The gospels are the Word preserved as much by their internal meeting as the outer words. <br><br>And the primary idea, that humans need to wake up, is unmistakable in the words of Christ. And Jesus was connected to the ancient mysteries going back thousands of years, the Far East. His travels are noted there.<br><br>There is no meaning without self-inquiry and self-change, there has to be transformation.<br><br>There’s more to this than the mere rote memorization of sounds. But Islam is interesting as well. Particularly Sufism, which gets right down to the point. We could say that Sufism is much, much older than Islam. It’s less cookie-cutter, less materially outward and formal.