Fountain of Christianity — Page 54
54 i. e. "O Moon! O Sun! You are from Me and I am from you. " Anyone can construe these words to mean whatever he likes, but their true meaning is that God first made me the 'Moon', for, like the Moon, I was manifested through the True Sun; thereafter, He became the 'Moon', for the light of His Glory shone through me and will continue to do so. So, Jesus’ as brother James, son of Mary as , was a righteous man. He followed the Torah in everything, believed God to be One without any partner, considered the flesh of swine to be unlawful, faced the Holy Temple while pray- ing—as was the custom of the Jews—and considered himself a Jew in everything, with the exception of his be- lief in the Prophethood of Jesus as. Paul, on the other hand, turned people against the Holy Temple. God’s vengeance ultimately overtook him and he was crucified by the king, and thus he met his end. But Jesus as was saved from cruci- fixion because he was true in his claim and he was from God. Paul, on the other hand, was hung from the stake for he had forsaken the truth. It is also worth noting that as long as Jesus as lived, Paul was his sworn enemy, and, according to Jewish chroni- cles, he only turned to Christianity after Jesus’ death because he had some selfish desires which the Jews did not fulfil. Therefore, in order to avenge himself, he be- came a Christian and pretended that Jesus as had appeared to him in a vision. He first sowed this unholy plant in Damascus, and this is the place where 'Pauline Trinity'