From: dalehusband@gmail.com   
      
   The book is titled LIBER DECATRIARCHIA MYSTICA. I just recieved a copy of it   
   from a friend and I'd like to share some of its contents for the sake of   
   critical discussion.   
      
   It includes a definition and explanation of Bayani teachings, so I will start   
   with that.   
      
   Starting on page 195, we read:   
      
       {{{To begin, Bábism or the Bayání gnostic faith should be considered   
   Iran’s foremost experience of a surviving revolutionary gnostic post-Islamic   
   messianism originating in the mid-nineteenth century. It was the culmination   
   of all the high    
   gnostic as well as chiliastic-millenarian currents in the Iranian milieu of   
   heterodox Shi’ite Islam. At the young age of twenty-four, it was formally   
   inaugurated on May 23, 1844, by Siyyid ‘Alí Muhammad Shírází, the   
   Essence of the Seven Letters,    
   the Báb. A scion of the house of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632), he first   
   claimed the station of Remembrance (dhikr), then the Gate of God   
   (báb’ullah), then the Islamic messiah (mahdí) and Twelfth Imam (qá’im)   
   in person, and finally in 1848 that    
   of a new theophany (zuhúr) altogether come to abrogate the dispensational   
   aeon (kawr) of Islam and usher in the dispensational aeon of the Bayán   
   (exposition). From the time of his declaration in Shíráz to his execution in   
   the city of Tabríz on July    
   1850 only six years transpired. But in these six years his vision and charisma   
   turned Iran upside down, nearly succeeding in toppling the ruling Qájár   
   dynasty as well as the clerics together. Alas, would that he had succeeded,   
   since if he had the    
   geopolitical situation of the planet would be very different today!   
   Twenty-thousand people combined alone perished in the Bábí uprisings at   
   Shaykh Tabarsi, Nayríz I & II, Zanján and the Tehran pogrom between the   
   years 1848-52. There are some    
   estimates that place well over a third of Iran's population from 1844 to 1852   
   as either professing Bábism or being fellow travellers of one sort or   
   another. Some like Maceoin have disputed such specific figures. But whatever   
   the actual numbers, all    
   indications are that a very large percentage of the urban literate and   
   semiliterate population of Iran where somehow involved, if even briefly.}}}   
      
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