The prophets of the desert in the Old Testament have become
so much part of our being; they left the cities shocked by the
decadence, the greed of our civilisations, and sought instructions
from the voice of God. And if you walk for hours and days in the
desert, then you have a sense of great purity from ... away from
the pollution and the decadence of the cities and the selfishness
and the greed and the money-making. And everything is silent,
and the slightest breeze comes to you like a voice that is talking
to you. So, you're very open to the message of the universe to
the cosmos. And so you interpret it of course in your limited
way, but still you've been inspired by that sense of the need
to give direction to human beings, so that they don't do those
terrible things that are happening now in our time more and more.
So, that is called the message - it's the word "the message".
The messenger receives a message and transmits that message to
the people. And then they come back in the cities with the power
of God, and that power is so great that people are very impressed
by that power that is coming through the power of Moses, the power
of Abraham, the power of Melchisedek. And so, somehow that message
is still working all the time.
We have a sense that the destinies of humanity are being shepherded
by the divine guidance, but that guidance can only work if we
recognize it. So, the quality here is of course to be open to
guidance rather than the will-power of Shiva. And I think that
this message is embodied in those words of Pir-o-Murshid, when
he says: In the beginning of the universe everything is in a state
of chaos, and gradually every being is trying to find its place
in the scheme of things. So that orderliness is born out of chaos.
And so, what we call the law is that power of orderliness, that
brings order into chaos. That's the message of Israel.
Abraham is a giant amongst prophets. Pir-o-Murshid Inayat
Khan calls him the founder of the religion of the one God, to
which Beni Israel belongs. When he uses the word "Beni Israel"
it includes Christianity and Islam. The greatness of Abraham is
such that he is admitted into the presence of God, in its exoteric
and its esoteric sense. He is given access to the divine intention.
He has access to the planning, and he generates a whole race.
He represents, therefore, the seed of God as man, in whom the
divine being reaches a fullness, a fulfillment. There´s
a great significance in his mission. He is the Rasul, the archetype
of Rasul, in which God finds his fulfillment. Of course, he is
very wonderful; he´s a king. Murshid talks about the trace
of the king of kings. Yes, it´s to be found in Abraham,
and he even says Abraham was the founder of Sufism. Oh, one has
to enter into the consciousness of that being, Abraham.
His perfect counterpart is Melchizedek, the high priest who represents
the divine order, whereas Abraham represents the divine power,
majesty. It´s a different attunement, and both are very,
very important. Whenever you are in a very high prayerful condition,
you get in tune with Melchizedek. When you´re conscious
of your mission and what you have to uphold in your life, then
you can get into the consciousness of Abraham. It´s just
like the two faces of Cha´ma in the Kaballah; the one is
turned upwards and the other is turned downwards. Your consecration
as a priest is where you find your connection with Melchizedek,
when you think of yourself as being a priest in the Order of Melchizedek.
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