Another, stunning, way-too-short-documentary (and demo), this time on the Prophet T8 by Alex Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd2aYOIs7aY

#Synthesizer #SequentialCircuits #Prophet #AlexBall #ElectronicMusic

 What did God communicate through the #prophet Isaiah?

 What did God communicate through the #prophet Isaiah?

Druze

The Druze, who call themselves al-Muwahhidun, are an Arab esoteric religious group from West Asia who adhere to the Druze faith. This is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, & syncretic religion whose main tenets assert the unity of God, reincarnation, & the eternity of the soul.

Although the Druze faith developed from Isma’ilism, the Druze don’t identify as Muslim. Isma’ilism is a sect of Shia Islam. They use the Arabic language & culture as integral parts of their identity, with Arabic being their primary language.

Most Druze religious practices are kept secret. Conversion to their religion isn’t permitted for outsiders. Interfaith marriages are rare & strongly discouraged. They make a difference between spiritual individuals, known as “uqqal,” who hold the faiths secrets, & secular ones, known as “juhhal,” who focus on worldly matters.

Druze believes that, after completing the cycle of rebirth through successive reincarnations, the soul reunites with the Cosmic Mind (al-‘aql al-kulli).

The Epistles of Wisdom is the central text of the Druze faith. The Druze faith came out of Isma’ilism & has been influenced by a diverse range of traditions (Christianity, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, & Pythagoreanism).

Druze holds Shuaib in high regard. They believe him to be the same person as the biblical Jethro. Shuaib is an ancient Midianite prophet in Islam. Jethro is Moses’ father-in-law. Shuaib is mentioned 11x in the Quran.

They regard Adam (of Adam & Eve fame), Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad (PBUH), & the Isma’ili Imam Muhammad ibn Isma’il as prophets. Also the Druze tradition honor figures such as Salman the Persian, al-Khidr (who they identify with Elijah, John the Baptist, & St. George), Job, Luke the Evangelist, & others as mentors & prophets.

The Druze faith is 1 of the major religious groups in the Levant with between 800,000 & 1 million followers. They’re mainly located in Lebanon, Syria, & Israel. They make up 5.5% of Lebanon’s population, 3% of Syria’s, & 1.6% of Israel’s.

The oldest, & most densely populated, Druze communities exist in Mount Lebanon & in the south of Syria around Jabal al-Druze (literally the “Mountain of the Druze”). The name “Druze” is likely derived from the name of: Muhammad bin Ismail Nashtakin ad-Darazi (from the Persian darzi, “seamster”) who was an early preacher.

The Druze consider ad-Darazi a heretic, the name has been used to identify them. This is possibly because their historical opponents have a way to attack their community with ad-Darazi’s poor reputation.

Before becoming public, the movement was secretive & held closed meetings in what was known as Sessions of Wisdom. During this period, a dispute occurred between ad-Darazi & Hamza bin Ali mainly concerned ad-Darazi’s ghuluww (“exaggeration”), which refers to the belief that God was incarnated in human beings to ad-Darazi naming himself “The Sword of the Faith,” which led Hamza to write an Epistle refuting the need for the sword to spread the faith & several epistles refuting the beliefs of the ghulat.

In 1061, ad-Darazi, & his followers, openly proclaimed their beliefs & put out the call for people to join them. This caused riots in Cairo against the Unitarian movement, including Hamza bin Ali & his followers. This led to the suspension of the movement for 1 year & the expulsion of ad-Darazi & his supporters.

In 1081, ad-Darazi was assassinated for his teachings. Some claim that he was executed by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.

The number of the Druze people worldwide is between 800,000 & 1 million. The vast majority reside in the Levant. The main countries with Druze communities are Syria, Lebanon, Israel, & Jordan. Outside the Middle East, significant Druze communities exist in Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America (mainly Venezuela, Colombia, & Brazil), the US, & West Africa. They are Arabs who speak Levantine Arabic.

The story of the creation of the Druze faith between 1017 & 1018 is dominated by 3 men & their struggle for influence. Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad was an Ismaili mystic & scholar from Khorasan, who arrived in Fatimid Egypt in 1014 or 1016, & began to teach a Muwahhidun (“Unitarian”) doctrine.

al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the 6th Fatimid caliph, became a central figure in the faith being preached by Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad. Muhammad bin Ismail Nashtakin ad-Darazi arrived in Cairo in 1015 or 1017, possibly from Bukhara, joined the movement & became an important preacher.

Hama ibn Ali ibn Ahmad, an Ismaili mystic & scholar from Zozan, Khorasan, in the Samanid Empire, arrived in Fatimid Egypt in 1014 or 1016. He assembled a group of scholars that met regularly in the Raydan Mosque, near the Al-Hakim Mosque. In 1017, Hamza began to preach a Muwahhidun (Unitarian) doctrine.

Hamza got the support of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who gave a decree promoting religious freedom & eventually became a central figure in the Druze faith.

Little is known about the early life of al-Darazi. He is believed to have been of Persian origins & his title al-Darazi is Persian in origin, meaning “the tailor.” He got to Cairo in 1015 or 1017, after which he joined the newly emerged Druze movement. al-Darazi converted early to the Unitarian faith & became 1 of its early preachers.

At that time, the movement enlisted a large number of followers. As the number of his followers grew, he became obsessed with his leadership & gave himself the title “The Sword of the Faith.” al-Darazi argued that he should be the leader of the da’wah rather than Hamza ibn Ali & gave himself the title: “Lord of the Guides” because Caliph al-Hakim referred to Hamza as “Guide of the Consented.” It’s said that al-Darazi allowed wine, forbidden marriages, & taught metempsychosis. Metempsychosis is the belief that after death, a soul leaves its body & enters a new one, either human, animal, or even plant, in a continuous cycle of rebirth (reincarnation). This is also known as the transmigration of souls.

The divine call, or Unitarian call, is the Druze period of time that was opened at sunset on May 30, 1017 by ad-Darazi. The call summoned people to a true Unitarian belief that removed all attributes from God.

It promoted absolute monotheism & the concepts of supporting your fellow man, true speech & pursuit of doneness with God. These concepts superseded all ritual, law & dogma & requirements for pilgrimage, fasting, holy days, prayer, charity, devotion, Creed, & particular worship of any prophet, or person, was downplayed.

Sharia was opposed & Druze traditions started during the call continue today, such as meeting for reading, prayer, & social gathering on a Thursday instead of a Friday at Khalwats instead of mosques. Such gatherings & traditions weren’t mandatory. People were encouraged to pursue a state of compliance with the real law of nature governing the universe.

By 1018, al-Darazi had gathered around him that partisans who believed that universal reason became incarnated in Adam at the beginning of the world, were then passed to the prophets. Then into Ali, & then into his descendants, the Fatimid Caliphs. al-Darazi wrote a book laying out his doctrine. But when he read from his book in the principal mosque in Cairo. It caused riots, & protests against his claims & many of his followers were killed.

Hamza ibn Ali rejected al-Darazi’s ideology, calling him “the insolent one & Satan.” The controversy led Caliph al-Hakim to suspend the Druze da’wah in 1018.

In an attempt to gain the support of al-Hakim, al-Darazi started preaching that al-Hakim didn’t believe that he was God, & felt al-Darazi was trying to show himself as a new prophet. In 1018, al-Hakim had al-Darazi executed, leaving Hamza the sole leader of the new faith & al-Darazi considered to be a renegade.

Al-Hakim disappeared 1 night while on his evening ride. Druze believes he went into Occultation with Hamza ibn Ali & 3 other prominent preachers. He left the “Unitarian missionary movement” to a new leader, al-Muqtana Baha’uddin.

The call was suspended briefly between May 19, 1018 & May 9, 1019 during the apostasy of al-Darazi & again between 1021 & 1026 during a period of persecution by the Fatimid caliph al-Zahir li-I’zaz Din Allah for those who had sworn the oath, to accept the call.

Persecutions started 40 days after the disappearance into Occultation of al-Hakim, who was thought to have been converting people to the Unitarian faith for over 20 years prior. Al-Hakim convinced some heretical followers such as al-Darazi of his soteriological divinity & officially declared the Divine call after issuing a decree promoting religious freedom. This eventually became a central figure in the Druze faith.

Little is known about the early life of al-Darazi. According to most sources, he was born in Bukhara (located in Uzbekistan). He got to Cairo in 1015 (or 1017), after he joined the newly formed Druze movement.

Al-Darazi was an early convert to the Unitarian faith. He became 1 of its early preachers. At that time, the movement enlisted a large number of followers. As the number of his followers grew, he got obsessed with his leadership. He gave himself the title: “The Sword of the Faith.”

Al-Darazi argued that he should be the leader of the da’wah rather than Hamza ibn Ali & gave himself the title: “Lord of the Guides.” Because Caliph al-Hakim referred to Hamza as: “Guide of the Consented.” It’s said that al-Darazi allowed wine, forbidden marriages, & taught metempsychosis.

This led to conflicts between Ad-Darazi & Hamza ibn Ali, who disliked his behavior & arrogance. In the Epistles of Wisdom, Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad warns al-Darazi: “Faith doesn’t need a sword to aid it.” But al-Darazi ignored Hamza’s warnings & continued to challenge the Imam.

The unitarian call, or divine call, is the Druze period of time that was opened at sunset on May 30, 1017 by Ad-Darazi. The call summoned people to a true unitarian belief that removed all attributes (wise, just, outside, inside, etc.) from God.

It promoted absolute monotheism & the concepts of supporting your fellow man, true speech & pursuit of oneness with God. These concepts superseded all ritual, law & dogma, & the requirement for pilgrimage (like the Hajj), fasting, holy days, prayer, charity, devotion, Creed & particular worship of any prophet or person was downplayed.

Sharia was opposed. Druze traditions during the call continued today, such as meeting for reading, prayer, & social gathering on a Thursday instead of Friday at Khalwats instead of mosques. Khalwats are sanctuaries & theological schools of the Druze.

Such gatherings & traditions weren’t mandatory & people were encouraged to pursue a state of compliance with the real law of nature governing the universe. Epistle 13 of the Epistles of Wisdom called it “A spiritual doctrine without any ritualistic imposition.”

The time of the call was seen as a revolution of truth, with missionaries preaching its message all around the Middle East. These messages were sent out with the believers, whose souls are thought to still exist in the Druze of today.

The souls of those who took the vows during the call are believed to be continuously reincarnating in successive generations of Druze until the return of al-Hakim to proclaim a 2nd Divine call & establish a Golden Age of justice & peace of all.

By 1018, al-Darazi had gathered around him partisans (“Darazites”) who believed that universal reason became incarnated in Adam at the beginning of the world, was then passed to the prophets, then into Ali, & then into his descendants, the Fatimid Caliphs.

In an attempt to gain the support of al-Hakim, al-Darazi started preaching that al-Hakim & his ancestors were the incarnation of God. A modest man, al-Hakim didn’t believe that he was God, & felt al-Darazi was trying to depict himself as a new prophet. In 1018, al-Hakim had al-Darazi executed, leaving Hamza the sole leader of the new faith & al-Darazi considered to be renegade.

Al-Hakim disappeared 1 night whilst on his nightly ride. He was presumed assassinated. His “assassination” was allegedly at his elder sister Sitt al-Mulk.

Druze believe he went into Occultation with Hamza ibn Ali & 3 other prominent preachers, leaving the care of the “Unitarian missionary movement” to a new leader, al-Muqtana Baha’uddin.

In 1043, Baha al-Din al-Muqtana said that the sect would no longer take new “pledges.” Since that time, proselytism has been banned awaiting al-Hakim’s return at the Last Judgment to usher in a new Golden Age.

In Lebanon, Syria, Israel, & Jordan, the Druzites have official recognition as a separate religious community with its own religious court system.

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Gesundheit: Was sich in den Hadithen dazu findet
Vor einem Jahr hat das Yaqeen Institute in den USA eine solche Anthologie erstellt, in der es gezielt um wichtige Fragen wie Gesundheit, Wohlbefinden und Prävention geht.

(iz). Seit Beginn des dritten islamischen Jahrhunderts stellten Gelehrte Sammlungen von „40 Hadithen“ zus
https://islamische-zeitung.de/gesundheit-prophetische-maximen-zum-thema/
#DasGuteLeben #GrundlagenSonstige #IZPlus #Lebensart #Gesundheit #maximen #praxis #prophet

Erfüllt sich derzeit die Prophezeiung aus der Bibel von dem Propheten Daniel 8 für den Beginn der biblischen Endzeit?!

"Eskalation: Iran droht mit Atombombe in 24 Stunden | USA bereiten Angriff vor"

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=jyThbuOFxww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyThbuOFxww&t=831

Dies ist auch an alle interessierten Glaubensgeschwister, andersgläubige und nichtgläubige Menschen gerichtet.

Ich wünsche euch allen den Elohim JHWH's reichen Segen & ein sehr brisantes Video wegen der Prophetie von Daniel 8.

Hashtags: #Elohim #Gott #JHWH #Jahua #Jahweh #Jehova #Jehoschua #HaMachiach #Jesus #Christus #Bibel #Torah #Prophetie #Prophet #Daniel #EndzeitreporterMcM #McM #Evangelist #YouTuber #YouTube #EndzeitNews #Endzeit #News #Nachrichten #heute #Geopolitik #Politik #Iran #Mullah #Regime #AliChamenei #Eskalation #Drohung #Atombombe #Trump #USA #Amerika #Militärschlag #Militär #Angriff #Torahchristen #messianischeJuden #Judenchristen #Christen #Juden #andersgläubige #Moslems #Muslime #nichtgläubige #Menschen #Atheisten #Heiden #Segen #brisant #Video #Wahrheit #Invidious

Silent Sunday 🌿

#art #mastoart #fediart #silentsunday #matcha #prophet #krita #blender

What Church leaders have taught about temple covenants – Church News

As temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints increasingly dot the earth, Church leaders have…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #FirstPresidency #Leaders&Ministry #Prophet #Temples #TwelveApostles #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/348894/

What a way to begin #BowieMass -- by making the world #AfraidOfAmericans! And under the watchful eye of #BigBrother! Our modern prophets warn us -- yet we do not listen!

#FeastOfSaintBowie #DavidBowie #Prophet #Prophecy

"In #Islam and #Christianity God comes first. The proclamation that “#Allah is God and #Muhammad is his #Prophet” makes a person a #Muslim. Accepting #Jesus, the son of God as your #savior, makes a person a #Christian.

But for most people who become #Jewish; God is at the end of the process, not at the beginning.

This follows the pattern established by #Ruth, one of the most famous non-Jews to become Jewish. She states, “Where ever you go, I will go. Wherever you live, I will live. Your people, shall be my people. Your God, shall be my God.” (Ruth 1:16)

Why does Ruth list God at the end of the process, and not at the beginning?

#Judaism does not teach that everyone needs to become Jewish to be saved or to go to heaven.

Judaism does not teach that everyone has to believe in #monotheism in the same way #Jews do.

For Jews, behaving like a #Mentch is more important than believing the correct #theology."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/becoming-jewish-is-like-reincarnation-or-falling-in-love/

Barmherzigkeit: ein wichtiger Aspekt unserer Lebenspraxis
Allah ist barmherzig und Sein Gesandter der Prophet der Barmherzigkeit.

(iz). Die explizite Beziehung zwischen den Wörtern Islam und Salam (Frieden, Unversehrtheit) wurde in den letzten Jahren häufig hervorgehoben. Es ist vor allem aufgrund dieses etymologischen Zusammenhangs, dass v
https://islamische-zeitung.de/barmherzigkeit-teil-unserer-lebenspraxis/
#Islam #IZPlus #Lebenspraxis #allah #barmherzigkeit #lebenspraxis #prophet

Hope Comes to the Hopeless

https://youtu.be/fbW2ngbR5QM

“‘Dear Lord God, I wish to preach in your honor. I wish to speak about you, glorify you, praise your name. Although I can’t do this well of myself, I pray that you may make it good.’”[i]

Introduction

Hope. Peace. Joy. Love. These are the words that define Advent. These are the words that define the Christmas season. These are the words that represent to us the very characteristics of God: God is hope; God is peace; God is joy; and, of course, God is love. And if these words tell us who God is and how God is toward us, then these words should be fundamentally definitive for humanity who wis made in the image of God. These words should describe us and define our activity in the world; we should not only have hope but bring hope, not only have peace but perform peace, not only have joy but be joy, and not only experience love but share love in the way it is so desperate to be shared from one human being to another no matter sex, class, race, age, identity in the world.

Sadly, these four words don’t often define humanity…especially now in this moment and at this time. We’re more hopeless than ever, we are downright peaceless, our joy is suffocated by grief and fatigue, and love seems too risky, so we bury it under resentment, anger, and fear as we divide and pull apart from each other. How do we have hope when every other time we’ve had hope it’s been thrown to the ground and smashed into thousands of pieces? I can’t have hope because I’m submerged in the waters of hopelessness and I’m tired of being let down again and again and again by this fickle friend. And to be honest, I don’t want hope; I’m too fatigued to have hope.

But, yet: Advent.

Advent slips in through the back door and dares to suggest Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. The first Sunday in Advent is an interruption to our normal, day-to-day decent into chaos and tumult, where hopelessness reigns. And I think this is why the first Sunday of Advent carries hope with it; the first Sunday in Advent is the manger of Hope and thus we must come face to face and contend with it as it speaks to us and illuminates our hopelessness.

Isaiah 2:1-5

In days to come
the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and shall be raised above the hills;
all the nations shall stream to it. (v2)

Isaiah declares to all of God’s people God is on God’s way and among them God will build God’s house. God’s house will be built in such a way it will be visible and accessible to all and not reserved for a privileged few. It is in and through this divine house that all will be one, the unity of humanity made known by the dwelling of divinity.[ii]

Isaiah continues,

Many peoples shall come and say,
‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of Abba God,
to the house of the God of Jacob;
that [Abba God] may teach us [Abba God’s] ways
and that we may walk in [God’s] paths.’
For out of Zion shall go forth instruction,
and the word of [Abba God] from Jerusalem. (v3)

As Isaiah paints a vision of God’ house dwelling among God’s people instigating unity within humanity, he exposes God’s desire for all of God’s people to be with God, to learn from God directly, and walk (humbly) with God. God’s house and God’s presence among the people will draw the people unto God and by being drawn unto God the people inwardly digest God’s love, God’s life, and God’s liberation becoming one with God and with each other—on the whole earth[iii] as it is in the entire heavens.

Then Isaiah says,

[Abba God] shall judge between the nations,
and shall arbitrate for many peoples;
they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,
and their spears into pruning-hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more. (v4)

The instruction and guidance mentioned before turns toward judging and arbitration. God’s judgment and arbitration will be that which brings tangible and material peace among the people. By God’s presence, God’s righteousness will expose the people and illuminate their crooked pathways and straighten them, guiding them into what is true and right.[iv] God’s righteousness will be their righteousness; God’s justice will be their justice for they have learned the ways of God, the ways of divine justice informed by mercy. [v] Human ingenuity will transform by the exposure of God’s righteousness and justice; it will turn away from making weapons for war out of the metal forged from the earth and the greediness from the heart. Rather, they will make tools of love, life, and liberation out of those instruments meant to reinforce indifference and bring death and captivity. No longer will humanity worship its power in terms of arsenals and treasuries; [vi] God will be their all in all.[vii] God will be theirs and they will be God’s, and they will walk in God’s ways all their days knowing nothing any longer of the horrors and carnage and absurdity[viii] of war[ix] and obscene violence[x] knowing only the love of God and the love that binds them to each other. Power and might beaten into mercy and peace. [xi]

Isaiah finishes,

O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in the light of [Abba God]! (v5)

Isaiah exhorts the people of God to walk in the light of Abba God, they are to grow and rejoice in this light, becoming more and more, day by day, like their Abba God. This light is God’s light; this light is God in God’s self; this light is divine hope given to the entire earth and all the people. And it is good.

Conclusion

Hope isn’t something we cause ourselves to have or something we drum up from the depths of our souls. It’s a gift. It’s the light. It’s God. Hope comes to us. Hope comes low to us, to seek us as we are, wherever we are even when we are absolutely hopeless. Hope takes our hand to guide us into its light. Hope will even come down so low that it will be born into fleshy vulnerability, among dirty animals and unclean people, in straw and hay, wrapped in meager swaddling clothes, laying in the lap of an unwed, woman of color without a proper place to lay her head. He, Jesus the Christ, Immanuel—God with us—is our hope, is our hope for right now, in the darkness of late fall, in the tumult of our lives, in the fatigue of our bodies and minds, and dwells with us transforming our hopelessness—part by part—into hope. Incarnated hope knowing God is with us and God is faithful.

God comes, Beloved, bringing hope to the hopeless.

[i] LW 54:157-158; Table Talk 1590.

[ii] Abraham K. Heschel, The Prophets, (New York: JPS, 1962), 169. “The prophet may be regarded as the first universal man in history; he is concerned with, and addresses himself to, all men. It was not an emperor, but a prophet, who first conceived of the unity of all men.”

[iii] Heschel, Prophets, 169. “Isaiah proclaimed God’s purpose and design ‘concerning the whole earth’ (14:26), and actually addressed himself to ‘all you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth’ (Isa. 18:3…) delivering special prophecies concerning Babylon, Moab, Damascus, Egypt, Tyre, and others…”

[iv] Heschel, Prophets, 169. “It is the God of Israel Who summons the mighty men to execute His designs (Isa. 13:3, 5), Who calls the nations of the world into judgment, and it is He Whom one day all nations shall worship in Zion (Isa. 2:2 ff….”

[v] Heschel, Prophets, 96. “Zion is where at the end of days all the nations shall go to learn the ways of God.”

[vi] Heschel, Prophets, 183. “The sword is the pride of man; arsenals, forts, and chariots lend supremacy to nations. War is the climax of human ingenuity, the object of supreme efforts: men slaughtering each other, cities battered into ruins. What is left behind is agony, death, and desolation. At the same time, men think very highly of themselves….Idols of silver and gold are what they worship.”

[vii] Heschel, Prophets, 183. “Into a world fascinated with idolatry, drunk with power, bloated with arrogance, enters Isaiah’s word that the swords will be beaten into plowshares, that nations will search, not for gold, power or harlotries, but for God’s word.”

[viii] Heschel, Prophets, 160. “The prophets, questioning man’s infatuation with might, insisted not only on the immortality but also on the futility and absurdity of war.”

[ix] Heschel, Prophets, 73. “…Isaiah was horrified by the brutalities and carnage which war entails. In his boundless yearning he had a vision of the day when ‘nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more’ (2:4). War spawns death. But Isaiah was looking to the time when the Lord ‘will swallow up death for ever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces…Israel’s security lies int eh covenant with God, not in covenants with Egypt of other nations.”

[x] Heschel, Prophets, 160. “When the prophets appeared, they proclaimed that might is not supreme, that the sword is an abomination, that violence is obscene. The sword, they said, shall be destroyed.”

[xi] Heschel, Prophets, 207-208. “God not only asks for justice; He demands of man ‘to regard the deeds of the Lord, to see the work of His hands’… ‘to walk in His paths…”

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A look at Hosea and Gomer, That time a Prophet married a Prostitute. No seriously. Check out my new post for more.

https://assemblybethesda.com/hosea-and-gomer-a-prophets-marriage-to-a-prostitute/

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Attention everyone! 🎉 A visionary #prophet has emerged from the depths of Jayden's Blog, foretelling that YouTube's homepage will soon be a desolate #wasteland with a solitary video. 🤓 Meanwhile, YouTube's Product Management team heroically embraced the feedback by doing... absolutely nothing. 👏
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CHANNELLED MESSAGE FROM THE ARCTURIANS RESILIENCE IS KEY #tarot #prophet...
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Top ten posts in October 2025

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Resources for Worship, the weekend of 10/18/25 - 10/19/25

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Resources for Worship, the weekend of 10/11/25 - 10/12/25

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Der Prophet als Psychologe oder den realen Menschen sehen
Menschen sind verschieden. Sie denken anders, fühlen anders, handeln anders. Der Prophet Muhammed, Allah segne ihn und schenke ihm Frieden, erkannte das. 

(iz). Er sprach nicht in Schablonen und antwortete nicht mechanisch. Wer ihn etwas fragte, bekam keine Standardantwort. Er hörte zu, beobac
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