Afghanistan, Secret Doctrines and Bhavishya Purana

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In 1879 a revolt in the Egyptian army was suppressed. Two years later

Colonel Ahmed Arabi,with the support of some army officers and

religious leaders, took arms against the British interference in

Egyptian affairs. In London, Gladestone Ministry decided to send an

army to destroy "Arabi's war of liberation". In September 1882,

Wolseley, the Adjutant General of the Army, met a tough resistance at

the battle of Tal-el-Kabir, about halfway between the Suez canal and

Cairo. However the British forces carried the day and Arabi was

transported to Sychelles. In 1883 British secured control of Egypt and

continued its colonial occupation despite the fact that it was part of

the Turkish Empire.

 

During Arabi's uprising, there arose in Sudan a

religious leader Al Mahdi (Mohammad Ahmad). He did what no one else

before him had been able to do. He united the tribes and inflicted

series of defeats on Egyptian troops sent to capture him. Soon the

dervishes of the Mahdi of Sudan got complete control of all the Sudan

West of Nile. The British chose Charles Gordon to fight against the

dervishes. Gordon had made a name in China where he crushed the

Taiping Rebellion of a Chinese religious leader who claimed to be the

Prophet of God, the son of God, the Tien Wang, the Celestial King and

the younger brother of Jesus. He like the Mirza failed in his academic

career and turned towards politics. In 1864 Gordon captured Nankin and

crushed the Christ's uprising. In the face of mounting military

pressure from the Mahdi's forces Gordon withdrew garrisons but himself

held on in Khartoum against the British orders until in 1885 the city

was conquered by the followers of the Mahdi of Sudan. He was killed by

the dervishes.

 

In 1896, after a period of ten years, Kitchner started

his expedition to forcibly bring the Sudan under British control . The

Mahdi's war in Sudan excited dangerous fomentation in Arabia and

Syria. The Muslims of India also felt satisfied at the humiliating

defeats of the British forces. They revered and respeated Mahdi of

Sudan, sent him letters and looked to him as a saviour of nations. It

was also a common belief in India that the Mahdi of Sudan might

conquer the whole of Africa and ultimately India. At the time of

compiling the Braheene Ahmadiyya (1880), Mirza believed that Jesus was

alive and would descend from heavens.In 1891 he peoclaimed himself to

be the Promised Messiah through one of his revelations and announced

the natural death of Jesus Christ in his books Fateh Islam,

Tauzih-e-Maram and Azala-e-Auham (1891) He argued that the second

advent of Jesus Chrisit was in fact a coming of another person who

sould have the spiritual characteristics of Jesus Chrst . He held that

Jesus did not die on the cross but escaped and came to India in order

to preach to the descendant of the lost ten Tribes in Afghanistan and

Kashmir Subsequently, he announced that the "tomb" of Jesus had also

been discovered in Srinagar, Kashmir. It was claim that Kashmiris and

Afghans were the descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.

 

The main thrust of the whole theory is on the assumption that in 721 BC

Ten Tribes of Israel were lost and settled in Eastern countries,

specially in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Had there been no `colonization'

of Jews in those countries, Jesus would not have taken such a long

journey from Palestine to India. All of this then appeared in a

doctored version of the Bhavishya Purana in India mentioned for the

first time in the Secret Doctrine, and later printed in Bombay in 1910

under the order of Maharaja Partap Singh of Kashmir.

Does anyone on the list knows how the above plays a role in relation

to the convictions of the different parties currently in Afghanistan

or/and Kashmir ?

 

Eric