Babism, Esotericism, Baha’ism and the Establishment
A podcast with Stephan Beyer and Wahid Azal
discussing Babism, esotericism and the occult, great power politics during the
19th and 20th centuries leading into the 21st, the Haifan Baha'i cult, the
Baha'i 'chicken' to the Zionist 'egg', Baha'i support of the Saudi war on
Yemen, environmentalism, revolutionary politics, etc.
***ITEMS REFERRED TO IN PODCAST***
1. POEM OF ALI
ON THE GREATEST NAME + Sources on the Greatest Name "Three sticks in a
row after a seal; above them the semblance of a straightened lance Then a blind
‘mīm’ without a tail, then a ladder unto all that is hoped for, but which is
not a ladder Four things like fingers in a row pointing to good deeds, but
without a wrist. And a ‘hā’ that has been split, then an inverted ‘wāw’ like
the syphon of a phlebotomist, but not a blood-letting cup This is the name
whose worth is magnified; if you were ignorant of it before, know it now. O
bearer of the Great Name, take sufficiency in it – you shall be preserved from
misfortunes and shall be kept safe. It is the secret name of God, may His glory
be glorified, unto all men, be they Arab or non-Arab!" -- Imām ʿAlī (ع)
2. ---- See also
Lloyd Graham, The Seven Seals of Judeo-Islamic Magic: Possible Origins of the
Symbols https://www.academia.edu/1509428/The_Seven_Seals_of_Judeo-Islamic_Magic_Possible_Origins_of_the_Symbols
3. And A
comparison of the Seven Seals in Islamic esotericism and Jewish Kabbalah
4. And Wahid
Azal A Short Treatise In Explication Regarding the Gnosis of the Theophanic
Stations of the Calligram of the Greatest Name of the Godhead
https://sites.google.com/site/wahidazal66/GreatestNameCommentary.pdf
5. In German
"Siegel und Charaktere in der mohammedanischen Zauberei" https://archive.org/details/SiegelUndCharaktere
6. Bahá'u'lláh's
"Sahifih-i-Shattiyyih" Tablet of the River [Tigris]
English trans. https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_sahifih_shattiyyih_cole
Original Persian text
https://www.scribd.com/document/396465880/Sahifa-Shattiyih as per `Abdul-Hamid
Ishraq-Khavari, Ma'idih-'i Asmani, 9 volumes (Tehran: MMMA, 1973), 4:142-149
Alternate version found here, https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/INBA/INBA057.pdf
