The Descent of the Messiah — Page 176
6 THE DESCENT OF THE MESSIAH [continued] prophecy clearly indicates that people will deny, make Eight years false accusations, and refuse to accept the truth. Thus it ago. came to be. God named me Adam so that the final Adam may resemble the first. A further similarity is that Adam was born a twin, first the male and then the female, which points to the progress of humanity. Like Adam, I was born as a twin, but the girl came first, followed by me, and this order of birth was supposed to represent the end of the human chain. Hence, I am last in the same way that Adam was first. Jesus, the son of Mary, had only one resemblance to Adam in that he was conceived without a father, but this was an imperfect resemblance because he had a mother. I, on the other hand am spiritually with- out a father or a mother, for I have no spiritual mentor who would be like a father, and I am not descended from the Prophet's family, which would be like a mother. I, like Adam, was born as a twin, but Jesus was not. I, like Adam, have been accused of shedding blood, but Jesus was never accused of this. Like Adam, I possess both qualities, those of grace and those of majesty, whereas Jesus possessed only the qualities of grace. Therefore, I am the most perfect manifestation of Adam, while Je- sus was not. Since humanity-according to the cyclic paradigm should end at the very point from which it began, a perfect manifestation of Adam was produced in the Latter Days of humanity to complete the circle of creation. Because God created Adam as a male and a female, He also made me as a male and a female, i. e. a twin, so that the last may bear affinity with the first. Fur- thermore, He did not create me from the family of the Prophet, which would be equivalent to a mother, nor did He provide me with a mentor who would impart spiritu- al teachings to me and be like a spiritual father. It was not necessary that, like Jesus, I too am born without a father, just as it was not essential for the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, to make a serpent 176