Last Judgment (Post) (Rogers) n. 80

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80. [79.] I later discovered where the two surrogate Muhammads came from who gained an abode beneath the Christian heaven. One of them, I learned, was born in Saxony, was captured by Algerians, and in Algeria took up the Muslim religion, and becoming a ship captain, after that was captured by the Genoese, and in Genoa accepted the Christian religion. [83.] Being as a consequence attached to both religions, and because he acknowledged the Lord and was impelled by a love of ruling, he was therefore in that place beneath the Christian heaven taken for Muhammad, and he inspired in Muslims the belief that he was in fact Muhammad. He was clever. [Marginal Note] I heard the real Muhammad saying that he acknowledges the Lord as the one and only God, in whom is the Father, who is one with the Father, and that the holy atmosphere emanating from Him is the Divine atmosphere filling the heavens and forming the heavens.


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