The Seal of Prophets - His Personality and Character — Page 5
The Seal of Prophets 5 Renan, Mohammed, the fanatical destroyer of all idolatry, is turned himself into an idol of gold, and, under the name of Mawmet, is reported to be the object of worship at Cadiz. ” (Page 57) Then he says: “He is Antichrist, the Man of Sin, the Little Horn, and I know not what besides; nor do I think that a single writer, with the one strange exception of the Jew Maimonides, till towards the middle of the eighteenth century, treats of him as otherwise than a rank impostor and false prophet. ” (Page 61) To build this subject further, he goes on quoting from Renan (page 224): “The romances of Baphomet, so common in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, attribute any and every crime to him, just as the Athanasians did to Arius, ‘He is a debauchee, a camel stealer, a Cardinal, who having failed to obtain the object of every Cardinal’s ambition, invents a new religion to revenge himself on his brethren!’ ” (Page 59) “. . he occupies a conspicuous place in the ‘Inferno’. Dante places him in his ninth circle among the sowers of religious discord. ” (Page 59)