iance, we
find discord, even as the score of a grand operatic composition when
played in unison makes perfect harmony but when incomplete, is
nerve-racking.

Like all inspired teachers, Mohammed taught the end of the world of sense,
and the coming of the day of judgment, and the final reign of peace and
love. This may, of course, be interpreted literally, and applied to a life
other than that which is to be lived on this planet, but it may also with
equal logic be assumed that Mohammed foresaw the dawn of cosmic
consciousness as a race-endowment, belonging to the inheritors of this
sphere called earth. In either event the ultimate is the same, whether the
one who suffers and attains, comes into his own in some plane or place in
the heavens, or whether he becomes at-one with God, The Absolute Love and
Power of the spheres, and "inherits the earth," in the days of the
on-coming higher degree of consciousness, which we are here considering.

That Mohammed realized the nothingness of form and ritual, except it be
accompanied by sincerity and understanding, is evident in the following:

"Your turning your faces _in prayer_, towards the East and the West, is not
piety; but the pious is he who believeth in God, and the last day, and in
the angels and in the Scripture; and the prophets, and who giveth money
notwithstanding his love of it to relations and orphans, and to the needy
and the son of the road, and to the askers for the _freeing of slaves_; and
who performeth prayer and giveth the alms, and those who perform their
covenant when they covenant; and the patient in adversity and affliction
and the time of violence. These are they who have been true; and these are
they who fear God."

Parallel with the doctrine taught by Buddha, and Jesus, is the advice to
overcome evil with good. In our modern metaphysical language, we must
dissolve the vibrations of hate, by the power of love, instead of opposing
hate with hate, war with war, revenge with revenge.

Mohammed expressed this doctrine of non-resistance thus:

"Turn away evil by that which is better; and lo, he, between whom and
thyself was enmity, shall become as though he were a warm friend."

"But none is endowed with this, except those who have been patient and none
is endowed with it, except he who is greatly favored."

Mohammed meant by these words "he who is greatly favored," to explain that
in order to see the wisdom and the glory of such conduct, one must have