The Prophet Within
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Copyright © 2010 by Mostafa Panah
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OKTAY Publishing House
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2010913352
ISBN 978-0-9829605-0-9
Printed in the United States of America
First Edition: November 2010
Cover art by Shirin Madani
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The Prophet Within
The Prophet Within is a nostalgic cry of one who has been deceived and kept
separated from one's source of existence. It pictures a world of conspiracies
and oppressions, ruled by a few human and religious lords, where people are
fed up with false knowledge and are kind of metamorphosed to constantly deal with lies. miseries, and superstitions.
In this world a new prophet, Michael, is selected and assigned to deliver the
message of the prophet within to let the people know about the actualities of
the lives they have been living for 1400 years. The date 632 A.D. indicates
the death of prophet Mohammad, the last selected prophet according to The
Koran.
Mostafa Panah takes the readers to a visionary journey showing how this new
prophet gets equipped with the required knowledge to prepare for his
mission. Michael, in his repeated heavenly ascents, guided by Gabriel, witnesses the creations of the cosmos and meets angels and God. The
knowledge exposed to him runs counter to the established beliefs and norms.
People, according to what Gabriel reveals to Michael, can directly connect
to God not by practicing the different man-made principles of religions but
by providing security for themselves and for all the other entities of the universe. Religions are treated as a business manufactured and conducted
by religious lords to enslave people.
Unlike the pervasive beliefs of most religious people, God, in the new prophecy
does not need to be believed in, worshiped, scared of and on top of those He
does not a medium, either, by whom to communicate with His creatures. This
makes quite sense in the context the author is describing. The whole
universe is like one living system whose segments are in constant communication with one another. Humans are not exceptions to be in need
of a medium to connect to the energy fields of God and angels. They only
need to work more on their "self" and increase their level of consciousness.
They will be then connected to the universal consciousness. This brings about
a unity, a oneness between man and universe. The impact of this harmony will be on humans' perceptions, then on their behaviors and later on the realities and their belief systems, which these all will connect them to their source of existence.
Mostafa Panah chooses the genre of fiction, which is a smart choice and
can indirectly transfer all the knowledge required to understand the new prophecy in the form of a story. To achieve this goal, he creates characters,
events, plot1s, point of view and a narrator. He uses "act" not "chapters", with no explanations, to divide his long story in parts. The first few chapters have all the specifications of a good story. The narrator is an observer and his third person point of view is quite objective. The story has a strong suspense to persuade the readers to keep reading, and the characters have their own uniqueness and language. Later, in the story, the narrator changes to an omnipotent person who knows and explains about every thing and do not let the characters develop naturally and use their own words and language. The dialogs exchanged between Michael and his audience is one example. Also the same language and style is used for the emperor and the prophet. Certain key sentences are repeated similarly in different parts of the story, they could be paraphrased to resolve the issue and help the readers not to get bored. The topics discussed in the dialogs between the prophet and his audience are strong enough to have the readers keep reading the
story.
The message of the prophet within is delivered. It could revolutionize the entire world. The ruling lords are eventually defeated and a new emperor,
Cyrus the second from Persia, becomes a big supporter of the prophet.
Yet the insecurity overcomes the world and takes billions of people's lives.
The survivors at Mount Damavand, in Persia, are all prophets whose
high level of self-awareness could protect them to survive the catastrophe.
Is the author promising a new Utopia or Garden of Eden? An average reader,
like me, may ask the author if the world of prophets is going to be a perfect world.
We assume that the survivors at Mount Damavand are all of purified
perceptions and belief systems and are directly connected to the energy fields of God and angels. They do have self control and provide security for themselves and the universe. Are they still humans? If yes, they are
entitled to choose between good and evil as much as they are free to choose their own level of consciousness. It is very likely to have some
prophets , in this Garden of Eden, who choose not to do the good deeds.
Lucifer is still out there and the evil has not been diminished yet. Will the next
generation of lords will rise from prophets? Considering their level of maturity,
the next catastrophe will be much more destructive, and this killing game keeps on going like a natural order.
The realities, either they are heart or mind generated, differ from the
actualities of life. I do not think the author is sending this message that
the evil has been diminished in the world of the prophets. Good deeds cannot be measured or recognized in the absence of evil. Evil cannot and will not be diminished. The self awareness and maturity can help control it and as long as it is controlled, the world will be a safer place to live.
It is hard to justify the unhappy ending of the story. I just wonder if there is
evidence enough, in the end of the story, to support the idea that the
insecurity has increased and led to another catastrophe. The lords have been
defeated earlier in the story and there is a well supported new prophet. The lords had planned to kill billions of people, based on their new world order, to
reduce the world population. They were stopped; however, and Michael did not fail in his mission. Yet the result turned out to be the same.
It is also bothering to hear that only selected people will have the right to survive no matter the lords are controlling the world or the new prophet.
Apart from the unexpected ending of the prophet within, the book has a lot
to teach the readers and is successful to show the roads to knowledge,
understanding , caring, love, humanity and religiosity. Mostafa Panah takes
a mirror up to the world and helps us see what we have been told not to
The book with its ambitious title and the innovative ideas discussed and elaborated within its context and, particularly, with its rich language is worth
reading more than once.
M.Chavoshi
separated from one's source of existence. It pictures a world of conspiracies
and oppressions, ruled by a few human and religious lords, where people are
fed up with false knowledge and are kind of metamorphosed to constantly deal with lies. miseries, and superstitions.
In this world a new prophet, Michael, is selected and assigned to deliver the
message of the prophet within to let the people know about the actualities of
the lives they have been living for 1400 years. The date 632 A.D. indicates
the death of prophet Mohammad, the last selected prophet according to The
Koran.
Mostafa Panah takes the readers to a visionary journey showing how this new
prophet gets equipped with the required knowledge to prepare for his
mission. Michael, in his repeated heavenly ascents, guided by Gabriel, witnesses the creations of the cosmos and meets angels and God. The
knowledge exposed to him runs counter to the established beliefs and norms.
People, according to what Gabriel reveals to Michael, can directly connect
to God not by practicing the different man-made principles of religions but
by providing security for themselves and for all the other entities of the universe. Religions are treated as a business manufactured and conducted
by religious lords to enslave people.
Unlike the pervasive beliefs of most religious people, God, in the new prophecy
does not need to be believed in, worshiped, scared of and on top of those He
does not a medium, either, by whom to communicate with His creatures. This
makes quite sense in the context the author is describing. The whole
universe is like one living system whose segments are in constant communication with one another. Humans are not exceptions to be in need
of a medium to connect to the energy fields of God and angels. They only
need to work more on their "self" and increase their level of consciousness.
They will be then connected to the universal consciousness. This brings about
a unity, a oneness between man and universe. The impact of this harmony will be on humans' perceptions, then on their behaviors and later on the realities and their belief systems, which these all will connect them to their source of existence.
Mostafa Panah chooses the genre of fiction, which is a smart choice and
can indirectly transfer all the knowledge required to understand the new prophecy in the form of a story. To achieve this goal, he creates characters,
events, plot1s, point of view and a narrator. He uses "act" not "chapters", with no explanations, to divide his long story in parts. The first few chapters have all the specifications of a good story. The narrator is an observer and his third person point of view is quite objective. The story has a strong suspense to persuade the readers to keep reading, and the characters have their own uniqueness and language. Later, in the story, the narrator changes to an omnipotent person who knows and explains about every thing and do not let the characters develop naturally and use their own words and language. The dialogs exchanged between Michael and his audience is one example. Also the same language and style is used for the emperor and the prophet. Certain key sentences are repeated similarly in different parts of the story, they could be paraphrased to resolve the issue and help the readers not to get bored. The topics discussed in the dialogs between the prophet and his audience are strong enough to have the readers keep reading the
story.
The message of the prophet within is delivered. It could revolutionize the entire world. The ruling lords are eventually defeated and a new emperor,
Cyrus the second from Persia, becomes a big supporter of the prophet.
Yet the insecurity overcomes the world and takes billions of people's lives.
The survivors at Mount Damavand, in Persia, are all prophets whose
high level of self-awareness could protect them to survive the catastrophe.
Is the author promising a new Utopia or Garden of Eden? An average reader,
like me, may ask the author if the world of prophets is going to be a perfect world.
We assume that the survivors at Mount Damavand are all of purified
perceptions and belief systems and are directly connected to the energy fields of God and angels. They do have self control and provide security for themselves and the universe. Are they still humans? If yes, they are
entitled to choose between good and evil as much as they are free to choose their own level of consciousness. It is very likely to have some
prophets , in this Garden of Eden, who choose not to do the good deeds.
Lucifer is still out there and the evil has not been diminished yet. Will the next
generation of lords will rise from prophets? Considering their level of maturity,
the next catastrophe will be much more destructive, and this killing game keeps on going like a natural order.
The realities, either they are heart or mind generated, differ from the
actualities of life. I do not think the author is sending this message that
the evil has been diminished in the world of the prophets. Good deeds cannot be measured or recognized in the absence of evil. Evil cannot and will not be diminished. The self awareness and maturity can help control it and as long as it is controlled, the world will be a safer place to live.
It is hard to justify the unhappy ending of the story. I just wonder if there is
evidence enough, in the end of the story, to support the idea that the
insecurity has increased and led to another catastrophe. The lords have been
defeated earlier in the story and there is a well supported new prophet. The lords had planned to kill billions of people, based on their new world order, to
reduce the world population. They were stopped; however, and Michael did not fail in his mission. Yet the result turned out to be the same.
It is also bothering to hear that only selected people will have the right to survive no matter the lords are controlling the world or the new prophet.
Apart from the unexpected ending of the prophet within, the book has a lot
to teach the readers and is successful to show the roads to knowledge,
understanding , caring, love, humanity and religiosity. Mostafa Panah takes
a mirror up to the world and helps us see what we have been told not to
The book with its ambitious title and the innovative ideas discussed and elaborated within its context and, particularly, with its rich language is worth
reading more than once.
M.Chavoshi
Meet The Author
Mostafa K. Panah was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1957. He received his Chemical Engineering degree from the
