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Tomas Menes prophesies Dolfuss's death
Identifier
004439
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Thomas Menes was a Spaniard specialising in prophecy. Despite his claim and the claims of others that he had an impressive record of predicting future events, according to Mircea Eliade in Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions: Essays in Comparative Religion, ‘most of his predictions proved erroneous’.
One, however, did not and what marks it out is that the event was very close to the prediction, meaning that there was a high probability - if simulation is the means by which prophecy is made [that is using knowledge of the current state of the universe and working forward using simulation to get to a conclusion] – that all the states in place at the time and the paths and actions so certain that there was a high probability that the event would happen.
If we are indeed governed by the Great Work and there is a definite plan for certain events, then our actions are to a large extent engineered to achieve the desired aim.
In events which were planned to happen we are all puppets.
A description of the experience
The Story of Prophecy - Henry James Forman
Late in the spring of 1934, a Spaniard Tomas Menes... announced that Chancellor Dolfuss of Austrai would die a violent death within three months. The date was May 23rd.
That summer, when the nazis attempted to seize power in Austria, a band of them came upon Dolfuss in a cabinet meeting and assassinated him, after their pleasant custom. That was July 25th - two months and two days after the Madrid prophet's prediction