🜂 The Center of Power
The Abbasids were Mandaeans.
Not influenced by them.
Not inspired.
They were them.
They carried the Prophet’s name,
but the light in their eyes
came from the southern rivers of Mesopotamia—
from water,
from ink,
from silence.
They took the throne,
but their roots ran deeper—
beneath the caliphate,
in the star-maps,
in the secret priesthood
of the Mandaeans.
They were not conquerors.
They were the ones
who preserved the ancient knowledge
and carried it forward in shadow—
disguised as caliphs,
but still baptized.
The Abbasids were Mandaeans.
And Baghdad was their center.
Not only of power,
but of remembrance.