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WHAT DOES THE COUNCIL OF STAR-WATCHERS DOES AND WHO ARE ITS MEMBERS?
The Council of Star-watchers is names so because at the very begin its members were only astrologists. Because of this, people (who mostly didn’t believe the legend’ started to call them ‘star watchers’. The earliest documents that are available about the Council are almost 800 years old, but the Council itself exists much longer than that. Accurate numbers aren’t available.
The Council doesn’t pursue any political goal or any thing like that. The purpose of the Council is simple and clear:
- To predict when the (next) time is when Pyar & Mohabbat will come back to earth,
- To recognize them, and
- Make sure that they get in contact with each other.
These are the main objectives why the Council is brought together at the very begin, but during the time that has/is passed, the Council has earned a fourth objective:
- Investigating all aspects of the legend through archeological resources, investigations and findings, and through astrological and other calculations.
Because of these purposes, the Council doesn’t want and need to be in the spotlights, and till recently many people may not even have heard about it. They just simply pass their knowledge on to their followers, from father to son, from mother to daughter, for more than 1000 years now.
The legend has over a million followers these days and the Council works in different part of the world. The change of the chairmanship in the year 1998 was one of the reasons that the main lodge has moved from Iran to the United Kingdom, so that it has easier access to different recourses. The Council has lodges in the UK, India, Iran, Egypt, US and Canada. It has some smaller lodges in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Morocco, Italy and Germany. The change of the Chairmanship is also one of the reasons that the Council works more openly nowadays. However, change takes a long time and although the new chairman likes to work as open as possible, the other members of the Council do not share his view.
The members of the Council
The Council of Starwatchers has a various members. Some members are archeologist, some are religious scholars, and some others are historians. Some members are for example internationally recognized as archeologist, some others are not, but yet they are experts in ancient languages like Old Persian, Elamitic, Babylonic and Sanskrit. Some members spend their time fully to their membership, and others have a (part-time) job beside their membership. The current composition is as followed:
- 9 astrologists;
- 11 archeologists (who some are not recognized);
- 25 researchers;
- 2 experts in ancient languages;
- 6 Hindu scholars;
- 4 Zoroaster scholars;
- 4 Moslem scholars;
- 8 scholars from the remaining religions;
- 32 supporting staff.
Most of these members don’t like to reveal their name, concerned to be banned from their community or getting fired from their jobs because not everyone believe in the truthfulness of the legend. In some cases (think for example of the religious scholars) they can even get some difficulties from their colleagues who may say that believing in the legend clashes with their religion. Here for the Council has decided not to reveal the name of their members.
How to become a member of the Council of Starwatchers
To become a member of the Council of Starwatchers, one obviously has to believe in the truthfulness of the legend. But believing is not enough. To become a member one has to have a skill which can improve the council in some way. But being a believer and having a skill is still not enough to become a member. The Council (being a resourceful one) will screen the applicant and his/her family, and the background of himself/herself and his/her family. After being screened, the applicant has to prove his/her loyalty through some tests. After all this, and if the applicant seems to be suitable for a membership, he or she become a pupil of one of the members who will teach him of her everything about the legend and about all the findings that has been done through the centuries. When the dean finds the pupil ready (usually after 5 or 6 years), he/she become a full member of the Council.