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1514-1523

  • The cunning and imposture which he knows how to spin— that (cunning) is not produced by any other animal.
  • To weave gold-embroidered robes, to win pearls from the bottom of the sea, 1515
  • The fine artifices of geometry or astronomy, and the science of medicine and philosophy—
  • Which are connected only with this world and have no way (of mounting) up to the Seventh Heaven—
  • All this is the science of building the (worldly) stable which is the pillar (basis) of the existence of (persons like) the ox and the camel.
  • For the sake of preserving the animal for a few days, these crazy fools have given to those (arts and sciences) the name of “mysteries.”
  • The knowledge of the Way to God and the knowledge of His dwelling place—that only the owner of the heart knows, or (you may say) his heart (itself). 1520
  • He (God), then, created in this composite fashion the goodly animal and made him familiar with knowledge.
  • That (bestial) class (of men) He named “like the cattle,” for where is the resemblance between waking and sleep?
  • The animal spirit hath naught but sleep (ignorance): the (bestial) class of men possess inverted sense-perceptions.