[whitecrow]

Ah, interesting stuff. I haven't read all the Seth material, but some of it. It strikes me as plausible but not authoritative, and I'm not settled on the nature of the entity that transmitted the data. These quotes are particularly intriguing to me since I have been a Bahá'i. The Bahá'is believe that Baha'u'llah was in fact the second coming of Christ, and this material does little to contradict that...other than the time reference:

Originally Posted by DeeZe

pages 370-371
The third personality, mentioned many times by me, has not in your
terms yet appeared, although his existence has been prophesied as the
"Second Coming".

But the rest of it...

...this Christ will not come at
the end of your world as the prophecies have been maintaining.
...He will...begiin a new religious drama. A certain
historical continuity will be maintained. As happened once before,
however, He will not be generally known for who He is...He will
return to straighten out Christianity, which will be in a shambles at
the time of His arrival, and to set up a new system of thought when
the world is sorely in need of one...The "new" religion
following the Second Coming will not be Christian in your terms,
although the third personality of Christ will initiate it...This personality will refer to the historical Christ, will recognize
His relationship with that personality; but within him the three
personality groupings will form a new psychic entity, a different
psychological gestalt...The results will be a different kind of existence. Many of your
problems now result from spiritual ignorance. No man will look down
upon an individual from another race when he himself recognizes that
his own existence includes such membership also."

I offer this only as food for thought. Pretty much everything in that quote outside the time reference describes Baha'u'llah to a tee. I am NOT a practicing Bahá'i, but my problem is not with the Bahá'i revelation but with the Bahá'i hierarchy. What I have learned about the Faith of God is that ALL organized religion is a trap.

There is only one true religion, and it isn't organized. And it comes in colors, flavors, with different rhythms and keys. It's syncopated, synergistic, synchronistic and psychologically sound. How's that for alliteration?

But if there are messiah figures...and there are...it's legitimate to take a look at 'em. The evolution of Jim Jones from street minister to megalomaniacal sociopath is instructive here. So is the story of Marcus Garvey and, I suspect, the cult of Barack Obama. The point is that the psychology of religion has universalities as plus as many flavors as there are cultures.