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Mohammed had instructed his disciples
to pray five times a day to
Mohammed devised his
master stroke. Since he needed his warriors to be ruthless in battle and
unafraid of death, he needed to offer them something to inspire this. And this
took the form of a free passage to heaven for martyrdom in the cause. And the
masterstroke of this cunning, crafty manipulator came in the form of a trance,
where he claimed to have a vision of the angel Gabriel. In his vision, he was
mounted on a white steed called el Buruq,
and accompanied Gabriel to
At their annual Haj to
The Arabs developed a
satanic religion called Islam and thrust it on the world as the ultimate
counterfeit of God’s Great Plan. They even injected ‘satanic verses’ into
the Scriptures in an attempt to supplant Isaac with Ishmael as the line of Holy
Seed.
THE NINE
DEGREES OF ISLAM
First Degree
Upon the taking of the oath of allegiance
and the presentation of an offering to seal the oath, the seeker would be
admitted to the first degree of the Ismaili
mysteries, in which he accepted that the revelations of the Koran have a
superior esoteric meaning, the batin, which
might be opened to him through contact with a divinely inspired and authorized interpreter.
This was the longest degree because the breakdown of past faith would need to
be accomplished and its progress carefully observed.
Second Degree
Next the disciple would be shown, and
asked to accept, the error of the Sunni teaching and its inadequacy to answer
meaningful spiritual questions. He would also be taught to suspend his own
interpretation of the truth in favour of the teaching
of the Imam or his direct representative, the dai, whose grasp of truth was superior to his
own. This degree was the natural stopping place for the majority of converts.
Third Degree
In this degree, the seeker learned the Kabbalistic mysteries of the number seven, which included
the seven heavens, seven planets, seven colours,
seven metals, and so on. He was taught that this mystery applied to the seven
divine Ismaeli teachers, the Imams, whose
names he would now learn, along with the esoteric words of power by which their
aid might be invoked. [This level forever separated the student from the more
widespread Shiite community that recognized twelve Imams.]
Fourth Degree
The seeker was next taught that God chose
to reveal Himself through seven prophets. The line included Adam, Noah,
Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, and Ismail (or Muhammad
ibn Ismail). The
acceptance of a Prophet following Muhammad was the highest heresy to the
Sunnis, among whose most rigorous articles of faith is the belief that Muhammad
is the last prophet. Thus the finality of the Koran as the ultimate revelation
of God’s Laws was denied.
Fifth Degree
Here the dai revealed that the literal
interpretation of the Koran was fit only for the uninstructed masses,
those who were unprepared to penetrate the batin
with the guidance of the Imam. The Sunni observances of Shariah were described as steeped in ignorance of
the esoteric meaning behind the concepts. A doctrine of twelve apostles extending
the true faith was taught, backed up with mathematical and numerological teachings
concerning the mysteries of the number twelve, including the twelve signs of
the zodiac, twelve months, twelve tribes of
kabbalistic knowledge was taught.
Sixth Degree
Only the most advanced and discreet
disciples could proceed to this level, because here they were instructed
to abandon Muslim observances altogether, including prayer, fasting,
and pilgrimage. These were to be performed only for reasons of social expediency.
Their purpose was declared meaningless, designed solely for the subjection of
the masses, while there was an allegorical meaning to these practices from
which only the wise could profit. The philosophical teachings of Pythagoras,
Plato, and Aristotle were introduced, and the use of reason to test religious
truth was endorsed. A sixth degree initiate could become a dai himself.
Seventh Degree
The very few who were admitted to this
degree passed from philosophy to mysticism. The dualistic doctrine of first and
second causes (the preexistent and the subsequent) was taught, which challenged
the belief in divine unity. Initiates of the seventh degree studied Aristotle’s
theory of eternal matter. Creation was explained to be the introduction of
movement into matter, which produced time and change.
Eighth Degree
Here the superfluity of exoteric
religious doctrine was further examined. The relativity of morality and
consequent indifference of action (or absence of absolute values) were proclaimed.
The teachings of this degree further elaborated on the two principles introduced
earlier. The nameless first cause is what we know as God. The thought of God is
an emanation that becomes the second cause, the Logos, acting as a mediator between
God and man. The existence of a formless, nameless, unknowable being
anterior to and beyond all previous dualistic
conceptions was introduced.
Ninth Degree
Here the rare initiate studied in depth
the Greek Gnostic cosmological teachings of the soul, the heavens, and the
celestial intelligences. The ninth degree Ismaili was
a pure philosopher, a law unto himself. The teaching within this
degree is the source of the oft quoted statement attributed to Hasan-I-Sabah: “Nothing is true, everything is
permitted.” It is reflected in the modern revelation proclaimed
through the twentieth century English magus Aleister
Crowley: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole Law.” It assumes a
level of ego surrender and moral austerity concomitant with a
successful
search for spiritual truth in which the
initiate may at last rely on his own perceptions for an understanding of his
mission.
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