Mohammad or Jesus? Or Hekate?

I’m not a Christian, but strangely I just considered this question after meditating at the end of a ritual during which I invoke the holy One.

Jesus is a prophet in my syncretistic system. What makes him important is that he shows the ideal of what a human should be both in the material and spiritual worlds. He does not advocate empire or slaughter. Much as Mohammed’s teaching led to.

I was thinking of this choice in relationship to what Islamic fundamentalist theologian Sayyid Qutb says is the major difference between Mohammed and Jesus. He says Jesus is the mystic and never developed a system for life in this world. Mohammad did.

I don’t think that’s correct. I think Jesus’s example is exactly how one should live in this world. Mohammad’s recipe for life in this world is a catastrophe in the modern world. It enslaves women and men spiritually and physically. In the past, it has given rise to genius and great spiritual renewal, as well as cultural and technological achievements. But it has run its course. As has christendom.

We are looking for something new, which I believe can only come about in a spiritual revolution based on female rights. Hekate embodies that revolution.