Wahid Azal

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Wahid Azal (born 1971 in Tehran, Iran) is originally Nima Hazini who is an Australian-Iranian controversialist writer and anti-Bahai polemicist, gnostic/esotericist and self-proclaimed Babi prophet of the age. In 2004 he legally changed his name using the opportunity to declare himself the return of the Bayani holy figure Subh-i-Azal. As a child Azal lived in West Germany and Iran. With his family he left his native land for the United States at the beginning of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. The family subsequently moved to Australia in 1982. In 1989 after completing his high school Azal returned to the United States. He studied at the University of New Mexico and briefly in California. In May 1999 Azal returned to the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia from the east coast of the United States where he has remained ever since. From that time onwards Azal has become notorious as the foremost public antagonist against the main Haifan branch of the Baha'i Faith/Baha'i on the internet[1].

In early 2006 Azal self-published his first among several projected opuses which he entitled Liber Decatriarchia Mystica: Sketchings of the Thirteen Encompassing Spheres of the Tree of Reality and assorted material. In this book he introduces a thirteen sphere cabalistic model of the universe he calls the Tree of Reality [2] and rewrites the Book of Creation/Sefer Yetzirah attributed to Abraham[3]. The remainder of the book contains historical material related to the Bayani gnostic religion to which Azal adheres, albeit Azal's form of Bayani gnosticism is a thoroughly reformed and universalized version of the earlier creed [4]. He calls his approach Bayani Gnostic Universalism [5]. Azal also classes himself a disciple of Henry Corbin as well as an enthusiast of the works of Rene Schwaller de Lubicz, Julius Evola and Rene Guenon. While the politics of the former has sometimes been characterized as rightwing or synarchist, Azal openly places himself on the spectrum with the Green Left and as such has wedded the perspective of theosophical esotericism with Green leftwing social activism in a political philosophy he calls Theophanocracy.

In recent years Wahid Azal has become a public advocate for the use of the Amazonian psychoactive tea known as Ayahuasca under a spiritual and specifically esoteric context [6]. He presently co-heads an Ayahuasca Sufi Order known as the Fatimiya. He also heads the Ecclesia Gnostica Bayani Universalis and is a founding member of the N.U.R. Group.

[edit] External links

• Wahid Azal's website - Wahid Azal's blog/website with links to assorted material
• Fatimiya Sufi Order - Ayahuasca Sufi Order
• Unum Praeternum - Wahid Azal's Myspace
• The 19 Commandments Wahid Azal's 19 Commandments