One day, with Mirza Moneer Zaine – son of Jenab’i’Zaine – interpreting our our conversation, I put this question to the Master. Replied the Master (apparently not answering the question directly to the point):<\/p>\n
“After the year 1917 there is coming a very great catastrophe in the world”.<\/p>\n
Pressing the issue, I followed up with the question:<\/p>\n
“Will it be anything like an earthquake such as the explosion of Kratatowa (which I remembered having heard something about as a small boy) or the Martinique or the Messina disasters?”<\/p>\n
Other disasters were mentioned, to all of which the Master replied:<\/p>\n
“Earthquakes such as these are frequent and will continue to be in the future as they have been in the past, but this great catastrophe of which I speak will be of a scale so much greater than these you mention as not to be comparable with them.”<\/p>\n
Continued He:<\/p>\n
“In the past, there have been great catastrophies that have completely wiped out and effaced whole poeples and civilizations from off the earth; leaving no vestige not trace whatsoever of their existence. Of such a nature will be this great catastrophe that is to come.”<\/p>\n
At this point I asked still another question:<\/p>\n
“Would this be soon after 1917, or in the distant future?”<\/p>\n
To which the Master replied: “Not soon after nor distant.” Here closed the issue; the Master turning the conversation to other matters.<\/p>\n
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