In Christianity the supreme evil is known by many names: Lucifer, Satan, the Dragon or the Serpent. Many Christians attach various attributes or characteristics to this being. They call him the adversary, the slanderer and accuser of mortal men and angels. In Buddhism the supreme evil might be known as Mara, the tempter. However, Muslims may call this being, Iblis, a member of a class of supernatural beings who can be either good or evil. It is interesting to note that both Lucifer and Iblis were created with free will and were sinless--if we may use this term--prior to their rebellion.
We in the West are more familiar with the concepts of the Hebrew and Christian Devil, but it is this notion of the Djinn or Genie (from the Arabic, Jinn) we wish to explore for this blog and we promise you; we won't bog you down into religious gobbledygook. Let us proceed.
Most of us have been around long enough to see reruns of the 1960's television show, 'I dream of Jeannie' starring the lovely Barbara Eden or have heard about the tales of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. These little tales were cute and catchy. All of us could lose ourselves in the thought of how wonderful it would be to have a Genie at our disposal to give us any and everything we could possibly imagine. The idea of the Genie has been much maligned and scoffed at but most of us know that there is hidden truth behind the myth and religion. The supernatural is no laughing matter.What happens when a real Genie or malevolent spirit manifests itself in both, our dreams and this physical reality? What do we do then? What happens when these 'smokeless flames of fire' ( as the Qur'an calls them) are intent on wickedness and wreaking havoc in your life? For example, your Croquille Master writers personally know a mother, a son, along with her brother, who moved into a beautifully renovated two-story house. Everyone was excited about this move-in and were pitching in their talents, ie. painting, brushing, scrubbing, to make the house look even more beautiful. The woman was in the bathroom scrubbing the facebowl and noticed that the faucet seemed different than it was when she first began her cleaning. It had elongated itself somehow, but she thought for a moment that this was her imagination and she brushed it off as meaningless. As she continued her cleaning the light switch flip to the off position by itself. She flipped the switch back on and the switch snapped back to the off position. This time, when she attempted to flip the switch on, her hand was met with an invisible force. She felt that an invisible hand, a hand with claws was preventing her from turning the switch on and in stark terror she runs from the bathroom. As she turned back, she saw that the bathroom door had been shredded. She ran down the hall to wake up her son and her brother. Of course, when she woke her brother up to tell him what had happened, he didn't believe her--that is to say, until her brother's beard shot out from his face as if someone was pulling it toward them. " We've got to get out of here!" the woman shouts to the brother and son. They took off down the stairs and are standing in the living room. For some reason, instead of bolting out the front door, the woman felt compelled to pull the drapes--rod and all-- from the patio window. There, floating in mid-air in the lotus position, is a powerful, muscular being. This Djinn or Genie looks humanoid but is everything but human. The sight of it, or him, made them all scream to the top of their lungs. All of us have heard stories like this and most of us have doubted them, despite of our limited understanding of the spiritual and supernatural. But with the advancements of mind technologies, remote viewing, astral projection, channeling, noetic science, interdimensional beings, quantum physics and the ability of group thinking/consciousness, nothing in the realm of the supernatural should surprise any of us--not even the reality of Djinn or the Genie.
