"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
- Senator Barack Obama.
"Barack Obama must be elected President of the United States. It’s his worldview, his clarity of judgment, and his just plain right-mindedness that resonate with me. Figuring that my efforts were best spent raising money for the campaign,
I have thrown myself into a new world—one in which fluffy chatter and frivolous praise are replaced by a get-to-the-point directness and disciple-like devotion. It’s intense and intoxicating...
... I have to confess I felt a certain shame that the dress I wore—a bright-red Prada number from next season that my former boss, Carol, insisted I buy the day before—cost more than the $1,000 ticket to the event itself. ... How this paid off I’ll share in a moment...
I was on my feet as Senator Obama entered the room. Fate had blessed me in this moment, as I realized that the aisle that was keeping me from my seat was created for him and his secret service escort to make their way to the stage. Within seconds, he was a few feet from me. Cameras were flashing, everyone was cheering, and I knew this was my moment. I pushed my way up to the barricade as he shook hands with as many people as time would allow. I squeezed up front, but Obama was moving quickly and just passed me by. Then,
in a moment of divine intervention, he saw me, clad in my red stop-sign of a dress, back-tracked ever so slightly in his procession, grabbed my hand, and gave that brilliant smile of his. I literally said out loud to the woman next to me who witnessed my good fate, "I’ll never wash this hand again." Elle Associate Publisher Samantha Fennell, July of 2008. Source:
http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/"
Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama." - Dinesh Sharma.
"Does it not feel as if some special hand is guiding Obama on his journey, I mean, as he has said, the utter improbability of it all?" - Daily Kos.
"[Obama is] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom...[He is]
the man for this time." - Toni Morrison.
"We're here to evolve to a higher plane...
he is our evolved leader...[he] has an ear for eloquence and a Tongue dipped in the Unvarnished Truth." - Oprah Winfrey.
- Source:
http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/Does Senator Obama view himself as some sort of secular Messiah who is here to take us to "a higher plane" while
healing the planet? Many of his followers see him as such. The secular "Messiah" believes himself to have a special mandate or mission from above to bring "change" to a hurting world. As Dusty Sklar documents in her important work entitled "The Nazis and the Occult": "Hitler, from the time he was a young boy, was preoccupied with the matter of will, a concern not shared by his family or social milieu. Though he could not will himself into art school or good health, his childhood friend Kubizek was the recipient of confidences about his inner life which betray Wagnerian fantasies of another sort of strength. After a performance of Wagner's opera Rienzi, both boys stood under the stars, and, says Rubizek: 'I was struck by something strange, which I had never noticed before, even when he had talked to me in moments of the greatest excitement.
It was as if another being spoke out of his body, and moved him as much as it did me.
It wasn't at all a case of a speaker being carried away by his own words. On the contrary, I rather felt as though he himself listened with astonishment and emotion to what burst forth from him with elementary force. I will not attempt to interpret this phenomenon, but it was a state of complete ecstasy and rapture, in which he transferred the character of Rienzi, without even mentioning him as a model or example, with visionary power to the plane of his own ambitions. But it was more than a cheap adaptation. Indeed, the impact of the opera was rather a sheer external impulse which compelled him to speak. Like flood waters breaking their dykes, his words burst forth from him.
He conjured up in grandiose, inspiring pictures his own future and that of his people....It was an unknown youth who spoke to me in that strange hour. He spoke of a special mission which one day would be entrusted to him..." (p. 50).
Grandiose, inspiring pictures? Such as the rise of the oceans beginning to slow? Or the planet beginning to "heal"? And just as Hitler [according to his childhood friend] was astonished at what "burst forth from him with elementary force," Senator Obama himself has expressed astonishment at "the utter improbability" of his meteoric rise to fame and international prominence.
And what does Ms. Winfrey mean when she asserts that Senator Obama is an "evolved leader"? We find an excellent definition over at EWTN:
"The Mahatmas Arnould writes of these Guardians of the Immemorial Doctrine that 'their number is great,' that
they are 'Beings more completely developed than antecedent or existing humanity.
These more advanced Beings have traversed the entire human course, and help their less advanced brethren. All humanity shall one day reach this degree of development, like that which Westerns assign to their anthropomorphic God,' and then it will be their turn to help others.. For while 'a few isolated individuals, borne on by a peculiar enthusiasm, a spiritual moral, and physical hygiene and persevering toil,' achieve the goal before their brothers, and alone have evolved that sixth principle, or (Buddhi), which is as superior to the intellect as the human soul is to the animal, yet they can and do put off their entry into Nirvana for the sake of teaching fragments of their lore to men, and may then be called 'Buddhas of Compassion'. H. P. B. rationalizes these Mahatmas (=Great Spirits) not a little: though they guide and protect, yet they do not inspire the T. S. or the writings of its leaders. So, too, Mrs. Besant says they work for humanity, use the T.S. as an instrument, bless it, and help it at a crisis. Miss Lillian Edger, in a very convenient little book called 'Elements of Theosophy', says of them that they can 'function at will on any one of the three planes on which our evolution is proceeding.' They work 'unseen, unthanked, even as God Himself works in every form'. From them come the inspirations of art, the intuitions of genius, and the promptings of heroism. From them come physical discoveries and spiritual movements. They appear, it may be, as men, and are misunderstood and persecuted. They may be called Initiates, Adepts, Magi, Hierophants, Mahatmas, Elder Brothers, Great Souls, or Masters. We are told to number among them Pythagoras, Orpheus, Moses, Christ, St. Paul, St. John, Clement and Origen, Krishna and Buddha, high-priests of various cults (including that of the Temple at Jerusalem), Alexander the Great, and many others.." (
http://www.ewtn.com/library/newage/theosop2.txt).
The teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
The Church's ultimate trial 675 Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of
a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.
676 The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, especially the "intrinsically perverse" political form of a secular messianism.
Would he censor free speech? Related reading
here.
