The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX We have translated, and not destroyed, the worship of Moses and of the prophets. In adoring God in creation, we do not adore the creation itself. In adoring God in Jesus Christ, it is God alone whom we adore, but God united to humanity. In making humanity divine, Christianity has revealed the human divinity. The God of the Jews was inhuman, because they did not understand Him in His works. We are, then, more Israelite than the Israelites them- selves. What they believe, we believe with them, and better than they do. They accuse us of having separated ourselves from them, and, on the contrary, it is they who wish to separate from us. We wait for them, the heart and the arms wide open. We are, as they are, the disciples of Moses. Like them, we come from Egypt, and we detest its slavery. But we have entered into the Promised Land, and they obstinately abide and die in the desert. Mohammedans are the bastards of Israel, or rather, they are his disinherited brothers, like Esau. Their belief is illogical, for they admit that Jesus is a great prophet, and they treat Christians as infidels. They recognize the Divine inspiration of Moses, yet they do not look upon the Jews as their brothers. They believe blindly in their blind prophet, the fatalist Mohammed, the enemy of progress and of liberty. Nevertheless, do not let us take away from Mohammed the 84