"Mohammed grew up as an orphan," said Jamal. "His life began at the bottom-level in a harsh world. However, he became soon recognized as a man of great integrity. He became the trusted master of a caravan. Eventually he married the woman who owned the caravan, by which he became a businessman as well. He may have been driven by the need to build a richer civilization for his children, and for all children. He may have wanted to create a future worth living for. Being a resourceful man, he simply created it. It may have been his love for the children, in whom he saw his own humanity reflected, that may have impelled him to create a world in which they have a future, and in which his immortality as a human being was reflected and assured in concrete terms."

      "It may likewise be our own love for our children," said Mohja, "that has the potential for becoming a renaissance force in the modern world, as we seen in our children our own humanity reflected that will prompt us to upgrade our world so radically that the coming Ice Age will have no effect on them. It may be our love for our children, once again, that will save civilization and protect mankind."

      "We face the need to achieve the greatest transformation in society that has ever occurred in human history," Jamal continued. "Our need is to do this quickly. We need to complete a hundred years development cycle, carried out throughout the world, before the Ice Age starts. The start of the coming deep freeze may only be 150 years away, at the very most. Our love for our children may be the only impetus at this stage that empowers us to see the needed project through, to save mankind and civilization from a doom worse than anything we have seen before. If we were to fail at this final chance that we still have, the consequences would give fascism a benign face in comparison with what we might see when food begins to run out across the world. Nine tenth of mankind will likely be doomed by the loss of global food production, if we fail to upgrade our world by utilizing the physical resources that we still have today."

      "I think we will do everything that is needed, and more," said Mohja. "It is being said that Allah dictated the Koran to Mohammed. That is how the dawn of Science developed that has itself no limits. This 'dictation' in which the Koran was received, is not possible in the literal sense, of course, since the kind of Allah that Mohammed recognized, has no physical form or voice, or gender, but unfolds as a voice in the mind. This is also the way in which Allah is unfolding to us today, to enable us to continue to uplift civilization with the resources of the limitless Mind that unfolds in mankind. During the Islamic Renaissance, the forward moving kind of scientific discovery process, that Mohammed had started, continued on. Now we are forced to move further still. In the olden days, Islam became the center for a broad range of scientific and spiritual development. The process continued for eight hundred years unabated. It still continues today to some degree, and may flair up again into an Ice Age Renaissance, breaking limits that we haven't even perceived yet."

      "When Baghdad became the capital of the world in the early period of the scientific development of Islam," said Mohja, "the works of Plato and many other works of the Greek Classical Era were translated and kept alive. Apparently Plato's method for scientific discovery had a great influence on the Islamic Renaissance, and may yet again become the root of the continuing process of mankind's self-discovery for a modern Ice Age Renaissance that I expect will unfold."

      "The 'living Plato' was the foundation that Islam brought to Europe," said Jamal. "It happened at a time of Europe's greatest need during the twin crisis of its devastating financial collapse in 1345, and the black death plague that resulted from it two years later that wiped out half of the population of Europe. In the ever-deepening shadow of this horrendous crisis, Islam gave Europe a new start on living, a foundation for living as human beings. That is how Plato came back to Europe. On that foundation the Golden Renaissance emerged. It literally came out of Baghdad, and one never knows, Baghdad may yet become the cradle again for another New World, in this case for the soon to be emerging Ice Age Renaissance."

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