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61The 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