A few years back, in a "summary" essay on the Adidam Peace Website, Adi Da restated, yet again, his call to be worshipped and served by all beings. He then capped the essay with an array of dark predictions and threats. [Note: Adi Da's peace essay, which was once prominently displayed, is apparently no longer being made available to the casual viewer.]

Reading the essay, I was struck by the fact that if you can put aside the idea of Adi's "First Last and Only" claims, many of the statements make perfect sense -- as appropriate to our relationship to God or to a God-Realized Being.

For example:

My true devotees are free of every kind of seeking--because they have always already Found Me. They are attendant only to real, present self-understanding, and the real, present transcending of separate self--in (and by Means of) real, present devotional Communion with Me. They are committed to the heart-responsive intentional living of life in Real God. They live in the disposition of unqualified relatedness, which is the logic (or Divine Pattern) of Reality and Truth, rather than in the egoic disposition, which is the always limited and dying and separative logic (or indifferent pattern) of "Narcissus" (the self-contracted body-mind of ego-"I").

You can't really fault that kind of statement, as long as "Me" isn't taken in an exclusive sense (e.g, First + Last + Only = Me ®)

Similarly with the following:

My true devotees "create" according to the aesthetic logic of Reality and Truth, and (thus) they turn all of their living into unqualified relatedness and true enjoyment. They constantly remove the effects of separative existence and restore the inherent form of things. They engineer every kind of stability and inherent beauty. They give living human form to My Avatarically Self-Revealed Divine Spiritual Presence of Love-Bliss and Infinite Peace. Their eye is always on the integrity of inherent form, and not on egoically fabricated (and, necessarily, false and exaggerated) notions of artifice. Their sense of form is always integrated, stable, and whole, and always in present-time, rather than gesturing toward some "other" event. They do not presume the present world is merely a symbol for "higher" and "other" things.

However, things start to get a bit dicey as the essay goes on, and it becomes clear that he means to proclaim himself and his religion as unique and superior to all other paths:

Because (and by Means) of My "late-time" (Most Perfect and All-Completing) Avataric Divine Incarnation here, My true devotees (now, and forever hereafter) truly heart-recognize Me (and "Know" Me) to Be the One and Divine "Bright" Person, the One and Non-Separate Self-Condition and Source-Condition of All and all, the One and Indivisible and Indestructible Conscious Light That Is the Reality and the Truth of All and all. Therefore, My true devotees will become and be a "Bright" New Human Order, the Seed whereby I will Generate a truly New Age of sanity and Divine Joy for mankind. That New Age will not be the so-called "new age" of the conventionally religious, or the merely scientific, or the cleverly technological, or even the presumed occult and conventionally Spiritual "evolution" of mankind. Rather, it will be the fundamental Great Age of Real existence, wherein life will be Realized in Truth and in Reality, entirely apart from the adventure that was mankind's great search.

Then the vitriolic belittlement and disparagement of everyone who is not a Daist kicks in:

The so-called "new age" always envisioned by seekers is a spectacular display of ego-made patterns and conditions, a mummery of absurd events that only extends the madness, exploitability, and foolishness of ego-possessed (or self-absorbed and self-directed) mankind (bereft of Real-God-"Knowing", and dissociated from the Authority, the Wisdom, and the Mastery of Real God). Therefore, I have not come to Serve any utopian (or, otherwise, merely social and ego-consoling) "new age"--but I have Come to Call an End to this "late-time", this "dark" epoch of egoic Man, and all the future that would be made of this "civilized" and dreadful pond of history that only reflects "Narcissus" to his own self-enamored eye.

Then follows a most curious statement, which puts the term "God-Man" in the singular, thus seeming to close-off the possibility of "God-Men":

I have Come to Initiate a truly Divine New Age of Real-God-Man, by Means of My forever Divine Self-"Emergence" here and every where in the Cosmic domain. I have Come to Turn mankind (and even all beings, and even the Cosmic All Itself) to My own Avatarically Self-Revealed (and Self-Evidently Divine) Person, the "Bright" Reality and Truth and Self-Condition and Source-Condition of all and All.

Finally, clouds begin to gather and the voice of the Most Perfect and All-Completing Avataric Divine Incarnation turns ominous:

This by-Me-Initiated "Bright" New Age of Real-God-Man must replace (or turn about) the otherwise present-time (and proceeding) trend and destiny of mankind--or else, due to the causes made by the casually destructive force of ego-bound sub-humanity, this mankind-world will suffer like a mind in nightmares (possessed by terrible self-inflicted images, and, likewise, put to awful adventures, made by fear, sorrow, anger, life-depression, and lovelessness). And, if This "Bright" New Age does not soon begin, with Great Force, it may even come about (in this Klik-Klak mummery of ego-minded Man) that the physical human world itself may, by its own hand, suffer the terrible and immensely bewildering humiliation of early dissolution.

Ominous indeed! For all of you who choose not to become Daists, a "mind of nightmares" awaits! Unless the whole world falls down and worships Adi Da, it is going to be subject to the "immensely bewildering humiliation of early dissolution!"

Therefore, just As I Moved and Obliged My own ordinary body-mind to Conform Most Perfectly to Me, I will Shout and Move, with ego-Overwhelming Force (of Love-Instruction and Divinely Self-"Emerging" Blessing-Power), to Move and Oblige "Narcissus" (as every one, and all) to Stand Up from the ego's filth and pond, and (In That love-Stand of the heart's recognition-response to Me) to Consent to My Love-Bliss, and to Be Love-Bliss, In Me, the "Bright" Real-God-Man of the Now and New "Emerging" Age.

Now it becomes clear why he spoke earlier of a "New Age of Real-God-Man" -- he means a New Age of Me ® -- a millenium in which "Adi Da" has become the center and focus of all hopes, dreams, honor, aspirations, worship, submission, you name it!

And I Will Not Be Denied My all-and-All-Liberating Victory in the heart (and in all the world) of Man!

...So, from a call to affirmation of the inherent Divine as the basis of life in this world, we end with the "shout" of a rather angry God who is basically threatening everyone who reads His words -- either you filthy pond-dwellers become "obliged" to Me, or else!

Or else what?

Or else what?