Last Judgment (Chadwick) n. 50

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50. The judgment on the Mohammedans and heathen, which is the subject of this chapter, took place as follows. The Mohammedans were taken from the places where they had gathered in the west bordering the south, by a route which ran around the Christians from the west passing through the north towards the east, and as far as the border with the south. On the journey the wicked were separated from the good. The wicked were cast into marshes and lakes; many too were scattered in a desert which lay beyond. But the good were guided through the east to a spacious land close to the south, and were there given dwellings. The ones who were taken thus far were those who in the world had acknowledged the Lord as the greatest Prophet and as Son of God, believing him sent by the Father to instruct mankind, and who had also lived a moral spiritual life in accordance with their own religion. [2] Most of these, when instructed, accept belief in the Lord and acknowledge Him as being one with the Father. They are also in touch with the Christian heaven by means of an inflow from the Lord; but they do not mix because their religion is a barrier. All of that religion immediately on joining their fellows in the other life start by looking for Mohammed. But he is not to be seen, his place being taken by two others who call themselves Mohammeds. They have been given a central position, below the Christian heaven but towards the left.

The reason for the two substitutes for Mohammed is that after death all of them of whatever religion are first taken to those whom they had favoured in the world, for each person s religion clings to him. But when they realise that they can give them no help, they desert them. For no one can be withdrawn from his religious belief except by first being introduced into it. The whereabouts of Mohammed himself and his nature, as well as the origin of his two substitutes will be dealt with in the book explaining Revelation.* * [This promise was not fulfilled in either the published or the unpublished book on Revelation, but elsewhere; see in particular CONTINUATION ON THE LAST JUDGMENT 68-72.]


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