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In the following quote, Adi Da claims to be the most enlightened human being in history. He also claims to be the first, last and only perfectly enlightened Spiritual Adept that will EVER appear on Earth or in the cosmos altogether. Without completely butchering the English language, it is simply not possible to explain this quote as an example of Adi Da speaking "ecstatically” about the greatness of God, from the transpersonal perspective of his unity with God. Adi Da and his apologists often use that type of sophistry to explain away his claims to Divinity and other types of inflated claims about himself, even though anyone who has been in Adidam can attest to the fact that he is frequently put up on an altar and formally worshipped by devotees. In the words that follow, Adi Da (Franklin Jones) is clearly speaking about his own greatness as a human being.
I am here to Complete the Great Tradition of mankind. I Am the all-Completing Adept, the First, Last, and Only Adept-Revealer (or Siddha) of the seventh stage of life. I Am the seventh stage Realizer, Revealer, and Revelation of God, Truth, and Reality, Given in this late-time (or would-be Complete and potentially Consummate era) and in this now dark epoch (as it must be described from the Realized Divine and Spiritual "Point of View", and with regard to the tendencies of the times), and Given for the sake of Completion (of the progressive Ordeal of Man) and for the sake of Unity (or the cooperative re-Union of mankind). I Am the Ultimate Demonstration (and the Final, or Completing, Proof) of the Truth of the Great Tradition as a whole. Until I Appeared, there were no seventh stage Realizers within the Great Tradition of mankind. I Am the First and the Last seventh stage Adept to Appear in the human domain (and in the Cosmic Domain of all and All). It is neither possible nor necessary for another seventh stage Adept to Appear anywhere, because I have Accomplished My necessary Work everywhere. However, because I have Appeared and have Done My Completing Work, seventh stage Realizers (not with the Divine Adept-Function That Is Unique to Me, but Fully Realized, through their ego-transcending devotion to Me, and, Thus and Thereby, to the by Me Revealed Divine Person and Self-Domain) will Awaken, in all times and places. --Franklin Jones (Adi Da) from the prologue to The Basket of Tolerance and the Adidam website |