Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 246
246 was, therefore necessary that the revivalist or representative of the Holy Prophet appearing at the commencement of this cen- tury, should have come after the name of Christ, for the found- ^ ation of the present evil has been laid by the followers of Christ. ^ It has been disclosed to me in a revelation that the soul of Jesus being informed of the poison with which Christianity affects the spiritual atmosphere, came into motion for. a spiritual re-advent into the world. Having thus come into motion, and finding his own people spreading destruction in the worldj the soul of Jesus required that one resembling him in all points and having the same spirit and character should appear as his representative upon earth, there being such a spiritual likeness between the ^ two that they may be considered as one. So, according to the promise which Almighty God had already made he raised one t/ resembling Jesus and in him was manifested the resolution, character and spirituality of Jesus. He and the Messiah were so closely united as to be considered as being of the same essence. The attractions of Jesus made his heart their habitation and fulfilled their requirement through him. In this sense, therefore his personality was considered as the personality of Christ him- self, for the resolution of Christ was manifested in him and / this manifestation was metaphorically expressed in spiritual language as the second advent of Christ. It is a deep spiritual law that the resolution of some one of the perfect ones who have passed away, is imaged in some living perfect man, and the unity of their ideas makes the connection so strong that the appearance of the latter is looked upon by the former as his own appearance. The person whose soul is thus united with the soul of a past saint becomes, as it were, an instrument for the mani- festation of the will of the latter, and the will of the one is made by Almighty God identical with the will of the other. It short,