THE EQUINOX
house and in your heart to your brother Joseph, whom you
sold to the Gentiles.
Because he has become powerful in the land of Egypt
where you sought bread in the days of famine.
And he has remembered his father Jacob, and Benjamin
his young brother, and he pardons you your jealousy, and
embraces you with tears.
Children of true believers, we will sing with you: “There
is no God but God, and Mohammed is His prophet!”
Say with the children of Israel: “There is no God but
God, and Moses is His prophet!”
Say with the Christians: ‘There is no God but God, and
Jesus Christ is His prophet!”
Mohammed is the shadow of Moses. Moses is the fore-
runner of Jesus.
What is a prophet? A representative of humanity seek-
ing God. God is God, and man is the prophet of God, when
he causes us to believe in God.
The Old Testament, the Qur'an, and the Gospel are three
different translations of the same book. As God is one, so
also is the law.
O ideal woman! O reward of the elect! Art thou more
beautiful than Mary?
O Mary, daughter of the East! chaste as pure love, great
as the desire of motherhood, come and teach the children
of Islam the mysteries of Paradise, and the secrets of
beauty!
Invite them to the festival of the new alliance! There,
upon three thrones glittering with precious stones, three
prophets will be seated.
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