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  • Thou hast pronounced the name: go, seek the thing named. Know that the moon is on high, not in the water of the stream.
  • If thou wouldst pass beyond name and letter, oh, make thyself wholly purged of self.
  • Like (polished) iron, lose the ferruginous colour; become in thy ascetic discipline (like) a mirror without rust.
  • Make thyself pure from the attributes of self, that thou mayst behold thine own pure untarnished essence, 3460
  • And behold within thy heart (all) the sciences of the prophets, without book and without preceptor and master.
  • The Prophet said, “Amongst my people are some who are one with me in nature and aspiration:
  • Their spirits behold me by the same light by which I am beholding them.”
  • Without the two Sahíhs and Traditions and Traditionists; nay, (they behold him) in the place where they drink the Water of Life.
  • Know the secret of “In the evening I was a Kurd”; read the mystery of “In the morning I was an Arab.” 3465
  • And if you desire a parable of the hidden knowledge, relate the story of the Greeks and the Chinese.
  • The story of the contention between the Greeks and the Chinese in the art of painting and picturing.