1975-August-29

Muhammad Speaks

The Mark Of The Beast

W.D. Muhammad

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"And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered
together to make war against him that sat on the horse and against his army.

"And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles
before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast,
and them that worshipped his image These both were cast alive into a lake of fire
burning with brimstone.

"And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which
sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh."

Revelations 19:19-21
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In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful; Peace and Blessings upon His
Servant and His Messenger, Muhammad, forever. Amen.

As -Salaam �Alaikum

My Dear Brothers and Sisters,

We have been teaching for some time on the significance of the "three" such as the
three wombs of total triple darkness and birth or liberation from these wombs.

No matter what kind of knowledge you investigate, you will find the significance of
the "three" You come into this knowledge first as Creator, creation, and life. The
more you study this, the more you will come to understand that this three - fold
kind of principle is everywhere. It pervades the whole universe.

It is not a separate kind of three - fold principle, that is why the Christians
refer to it as the "three-in-one." On each level that you reach, from the lowest to
the highest, the same principle works. Although it is the same principle, it works
as a three - fold manifestation, a three -fold development, or a three - stage
development.

Pagan Concept Of Universe

The pagans understood this three - fold principle even though they had many gods.
The Greeks worshipped the god Zeus as the creator (the father). The earth
(creation) was worshipped as the mother - god. The force of life (fertility power)
was worshipped in the mother, or earth.

These pagans had a concept of the universe, but their concept was on a baby level.
When you look at the universe, right away you see that there is creation and that
there is life growing out of it. This suggests to the mind that there is something
generating the life out of creation, so that something becomes Creator. This kind
of knowledge is quickly - arrived - at knowledge.
Pagan Mentality

The Gentiles were on this baby - level -kind of knowledge. Knowing this, the Jews
emphasized the "three" and put it all through the Bible. They knew that the
Gentiles would hold on to pagan ideas and would not arrive at the real knowledge
beneath the three - fold principle: Zeus became "God the Father;" creation became
"God in the flesh" (Jesus); and life or life - force, became "the holy spirit." If
we had the time to examine the whole Trinitarian idea, you would see that the image
of the Trinitarian concept is an image given in the mentality of pagan thought.

The Lake Of Fire

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"And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,
where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for
ever and ever."

Revelations 20:10
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The three - fold principle can be seen in the above Bible verse which describes the
lake of fire. The three people mentioned to have their torment in the lake of fire
are Satan the devil, false prophets, and the beast.

The beast is the force of the biological, or the physical.

The false prophets are the spiritual force and that spiritual force is emotional.
Revelations also mentions that the unbelievers will have their part in the lake of
fire, but the unbelievers come under the heading of false prophets.

Although all of these three victims (the beast, false prophets, the devil) are the
same, the highest development of this three - fold principle is the mind. Satan is
the chief of it all and his force is in feeding lies and falsehood to the mind.

The Beast

It is said that in the end of time, the beast will lose his power over buying and
selling. Before that time, the Book says that the beast would allow no one to buy
or sell unless he had the mark of the beast, the name of the beast, or the number
of the beast in his forehead or in his right hand. The beast manifests in the lives
of the people, in their thoughts and in their actions. The Book mentions those that
received the mark of the beast in their forehead and those that received it in
their hands:

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"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I
saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and tor the word
of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had
received his mark upon the foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned
with Christ a thousand years."

Revelations 20:4
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The Forehead And The Hand

The thinking center is in the forehead and the hands are used to cover all the
physical manifestations by outwardly manifesting all actions. These descriptions
represent two classes of people.

Those people who wear the mark of the beast in their forehead might be hypocritical
enough to hide their beast actions and identity. They might be ministers, priests,
or rabbis, doing one thing with their hands and their mouths but thinking another
way in their minds. Their outward manifestations might make people think that they
are with God, but in their thinking the beast is ruling.

Those people who wear the mark of the beast in their hands are not aware that they
are victims of the beast; but their actions tell us that their minds have been
captured. Very few Black Brothers and Sisters have the mark of the beast in their
foreheads, but many are suffering the mark of the beast in their hands.

Jews And Gentiles

This kind of description of the mark of the beast was given by the followers of
Jesus' teachings to show that their religion was being corrupted, taken out of
their hands, and put into the hands of the Jews and the Gentiles. When they
referred to those who received the mark of the beast in their foreheads, they meant
the Jews and the religious order under the Jews. When they referred to those who
received the mark of the beast in their hands, they meant the Gentiles of Europe.

The Gentiles accepted the Bible from the Jews as it was presented to them, but they
did not understand the secrets of the Bible. The Jews gave them the Bible in
symbolic or locked up language, but they didn't help them to unlock it. They knew
that the Gentiles would connect the symbolism with their paganism.

False Prophets

The false prophets have the mark of the beast in their foreheads, but they hide
their actions and only show us those actions that they would like to hide behind.
Prophet only means follower or son. Just as a son takes up his father's work and
follows him, a prophet takes up God's work and follows God. False prophets are
false sons or false followers (unbelievers). True prophets of God are born of the
holy spirit, not of the spirit of the world.

Breath Of Life

Life comes in the world and it first becomes attached to things that are of the
body. The new life in the baby is first attached to milk from the mother's breast
(food). It calls for the physical or biological � more materials to sustain itself.

The breath of life (spirit) that comes in us first is the spirit of the material
world. "Spirit" means the force of life in you, or that which moves you and drives
you.

There are two breaths of life. The second breath of life is the breath that
produces the second form or second development.
"Ye Shall Not Live By Bread Alone"

Although the Church has developed a later meaning for "Eve" in the Bible, the word
Eve originally meant "hot, warm air" or "air in motion." So active, warm air is
called the mother of all living. All plants and animals must have air to live.

The spirit in us that is brought about by physical life is called the first spirit
or the first breath of life. The second breath of life comes in the form of the
Divinely revealed words of God. The Book says that you shall not live by bread
alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

The pagans thought that physical air gave the physical life. It is necessary
because you can't have life without air. They did not mean that the life in us is
only air, it meant that air is a requirement for life. Just as you must have oxygen
before you can have a manifestation of physical life, you must have Divine Truth
before you can have a 'manifestation of Divine life.

God's Prophets And Satan's Prophets

If a person receives the second spirit (breath of life) in the right way, a prophet
or someone in the form of a prophet will be born. He may not grow all the way up to
the highest level of prophethood, but if he breathes the breath of the second
spirit he will go in that direction. If he doesn't breathe on the true words of
God, he breathes on lies. The life that will be manifest in him then will be the
life of the false prophets (liars) and he will be a prophet for Satan. God makes
prophets and Satan makes prophets.

The Book says that Satan the devil was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone.
Satan is never out in the open�he is the one who sits behind the scene and makes
his false prophets. Satan became so skilled in his works that he made something to
represent him in his absence: he grafted the Trinitarian Doctrine, which is the
living image of the chief devil.

The Cockatrice

The Trinitarian Doctrine is the cockatrice bird. Bird symbolizes or is another name
for prophet. The cockatrice is a bird or a prophet that has been artificially
formed by the combination of snake (reptile) and fowl (bird). It has the head of a
reptile and the body of a bird. Trinitarianism (the cockatrice) is a bird that has
three forms in him. In Church language, that is the doctrine of the "three-in-one
god"�the father, the son, and the holy ghost.

Although the original Satan is dead, the people who preach the Trinitarian Doctrine
are doing the work of Satan and keeping his power alive. Even if you prove to these
people that this doctrine is wrong and that it is evil for the society, they are
dedicated to keep it alive because it serves their evil needs.

In the olden days, the people of scripture said that when a certain rooster would
crow and his crowing would strike the cockatrice, the cockatrice would die. Later,
in the Bible, the trumpet is used as the symbol for this same crowing. The Book
says that when the trumpet is blown, the grave will give up the physical dead. Both
sayings mean the same thing. The sound in both sayings is the sound of Truth. When
Truth comes, it strikes the falsehood in the Trinitarian Doctrine and kills it.

When Trinitarianism is killed the devil will be dead. He will never die until it is
dead because his life of unnaturalness, self-destruction, cruelty, murder and rape
is all wrapped up in Trinitarianism. It is designed to keep all these evils alive.
Worst of all, it is designed to keep white supremacy alive.

The Movement Is Complete

The whole world, has been bitten and infected with the poison of the cockatrice
(Trinitarianism). It is part of the mark of the beast. The people of earth are in a
pitiful condition and there is nobody with the power to solve their problems but
the Nation of Islam (the Body-Christ). We are the most blessed people on the face
of the earth.

All religious teaching before this day and time was limited in concept because the
people were limited by continents and continent concepts. Continents no longer hold
people and they have grown into the desire for universal concepts. All movements
from Abraham and before Abraham were moving towards completion or wholeness (the
universe). When Islam dawned upon Arabia it took on the language of universality,
but the world had not yet become one universe.

The Holy Quran came with universal language to condition the peoples' minds to grow
in universal dimensions. Today the movement and the growth is complete. We are here
with the Eternal Truth of Divine Mind to remove the mark of the beast from your
hands and your foreheads and we have the power to kill the Trinitarian poison of
the cockatrice.
Thank you for honoring us with the time to read these few words.

Your Brother,
W.D. Muhammad