Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jewish teachers were impressed by the solemnity of the ceremonies and were pleased when Rabbi Brickner held a question & answer period. Samples: "Do the Jews believe in a Messiah...
...what light is Jesus regarded in the Jewish religion?" The Jews, replied Brickner, believe in a Messianic age, "when there shall be no war, no hatred," rather than in a Messiah, and they think of Jesus as a great teacher...
...jongg, and Jiddu Krishnamurti. The most serious of these was Krishnamurti, a long-haired young Indian seer whom Bernard Shaw once called the most beautiful human being he had ever seen. The Theosophist Annie Besant* had adopted Krishnamurti, and was freely predicting that he would be a new messiah. He was more modest. "I may or may not be the second Christ-I don't know," he once said. "I don't want people to look up to me, to worship me. Most people are dumb, anyway...