Introduction
If it pleases my fellow netizens, I would like to express the following:
Talking about "God," "faith," and "religion" is not easy for me. But, as a
witness to what I think is this millennium's most important event, I would
be remiss if I didn't share knowledge with you or offered this modest springboard
for anyone else in a situation similar to mine to step forward and add heir
voice. What makes my task all the more difficult is that I consider myself
an intelligent, educated individual; this said, chances are I would not believe
my own message if I were to hear it myself for the first time again.
I remember once, when Dahesh stayed with me in my New York city apartment , going to him as he sat at my desk reading through the stack of newspapers, and saying to him:
"Doctor, sometimes this feels utterly implausible to me."
He smiled and replied:
"I know what you mean."
At that moment I realized that he was in the same boat as all of us and that he was merely the messenger.
Many of us walking this earth are messengers. Some are physicists discovering
cures, others, human rights leaders and even others, messengers of evil, ruthless
dictators.
Dahesh, like those before him, belonged to a special category of messengers:
the prophets. Now, I never met Moses, or Jesus. I never met Buddha. And I
certainly have never met the so-called miracle workers whose followers claim
they can perform astounding miracles...which you can see on daytime Sunday
TV, many of whom claim they speak to God himself. However, I met Dahesh.
Dahesh bent time and space and broke every known physical law known to man
in my presence on many an occasion. I saw "it," I touched "it," I even "doubted"
it. However, and to my mind, there was no escaping the obvious conclusion:
This man packed "something" I've never seen before and only have read about
in mythology. He therefore had my attention. Ironically, he didn't really
ask for it, and interestingly enough, not once did Dahesh claim to be higher
or better than me. And God only knows why we crossed paths. He earned my respect
by being a gentle and kind man, a hero of a man who brought down a corrupt
government with the stroke of his pen. While he surely proved to me that there
is nothing that could physically stand in his way, should such powers be unleashed,
that ultimately no one, not even God almighty could convince a man or woman
to follow a certain path. That made perfect sense:
Historically, according to the Old Testament, the prophet Moses went to
the Pharaoh and asked him to choose to free his people. When Pharaoh refused,
"God" acting through Moses, as the messenger, applied pressure until Pharaoh
himself let the people go. Was is out of fear? Perhaps. Many tyrants are notorious
for yielding to fear and pressure only to swing back to their old habits.
Case in point, and according to the scriptures, Pharaoh was overtaken with
anger and hatred and chased after the Jews to slaughter them. At which point,
his entire army was struck down by God's own hand. What is sad about this
story is that although Pharaoh could have chosen peace over war, he opted
for the latter. Here, we will see a parallel:
In the case of the young Dahesh, one man—Bechara El Khoury (who later
would become the first president in the new Republic of Lebanon)—becomes
filled with hatred. Influenced by his wife Laure, sister to Marie Haddad who
was a Daheshist herself, President El Khoury launches a ruthless campaign
against Dahesh and his followers, all defenseless and powerless in a country
that boasted freedom of the press and religion.
Why did it happen? What makes certain events seem as if they are being replayed
over and over again? This and over 70 years' worth of history, knowledge and
tradition, will hopefully be presented here. And to me, whether one believes
in Daheshism or not is not as important as knowing the facts at this point.
Is Daheshism a faith, a religion or a spiritual movement? Or, is it a cult?
Well, again, all we have to do is look at Christianity and we can almost see
where Daheshism will be in a few hundred years. As to what Daheshism is, let
me give my version, plain and simple:
You have the universe. Right? Well, according to Daheshism, it is teaming
with life of varying degrees of good and evil. What is the Universe made of?...
Well, let's just say that it is "energy" In Daheshism parlance, we refer to
the "sayal," which is the Arabic word for "fluid."
Whenever you hear a Daheshist speak of "fluids" (i.e. the intelligence "fluid,"
the greed "fluid," the sex-drive "fluid," the generosity "fluid," et al) and
unless they are at their local tavern, they are probably speaking of matters
pertaining to the makeup of the universe. So, you have these spiritual fluids
that travel back and forth, up and down just like the Stock Market... The
result? Well, you have happiness, anger, anguish, love, hate, good fortune,
bad fortune...
Can we control our spiritual fluids? Yes.
Can our spiritual fluids control us? Yes.
As we shall later see, because every person on this planet is linked to
both the higher "spiritual" worlds and the lower "infernal" ones, an inner
struggle occurs. This is typically where the good people of the Cloth would
urge you to give yourselves to God, and send a donation. However, they are
somewhat, and unwittingly, correct. In Daheshism, the notion of trusting in
God is primordial. Why? Let's put it this way and let's talk about planet
Earth for a minute here...
"This is a test folks."
We are here for a reason, and everything that happens to us, or will happen
to us is because of something we did, or have caused to happen, whether directly
or indirectly..."We may run, but we cannot hide."
And, when you add to that anyone you share spiritual fluids with is now contributing to your fate...you're lucky if you leave the house! And look at the irony. We are told to stay chaste and yet we are given urges that would move mountains if applied in the right context!... That is why we have reincarnation:
God, as an act of compassion and love, grants us the opportunity to come back and be re-tested, over and over again, in order to ascend to the higher worlds, where we are promised that life would be better. Therefore, we enter this world not remembering our past lives, or our deeds, into situations that have been predetermined by our own choices from those aformentioned past lives. Furthermore, God keeps sending us his prophets to help us make our way back to the collective, of our own free will.
And to make things even more challenging, each prophet must communicate the
message in a way that is compatible with the times. In other words, a prophet
visiting cave dwellers at the "dawn of civilization" will need to
communicate the idea of God and salvation a lot differently than modern prophets.
The same prophet visiting cave dwellers might come back and continue the mission
in future incarnations, and speak to the same cave dwellers whose "fluids"
have now taken the shape of a whole nation, or one person! (for example)
To many, the idea is ridiculous.
Why?
I mean think about it. There is a whole universe whose origin no one can explain
with absolute certainty. Isn't it possible that everything in it lives and
dies, over and over again?
Well, Dahesh, by performing countless miracles (i.e. physical manifestations
that break the physical laws of nature) proved that life is an illusion and
that death is a temporary physical state which does not destroy the "spirit"
or the "soul"...or the spiritual fluids. They travel to another
time, another dimension we cannot see, and enter a new chapter based on what
level they were able to reach. And, the story gets really complicated from
here on. So, sit back and enjoy as many of us fumble through interpretations
of Daheshism. Chances are, and with the coming of age of many of the ideas
once deemed ludicrous, you might actually find a kindred point of view.
Mario Henri Chakkour
New York city, May 1, 2000.
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