Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00233)

Hallo all,

The following was written by a welknown theosophist.
The fact, that it also is an ancient sufi tale makes it very interesting.

"Illustrative examples of it
It seems that in the Koran there is a wonderful narrative concerning a visit paid one morning by the prophet Mohammed to heaven, during which he saw many different regions there, had them all very fully explained to him, and also had numerous lengthy conferences with various angels; yet when he returned to his body, the bed from which he had risen was still warm, and he found that but a few seconds had passed - in fact, I believe the water had not yet all run out from a jug which he had accidentally overturned as he started on the expedition!

Now Addison's story runs that a certain sultan of Egypt felt it impossible to believe this, and even went to the impolitic length of bluntly declaring to his religious teacher that the tale was a falsehood. The teacher, who was a great doctor learned in the law, and credited with miraculous powers, undertook to prove on the spot to the doubting monarch that the story was, at any rate, not impossible. He had a large basin of water brought, and begged the sultan just to dip his head into the water and withdraw it as quickly as he could.

The king accordingly plunged his head into the basin, and to his intense surprise found himself at once in a place entirely unknown to him - on a lonely shore, near the foot of a great mountain. After the first stupefaction was over, what was probably the most natural idea for an oriental monarch came into his head - he thought he was bewitched, and at once began to execrate the doctor for such abominable treachery. However, time passed on; he began to get hungry, and realized that there was nothing for it but to find some means of livelihood in this strange country.

After wandering about for some time, he found some men at work felling trees in a wood, and applied to them for assistance. They set him to help them, and eventually took him with them to the town where they lived. Here he resided and worked for some years, gradually amassing money, and at length contrived to marry a rich wife. With her he spent many happy years of wedded life, bringing up a family of no less than fourteen children, but after her death he met with so many misfortunes that he at last fell into want again, and once more, in his old age, became a wood-porter.

One day, walking by the sea-side, he threw off his clothes and plunged into the sea for a bath; and as he raised his head and shook the water from his eyes, he was astounded to find himself standing among his old courtiers, with his teacher of long ago at his side, and a basin of water before him. It was long - and no wonder - before he could be brought to believe that all those years of incident and adventure had been nothing but one moment's dream, caused by the hypnotic suggestion of his teacher, and that really he had done nothing but dip his head quickly into the basin of water and draw it out again."

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When pondering about this - and what Reality is
and whehter I myself is under hypnotic suggestion by some strange or mad teacher
I came across the following interesting story:

A number of you know it already.
It is the series called "Shada" in Dr. WHO with Tom Baker
Watch it here for free in a cartoon like version:

There are six episodes - with about five parts each.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shada/
(I do like this Cambridge Professor...and his special office..)
:-) Laughs...

I wonder whether the next room I enter actually is a "Time-and-Space Tardis".
Or maybe I am already inside one...Laughs...
And today we have "mobilephones".

Time is still running.
God - what a few seconds of life contains.
It is amazing.

Se you all...
We travel around in here through time and space.





from
M. Sufilight listening to - 

the "KLF - Doctorin the Timelords" and the "Techno Orbital - Dr. Who theme"...


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