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  • The date of beginning this gainful (spiritual) traffic was in the year six hundred and sixty-two.
  • A nightingale went hence and returned: it became a falcon for hunting these spiritual truths.
  • May this falcon's resting-place be the fore-arm of the King! May this gate (to the Truth) be open to (all) the people unto everlasting!
  • The bane of this gate is sensuality and lust; else, draught on draught (of spiritual knowledge) is (to be found) here. 10
  • Close this mouth that you may see plainly: gullet and mouth are the eye-bandage (which makes you blind) to yonder world.
  • O mouth, verily thou art the mouth of Hell; and, O world, thou art like the intermediate state.
  • The everlasting light is beside this low world, the pure milk is beside rivers of blood.
  • When you take one step in it (the world) without precaution, your milk will be turned to blood through commixture.
  • Adam took one step in sensual pleasure: separation from his high place in Paradise became a collar on the neck of his (fleshly) soul. 15
  • The angels were fleeing from him as from a devil: how many tears did he shed for the sake of a single loaf!