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The true Sophia -or wisdom- the true knowledge
of God, the true science of religion and morality,
and the infallible selection of the Last Apostle of
Allah from among all His Messengers, belonged to
the ancient institution of Israel called Mispha, until
it was transformed into the Mispha of the Nassara
or Christian. It is indeed marvellous to see how
complete is the analogy and how the economy of
God concerning His dealings with man is carried on
with absolute uniformity and order. The mispha is the
filter where all the data and persons are filtered and
strained by the Musaphphi (Hebrew, Mosappi) as by
a colander (for such is the meaning of the word); so
that the genuine is distinguished and separated from
the false, and the pure from the impure; yet centuries
succeed each other, myriads of Prophets come and go,
still the Mustapha, the Elected One, does not appear.
Then comes the Holy Jesus (pbuh) ; but he is rejected and
persecuted, because there existed no longer in Israel
that official Mispha which would have recognized
and announced him as a true Messenger of God who
was sent to bear witness to the Mustapha that was the
Last Prophet to follow him. The “Grand Assembly of
the Synagogue” convoked and instituted by Ezra and
Nehemiah, the last member of which was “Simeon the
Just” (ob 310 B.C.), was succeeded by the Supereme
Tribunal of Jerusalem, called the “Sahedrin”; but this
latter Assembly, whose President was the Nassi or the
“Prince,” condemned Jesus (pbuh) to death because it did
not recognize his person and the nature of his divine
mission. A few Sophis, however, knew Jesus (pbuh) and
believed in his prophetical mission; but the crowds at
one time mistook him for the Mustapha or the “elected”
Apostle of Allah, and seized and acclaimed him king,
but he vanished and disappeared from among them. He