The Origin of Freemasonry and Knights Templar ... - Lodge Prudentia

FREEMASONRY AND KNIGHTS TEMPLARsword had conquered every city of the land. EvenMecca fell before him, and he threw out the idolsfrom the temple and consecrated it to the worshipof Allah. Acknowledged was he now by the wholepeople as the prophet of God and as their king.His great gift is the Mohammedan Bible, theKoran, a book containing the messagesof theprophet which were collected by his follower, Zeid,from records written on palm leaves, white stones,leather, the shoulder-blades of sheep and camels.Mohammedanism, the religion founded by Mohammed,or Mahomet, teaches, in opposition to thevarious idolatrous religions which it has succeededin superseding, a strong theism (belief in God),essentially the same as taught by Judaism andChristianity, from which it was borrowed. "Thereis no God but God" is the principal tenet in Mohammedandogmatics, and he has created the worldand the immortal soul of man, whose life on earthhe shall judge and reward or punish in a futurestate. But the further development of this idea,especially of the relation between God and mankind,is narrow, fantastic and arbitrary. Beforethe almighty power of Allah the free will of manvanishes; Mohammedanism is fatalism. The Koranacknowledges and encourages polygamy, andit exists in all Mohammedan countries, with all itsdeteriorating and weakening consequences,spiritualand bodily.Ten years after Mohammed had fled from Mecca,he made afrom Medina with forty thou-in the year 632, at the age of sixty-two,pilgrimage thithersand Moslems, and there on a mountain, like Mosesof old,he uttered the last words to the people, ex-126