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THE RIGHT SOLUTION
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Plainer talk than this it is impossible to expect: today we have not ten thousand but ten million instructors in Christ, but alas! not one true 'father' in the gospel!
It only remains to add that the analysis of the Christian religion, as outlined above, is not only systematic, but also scientific in its nature. I have no time to enter into this subject in this short note, but I will point out that the soul is now being recognised as a simple substance (see McDougall's Physiological Psychology). That it is the repository of Knowledge and Happiness has been made clear by me in other works ere this, to which I am content to refer the reader, if he be minded to pursue the subject any further.
It is generally thought that the culmination of the physical sciences was reached in the 19th century, and that the culmination of Psychology will be reached in the 20th. I think this is likely to come true. In any case, I hope that the prediction will be realized; because we shall then have approached an understanding of the nature of the soul, which is the first essential to the understanding of Religion; for, as said by Muhammad, he who knoweth himself knoweth God!'
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I shall conclude this note by quoting from the opinions of certain Muhammadan Dervishes, of whom it may be said that they believed what they practised and practised what they believed, to show that the creed of the Crescent, when properly understood, was in no way different from any other rational religion of the world. My quotations are mostly taken from the highly valuable book of Mr. John P. Brown which is entitled "The Dervishes." Those who wish to study Muslim allegory are referred to Mr. Khaja Khan's useful compilation, known as Studies in Tasawwuf," and to my own works that have already been referred to in these pages. To the reader of the Christian thought I would particularly recommend my brochure "The Glimpses of a Hidden Science in Original Christian Teachings."
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MUHAMMADAN TASAWWUF
1. ".. The seeds of Soofeeism were sown in the time of Adam, germed in that of Noah, budded in that of Abraham, and the fruit commenced to be developed in that of Moses. They reached their maturity in that of Christ and in that of Muhammad produced pure
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