…Commandments or the Eight Commandments of Buddhism for temporal persons or for the words of Christ or for the teachings of Muhammad. All of these teachings of a moral and ethical nature are intended to enrich the individual's realization of universal truths.…

…as persons participate in the mystery that this event signifies. Now, this is not the only event that so signifies. The journey of Muhammad to Mecca or to Jerusalem on the Arizat, that is very important to them. The exams of the elevation of Nirvana of…

…space another interesting point is presented namely that growth has to be according to this ladder of John or this ladder of Muhammad. Evolution is the motion again from the center to the circumference. When all the great energies in the field set aside…

…conspire always to bring about the death of the hero as materialism gave Socrates the cup of hemlock, Christ the cross, and Muhammad the poison of kebab. In every case, the great materialism closing in upon consciousness is a murderer. If it does not…

…it extraordinary ocular hallucinations, causing those who took it to believe that they had been transported into the paradise promised by Muhammad in the Quran. Drugs were used by the Druids And various incenses are frequently referred to. And in one early…

…prophet. For whenever a pious Muslim. Uses the name of the prophet. He always adds. Is equivalent. To this thought. for he says, Muhammad, upon whose name be peace. Let it be so. It is. So be it. And this carries the entire concept, strangely enough, of…

…mankind a higher level of life. We know the great world teachers. We know Buddha and Moses and Confucius and Lao Tzu and Jesus, Muhammad, all the great teachers that have come to serve us. We know that almost all of them have either died martyrs or of…

…perish together. Yet we have not learned and we do not think of these things. Now we can say the same thing for instance of Muhammad. The problem of Muhammad is a rather ticklish one. But if we read in the Quran we say in the words of the prophet…

…have not learned and we do not think of these things. Now we can say the same thing for instance of Muhammad. The problem of Muhammad is a rather ticklish one. But if we read in the Quran we say in the words of the prophet himself who does not…

…countries. And incidentally, when Muhammad's little son, Ibrahim, was a child, he had a Christian nurse that was given to him by Muhammad. The boy did not live to maturity, but all this intolerance was not part of him. part of the victorious caliphate…

…So all the way along you'll find little fragments in the teachings of Confucius, in the teachings of Lazi, of Buddha, of Muhammad, of all these teachers. There have been moralists among them, mystics in most of these groups, who have tried to solve the…

…they rationalize it and do a fairly good job of it. But we all need discipline in our lives. We need to say, as Muhammad is supposed to have said, that there is the 24-inch rule, the day, 24 hours, divided into three eight-hour periods. The first of…

…of people who have warm, happy, healthy lives. So it's sometimes very good in a sense of value to simply remember this thought that Muhammad gave us, namely that had he two coats, he would sell one and buy pink hyacinths for his soul. You have to do…

…Muslim religion which are highly desirable. In substance and essence, it is founded upon a combination of Judaism and Christianity. Muhammad would turn in his grave at the present situation, and yet gradually the rising power of the caliphate has resulted…

…present situation, and yet gradually the rising power of the caliphate has resulted in the submergence of the concepts of Muhammad and the development of the high personal ambitions of political leadership. We therefore now find that the general condition of…

…a very serious matter. Now, what is essentially wrong with the interpretation that modern Iran has given to the teachings of Muhammad? It has allowed them to fall into the hands of individuals who were not actually religiously oriented. They had religious…

…China, Confucius restored the ancient faith. Laozi restored the ancient mystical tradition of the Far East. Buddha reformed Brahmanism. Muhammad attempted a reformation of both Christian and the Jewish beliefs and doctrines. Zoroaster restored the faith of the…

…simply and directly what would happen if we kept on doing the things we are doing now. Buddha would have done the same. Muhammad would have done the same. Each one would have brought to us the reminder that when we depart from integrities, we move…

…cooperation between the body and the person in the body is necessary to energy conservation. We have to plan our lives. I suppose Muhammad was one of the best life planners that we know. He divided the 24-hour rule of the 24-hour of the day, the 24-inch…

…kneeling before the altar of his father, the great fire spirit, killed by a spear thrust into his back. Christ crucified. Muhammad poisoned. All the way. The great teachers, were teaching something that humanity did not want to accept. Something that went…

…it may seem originally Mohammed was very largely influenced by Christianity and Muslimism is a is Christianity in its basic factors. The prophet Muhammad was one who stated in the first line of all but one of the surahs of the Quran that the book was…

…reform a corrupt faith it gradually became the basis of a great corruption in its own right. Little by little, the fact that Muhammad never carried a sword in his life has been overlooked. Never mind what he did, the roles of the great caliphs came to…

…were by no means inferior people. Then we had this very strange thought. Up to that time, up to the time of Muhammad, there was no conflict. with Christianity of any importance but with the Christianity as confronted by Muslimism the great changes began…

…devout Jewish mystic was carried from one region of space to another. ascending to the very footstool of the divine, even as Muhammad is said to have made his night journey upon the lightning flash, the strange monster called Al-Barak. In the twinkling of…

…it was something but a place of merchants and thieves for rough children who came there in faith and belief. And the soul of Muhammad was ascended. And he prayed that some way might be found for him to cleanse Mecca. And Muhammad, as a man, never had…

…And the soul of Muhammad was ascended. And he prayed that some way might be found for him to cleanse Mecca. And Muhammad, as a man, never had any ambitions outside or beyond Arabia. And his principal ambition was the cleansing and the purification of…

…called Judah, in his honor, which means the mountain of the light. and here in prayer and meditation, fasting and self-abnegation, Muhammad asked that the primitive and original religion of mankind, as pure as it had been At that time, the angel Raziel,…

…of space another interesting point is presented namely that growth has to be according to this ladder of John or this ladder of Muhammad evolution is the motion again from the center to the secondary When all the great energies in the field set aside for…

…Stone Moriah on the threshing floor of the ancient Temple of Solomon. And here on the ancient threshing floor of the Jebusites, Muhammad alighted from the mysterious beast that carried him and stood in prayer waiting. And as he prayed, a ladder of silken…

…mysterious beast that carried him and stood in prayer waiting. And as he prayed, a ladder of silken cords fell from heaven. And Muhammad ascended the ladder and passed through each of the seven gates. And at each gate was one of the prophets. And when…

…Muhammad ascended the ladder and passed through each of the seven gates. And at each gate was one of the prophets. And when Muhammad reached the sixth gate, there was Jesus. But of course, in the good terms of the Koran, for the Muslims, only man could…

…taught doesn't seem to bother anyone. It just doesn't seem to annoy. Zoroaster died with an assassin's dagger in his back. Muhammad was poisoned. These things happen to all these teachers. But for some mysterious reason that is hard to explain, names make…

…It's not much talked about, but I think it is worth a lot of thinking. As you probably realize, at the time of Muhammad in the Arabian area, the histories and documents were pretty solidly established. And in the Meccan area where he lived, he was known…

…a proper guide. As we were leaving, he turned to me with a smile and he said, you know, I don't believe that Muhammad could get in here. Everything was tied up in belief, tied up in sanctions, sanctified statements sanctified not by truth, but by the…

…that there was a similar resurgence of mysticism in Islam, following a few centuries after the passing of the Prophet Muhammad. We know desperately and definitely that there was a powerful trend toward mysticism in Christianity. but that this expansion in…

…in the Merkava and carried to heaven without death. And this was the symbol also of Al-Barak, the mysterious creature that carried Muhammad on his night vision to Mecca this symbolism has to do with the creation of this transcendent inner life which is…

…the beginning of time in this world groups of people who have known the facts various terms have been given to them Muhammad recalled these folk people when he spoke of the primordial sages of the world in various religions they appear they represent…

…went into trouble and ceased forever. And so it goes all the way on down. One after another, these things happened. Muhammad poisoned at the Feast of Kaibat. One after another, these great conquerors, Hitler, dead in a bunker in Berlin, Mussolini, dead…

…in the brain. Now we have another parallel that comes to us from the apocryphal writings of Islam. The famous night journey of Muhammad to heaven. He is said to have reached Jerusalem on the back of a mysterious being with a human head and the body…

…the diminishing of reality, as in the case of the descent of Ismail, or the diminishing of illusion, as in the ascent of Muhammad, or the revelation of Saint John. Brought down is the level of ethics, brought down is the practical level of human living.…

…have a time allotment of a day. We'll say 24 hours a day in which two various days. And it says that the prophet Muhammad, the great Muslim leader, divided his day into three parts. One part of which was harassed and reposed. One for the service of…

…exemplified by the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus, by the words of the prophets of ancient Israel, by the wonderful discourse of Muhammad at Mecca, also by the first sermon of Buddha seated at Sarnath along the side of the Indian Road, and in the…

…life of rationality, the individual organizing his affairs, seeking to bring a pattern suitable to his needs upon all of his activities. Muhammad, prophet of Islam, is said to have established a code by which he divided the day into three equal parts, each…

…this, He entered into the state of meditation and transferred his alliance and allegiance from an earthly teacher to the Prophet Muhammad himself. And here he meditated, dreamed, listened, and sat reverently at the feet of the image which he himself had…

…he meditated, dreamed, listened, and sat reverently at the feet of the image which he himself had fashioned. Sensing the presence of Muhammad with every air about him, he finally became one with his Prophet. And when he had united himself with the Prophet,…

…the mystics themselves. The mystics were the true priests of Islam. The mystics are the ones who really sensed what happened to Muhammad in the dark nights on Mount Hira. They realized the strange torture of the prophet's soul. They realized the agony he…

…possible for man to know that everything that he has in his soul, that Allah is great, that there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad. He was the prophet of Allah. This was the wisdom of the desert, but in the hearts of men, not in the books of Allah.…

…this mystical importance. Even in the Quran, and certainly in the apocryphal writings of Islam, there is much to suggest that Muhammad himself was not only a mystic, but was in communication with other mystics. That perhaps even he belonged to this elusive…

…him new keys with which to interpret the secrets of the Quran and new wonder for the mysterious night journey of the Prophet Muhammad through the gates of the seven parts of the universe into the presence of the eternal God all these new matters were…

…In every case, we have 24-hour days. And part of that day, to quote even a character that's not so popular right now, Muhammad says that the 24-inch gauge is the measure of the individual. Three times eight hours makes the 24 hours of the day. These…

…in Babylonia the goddess Ishtar descends through the seven gates to rescue the dying Atas or Adonis the seven different levels like Muhammad climbing the seven rungs that fell from the sky that which led him up to the uppermost and at each of the…

…of these two great systems of knowledge. And she was convinced that this was the eternal teaching. This was the old wisdom which Muhammad trained, might be revealed to him, as he fasted and meditated in the cavern of Mount Ulam. And he might know the…

…nothing but a visual form of entertainment and a waste of time. So all these great inventions are the similar to the story of Muhammad who on one occasion said of a great discovery that has been made that the mountain had given birth to a mouse. the…

…produced, out of its own emergency, the kind of individual who so often arises under such conditions. In this case, Muhammad. Muhammad's life has been written by probably three or four hundred different authors. One of the most interesting detailed accounts…

…by probably three or four hundred different authors. One of the most interesting detailed accounts was given by Carlisle. Muhammad was a man of unknown background, comparatively limited opportunity, living in a comparatively unimportant area from the standpoint…

…most powerful forces in the moral history of mankind. And yet the world has withheld its approbation in the matter of Muhammad more than in any other great leader whose leadership led to a successful termination. Yet actually these same critics and…

…actually these same critics and condemners have had so little to offer in the form of solid evidence. They have been unable to make Muhammad a bad man, no matter how hard they tried. What they have therefore been content to do in most cases is to throw…

…such a miserable foundation that ultimately it had to lead to the Crusade, the next great cycle of the phoenix, 600 years later. Muhammad actually, from all that we can learn about him, both from those who held him in regard and those who would like to…

…or at least had maintained a respectable relationship to contemporary events, there probably would have been no Islamism. For Muhammad distinctly tells us, and the early Muslim historians reiterate it, that what Muhammad was attempting to do was to…

…there probably would have been no Islamism. For Muhammad distinctly tells us, and the early Muslim historians reiterate it, that what Muhammad was attempting to do was to rediscover or restate the twofold doctrine which was the source of his own inspiration.…

…was attempting to do was to rediscover or restate the twofold doctrine which was the source of his own inspiration. Muhammad unhesitatingly acknowledges that his inspiration is derived from Judaism and Christianity, and that is why he cannot and is not…

…be a pagan or a heathen. Judaism, and Christianity are regarded as a group indivisible in essential elements. The reason for Muhammad was the confusion and corruption of the church councils, and the definite belief that he had that these councils have…

…man in an isolated area, Arabia, but no more isolated and no more provincial than that which was the cradle of Christianity. Muhammad had the advantage of the perspective of what had occurred to another faith. He saw many things with the peculiar clarity…

…is no need for anything of this kind. Consider the Muslim situation for just a second. What do we find in the Koran on that? Muhammad says, no one who does not believe that Jesus of Nazareth was a true prophet of the Lord can go to heaven. And that's…

…we get now is the teaching of the victorious caliphate. Those who came after exploited the prophets. It is not proven that Muhammad ever carried a sword in his life. But now comes the victorious ones. Now comes the ones who are building great temporal…

…may be under various names. The same spirit that we call Christ may be called Buddha by somebody else, or might be called Muhammad. We don't say what these people or these beings can be called, but regardless of what they are named, it is their works…

…time when they abused their own privileges. But for the most part, the whole world has not been evil in this sense. When Muhammad went to the caves of Malhiya in order to hope that he might receive the revelation of the original religion of mankind, The…

…him the scarves with the words written in fire upon them. And all of these early writings were a search for one truth. Muhammad cried that in the midst of all the different gods and all the different beliefs, like the tablets on Mars Hill, he wanted…

…disillusion went out into the Gobi Desert, leaving behind a world that never understood him or what he was trying to do. Muhammad was poisoned. Pythagoras was assassinated. Zoroaster had a spear in his back. Those who have loved man most were also most…

…to everyone. Great integrities have been honored in our human culture. Great teachers have our respect. Buddha and Christ, Muhammad, Zoroaster. All of these great teachers have the admiration of mankind. They have given the instructions to those whose…

…and in Chaldea. We also realize that the apocalypse is very similar in its structure to the Muslim vision of the ascent of Muhammad into heaven. The idea is found also in the Kabbalah and in the early mysticism of the Jewish Kabbalists. In any event,…

…So all the way along you'll find little fragments in the teachings of Confucius, in the teachings of Lazi, of Buddha, of Muhammad, of all these teachers. There have been moralists among them, mystics in most of these groups, who have tried to solve the…

…prior to this, the Chinese people venerated the stars and built their great system upon the stars. We know that when Muhammad entered Mecca, and overthrew the idolatry that was there, he was attracting the ancient religion of the Near East, particularly of…

…to the seven churches which are in Asia and the seven golden rungs of the ladder that fell from heaven so that Muhammad could ascend through the gates of the imperium. Man then has this sevenfold mystery within himself. He is ascending through seven…

…and finally out of the grave of materiality, a resurrection, a regeneration, and ascent up a ladder, Jacob's ladder, or the ladder of Muhammad, to ascend as in the vision of St. John on Patmos to the heavenly world that lay above the zodiac. This concept…