gs of the Lord Buddha.

"God. There is no God but He, the ever-living, the ever-subsisting. Slumber
seizeth Him not nor sleep. To Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens
and whatsoever is in the earth. Who is he that shall intercede with Him,
save by His permission?"

The Muslim is a fatalist, but this may be due less to the teachings of the
prophet than to the peculiar quality of the Arab nature, which makes him
stake everything, even his own liberty upon the cast of a die.

The leading doctrine of the all-powerfulness of God seems to warrant the
belief in fatalism--belief which offers a stumbling block to all
theologians, all philosophers, all thinkers. If God is omnipotent,
omnipresent, omniscient, how and where and in what manner can be explained
the necessity of individual effort?

This problem is not at all clear to the western mind, and it is equally
obscure to that of the East.

It is said of Mohammed that when asked concerning the doctrine of
"fatalism" he would show more anger than at any other question that could
be put to him. He found it impossible to explain that while all knowledge
was God's, yet the individual was responsible for his own salvation, by
virtue of his good deeds and words. Nevertheless, it is not unlikely that
Mohammed possessed the key to this seeming riddle; but how could it be
possible to speak in a language which was totally incomprehensible to them
of this knowledge--the language of cosmic consciousness?

Like Jesus, who said: "Many things I have to tell you, but you can not bear
(understand) them now," so, we may well believe that Mohammed was
hard-pressed to find language comprehensible to his followers, in which to
explain the all-knowingness and all-powerfulness of God, and at the same
time, not have them fall into the error of the _fatal_ doctrine of
fatalism.

But throughout all his teachings Mohammed's chief concern seemed to be to
draw his people away from their worship of idols, and to this end he laid
constant and repeated emphasis upon the one-ness of God; the all-ness, the
completeness of the one God; always adding "_the Compassionate_, the
Loving."

This constant allusion to the all-ness of God is in line with
all who have attained to cosmic consciousness. Nothing more
impresses the illumined mind, than the fact that the universe is
One--uni--(one)--verse--(song)--one glorious harmony when taken in its
entirety, but when broken up and segregated, and set at var