No single person — past, present or future — is the Messiah. But we can help shape a messianic figure by realizing that each of us is one limb of the organism of humanity. The kabbalist Abraham Abulafia saw the messianic age as a "new reality," a time when "each person regards every single human being as a close friend, as one regards each limb of one's body."

Daniel C. Matt, Abraham Abulafia, God & The Big Bang by Daniel C. Matt