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When Salome asked when the things would be known that she asked about, the Lord said, "When you have trampled on the garment of shame and when the two become one and the male with the female is neither male nor female."

Gospel of the Egyptians, quoted by Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.13.92

(note: this Greek 1st/2nd CE text is different from the later Coptic text of the same name in the Nag Hammadi Library)

When the two will be one

For the Lord Himself, being asked by a certain person when his
kingdom would come, said, When the two shall be one, and the
outside as the inside, and the male with the female, neither male
or female.

2Clement 12:2 (mid-second century CE)

Iqbal's vision of a new world

Sheikh Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), Urdu poet and Muslim activist who lived in British India, is regarded as one of the great poet-philosophers of Pakistan.

There is a world still lost in our breasts,
A world still awaiting the call of “Arise!”
A world without distinctions of blood and colour,
And whose evening is brighter than the morning of the West;
A world that is purged of sultan and slave,
And is boundless like the believer’s heart;
A lovely world, whose seed was cast
Into ‘Urnar’s soul by just one blessed look
A world eternal, but with ever new adventure
Ever new the products of its Master Principles;
Its interior unafflicted with change,
Its exterior undergoing change every moment.
Such a world is inside you, look!
I will tell you about its Master Principles ...

Source: www.allamaiqbal.com

The Sweet Age

The English-born Irish writer, Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) cooperated with William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) in developing a Joachimist-style doctrine of a forthcoming third age of the Spirit. Based on a famous passage in Joachim of Fiore’s Liber Concordie, Johnson’s poem Vita Venturi Saeculi (1902) concentrates, unusually for this genre, on the sweetness of the third status (age):

Be glad with beauty, white with perfect grace,
Sweet Age to come, whose face
Dawns dimly in our prophesying eyes
Eager with good surmise! …

Sweet Age to come, whose wings are of white fire,
Deny not our desire;
O kingdom of the Spirit, conquering all
Take willing earth in Thrall!
Let green woods wave thee welcome, and blue seas
Laugh welcome, and each breeze
Be sacred incense round thee: peace appear
Through crystal atmosphere,
Impassioned, perdurable, omnipotent;
Given by God, not lent,
Foretaste of Heaven, ere heaven be all in all,
Come to the vexed world’s call; …

Sweet Age to come, declare the doctrine clear;
We wait thee now, wait here!
Sweet Age to come, upon our ready ground
Let lily and rose abound,
With pure supremacy of fragrant state
Sweetening this world of hate,
Which does the wrongs, it knows not, and it knows;
Plant thou thy lily and rose!

One Flock and One Shepherd

Birgitta of Sweden (1303-1373) made this prophecy just before a (nominally) Christian Swedish king led a so-called Crusade against his then non-Christian (‘heathen’) neighbours (he lost). However the prophecy can also be read as refering to a future time, in which the nominally Christian West will learn from the so-called heathens (Indians?) and there will be one flock (Sahaja Yoga) and One Shepherd (Shri Mataji).


Revelations VI:77

The time will come when the heathens will become so pious that the Christians will be like their humble servants, and the Holy Scriptures will be fulfilled, in saying that there shall be one flock and One Shepherd, one faith and one clear knowledge of God.

Then many who were called shall be rejected, but the wilderness shall blossom, and the heathens shall sing, ‘Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost.’