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  In that book, Macquarrie commented on what he called nine historical figures who were viewed by their followers as mediators between the human and the divine (however it was conceived); Moses, Zoroaster, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, Krishna, Jesus, and Muhammad.Regarding these "mediators", Macquarrie wrote that
  
  [T]here will be no attempt to show that any one of [the mediators] is superior to the others... what has already been said... has shown the impossibility of any such judgment.