose practically Islamic

Law to the whole world. The whole world will be Islamic, told in other words. Jesus? Jesus will be Islamic. Stop the question.

This conception is very alive even among the Sufi orders of today. I asked to an authoritative source and more or less he told me this.

The order which is the nearer to this topic is the Naqshbandi order.

If you make a search you’ll discover that it exists a Temple common to Hindus, to Buddhists

and to Islamists. It is Kataragama in Shri Lanka.

The reason for this particular “universalism” is due to the fact that in Sri Lanka or Ceylon (Serendip from which “serendipity”) there exists the Adam’s Peak, sacred to Buddhists, Islamists and Christians, for these last is Saint Thomas’s Place6_.

In this the Master of Naqshbandi order speaks about al-Mahdî and of the Anti-Christ.

Many and many things he says are very right and I do agree with him in many many points, but one point I don’t agree.

He depicts al-Mahdî as a man of enormous power who will bring Sharî’ah to dominate the whole world. And this is the faith of many.

He weakens and deepens this argument when he says that real Moslems do not need bombs or guns and so we have a real clear-cut sharp sword capable of individuating real and false Moslems: the ones who bring arms are wrong, for they have the “fitna” in their hearts. He also says interesting things. For example he says that Muhammad al-Mahdî won’t be killed by missiles or bombs, for every missile has one jinn controlling it. So if you have magic powers upon subtle creations you can directly control the subtle part of the material part everyone can see and so control this last one.

More or less what Solomon did.

But the point is that al-Mahdî more or less will make Islamism dominate the whole world, in a very different way from the ways Khomeinì - by revolution in full “Bolshevik style” - or Mr. “Been Laid-in” - in full “anarcho-nihilist style” - wanted.

BUT THE AIM DOES NOT CHANGE. The other conception of the al-Mahdî

changes this very point. It changes the aim.

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P.S. Another interesting link is as follows: http://kataragama.org/news/gaffar-interview.htm.

Second conception of al-Mahdî. A precisation. Even the Naqshband shaykh speaks

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about “Jesus at the Second Come” - or the Tenth of “Dasavatâras” (Kalki) in Hindu language - but in this case there’s no problem for the specifically spiritual role attributed to them.

No, the problem is - and remains - al-Mahdî, precisely for His role so-to-say is “half spiritual - half material (=social)”.

These two halves are a problem... So let’s return to the second Conception.

This says a very different thing: the Coming of al-Mahdî is the al-Qiyâmah, the Resurrection and the end of the slavery to the Law that does not necessarily mean that Law won’t be but that Law will be underput the domination of a superior aim. This last point is unacceptable to modern and ancient ‘ulamà.

The key of this point is in Ibn ‘Arabî’s “Fuçûç”, chapt. “Seth”, when “Shaykh al-Akbar” wrote that Jesus Second Coming will be the “Seal” of Abrahamic ways. And the other ones? Al-Mahdî will be the “Seal” of Prophecy from the beginning (theory made by Shaykh to reconcile the former Shi’ite, especially Ishmaelite, thought of Islâm as a seal and so the seal of all the ways and the Christian doctrines accepted into Islamism, especially Sunni).

In fact al-Mahdî will be the “Seal” of ALL ANBIYA’, that they come from the spiritual

“Abraham’s Seed” or not. The Seed of Abraham - it’s not at all a chance... - is that of

Rùsul. But “anbiyâ” existed from the beginning of human Cycle itself, independent of

Sacred Law. Abd they too demand to be synthesized (or “sealed” in ancient language). For the law of compensation (“yin-yang” phenomenon) the One who will seal the Abramic paths will be spiritual. On the contrary He who will seal the non-Abramic paths will have a mixed spiritual-social function.

In other words: Jesus Second Coming acts as the last of Rùsul, while the Mahdî acts as the last of Prophet.

Prophet in the sense of “nabî”! Please understand well!

For the particular conditions of the last part of the last age (Kali-Yuga), of the “phase of

passage” (“sandhya”) between two Cycles, the last of Rùsul will act as the last of Saints while the last of Prophet will act as the last of Rùsul.

I called this phenomenon - unique of the last part of the last Cycle (Kali-Yuga) in a certain way in one writing of mine in Italian language. But I could write volumes upon this very point. No matter, what matters is to understand this “compensative phenomena”.

So, to sum-up, the Mahdî won’t be a mere “Great Warrior” - even if this side will be for

Kataragama is the shrine to Skanda, the “General of gods” in Hindu mythology.

This is the second Conception.

He will also re-interpret the Sharî’ah itself. He won’t be one who merely repeats and accept what the historical development made grow.

He won’t accept to stay under the guidance of ‘ulamâ or even Sufi orders. Perhaps a part of these last will accept but do you really think that the first ones will accept...?! I’m laughing under moustache...

No church ever accepted an authority superior to itself but purely and merely theorically speaking.

So will they accept? ... They can only accept a kind of “super-man”, gifted by enormous

psychic powers, capable to dominate jinn like Solomon did. I don’t deny at all this point. I

only say that what they are waiting for is a partial representation, unaware of the truly

spiritual aim of the whole thing: Qiyâmah. And Qiyâmah - that they like it or not - goes

beyond Law (Sharî’ah).

For He must have even a social function, it’s on the other hand necessary that Sharî’ah won’t be merely abolished, moreover re-interpreted.

But from what spiritual level must it be re-interpreted? This is the key point. If one understands this point immediately sees that Mahdî cannot accept the guidance of ‘ulamà but act starting from a deep inspiration that arrives to Him by God Himself.

There’s no other interpretation possible. And this inner inspiration can even change the letter of things.

And this point will make Islamic world explode in anger.

They are like the Hebrews in Jesus’ times: they look for someone who will never come

in the way they think.

They are like the once who wait for the Third Temple to be re-constructed as a copy of the Second. The Anti-Christ is not an “archaeologist”!

The real problem is the meanings of things not their form.

But the ones who are completely dominated by the form cannot see beyond it... Unfortunately in this way they lose the meaning...

The Way is like a nut. You must break it to eat.

If you won’t break it you won’t eat it...

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About the powers of al-Mahdî. I don’t deny them. I repeat: I don’t deny them. They seem

“impossible” to modern mind, but they definitively are not impossible at all.

Even a theorical study of the complex and contradictory - surely dangerous - universe of “Magic” lato sensu conceived, will demonster you - “beyond every possible doubt” as they say in tribunals... to be ironic against the “fix for law” of Islamic world ... - that all this is

possible.

It does exist a “subtle” side - “animic” in Guénon’s Work’s words - in everything under

Heaven. To master it means to master even the corporeal side of things.

Of course: it’s not easy at all!!!

The Koranic texts affirms that only to Solomon God Himself gave “a ‘Reign’ no-one ever will have”.

Ibn ‘Arabî interpretated this as follows: “God gave Solomon the ‘subtle regions’ of al-

jinn in the complete extension of it, it does not at all mean that God gave only to Solomon the

‘capacity’ to dominate jinn”.

And he added - in Fuçùç, chpt. dedicated to Solomon - that even Muhammad had the domination of certain kinds of jinn, the extension of the dominance being given to Solomon and not at all the capacity in itself.

And so there is no problem to admit that al-Mahdî will own capacity to dominate kinds of jinn specifically for the war reasons. He will have the possibility and capability to dominate the jinn that rule missiles, Atomic bombs (similar to a certain kind of half-jinn of Gog and Magog hordes), and so on.

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By the way, if we think that Mahdî is similar in certain things to Gesar of Ling of Tibetan legends and epic, it must be that He must be gifted by a certain kind of “psychic power”, but absolutely dominated by the Spirit.

This last point is fundamental.

Two last observation, to end on this very very important argument, on which there should be very much to be said, but the point is to understand its basic.

1. Even Gesar has a knowledge, a sacred knowledge: he’s not a mere executor of Lamaism. He’s - as everyone who knows these things can easily argue - very very akin to the so- called “ancient” Tibetan tradition (the so-called “Red Hats” to be understood, the “ones

of ‘Padmasâmbhava’s’ dispensation”). The “Gesar’s Epic Deeds” are the Padmasàmbhava’s epic. The same name of “Gesar” as an Italian orientalist demonstered (Mario Bussagli) is neither than a corruption of “Kesar”, Cesar in english, as proniunced in ancient, where “c” was always “k”, as it’s remained in Celtic language (“Celtic” pronounced “Seltik” in moderen english but in truly british pronunciation it should be “Keltik”, with the “Celtism” of “c” being “k”, a linguistic “archaism”, as they say today). Again: the bond Iranian tradition > old Aryan > Roman tradition. Again the bond with the “non-Abrahamic” traditional forms.

2. Last but first, this “Mahdî’s metaphysical-eschatological problem” immediately remembers what Robin should have said.

He said that - if a possibility of solution would not have found by the means and in the terms of traditional forms of the last part of Kali-Yuga - then this “double Coming”, “will break the ‘traditional’ picture” we inherited from recent past.

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If these are the two conceptions, why not the first conception? Why it is more “believable” the second one?

For this is the very point underlying the whole problem.

Well, the main basic problem can be expressed as follows: if whole mankind must be “salvated” as mankind is now (important precisation), then there must be a form “for all and everyone”.

Consequently the Sharî’ah must be “extended” to the whole world for the easy and very fact that no other traditional form owns such a complicated system of ”legal” form as Islamism has, and for whole mankind not for a specific Ethnic group, as it is for Jews. The Islamists all say and re-say this point and underline it in very sauces possible, being well aware of the “point of force” they own.

But, thinking like this, we unfortunately forget a small “wee bit” void-of-consequences little “nothingness”...

In fact, did Guénon say that before the “end” - in whatever way we can choose to

imagine it (in whatever...) - there must come before the “Final Judgment”. Even Naqshbandi shaykh agrees with this.

The key-word is: that “before”...

So something” - and “someone” - must intervene to act the “separation of sheep and goats”, in Biblical words.

Someone...

And that’s Mahdî.

Now, how this separation must happen? This is the key-question.

On one side from the Anti-Christ. First point: do the ones who won’t accept him make their

non-acceptance basing on a “confessional” point? In other words: only the member of a specific

confession refuse the Anti-Christ? Highly improbable.

Let’s imagine for a moment this separation that happens “at last”, so-to-say.

Will the criterion of this phenomenon happen basing on a confessional truth or basing on something else?

Basing on something else.

Therefore the affirmation of a specific faith cannot operate the “Final Separation”, that we like it or not. Consequently only the outer expression of data considered today “esoteric” will be able to make this separation to happen.

This does not necessarily mean that Islamism won’t be a sort of “Ark”, but absolutely

not as Islamism is today.

And that’s the very point that separates the two versions, the two conceptions.

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