Fatimiya Sufi Order

The Fátimíya Súfí Order is an Iranian Islamicate and Neo-Bayânî universalist-perennialist and initiatic mystery school that weds the central currents of High Shi’ite Islamicate gnosis, Kabbalah, Ayahuasca Shamanism and Hermetic High Paganism within the central experiential grounding of the divine sacrament of Haoma. In the Fátimíya Súfí Order the qutb (pole) and Imám of Imáms is the Feminine Holy Spirit, the Theophany of Fatimah. This animating Feminine Divine Consciousness is considered by the Fatimiya to be the celestial Imam of the Age Fatimah. She is considered both a Divine hypostasis as well as Theophany as Angelophany of the Sophia Aeternae (i.e. Shekina/Sakina) - i.e. that Divine Being whose historical and terrestrial apparition (mazhar) manifested in the form of the daughter of the Prophet of Islam Fatimah Zahra' (d. 632), viz. Fatima Zahra' (the radiant) who in esoteric Shi’ite gnosis stands as the conjunction of the two lights (majma’ al-nurayn) of prophecy (nubuwwa) and providential guidance (wiláya). Being gnostic docetists and Platonic Illuminationists, it is, however, the principle celestial Fatimah - the primordial divine prototype of the terrestrial Who is the Supercelestial Earth of the Divine Realm - that they venerate. She appears to the Fatimiya in the Visionary state as an Angelic Theophany and they hold Her to be the same as the Chief Archangel Metatron (malak al-nún), the First Intellect (‘aql awwal) and Primal Pen (qalam a’lá), thus Creatrix and Kosmocrator (i.e. fátimá fátir). Classical Gnosticism has referred to Her as the Sophia; the Kabbalah as the Shekinah; Zoroastrians as the Archangel(s) Spendarmat or Daena; Tantric Shaivism as the Para- or Maha-Sakti; traditional Amerindian ayahuasqueros as the Sachamama; others with other names; the Fatimiya refer to Her as Fatimah.
The Fátimíya Súfí Order also maintains the Alamutí doctrine of the Imam-of-ones-being (i.e. the messianic secret) - albeit augmented beyond its originary Isma’ili considerations - and as such invites its initiates to explore the multifaceted reality of this Truth through their meditations and personal lives, but, above all, within the sacrament - that is the Celestial Wine (mey) - of Haoma. The Fatimiya believe this doctrine is firmly grounded within the esoteric teachings of the Shi’ite Imams themselves.
The mastery of the occult science of the letters in all its facets (i.e. abjad/jafr or gematria) is an important feature of the teachings of the Order. Additionally the Fatimiya Sufi Order also holds to its own internal esoteric calendar of 13 months and 28 days, known as the N.U.R. calendar: a calendar which inaugurated on the 21st of March 2006 as Year 1 of the N.U.R. era. Gatherings (known as the majlis al-dhikr) occur once every fourteen days, usually on the first and fourteenth days of each N.U.R. month.
The Fatimiya Sufi Order was founded in 2005 by Nima Wahid Azal who is the Grand Shaykh of the Order.
The order and it's founder Nima Wahid Azal have been engaged in a bitter and protracted online political and information war with the Haifan Baha'i organization since he left the organization in 1996. The reason for this is because the Fatimiya Sufi Order claims primary lineal descent from the Twelver Shi'ite post-Islamic gnostic religion of the Bayan that was founded by Siyyid 'Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the Bab (d. 1850), and succeeded by Mirza Yahya Nuri Subh-i-Azal (d. 1912) to which Baha'ism and its founder are claimed to be violent usurpers by the Fatimiya. It is alleged that the founder of Baha'ism initiated his religion by taking over the machinery of the Babi movement, murdering its leaders and defaming its duly appointed successor Subh-i-Azal. This is in bitter dispute by the Baha'i leadership.

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