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I felt it was important to get as much information out there as possible about Iran. The Third World War does not have to happen and i believe it is now 50-50 and may not happen if enough People change and stop behaving like Victims needing a Victimizer all of the time to control and enslave them. Human Consciousness will be based on Divine Light once again and we, as free People will set sail for the Stars once more. I know Dream Time, that is something that appeals to you greatly.:smile2:All EBE Beings will accept Human Beings but not with the parasitic Illumined Ones ruling this Earth. Iran is pivotal to elements of the New World Order and People need to awaken to the New Consciousness and not live in fear but in Divine Light and look at themselves.

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Bush And Neocons Beating War Drums For Attack On IranBy Linda S. Heard Online Journal 4th Of April 2004http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4368The lunatics have taken over the asylum. Even as most rational people realize that the invasion of Iraq was oiled on the back of fake pretexts and downright lies, the US and its allies are beating their war drums against Iran, using exactly the same pretexts. The really frightening component is that so many of us are willing to be conned all over again just three years on. A few days ago, I watched the latest “Doha Debate” on BBC World, moderated by Tim Sebastian. The motion was “Iran poses the greatest threat to security in the region," supported by more than 36 percent of the audience. It’s surely mind-boggling that so many consider Iran the greatest threat when it is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and there is absolutely no proof that it is developing nuclear weapons. Conversely, Israel isn’t, though it has at least 200 nuclear warheads pointing at Middle Eastern states, nuclear-armed submarines patrolling the Gulf, and has actually threatened to bomb Iranian nuclear sites, just as it did Iraq’s Osirak reactor in June 1981. One member of the audience, who said he was an American, told the panel that he considered the US posed the greatest threat to the region -- a comment which received hearty applause. It’s hard to believe that just five years ago, Iran was quietly going about its business, opening up, liberalizing and sending positive signals to the international community. Those were the day when CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, award-winning journalist and Washington insider, took us on a sentimental journey to her childhood home and introduced us to some of her more liberal friends. During a Feb. 28, 2000, interview, Amanpour said: “I believe the United States has been very aware of the changes taking place ever since the election of (Mohammed) Khatami, nearly three years ago. “And I believe that Khatami’s interview with me -- the only interview he’s given -- when he extended an olive branch to the United States, was a first step. I believe it is now up to the United States to take a fresh approach to Iran and to come up with significant gestures . . . Whenever I go to Iran, I am overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of people telling me that they, too, wish to have renewed ties with the United States” Around the same time, the BBC’s John Simpson was also reported that young Iranians were excited at the prospect of change. Just a year later, the US duly came up with a significant gesture. But instead of praising Iran for its newly enlightened path, it was included in George Bush’s “Axis of Evil." This, more than anything, proves to me that the Bush administration had no intention of cementing friendly ties with Iran due to a long-held agenda. Since, just like Iraq, Iran can do no right. However, unlike Iraq, which attempted to appease the Security Council by reopening its doors to weapons inspectors in 2002, Iran is flexing its military muscle in the expectation of US or Israeli pre-emptive strikes. It’s becoming clear that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad isn’t prepared to dance a diplomatic tango, as did Saddam Hussein. And, frankly, who can blame him when he looks at the state of Iran’s neighbor, for whom “democracy” has become a dirty, or more accurately, a bloody word. The Iranian government realizes that appeasement won’t necessarily lead to peace and security. It has gone on the offensive apparently recruiting 40,000 human “time bombs” to be used in case of conflict, carrying out massive military exercises in the Gulf and testing long-range near-stealth missiles as well as a high-speed torpedo. Rather less in our face is Western saber rattling. While Condoleezza Rice and her UK counterpart, Jack Straw, are traveling around urging a diplomatic solution, the Daily Telegraph’s defense correspondent Sean Rayment provides an inkling of what’s going on behind closed doors. “The (British) government is to hold secret talks with defense chiefs tomorrow to discuss possible military strikes against Iran,” writes Rayment. “It is believed that an American-led attack, designed to destroy Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear bomb, is ‘inevitable’ if Tehran’s leaders fail to comply with United Nations demands to freeze their uranium enrichment program." This follows on from a report in the Aug. 1, 2005, issue of “The American Conservative," beginning: “In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration that brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran.” The report says a plan drawn up by the Pentagon, on instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney, includes a large-air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical weapons. “Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing -- that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack -- but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.” It is believed that small tactical nuclear weapons might be used -- of the type able to destroy facilities deep underground. Lately, I’ve discussed the possibility of a US strike on Iran with a broad range of experts, Middle East watchers and intellectuals. Almost without exception, they believe such aggression won’t happen, pointing to the lives and treasure the US has already squandered in Iraq and the difficulties in selling a new war to the American public that is becoming ever more jaundiced. Some observers contend the US is merely engaged in a complex game of poker and when push comes to shove would not risk endangering the world’s oil market and pushing up prices to unimaginable heights. Are they right? If any other US administration were in the White House, I might feel the same way. But when you have a born-again president, who believes his wars are Creator-inspired, advised by a bunch of “Israel first” neocon ideologues, and others whose pockets are bulging from war-related defense or reconstruction contracts, then the answer to “will they, or won’t they?” is, sadly, anyone’s guess. Linda S. Heard is a British specialist writer on Middle East affairs. CommentWhile an all out clash between Iran and the West seems increasingly likely, exactly when is wide open to debate. US Forces in Iraq are already stretched to the the limit, so an attack on Iran is unlikely in the immediate future. However, egged on by the neocons, Washington seems intent on confronting Iran. Moreover, with Putin, China and Pakistan lining up with Tehran the likelyhood of a real "Clash Of Civilisations" seems almost inevitable. The billion dollar question is when. This writer believes that direct military confrontation will only occur after 2008 as both sides still need to gather strength for what could develop into World War Three. Along with Professor Henry Makow, this writer believes the critical years will pivot around 2010 to 2012.

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I suggest Hyperspace Healers read this article entitled 'The Iran Plans' by Seymour M. Hersh from the New Yorker. It was published on the 8th Of April 2006:http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4378www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12645.htmThe Consciousness is changing rapidly on Earth and the Victim Mentalities of billions of Human Beings are coming to the surface and become weaker as Self Awareness becomes a key part of Modern Living for many, so the Third World War and Iran may not become such big issues anyway in the future.

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I think Hyperspace Healers at the HCF should visit this amazing and beautiful website where photos of Iran and Iranian People are shown. The Iranians are Human Beings, not rabid Muslims as CNN and NBC would have the World believe. Iranians are very intelligent and educated people. 92 million People live in Iran and the US Military and the Windsor Illuminati are going to attack this amazing country??http://conflictiran.blogspot.com/2006/04/inside-iran-city-life.htmlIranian People are amazing and wonderful and it seems as of 99 Percent think the NWO will not effect them and 92 million Iranians being killed by the Fascist Neocons is just a 'localized problem' and yet soon enough the World Community will see the truth and will have to wake up.

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The Mirror UK: Robo Jet Plan To Strike IranBy Christopher Hughes Security Correspondent The Daily Mirror 10th Of April 2006http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4393www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16926177&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=exclusive--robo-jet-plan-to-strike-iran-name_page.html The Pentagon has secret plans for a "remote control" blitz on Iran if it does not comply with demands to curb its nuclear programme. Dozens of targets, including nuclear complexes deep underground, would be destroyed by bunker-busting Cruise Missiles. And assassinations of key personnel working on the installations are planned using Hellfire Rockets fired from unmanned Predator Planes. The Mirror learned details of the plans yesterday as Foreign Secretary Jack Straw dismissed reports that Iran will be attacked with nuclear weapons by the US. He said: "The idea of a nuclear strike is completely nuts." A British Intelligence Source with close links to US Intelligence also ruled it out. He told the Mirror: "The nuclear option will have been considered among many other options for a strike.

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Is this an invitiation to watch TV in my lazy chair with a case of bottles of beer eating chips and pretzels, while the Israelis explain enthoustically their newest human and environment friendly nuclear weapons just throwing them on Iran, at CNN ?

That will be difficult to combine with the coming Soccer World Championship in Germany.

So, this likely will be the biggest reason there will be no any war in the coming months. :ninja:

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Iran's AIDS Prevention Program Among Worlds Most ProgressiveBy Hannah Allam13th Of April 2006Knight Ridder Newspapershttp://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14336567.htmHANNAH ALLAM, KRTTEHRAN, Iran - It took 30 meetings just to create a slim AIDS-awareness handbook for Iran's conservative high schools. A drawing of a condom disappeared early on; a photo of a syringe survived. A mention of sexual transmission was approved, but only with a reminder that sex before marriage is forbidden. Even after the government's wordsmiths were satisfied, AIDS workers in Tehran had to take the book south to the holy city of Qom, the spiritual center of Iran's all-powerful clergy. To everyone's surprise, the clerics endorsed it. Iran's fight against the spread of HIV hinges on a delicate give-and-take between activists who talk frankly about sex and drugs and the ruling ayatollahs, who fiercely protect the Islamic Republic's puritan image. The combination has made Iran the Middle East leader in preventing HIV and AIDS. The country's program, which melds deep-rooted religious values with cutting-edge research, is being exported to Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Pakistan and other Muslim nations. "I told my colleagues in the United Arab Emirates, `You're not more rigid than us. We're the only country in the world where it's the law to wear a head scarf, where it's a pure Islamic government, where you can't drink,'" said Dr. Arash Alaei, one of Iran's most respected AIDS researchers. "`If we have a prevention program, why don't you?'" In a region where other Muslim governments ignore the epidemic, quarantine HIV-infected people or preach abstinence as the only solution, Iran's approach is especially remarkable. It still doles out floggings to Iranians caught with alcohol, but it gives clean syringes and methadone treatment to heroin addicts. Health workers pass out condoms to prostitutes. Government clinics in every region offer free HIV testing, counseling and treatment. A state-backed magazine just began a monthly column that profiles HIV-positive Iranians, and last year the postal service unveiled a stamp emblazoned with a red ribbon for AIDS awareness. This year the government will devote an estimated $30 million to the program. One of Iran's most acclaimed advances comes from its notoriously secretive network of prisons, where hundreds of drug-addicted inmates sometimes share the same makeshift syringe to inject heroin smuggled in by guards or visiting relatives. In a startling acknowledgment of sex and drugs even in its most closely guarded quarters, the Tehran administration has made condoms and needles available in detention centers across the country. "Iran now has one of the best prison programs for HIV in not just the region, but in the world," said Dr. Hamid Setayesh, the coordinator for the U.N. AIDS office in Tehran. "They're passing out condoms and syringes in prisons. This is unbelievable. In the whole world, there aren't more than six or seven countries doing that." Iran's national response still faces obstacles, especially when it comes to reducing the shame and isolation that HIV-infected Iranians endure. The government reports 12,000 people with HIV; health workers say the real figure is closer to 70,000. Many HIV-positive Iranians are reluctant to tell relatives and co-workers about their diagnosis, fearful they'll be cast out of their homes or fired from their jobs. But the program's architects are turning to the clergy for help in combating the stigma of a disease that's inextricably linked to sex in the minds of many Muslims. A year ago, Setayesh sent questionnaires to the most influential Shiite Muslim clerics to elicit their views on condom use, government's role in AIDS prevention and how society should deal with HIV-infected Iranians. He received 17 handwritten responses, nearly all in favor of the government's efforts. The U.N. AIDS office plans to compile them into a book to be distributed at mosques. "You should not discriminate against these people," one mullah wrote. "You have no excuse not to use condoms," another responded. "You should pay for this from the public funds of the government," an ayatollah ordered. Iran's first reported HIV infection came in 1987, when a hemophiliac child tested positive after a blood transfusion. The government formed a national committee, but it wasn't until nearly a decade later that it began to take prevention seriously, said Alaei, one of the pioneers of Iranian AIDS research. In 1997, the government tested for the virus among high-risk populations such as prisoners, truck drivers and patients with other infectious diseases. The highest rate of infection was in Iran's prisons, one of which was in Alei's hometown of Kermanshah, northwest of Tehran. Alaei was startled to learn that 400 cases had been detected there. In 1999 he and his brother, Kamiar, had just finished their medical studies. They persuaded the nervous director of a local medical school to give them space for research. "We had one room, the files of 400 infected prisoners and one office worker. We couldn't even have a sign on the door," Alaei recalled. "It was top secret." The Alaei brothers used the prison files to scour the city for HIV-positive convicts and their families. After the government-testing program had confirmed the infections, he said, most of the men received no care or counseling. By the time Alaei tracked them down, 176 of the 400 already were dead. Most had committed suicide. "If they were released, their families had disowned them. In jail, other prisoners avoided them and prison workers who didn't know about transmission just kept them in one room and rolled in a food cart for their meals," Alaei said. "When we shook hands with them, they cried. Before that, everyone had rejected them." When Kermanshah's representative in Parliament asked the government to build an AIDS hospital, residents ransacked his office. Alaei said they were terrified that an AIDS facility in their city would turn the country against them, making them the butt of jokes and limiting their children's chances for marriage. The legislator lost his seat in the next election. Then the wives of Kermanshah's addicts began testing HIV-positive, 35 in the first year alone. Next came the children. The families were terrified. Opposition to an HIV clinic dried up. With community and government backing, the Alaei brothers soon expanded their operation to two rooms, then the entire floor of the medical school and, finally, to cities throughout Iran. The World Health Organization named Alaei's clinics the best-practice model for the Middle East and North Africa. "Paying attention to the programs and progress of the developed countries is very good," Alaei said. "But you should never forget to base your program on your own society, your own demographics, your own religion and culture." With the election last summer of the ultraconservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, many AIDS workers feared a rollback of their hard-won progress. Indeed, some new Cabinet members expressed disapproval of the national campaign's growing boldness in addressing the sexual transmission of HIV. Ahmadinejad's health minister told a news conference that AIDS wasn't a priority for the government. The education minister stopped the printing of pamphlets for young students, saying they needed revisions, Setayesh said. Another government official told Alaei that the red handbook he'd worked so hard to publish was embarrassing to Iran's image. It was uncertain whether distribution would continue. Then Iran's characteristically unpredictable president surprised AIDS workers at a governmental meeting on the intertwined problems of opiate addiction and HIV by coming out in favor of distributing methadone. AIDS-prevention specialists admit they can't know whether that remark signals that Iran's program won't be scaled back, but researcher Alaei, for one, says he's optimistic that progress will continue. "Four years ago, if you talked about condoms, you couldn't go on the air," he said, referring to state-run television. "This year, they said, `You are free to say what you like.' I just kept saying, `Use condoms. Use condoms. Use condoms.'"

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Iran Rejects Abandoning EnrichmentBy Christian Oliver 29th Of April 2006Reutershttp://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4452 Iran on Saturday refused to stop uranium enrichment after a U.N. report said it had done little or nothing to prove it was not developing nuclear arms. Instead, it repeated a long-standing offer to let international inspectors make unannounced checks as long as the U.N. Security Council -- invoked by the West several months ago to put pressure on Iran -- dropped the case. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), delivered a report on Friday saying U.N. checks in Iran had been hampered and Tehran had rebuffed requests to stop making nuclear fuel. Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, told state television that Iran wanted the Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions, to pass the case back down to the IAEA. "If the case returns to the agency again, we will begin the section that concerns the Additional Protocol," Saeedi said. The Additional Protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty allows short-notice inspections of nuclear facilities. "The enrichment will continue. But ... we will continue implementing the Additional Protocol as a voluntary measure," Saeedi said. "If they change their decision and choose the wise path, and the case returns to the IAEA, we believe we can solve all the issues mentioned in ElBaradei's eight-page report very quickly." Gaps in Knowledge Iran insists it is merely using its sovereign right to enrich uranium at a low level to fuel power stations -- and not aiming for the highly enriched form that could power a warhead. The major world powers say it must first prove, after years of secret nuclear research, that it is not developing a nuclear bomb, and it can only do this by halting all nuclear enrichment. ElBaradei's report said the IAEA was "unable to make progress in its efforts to provide assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran". "The existing gaps in knowledge continue to be a matter of concern," it added. "Any progress in that regard requires full transparency and active cooperation by Iran. These transparency measures are not yet forthcoming." Western diplomats at the United Nations in New York have said they plan to introduce a resolution to the Security Council within a week giving legal force to the Council's demands. The United States, backed by Britain and France, support limited sanctions but the other two veto-wielding permanent Council members, Russia and China, are more guarded. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki on Saturday to suspend enriching uranium and ensure full-scale cooperation with the IAEA. "The Russian side reiterated there is an urgent need for Iran to take concrete steps to restore trust in its nuclear program," Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The foreign ministers of the five permanent members will meet, along with Germany, on May 9, the United States said. Red Lines An EU diplomat in Vienna dismissed Saeedi's suggestion of returning to the situation that existed before Western powers carried out their threat to go to the Security Council. "The international community has made very clear what steps Iran is required to take: they are a full suspension of all enrichment-related activity and provision of transparency that is overdue and essential," he said. But China's ambassador to the United Nations, Wang Guangya, told the official Xinhua News Agency in New York on Friday that consideration of sanctions or military measures would not help to resolve the issue. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper he was disappointed by Iran's failure to respond to the United Nations. "We continue to strive for a diplomatic solution. The Security Council is now required to act," he said. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated that Iran would never give up its right to peaceful atomic technology. "That is our red line, and we will never cross it," state television quoted him as saying.

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Mysterious Messiah Code Heralding The Coming Of The One World Leader To Be Unleashed Upon Humanity By Israel 20th Of April 2006By Sorcha Faal http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index899.htmRussian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that the United States has issued its final ultimatum to Iran in Washington DC in an unprecedented ‘face to face’ meeting between President Bush and one of Iran’s top nuclear officials, and as we can read as reported by South Africa’s Dispatch News Service in their article titled "Top Iranian official on mystery US trip as nuke row flares", and which says:"United States calls for strong United Nations action met resistance from Russia and China and open defiance from Tehran as world powers held talks in Moscow yesterday on how to keep Iran’s nuclear programme in check. The appeals came on the back of the US state department confirming that Mohammad Nahavandian, an economics and technology aide to Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, was in Washington. But the department would not say how he got into the country or what he was doing there."There are widespread Middle Eastern allegations about this unprecedented meeting between the United States and Iran in that the Americans have offered to the Iranians the same thing they allegedly offered to the Taliban of Afghanistan prior to the invasion of their nation, and as we can read:"In Afghanistan, the hidden agenda is oil. The Bush Administration held a series of negotiations with the Taliban in early 2001 regarding the trans-Afghan pipeline project. 'At one moment during one of the negotiations, U.S. representatives told the Taliban, 'either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs'". And this is exactly what is happening today in Afghanistan."To the truest intentions of the United States though to unleash their Messianic Vision of the End of Days upon the whole world through their horrific expansion of their Iraq and Afghanistan Wars to one encompassing the Entire World we can read as reported by Russias Kommersant News Service of the despicable actions of the Americans in yesterdays just concluded talks meant to find a way out of World War, and as we can read in that article titled "America Makes Its Pitch to Russia", and which says:"The American delegation is being led by Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, the third-ranked official in the State Department. They arrived in a militant mood. Official State Department spokesman Sean McCormack announced before the delegation left that Burns would discuss the need for significant action against Iran, which is to be considered by the UN Security Council on April 28, when the report by International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei presents his report on Iran's fulfillment of the agency's demands. There is no possibility of that report being reassuring to the world community. Last week, ElBaradei made a last-ditch effort during a visit to that country to convince Iranian authorities to stop their work on enriching uranium and reach an agreement with the world community. Iran rejected even the possibility of compromising.McCormack stated that, during Burns' visit to Moscow, the application of article 7 of the UN Charter (the use of force approved by the Security Council), freezing Iranian assets and limiting the travel of Iranian officials and other measures would be discussed. He also said that those or other measures could be taken against Iran by the United States or European Union independently of the UN Security..."Washington is making it ever more unambiguously clear that the summit's success may depend on Russia's further position on Iran. Washington is making it clear that Moscow can avoid questions about democracy, freedom of speech and other subjects it finds unpleasant only by giving up its support of the Iranian regime."As outrage spread throughout the Kremlin yesterday in light of the Americans disregard for all International norms, and its infantile threats against the Russian people, President Putin ordered our Foreign Ministry to lodge the strongest of protests with the United States, especially their barbaric calling for more terrorist actions against the Russian peoples, and as we can read as reported by Russias RIA Novosti News Service in their article titled "Russia says seminar in U.S. "urged new terrorist attacks", and which says:"The Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador in Moscow Tuesday to hand him a note of protest against a seminar in Washington which it said called for new terrorist attacks in Russia. "The organization of such events in the United States contradicts the country's international obligations in the sphere of counter-terrorism," the ministry said."But to the greatest fear of the World today should go towards the unleashing upon us all the ancient writings of Ukraine’s Rabbi Nachman by the State of Israel in concert with the United States paving the way for their ‘One World Ruler’, but whom many know is to be the king of all darkness, and as we can read as reported by Israel’s Haaretz News Service in their article titled "The Messiah Code", and which says:"For 200 years, a mysterious manuscript dictated by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav to his two closest disciples has been a closely guarded secret within Bratslav Hasidism. Encoded in abbreviations, hints and acronyms, Bratslav tradition says that only one person in each generation has been handed the key to the manuscript's true meaning. Called the Megilat Setarim, the scroll of secrets, the manuscript's subject and theme is nothing less than the ultimate Jewish enigma and one of Judaism's paramount obsessions: the nature and identity of the Messiah - and even perhaps the exact timing of his arrival. But secrets have a way of emerging from obscurity in the postmodern era. Within the next few months, the manuscript, its code at least partially deciphered by Dr. Zvi Mark, 43, a scholar of Hasidism who teaches at Bar-Ilan University and is a researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute, will be published by Bar-Ilan University Press. While some Bratslaver Hasidim oppose its publication, Mark, to his surprise, has had the cooperation and quiet encouragement of some prominent Bratslav Hasidim in acquiring and interpreting the secret manuscript. "The world is thirsty for the words of our Master," one Bratslav scholar told Mark - hinting that the immense popularity Rabbi Nachman's path has attained during the last decade may signal that the time for hiding is over. "Our master, Rabbi Nachman, told us not to make it public, so we, as Bratslav Hasidim, cannot," another prominent leader said. "But apparently in the heavens, it has been determined that it is already the time for revelation."Rabbi Nachman, whose teachings are widely considered among the most profound, original and poetic of any in the Jewish tradition, believed he was blazing a new path in Judaism, and he saw this path in a messianic context: "My fire," he is quoted as having said, "will burn until the coming of the Messiah." At the time of the birth of his son Shlomo Efraim, Rabbi Nachman apparently believed that the coming of the Messiah was imminent and that his infant son might fill the role of the redeemer, or would at least play a role in the drama of redemption. After his son died, at the age of one year and two months, Rebbe Nachman told his close followers that he had known, up until now, the exact date the Messiah was set to appear, but that now the Messiah's advent had been postponed by at least a hundred years. A few months later, on the fifth of Av in 1806, Rebbe Nachman revealed the prophecy, or "vision" encoded in the Megilat Setarim. In his posthumously published memoirs, Rabbi Natan of Nemerov, Rebbe Nachman's most devoted and important disciple, describes hearing the teachings recorded in the Megilat Setarim during a carriage ride between Medvedivka and Tzherin, two cities in Ukraine. As Rabbi Natan and another close disciple, Rabbi Naftali, listened in rapt attention, Rabbi Nachman began to speak of the coming of the Messiah. Several other men were present as well, including one of Rebbe Nachman's sons in law, but strangely, they could afterward not recall more than a few words of what their master had said. For over two hours, Rabbi Nachman spoke about "The entire order of the coming of the righteous redeemer ... matters which had never been heard before in the world at all." Much of what Rabbi Nachman said, Rabbi Natan writes in his memoirs, was forgotten by the two men immediately. But Rabbi Natan did manage to write down "in hints, in acronyms and abbreviations" much of the substance of his master's prophetic words. According to Rebbe Natan, Rebbe Nachman did not link his vision to a specific time. "When will this all come about?" the two men asked their teacher. Rebbe Nachman answered obliquely, evasively: "Just the telling of these things is a very great thing", he said. "That we should be able to converse in this world about matters that until now were hidden away in chambers within chambers." Rabbi Nachman ordered the two men not to repeat what they had heard, not to copy the manuscript, even though it was written in code, and certainly not to publish it. Three years later, in 1809, Rabbi Nachman repeated, to the same two men, essentially the same messianic vision he had articulated before. Again Reb Natan recorded his words. The two versions, recorded together on the same manuscript, are what came to be called Megilat Setarim, the scroll of secrets. The plot continues to thicken after Rabbi Natan's death. In a note attached as an addendum to Rabbi Natan's words, the posthumous editor of Rabbi Natan's memoirs writes: "After Rabbi Natan's death ... the holy manuscript of Megilat Setarim was stolen and lost, and we still don't know where it is. Woe! What a shame for that which has been lost and is not to be found." Yet the manuscript was not lost - the claim that it was may have been part of an effort to cover up its continued existence. According to the Siach Sarfay Kodesh, a six volume work of Bratslav oral history first published in the 1980s, the interpretation of the scroll was passed on before Rebbe Naftali's death - Rebbe Natan had died earlier - to Reb Aharon Libvezker, "a very holy man who was born on the knees of Rebbe Nachman." Before he died, Reb Aharon Libvezker passed the secret on to Reb Avraham Hazan, the son of Reb Nakhman of Tolzhin, a close disciple of Rebbe Natan. Hazan, also known as Reb Avraham b'Reb Nachman, is a legendary figure in Bratslav circles - and one of the two major conduits through which Bratslav Hasidism emerged out of Eastern Europe and reached Israel and beyond. Hazan, in many ways, fit the classic stereotype of the intense, ascetic and eccentric Bratslaver Hasid. According to Siach Sarfay Kodesh, Hazan was visited as he lay mortally ill in Uman (where Rabbi Nachman lived the last two years of his life and where he is buried) by Tzirel, the daughter of Reb Aharon Libvezker, who had bequeathed the Megilat Setarim code to Hazan. Tzirel screamed at Hazan, upbraiding him for not having transmitted his secret knowledge to the next generation, but it was too late. Hazan had already lost the power of speech and died, according to this account, without passing on the key to the code. Yet the idea that Hazan was the last to know the true interpretation of the Megilat Setarim - or even that he was the only person in his generation who did know - may be another Bratslav attempt at protection and concealment. The scroll itself eventually reached Jerusalem in 1963, when it was entrusted to Rabbi Gedaliah Fleer, then 23, a Bratslav Hasid from Brooklyn, by Rabbi Michael Dorfman, a Bratslav Hasid living in Moscow. Fleer, with Dorfman's help, had braved the Soviet Union's fierce hostility to Judaism and their ban on religious pilgrimage, and had become the first Western Hasid to reach Uman in the postwar period. Constantly threatened by the KGB, Dorfman and the handful of other Bratslav Hasidim who remained behind the Iron Curtain felt that their survival as a community was in grave danger. As Fleer was preparing to leave, Dorfman passed him a handwritten book which he feared the Soviets might some day seize. The book contained various esoteric Bratslav writings, including a manuscript handwritten by Reb Alter Tepliker, an important 19th century Bratslav figure, who said it had been "Copied letter by letter from Rabbi Natan's handwriting," and that it told "The whole order of the coming of the Righteous redeemer." The elusive Megilat Setarim had been found. Fleer, as well as Dorfman, trace their spiritual lineage to the other major conduit through which Bratslav Hasidism reached the West - Reb Avraham Sternharz, who escaped the Soviet Union for Jerusalem in 1940, where he lived until his death in 1955. Now 66 years old and living in Jerusalem, Fleer told Haaretz that soon after reaching Jerusalem he had shown the manuscript to another disciple of Sternharz, Rebbe Hirsch Leib Lippel. Lippel teased Fleer with a question. "Do you know how to read it? I do." Lippel told Fleer that Sternharz, considered by his disciples as at least as great an authority on Bratslav Hasidism as Avraham Hazan, and as a great-grandson of Rabbi Natan privy to intimate family traditions, had decoded the manuscript for him one winter night in Ukraine. "I asked Lippel to let me in on the secret," Fleer said, "but he claimed that he was old and sick and had forgotten everything." But that, too, proved to be camouflage. A few weeks later, Lippel changed his mind. "'If God put the scroll in your hands,' Fleer says that Lippel told him, 'I guess he meant for you to know what it says.'" He invited Fleer and two other Bratslav Hasidim to his home that evening and read the manuscript through, forbidding the men to record or take notes. "Every one of the abbreviations and acronyms fit," Fleer says today. "He definitely knew the secret of how to read it." Fleer distributed photocopies of the encoded manuscript to several people within the Bratslav community, but kept judiciously silent about what the scroll actually said. Fast forward to 30 years later, when a Bratslav Hasid let slip in a conversation with Zvi Mark, a graduate of religious Zionist yeshivot and an academic researcher of kabbala and Hebrew Literature, that he had seen a copy of the mysterious Megilat Setarim. Mark was intrigued, though he got no closer to the scroll through that Hasid. Earlier researchers into Bratslav Hasidism had mentioned esoteric writings that were in the possession of the elders of the Bratslav community. Two of them, Yosef Weiss and Yehuda Leibes, had posited that the writings, which included two stories - "Story of the Bread" and "Story of the Armor" told by Rabbi Nachman, along with the Megilat Setarim - had been suppressed because they were connected with Sabbateanism, the 17th century messianic movement whose aftershocks traumatized Judaism for decades and perhaps centuries. "It is not that these researchers thought that Rebbe Nachman was a Sabbatean," Mark says, "but that in order to spiritually battle Sabbateanism he veered close to Sabbatean ideas, and this had to be kept secret." Part of Mark's interest in Bratslav's esoteric writings, besides his interest in the mystical and visionary side of Rebbe Nachman, has been his desire to prove that their concealment had nothing to do with Sabbateanism. "In the wake of Gershom Scholem, Sabbateanism became like the joker in a deck of cards," Mark says. "Whenever there was a mystery, the answer in academia was always 'Sabbateanism'." Working partly as a detective, partly as an anthropologist, and partly as a scholar, Mark began to piece together and analyze esoteric Bratslav writings that were already beginning to emerge from concealment within the expanding borders of the Bratslav community itself. Since its inception, the community had consisted of a tiny, dedicated band harassed and persecuted by other Hasidic groups, not least because of their insistence on Rabbi Nachman's unique greatness. But over the last decade, Bratslav has become more and more influential in Jewish religious circles. Thousands of Israeli baaley teshuva (newly religious) identify with Bratslav. The pilgrimage to Rebbe Nachman's grave in Uman every Rosh Hashanah has grown to massive proportions. Celebrities like Aryeh Deri have made the trip along with rabbis, kabbalists and entertainers with no previous allegiance to Bratslav. New Bratslav groups, consisting mostly of the newly religious, have emerged, and some of them, challenging the authority of the Bratslav elders, had already begun to publish previously suppressed material, such as the "Story of the Bread" - which tells of Rebbe Nachman's experience of receiving the Torah into his own body and seeing the Ten Commandments emerge from his own mouth. The censored material, it seemed, was not about Sabbatai Zevi, but about Reb Nachman himself, and some within the Bratslav movement felt that in a world that had begun to recognize Rebbe Nachman's greatness there was no further need for concealment. Mark eventually managed to obtain a copy of the Megilat Setarim itself, with the aid of David Asaf, a longtime scholar and bibliographer of Bratslav, and began the difficult work of decoding, aided by Bratslav friends. Mark has not succeeded in decoding every abbreviation in the scroll and admits there may be layers of the scroll that he has not managed to decipher, but he believes that he has a fairly complete picture of the scroll's content. For those expecting a wrathful Messiah who will wreak vengeance on the nations of the world - or a rabbinic Messiah with a white beard - the Messiah of the scroll will come as a disappointment. Rebbe Nachman, on that carriage ride long ago, predicted, instead, a Messiah whose appearance and identity would surprise the world: a Messiah who would begin his messianic mission as a young child. The scroll describes the Messiah's marriage, and his ascension to the throne as emperor while a teenager. The Messiah, according to the scroll, will eventually conquer the world without firing a single shot: his war will be a spiritual battle with a tidal wave of atheism that will have engulfed the world. Rabbi Nachman's messianic vision includes no apocalypse and no mass destruction of evildoers. The Messiah's power will emanate from his genius for healing illness through new kinds of medicines he will synthesize from various compounds, and from his profound originality in the field of music: The Messiah will compose melodies with the power to arouse tremendous yearning and hunger for God. Rabbi Nachman's Messiah is universal: He comes not just to the Jews, but to all nations, and for the good of the whole world."But, not to the ‘good of the whole world’ will this most darkest of World Rulers be, but to its utter and final destruction….as well as for those who will unwittingly follow this most demonic of beings believing all the while its message of peace.Not to peace, true peace, will any of Adams Children see until the path through total World War and catastrophic changes of our entire Earth be walked through, and which has just begun.© April 20, 2006 EU and US all rights reserved.