Purim, the Feast of Lots, is a joyous Jewish holiday celebrating the victory of the Jews of Persia over the genocidal intentions of Haman the Amalekite, the influential Chief Advisor to King Ahasuerus I of Persia around 350 B.C. Haman's influence was so widespread in Persia, that people were to bow down before him and worship him, as if he were a g-d. When Haman encountered one particular Jewish person, Mordechai, he became furious, when Mordechai refused to bow down and revere him as a sign of his power. Haman then used his persuasive powers to trick the King into signing a law, which would exterminate all the Jews of Persia, in revenge for Mordechai's defiance. He then drew lots to decide the day of the mass extermination. This is the original meaning for Purim, being called the Feast of Lots. Meanwhile, Mordechai had overheard a plan to murder the King, whom a short time later, indirectly learned about the plot against him, but didn't know it was Mordechai, who had found out about the scheme until that evening, when he was read the daily chronicles by his servants. The servants had learned of the plot from Esther, who in turn, was told of it by Mordechai. When the King found out, that it was Mordechai who saved him, he then learned from Esther of Haman's plot to murder the Jews, including herself and Mordechai. The King became angry with Haman, as he realized he was tricked by him, into signing an absolute decree to exterminate all the Jews, and could not change a law, once it was made. However, the King then issued another law, stating that the Jews had a right to defend themselves in such circumstances. The King then commanded that Haman and his 10 sons be hanged from the gallows that Haman had built for Mordechai. The Jews of Persia were saved from the evil aspirations of Haman.

Source: Scroll of Esther. For more information, please consult the Scroll of Esther.

The sudden positive reversal of fortunes, in the end for the Jewish people, symbolize the seeming need for a blending of opposing individual human behaviours, and a wider, and also opposite, collective conscious mentality on the part of the individuals involved, despite their own personal individualities or behaviours. This is connected with spiritual awareness and hence, goodness and evil.

This is a story of faith, responsibility, the idea of oneness, miracles, and the not-so-obvious interaction between the descendents of Jacob (the Jewish people) and Esau (Haman the Amalekite). Purim outlines the sequence of events that symbolize individual spiritual challenges, in the face of overwhelming odds. Everything that occurs is based on different human personality interactions that blur the line, between coincidence and faith, humanness and spirituality, resulting in the simultaneous 'hidden' appearance of an entity or invisible energy source, that appears to represent a unity or oneness, among the more obvious personal individualities of all the characters involved.