CHAPTER XI
MOHAMMED
Despite the fact that the followers of Mohammed, the prophet, are among the
most fanatical and prejudiced of all religious sects, Mohammed himself was
unquestionably among the Illumined Ones of earth, and had attained and
retained a high degree of cosmic consciousness.
The wars; the persecutions; the horrors that have been committed in the
name of Islam, are perhaps a little more atrocious than any in history
although the unspeakable cruelties of the Inquisition would seem to have no
parallel.
The religion of Persia, wrongly alluded to as "fire-worship," marks
Zoroaster as among the Illuminati, but as the present volume is concerned,
in the religious aspect of it, only with those cases of Illumination which
we are classifying among the present great religious systems, we cite the
case of Mohammed, the Arab, as one clearly establishing the characteristic
points of Illumination.
When Mohammed was born, in the early part of the fifth century, the
condition of his countrymen was primitive in the extreme.
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