Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00369)

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HPB on a “Muslim Pope”:

A MYSTERIOUS  SAGE  PAYS A

VISIT TO MR.  ABDUL GHAFUR

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Dear Friends,

Although he was an influential islamic leader, Mr. Abdul Ghafur (1794-1877), 
 the Akhund of Swat,   was a quick reincarnation of Roman Pope Sixtus V.  
There were close inner  links between islamic and Roman Christian fanaticism 
,  according to H.P.B. (1)

Being a “mystic of Hate”, Mr. Abdul Ghafur created the most significant 
secret societies in Islamism from where he lived,  in the region of 
Peshawar,  in Afghanistan/Pakistan.  It was  not far from the cave systems 
where the sacred Bamian Statues (dating from the fourth race) were located 
until their recent destruction by the Taliban in 2001. (2)   This is the 
same region where nowadays the Taliban and Al Qaeda ‘mystical  fanatics’ 
have their strongholds and hiding places in Afghanistan.

Powerful as he was, Mr. Ghafur, the “islamic Pope” of 19th century,  had 
strong  reasons to fear  the Sages who work with truth,  and who use  
truthfulness and compassion  in their efforts to benefit mankind.

HPB writes:

“One highly dramatic incident in the life of the ‘Pope of Saidu’ is the 
following well-authenticated case, which was much commented upon in his part 
of India (3)  about 20 years ago.  One day, in 1858, when the   Akhund, 
squatting on his carpet, was distributing amulets, blessings and prophecies 
among his pious congregation of pilgrims, a tall Hindu, who had silently 
approached and mingled in the crowd without having been noticed, suddenly 
addressed him thus:  ‘Tell me,  prophet, thou who prophesiest so well for 
others, whether thou knowest what will be thine own fate, and that of the 
‘Defender of  the Faith’, thy Sultan of Istamboul, twenty years hence?’ ”

The old Ghafur, says HPB, was  “overcome with violent surprise”.   He stared 
at his interlocutor, but no answer came. “In  recognizing the Sikh, he 
seemed to have lost all power of speech”, and “the crowd was under a spell”.

HPB  describes the scene:

--- “If not”, continued  the intruder, “then I will tell thee. Twenty years 
more and your ‘Prince of the Faithful’ will fall by the hand of an assassin 
of his own house.  Two old men,  one the Dalai Lama of the Christians, the 
other the great prophet of the Moslems  -- thyself -- will be simultaneously 
crushed under the heel of death. Then, the first hour will strike of the 
downfall of those twin foes ot truth -- Christianity and Islam.  The first, 
as the more powerful, will survive the second, but both will soon crumble 
into fragmentary sects, which will mutually exterminate each other’s faith.  
See, thy followers are powerless (4), and I might kill thee now, but thou 
art in the hands of Destiny, and that knows its own hour.”

HPB concludes:

“Before a hand could be lifted, the speaker had disappeared”.

Roman Catholic Pope Pius IX held office from 1846 till his death in 7 
February 1878 (5).   Abdul Ghafur died in  1877.  As predicted,  “the rival 
pontiffs of Rome and Swat” died almost simultaneously.

The  Hindu visitor was stern enough  when he defined  Christianity and Islam 
as “twin foes of truth”,  an expression which reminds one of the Prayag 
Letter, and also of the Letter 10, in the non-chronological editions, or 
Letter 88, in the chronological edition of  “The Mahatma Letters to A. P. 
Sinnett”.


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Best regards,   Carlos Cardoso Aveline



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NOTES:

(1)  See the article “The Akhund of Swat”, in the “H.P.B. Collected 
Writings”, TPH, Volume I, pp. 369-375.

(2) As to  the Bamian Statues,  see  “The Secret Doctrine”,  Vol II, pp. 
337- 341.

(3) That is, the “Great India” of the 19th century.

(4) A Reference to the  fact that the crowd  standed  still, like under a 
spell, as the Hindu talked.

(5) Source of the date:  “Encyclopaedia Britannica”, 1967, vol. 17,  p.  
1136.


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