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  • How should the axe be afraid of the thickness of the branches? It cuts them to pieces.
  • But it does not beat itself against a leaf, it does not beat its edge except against an edge (something hard and solid like itself).
  • What does the flame care for the great quantity of firewood? How should the butcher flee in terror from the flock of sheep?
  • What is form in the presence of (in comparison with) reality? Very feeble. ’Tis the reality of the sky that keeps it upside down (like an inverted cup). 3330
  • Judge by the analogy of the celestial wheel: from whom does its motion proceed? From directive Reason.
  • The motion of this shield-like body is (derived) from the veiled spirit, O son.
  • The motion of this wind is from its reality, like the wheel that is captive to the water of the stream.
  • The ebb and flow and incoming and outgoing of this breath —from whom does it proceed but from the spirit that is filled with desire?
  • Now it (the spirit) makes it (the breath) jím, now há and dál; now it makes it peace, now strife. 3335
  • Even so our God had made this (Sarsar) wind like a (raging) dragon against ‘Ád.