True Christian Religion (Chadwick) n. 830

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830. The real Mohammed who wrote the Koran is not to be seen at the present time. I was told that in the earliest times he was set over them, but because he wanted to control everything in their religion as God, he was thrown out of the residence he had below the Roman Catholics and sent down to the right near the south. On one occasion a community of Mohammedans was stirred up by malicious spirits to acknowledge Mohammed as God. In order to quell this revolt Mohammed was brought up from the lower earth and displayed to them, and I too was then able to see him. He looked like the bodily spirits who lack any interior power of perception, his face dark and almost black. I heard him speak the words 'I am your Mohammed,' and shortly afterwards he seemed to sink down again.


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