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COMMENTARIES ON
PROPHECIES IN DANIEL
"PERIOD OF INTELLECTUAL
DOMINATION"
In the
book, Commentaries On Prophecies In Daniel, "Period Of
Intellectual Domination," Maitreya explains the
meaning of the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar, and other dreams
and prophecies in the book of
Daniel
in the Bible. This book shows how it is
God's desire to see His
Kingdom come on earth and how He will fulfill this.
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PREFACE
There are three very important prophecies in the
book of Daniel in the
Bible, which will be described in this commentary. From a
prophetic point of view, the events which would happen in the future
were foretold hundreds and thousands of years before and were done
to increase the faith of the faithful and create faith in the
skeptic.
In addition to the spiritual lessons and
importance of the symbols which were used in this book, the main
point to focus on is that these prophecies were revealed to show
how, from about two thousand three hundred years ago, a period of
intellectual development would follow. This is important because in
this period two aspects of human abilities (characteristics) were
developed to their highest. First, the
intellect was
developed, in the sense of understanding the material (scientific
discoveries), social (sociology), and human (psychological) worlds,
and other intellectual knowledge increased. Secondly, the
development of human economical abilities occurred, which increased
the standard of living of man through the stimulation of economical
values, use of money, proper distribution of resources, and the use
and coordination of these resources (material, labor, science, etc.)
toward the betterment of life (business). In fact, the business
and economic understandings can also be categorized as
intellect
directed toward the control of resources. So both of these
characteristics can be viewed as the intellectual development of
man.
These discoveries increased the knowledge and
standard of living of the human and apparently should have increased
man's happiness. But because of their side effects, such as
discrediting the spiritual values of man, a great feeling of
materialism and dry intellectualism (not combined with
intuition) developed in the human.
This part of the effect of the intellectual
discoveries in these prophecies is called "the
little horn." This little horn will dominate humanity for this
long period of time (two thousand three hundred years). The bad side
effects of the intellectualization of the world (undermining the
spiritual values) will dominate the world in this period until the
human consciousness develops to the next step of the evolutionary
development, which is
intuition and
understanding the spirit behind all the dry intellectual knowledge.
That is, nothing is bad in this universe. Things
become
evil or create suffering
when they are not used properly.
Intellect and economy are also not bad or
evil. But they can become that when they are not used toward
human spiritual progress. Then they become a burden on humanity
("little horn").
The point is that when in
Daniel
intellect
or economy (business) is described as that which fought with the
Saints and destroyed spiritual truth, it refers to this bad side of
them. Otherwise, when
intellect is combined
with
intuition (spiritual
understandings) and economy (use of resources on earth) for creating
comfort for all to progress physically, mentally, and spiritually,
then they both become blessings.
If they are not spiritualized, the
intellect
becomes dry, inflexible, and loses its common sense, and economy
becomes a constant struggle to cope with a speedy life unsuited for
human psychology. These bad aspects of the intellectualized world
(which is Maya) are also
symbolized as "the
little book" in The Revelation chapter 10, which in the
beginning seems sweet as honey, but it makes the life dry and
bitter, "it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy
mouth sweet as honey" (Rev. 10:9).
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