@WeilFan420 @rosekhawal @nubianscribes @GabrielSaidR 1/ I hadn't encountered the Rabbinic connection though it certainly resonates with Khezr's Eliatic function as a trans-historical, prophetic prototype heralding a fundamentally *reconciliatory* dimension of experience coalescing, ultimately, as a planetary-saving arrival.
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Copy of tweet: 1/ The green prophetic prototype is an ancient one. The core, transcultural 'transmitter', combining several Quranic, Biblical and ancient mythical heroes, is reckoned to be Khezr, the 'Islamic' prototype of Elijah, the prophetic Green Man of Islam...
@EsmeLKPartridge Transcending and including cultures, religions and *realms*, no less. Indeed, perhaps his revelatory significance as a fundamentally reconciliatory, planetary archetype has never been more clear-cut?
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Copy of tweet: Nick_routledge Nick_routledge and end/ A contemporary Sufi voice notes Khezr/St. George "might well be induced to reappear as the patron saint of modern militant eco-enviromentalism." This trans-cultural, universalist prototype of prophetic earthworker, enfleshes a co-evolutionary helix as the Heaven of Earth. 3:15 PM · Nov 23, 2020