Category: Philosophy & Ethics

The Three Impostors

Lucas, Jean Maximilien, -1697 [Dubious author]; Arpe, Peter Friedrich, 1682-1740 [Dubious author]; Aymon, Jean, 1661-1720? [Dubious author]; La Monnoye, Bernard de, 1641-1728 [Dubious author]; Rousset de Missy, Jean, 1686-1762 [Dubious author]; Vroese, Jan [Dubious author]· 2 chapters· 5,899 words

Moses, Jesus Christ, and Mahomet, being such as we have represented them, it is evident that it would be useless to search in their writings for a new idea of the Divinity. The conferences of Moses and Mahomet with the Deity, and the miraculous conception of Jesus Christ, are...

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2. CHAPTER VI

We have explained in another place how the notion of spirits came to be introduced among men, and proved that they were merely phantoms which existed only in their disordered im...

1. CHAPTER IV.

Moses, Jesus Christ, and Mahomet, being such as we have represented them, it is evident that it would be useless to search in their writings for a new idea of the Divinity. The...